GEORGE WOODARD (Sonny Gale) is an actor, musician, story teller and dairy farmer. George grew up in Vermont. He discovered acting in college and moved out to Hollywood for 6 years until the pending sale of the family farm brought him home. He took over the dairy and maple syrup business from his elderly father and has been doing it ever since. In between milking twice a day, he finds time to be in films (Ethan Frome, My Mother's Early Lovers, The Mudge Boy, Mud Season), TV commercials and to create his own home grown variety show, The Ground Hog Opry. He can currently be seen in Disney’s new documentary America:Heart & Soul.

MORGAN BICKNELL (Emma) is from Newark, VT. In high school she participated in the Vermont Children's Theatre where she developed a great love of the stage and went on to major in Theatre at Middlebury College. During her four years at Middlebury she participated in over 15 performances including: We Never Met by David Auburn, Execution of Justice by Emily Mann, A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev, and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. During her junior semester abroad in Dunedin, New Zealand, Morgan played the part of Harper in excerpts from Tony Kushner's Angels in America. After participating in two senior independent projects in film, Morgan auditioned for Nothing Like Dreaming. This is her debut in a feature film.
JOHN GRIESEMER (Jess): Broadway: Inherit the Wind (with George C. Scott), Our Town (with Spalding Gray); Off-Broadway: Anadarko, A Lie of the Mind (world premiere, directed by Sam Shepard), Little Egypt, Kate's Diary; plus plays at the NY Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, Playwrights' Horizons. Films include: The Boiler Room, The Crucible, Malcolm X, Stranger in the Kingdom, City of Hope; Brother from Another Planet; TV: The Langoliers, Queen, and several guest appearances on Law and Order. His first novel No One Thinks of Greenland has been adapted for film and stars Jason Biggs, Natasha McElhone and Jeremy Northam. His second novel Signal & Noise has just appeared in paperback. His third book, The Hearts of Men, a collection of short stories, will be out next year.

RACHEL BISSEX (Rachel) was a respected and loved performer on the folk music scene. Rachel traveled from coast to coast, north to south, appearing at music festivals and conferences, playing gigs at coffee houses, clubs and house concerts. She released 5 CDs to date. She wrote Welcome to the Game (the song she sings at the end of the film) specifically for Nothing Like Dreaming. Bissex was a winner of the coveted Kerrville New Folk songwriting award as well as the Wildflower Songwriting Contest, was a finalist at the Telluride Troubador contest, and got an honorable mention from Billboard Song competition all in 2001. In addition to performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, she also had several songs arranged for full orchestra and has performed them with the Vermont Youth Orchestra. Recordings of these songs appear on her new CD. This is her first film appearance. Rachel tragically died at the age of 47 in February 2005.

SIRI BARUC (Lara) grew up in Vermont, acting in school plays, acting camps, and community theater. She began her film career at Clark University. Her first role was in a film called Teach Me which filmed in NYC. She was accepted into the University of the Arts acting program but opted to kiss the Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio in Can't Be Heaven (1999), which filmed in Los Angeles. She studied intensively at The Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown acting studio (Meisner school) for two years. While training she acted in several other films. After graduating Ms. Baruc moved back East to pursue her acting career in NYC where she now resides. She recently played Kelly Lynch’s daughter in At Last, a film staring Leah Thompson. She has also appeared in Law and Order and Spliced.

RUSTY DEWEES (Red) is a living Vermont legend. After working as an actor in Vermont, New York and Los Angeles, (Pieces of April, The Logger, Where The Rivers Flow North, Stranger in the Kingdom, Black Dog) he began to create his own one man The Logger based on the people he knew growing up in Vermont. His success in blending humor, pathos and satire made him expand the shows to full length, including live musicians performing his music. Since then he has taken his shows on the road, performing all over New England (including sold out shows in Boston) and has a line of calendars, t-shirts, videos, CD and DVDs which have been sold around the world.

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