Guest Artist (2019)
Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his hero to be the icon he’d idolized. However, Harris wants no part of Michigan, small towns and he has no interest in being the young man’s hero. The young man must face his hero and navigate the relationship between heroes, reality and hope.
Director: Timothy Busfield
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Jeff Daniels as Joseph Harris |
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Thomas Macias as Kenneth Waters |
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Richard McWilliams as Franz |
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Erika Slezak as Helen |
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McKara Bechler as Hope |
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Dan Johnson as Dan |
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Lynch R. Travis as Larry (as Lynch Travis) |
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Ruth Crawford as Mary |
| Production | Carley Burgess | Co-Producer |
| Production | Timothy Busfield | Producer |
| Production | Donald Cameron Clark Jr. | Executive Producer |
| Production | Melissa Gilbert | Producer |
| Production | Jeff Daniels | Producer |
| Sound | Ben Daniels | Music |
| Directing | Timothy Busfield | Director |
| Writing | Jeff Daniels | Writer |
| Production | Michael A. Alden | Producer |
| Editing | Alyssa Loveall | Editor |
| Camera | Wilson Coates Busfield | Director of Photography |
| Production | Guy Sanville | Casting Director |