About the Cast & Crew
Ann Marie Lindbloom (Lisa Schnitz)
Ann Marie Lindbloom is co-founder of AcuteTV, the episodic production arm of Acute Psychosis, a Los Angeles-based multimedia production company. Her work as a producer, director, and writer has appeared on numerous networks, including NBC, CBS, E!, Style, and GSN. She recently wrapped a stint as a producer for KNBC's "Your LA" and is currently a producer on the comedic action series "The Wild World of Spike" for Spike TV.
Ann Marie has traveled the globe as a stand-up comic and was a founding member of the Netherlands first all-female comedy troupe. She has studied acting and improv at Circle in the Square, HB Studios, the Stella Adler Conservatory, and NYU.
This past summer Ann Marie combined her interest in history and fondness for hardcore rap into a sketch comedy series she and “Two Peas” co-creator Jeff Venables sold to Fun Little Movies, a mobile comedy channel. Soon mobile subscribers from Yorba Linda to Yemen will be able to watch the duo rap poetic about everything from the Bubonic Plague to WWII. Their “Bubonic” episode of the series, called “Lessons in Hip Hop,” is currently being used as an educational tool by the Hunter’s Safety Association because, apparently, hunters like seeing people krump. And also because the woods in some areas are full of the plague-carrying prairie dogs described in the “Lesson.” No lie.
Ann Marie lives in West Hollywood, California, where she reads her ass off. When not reading she enjoys running and triathlons and generally sweating it up, flea marketing, hanging out at cafés with her dog, and stalking Owen Wilson.
E-mail: annmarie@acutepsychosis.com
Jeff Venables (Kevin Schnitz)
Jeff Venables wrapped production in August on his first feature film, a romantic comedy called The Getdown, which has foreign distribution already secured in Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland. As screenwriter and lead actor, he brought to the film his experience as a founding member of the NYC sketch comedy team GOYA, and improv training through the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Los Angeles.
Venables directed his UCBT-LA instructor Jamie Denbo in the podcast “Goodnight Burbank” until she left the series when her TV pilot “Happy Hour” was picked up by Fox in May. Jeff left “Burbank” to co-write and star in The Getdown as the main character, Phil.
In June, Jeff and “Two Peas in Your Pod” co-creator Ann Marie Lindbloom sold their sketch series “Lessons in Hip Hop” to Fun Little Movies, a mobile comedy channel with worldwide cell phone and Xbox 360 distribution. They have since launched AcuteTV, a web-based episodic comedy content provider. Jeff is the founder of the parent company, Acute Psychosis.
Venables was pronounced a Finalist in the 2004 Writer's Place Teleplay Competition for his pilot script “Newsweakly.” He was also a Quarterfinalist in the 2004 International Screenwriting Awards with his feature script The Cleaning Man, and his screenplay Trick of Disaster scored in the top 15% of the Nicholl Fellowships.
Jeff lives in Van Nuys, California, where he enjoys distance running, reading nonfiction, and injuring himself in unprecedented ways. In addition to sustaining multiple head injuries during production, over the course of his life Jeff has been bitten by, in chronological order: snake, monkey, human, spider. Of these, only the third has left a scar.
E-mail: jeff@acutepsychosis.com
Rob Steiner (Gil)
Rob Steiner is a familiar face in film, TV, and commercials. He played the Moderator in the national Geico "Spelling Bee" spot, and has roles in the hit films Dodgeball and Anger Management.
Graduating from Emerson College in Boston, Rob came to Los Angeles and began writing music for several Fox TV shows and the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasts. After years of performing in myriad musical groups where no one spoke a language he understood, he once again turned his attention to acting, writing, and production. In the late 90s, he was the vice president of NetThisTV.com which at the time was the only Internet television station that aired regular live original programming, including exclusive interviews with celebrities. Steiner is now an executive producer at AcuteTV, the episodic production arm of Jeff Venables’ Acute Psychosis.
Rob owes everything to the man upstairs, in apartment 8F, who would play Middle Eastern pop tunes every night until 4 a.m., inspiring Rob to work harder so he could move out of that SRO dump as soon as possible.
E-mail: rob@acutepsychosis.com