Greg Tarzan Davis quickly established himself as a highly sought after young actor starring alongside Hollywood’s elite actors. He made his feature film debut in 2019 in the 20th Century Studios’ film The Call of the Wild, alongside Harrison Ford. Davis starred alongside Tom Cruise in Paramount Pictures’ Academy Award Best Picture nominated and global box office hit Top Gun: Maverick. The film, which was also lauded as the 2022 Best Picture by the National Board of Review, included on the 2022 AFI Awards Movies of the Year list, and nominated for a Critics Choice and Golden Globe award, is one of the top ten highest grossing movies of all-time in North America. Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie then cast him in the seventh installment of the global franchise Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which was released in July 2023. This summer, he reteamed with Cruise for their third consecutive film together Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Born and raised in New Orleans, Davis was exposed to theatre at a young age when his grandmother took him to local theater productions. He credits his high school teacher for encouraging his desire to pursue his love for acting, which he did in his final years of college, debuting as the lead in the play By The Way, Meet Vera Stark. Davis graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge with a degree in Elementary Education and taught first grade in New Orleans for several years, before leaving to pursue his dream of acting. He quickly landed guest-starring roles on Chicago P.D. and All Rise, and went on to recur on Good Trouble and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. Davis currently lives in Los Angeles.

Greg Tarzan Davis

Jacob Lofland currently stars in Taylor Sheridan's hit Paramount+ series, Landman, opposite Billy Bob Thorton. Most recently, he starred in the Warner Bros. film, Joker 2, opposite Joaquin Phoenix. Previously, he was seen in the independent film 12 Mighty Orphans alongside Luke Wilson and the Blumhouse thriller A House on the Bayou. Prior, Jacob was the lead in the second season of AMC’s The Son, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan in the networks breakout Western series. He debuted in Jeff Nichols' Mud, opposite Matthew McConaughey, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and has since earned a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He followed that performance with a lead role in Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents, opposite Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, Jacob appeared again on the big screen opposite McConaughey in Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones. Lofland went on to play a major leading role in the Maze Runner franchise for Twentieth Century Fox, starring as Aris Jones in the final installation The Death Cure which hit theaters in 2018.

Jacob Lofland

Ayden can currently be seen as the lead in the independent feature Honeyjoon, which won the Untold Stories pitch competition at 2024 Tribeca Festival and recently premiered at the 2025 festival. She can also be seen in Paul Feig’s feature Jackpot, opposite Awkwafina and John Cena streaming on Amazon. She stars in the Peacock series Mr. Throwback, opposite Steph Curry and Adam Pally. Ayden also starred in the feature, Cora Bora, alongside Meg Salter, Manny Jacinto and Heather Morris which premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival and is set to stream on Netflix later this month. She can previously be seen in the Showtime comedy series I Love That For You opposite Vanessa Bayer and Molly Shannon, as well as in the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ comedy The Afterparty opposite Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoe Chao, and Ike Barinholtz. Mayeri can also be seen in Spin Me Round opposite Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza. Directed by Jeff Baena and produced by the Duplass brothers, the feature had its world premiere at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. In 2022, Mayeri starred opposite Jon Hamm in Greg Mottola’s reboot of the cult classic Confess, Fletch, and performed alongside Alison Brie, Jay Ellis, and Kiersey Clemons in the Amazon feature Somebody I Used To Know. Her television credits include Midnight Kiss which was part of Blumhouse TV and Hulu’s horror anthology series Into The Dark, HBO’s VEEP, FOX’s New Girl, and Amazon’s Homecoming. Additionally in film, she previously starred in Netflix’s Alex Strangelove, Lionsgate’s Wander Darkly opposite Sienna Miller and Diego Luna and the independent feature Before You Know It for director Hannah Pearl Utt, the two latter projects both having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Ayden Mayeri

Recent credits include Carl in Paradise starring Sterling K Brown on Hulu/ABC which was recently nominated for four Emmys and he also will appear as the Editor of the Bugle in the much-anticipated Spider: Noir with Nicolas Cage on Amazon coming 2026. He also just wrapped Family Movie directed by Kevin Bacon out next year. Other credits include George Pappas on David E. Kelley's Big Shot with John Stamos and Yvette Nicole Brown on Disney+. You can also see him in the feature film The Long Game and Hit Man with Glen Powell, both reaching #1 on Netflix last year. Other credits include Ocean's 8 and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? with Cate Blanchett, Boyhood, which was nominated for six Academy Awards and won the Golden Globe for Best Picture, The Book of Love, with Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel, Bernie, opposite Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black, as well as extensive television credits. His theatre credits include leading roles at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Yale Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and great theatres in New York, California and everywhere in between. As a director he recently directed The Thin Place at the Zach Theatre and is currently producing a new project about Ira Aldridge. 

As a speaker and educator Richard has been a guest artist at many of the top programs in the country including Yale, Juilliard, Penn State, and UCSD where he was the Arthur and Molli Wagner Endowed Chair in Acting. During his tenure at UCSD it was ranked the #3 program in the world by the Hollywood Reporter. He has delivered keynote addresses and conducted masterclasses for students and teachers at dozens of conferences, festivals and schools. He is also a judge for the College Television Awards presented by the Emmys. He is a member of The Television Academy, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is on the advisory board of the Israni Institute for Cinematic Arts. He currently teaches acting at Texas State University

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