About OddSquad

In 2002, without really knowing why, Todd Peters started assembling a group of friends who happened to be alumni of his drama school, the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard. Some he had studied with, some he had met through theatre, but all shared a similar sense of humor, a love for the absurd and a peculiar ease when it came to making complete asses of themselves. Since the group was scattered around the country, Todd convinced them to join him in San Diego to dress up like imbeciles, shoot hidden-camera pieces and perform sketch comedy in Balboa Park with Todd's childhood friend, Matthew Gossin, an accomplished editor and director. Despite the countless stares of quizzical on-lookers, the group discovered that it had a surprising chemistry and OddSquad was born.

As luck would have it, Matthew was working on a TV show with Scott Shelley, an Emmy award-winning cameraman, who saw a tape of the group's work and immediately wanted to collaborate. The team now firmly in place, OddSquad began work on its first major project, "Let Others Suffer," the award-winning, feature-length comedy that has appeared in over 12 film festivals across the country, as well as in Canada and Europe.

The group is currently at work on its next feature, as well as a TV series, in hopes of perfecting its particular brand of incompetence that audiences have come to expect.

::: Caroline Hall has worked in theatre (Off Broadway, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Lark Theatre Company, Venezuela's Institute Festival, Tricycle Theatre in London), television (Monk), film (Anything But Love, You Are Here) and numerous television commercials. She will also be seen soon in NBC's The Office Spin-Off. She hasn't exactly been cast yet, but it says in "The Secret" to say she is.

She graduated from the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied Anthropology. That means she's skilled at watching you very closely, studying your every movement and then determining how to classify you. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles, CA.

::: Jeremy Rabb has appeared on television (recurring on Grey’s Anatomy, Africans In America, No Opportunity Wasted), in film (Posse) and on stage (the National & European tour of Julie Taymor’s The King Stag directed by Andrei Serban, the Los Angeles & Las Vegas productions of Broadway’s Rock of Ages, the Off-Broadway workshop of Debbie Does Dallas, the NY Fringe Festival’s I Vermin). Additionally, he has performed regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Theatreworks, Maine State Music Theatre, Expanded Arts, the Ritual Theatre Company and was most recently seen in The Taming of the Shrew and Richard III at A Noise Within. A graduate of Princeton University and the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, Jeremy lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

::: Mark Boyett has appeared Off-Broadway as Stephen Hoffman in Old Wicked Songs at the Promenade Theater, and in the American premiere of Brechtís Roundheads and Peakheads. Regionally, he has performed at the American Repertory Theater, the Dallas Theater Center, the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory Theater, and with the Denver Center Theater Company. Featured in the independent film You Are Here, Mark is a graduate of A.R.T.ís Institute For Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mark lives in New York City.

::: Blair Sams has appeared on television in Ed, Law & Order: SVU, Deadline and The Guardian. On stage, she was in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, and has also appeared regionally at Southcoast Rep (Last Night of Ballyhoo), Indiana Rep (Blithe Spirit), Paper Mill Playhouse (Noises Off), Intiman Theatre (Last Night of Ballyhoo), Huntington Theatre (The Steward of Christendom), Yale Repertory Theatre (Candida, The Adventures of Amy Bock), American Repertory Theatre (Alice in Bed, The Island of Anyplace), Theatre Three (London Assurance), Ft. Worth Shakespeare Christmas Carol) and Austin Shakespeare (Twelfth Night). She lives with her husband and baby son in New York City.

::: Todd Peters has appeared in film (You Are Here), television (No Opportunity Wasted) and stage, performing at such regional theatres as the American Repertory Theatre (Demons, Henry IV, The Island of Anyplace), Trinity Repertory Theatre, Horace Mann Theatre, Marquis Public Theatre, and The Apolliad Theatre. In addition, he was in the national and European tour of Julie Taymor's "The King Stag" directed by Andrei Serban.Todd is a graduate of the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard and lives with his wife, daughter and son in San Diego.

::: Scott Shelly is a cinematographer and producer with 20 years of experience in documentary, television and independent feature films. Scott received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and has two nominations and one National Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Cinematography.

Scott began by co-producing a series of anti-Apartheid programs for the UN and has worked in over 60 countries doing projects for CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, Discovery, A&E, ESPN, TLC, and Travel Channel. Subjects include everything from gritty child labor stories for Unicef to travel-adventure shows for network TV. The common thread is the ability to construct a cogent and moving visual story under difficult circumstances.

His television career includes 11 seasons as a principal cinematographer for Jerry Bruckheimerís The Amazing Race. Scott was also the Director of Photography for two television series produced by Phil Keoghan for Discovery Channel. One of these, N.O.W. won the Hor Concours at the Banff Television Festival in 2005.

Scott has shot three independent features. Other recent work includes "Burning the Future" recently aired on the Sundance Channel, "The Presidential Tour of Ghana" with Forrest Sawyer, and an international ad campaign for Unicef featuring Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lang, and Whoopi Goldberg.

::: Matthew Gossin Though growing up with Todd was certainly "educational," Matthew decided more formal training was necessary and so attended USC Film School. He has worked as a freelance editor since 1995, having worked on "The Osbournes" for MTV before his current stint on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Nominated for a Cable Ace Award for his work on the MTV Movie Awards, Matthew has directed for the Travel Channel, Discovery Home and Leisure Channel. A founding member of OddSquad, he was both a producer and editor on "Let Others Suffer," the group's first feature-length comedy. Matthew lives in Van Nuys, California with his wife and two sons.