Blythe Auffarth - Playing Meg Loughlin

Thrilled to be starring as Meg in Moderncine’s Jack Ketcham’s The Girl Next Door! Blythe Auffarth appeared in the film Keeping the Faith, directed by Edward Norton, as Young Anna. She also guest starred alongside Amy Irving on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Brooke Shields on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Adam Ferrara on The King of Queens.

Other guest stars include Veronica Mars, Always There, Law and Order, Sex and the City, and The Whooton Observer. She has played leading roles in Carol Burnett’s Hollywood Arms directed by Harold Prince at the ROUNDABOUT, Jane Eyre directed by Robert Johanson at Paper Mill Playhouse, A Bad Friend directed by Jerry Zaks for the Lincoln Center Theatre, The Diary of Anne Frank.

Blythe was the host for Nickelodeon’s the Big Help, the narrator for Carnegie Hall’s Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”, and has performed in numerous commercials and voiceovers. Recently she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. Blythe Auffarth is an avid singer and dancer, as well as a proud member of SAG, AEA and AFTRA.

 Daniel Manche - Playing David Moran

Daniel Manche, 14 years old, is originally from Alabama. When he was 10, his manager Shirley Grant had him audition for the Broadway revival of NINE. Daniel got the part, moved to New York City, and starred opposite John Stamos. He was also seen on Broadway in Disney’s Tarzan as Young Tarzan, and in Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

He had guest starring roles on Law & Order: SVU and Criminal Intent. His film debut came with Moderncine’s Headspace. He has done roles on All My Children, Guiding Light, Sesame Street, and can now be seen as J.J. on As the World Turns.

Blanch Baker - Playing Ruth Chandler

"The Girl Next Door” represents Blanche Baker’s return to the screen after taking a break to raise a family. Her film previous film credits include “Sixteen Candles,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Shakedown,” “Raw Deal,” “Living Large,” “French Postcards” and “The Seduction Of Joe Tynan.” She also recently played the lead in “Jersey Justice” and is looking forward to her role in ”Jackrabbit Sky” this February.

In January 2007, she starred in Christopher Durang’s “The Vietnamization Of New Jersey” at the Samuel Beckett Theater on New York’s Theater Row. She had previously won acclaim Off Broadway for her roles in the original productions of “Steel Magnolias” and “Poor Little Lambs” among others.

Ms. Baker began her stage career with the Yale Repertory Theatre, where she starred in “The Wild Duck” directed by Robert Brustein and “White Marriage” directed by Andrzej Wajda. In television, her numerous credits eventually earned her an Emmy Award for her work in the mini-series “Holocaust” and a recent guest spot on her daughter’s favorite series, “Law and Order.”

William Atherton - Playing adult David Moran

William Atherton entered pop culture history in 1984, when he starred in the hit comedy Ghostbusters as the overbearing, vindictive EPA agent Walter Peck. The film proved that Atherton was good at essaying characters who were essentially white collar sleaze: selfish, annoying, and unscrupulous individuals with little regard for anything other than their own greed and ambition. In 1985, Martha Coolidge chose Atherton to play Professor Jerry Hathaway in the teen comedy Real Genius. Hathaway is a professor and TV lecturer who blithely uses a government grant to build a new house while bullying his students into developing a laser powerful and precise enough to destroy single targets from orbit. Hathaway receives an even more memorable comeuppance than Walter Peck. His students reprogram the laser’s coordinates through a prism into Hathaway’s new house, cooking an enormous amount of popcorn that eventually fills the house.

In 1988, Atherton played the pushy, sensationalistic reporter Dick Thornburg in the blockbuster action film Die Hard, as well as its 1990 sequel. Both films parodied network news, especially Thornburg’s relentlessness and insensitivity at getting the big story. As in his previous roles, Atherton’s character received embarrassing comeuppances at the end of both films and was generally loathed, even for the most part by his own colleagues.

Other film credits include No Mercy, The Pelican Brief, Bio-Dome, Mad City, The Crow: Salvation, The Last Samurai, the TV movies Buried Alive, Headspace and Virus. He has also made guest appearances on such TV shows as The Twilight Zone, Desperate Housewives, The Equalizer, and Law & Order. Atherton also provided the voice of Dr. Destiny/John Dee on Justice League.

Grant Show - Playing Mr. Morgan

Grant Show was best known for his portrayal as hunky good guy Jake Hanson on MELROSE PLACE. That was until breakout roles on SIX FEET UNDER (as a sex addict), Fox’s POINT PLEASANT (as the devil’s advocate) and FX’s DIRT (as a publicly closeted/privately promiscuous gay action star) all but erased the soapy-clean image of this multi faceted actor.

On stage, Show was Terry Malloy in the first ever stage production of On The Waterfront; Doctor Jason Posner in the Off-Broadway, Pulitzer winner Wit and The Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie with Elizabeth Ashley at The Alley Theatre in Houston. His film credits include, THE ITALIAN JOB, MARMALADE and HOMELAND SECURITY. He has just completed filming on ALL AGES NIGHT.

Next up for Show is the hotly anticipated SWINGTOWN, coming early next year to CBS. Set in the decadent era of the 1970s, he will play Tom Decker, a married airline pilot who hosts swingers’ parties in an attempt to keep his marriage buoyant. His capacity for playing "love to hate" characters with vigor and heart has earned him this latest role where he will be challenged to bring humanity to a man who has his cake and eats it too.

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