Michelle Ehlen as Jamie
Butch Jamie is Michelle's feature film acting debut. She has acted in a handful of shorts, including Half-Laughing and Ballet Diesel, both which she directed. Half-Laughing aired nationally on LOGO as part of season one of The Click List: Best in Short Film, and is now available on The Ultimate Lesbian Short Film Festival.

Prior to film acting, Michelle performed in many stage productions. Her most challenging role was when she was sixteen and played the fair and dainty heroine in a local melodrama, an irony to which she attributed to the fact that no one else in her age-range auditioned. Her mother tried to convince her that she really did have the talent, despite her baggy boy pants that dragged along the stage during rehearsals, and frequent reminders from the director to not put her hands in her pockets. However, Michelle does admit that sometimes it can be quite fun to be a girl afterall...
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Olivia Nix as Lola
Olivia is so honored to be a member of the Butch Jamie cast in her first film role. A native of western Massachusetts and current resident of upstate New York, Olivia has enjoyed spending much of her 26 years onstage. Theater: productions with Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Public Theater, Town Players of Pittsfield, Albany Law School, Wahconah Regional High School. Music: Cambridge Madrigal Singers, musical director of the Smithereens of Smith College. Dance: studied flamenco in Madrid, Spain.

“I can relate to Lola because, like her, I am known to turn into a babbling baby-talking idiot around my pets,” says Olivia. “But more importantly, I am proud to play a character who is comfortable and open with her sexuality, in a film that explores gender and sexuality with a refreshingly honest, warm, and funny approach. The GLBT film genre is sorely lacking in clever romantic comedies, and Michelle Ehlen is its rising star.”

Tiffany Anne Carrin as Jill
While living in San Francisco for six years, Tiffany Anne Carrin pursued a degree in Dramatic Arts at San Francisco University and performed in numerous productions as a company member of the Brown Bag Theatre Troupe. Upon returning to Upstate New York with her beautiful son, she completed her degree and taught acting at the University at Albany. She received two Irene Ryan nominations for best actress from the American Collegiate Theatre Festival for her portrayal of Hedda Gabler in Ibsen’s classic and as an ensemble player in The Ophelia Project. Other notable roles include Yellow in Ntzoke Shange’s For Colored Girls…, Ruth in Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven and Roberta in John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.

Her first independent short film, Lunch Break, was recently awarded Honorable Mention at the New Jersey Spring Film Festival. She can also be seen in the feature films She Hate Me, Get Rich or Die Trying, Freedomland and the soon to be released Shut Up and Sing, starring Molly Shannon.
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David Au as David
Originally from Hong Kong, David Au studied Theater at The University of Wisconsin, Madison where he concentrated in acting and directing. Since graduating, he has taken his love of storytelling into the realm of filmmaking. He is a graduate of the Los Angeles Film School, where he wrote and directed the festival short Fresh Like Strawberries. He also produced the feature film Shimmer, and was the Director of Photography for the gay feature True Love. Since David was good friends with Michelle prior to her writing the script, he refuses to believe her when she tells him that the gay Asian friend named David is a "fictional character."
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Andrea Andrei as Andi
In Albany known as "The German," Andrea moved from Germany to the United States in 2005 in order to study at Albany Law School. In addition to practicing as an attorney, she has spent many years in competitive sports but has always wanted to try out acting. In her first performance, she says she was challenged by avoiding to smile and playing the "mean and serious Andi." She was also honored to introduce the team to the German language - Andrea worked on the the film as the German Dialect Coach, translating the script and working with actress Olivia Nix on her pronunciation.

Joe McDaniel as Dan
Joe made his acting feature debut in 2006 as the psychiatrist in the low-budget psychological thriller Euthyphro's Dilemma. Originally working on set as the boom operator, independent filmmaker Jeff Knight cast him mid-way through production after making changes to the script. With his second feature completed, Joe looks forward to having the opportunity to continue working with and learning from other talented people as he says he did on Butch Jamie.

Mary Lynch as Francine
Mary Lynch performed in the Vagina Monologues in Albany, NY in 2006 and 2007 She also played the bartender in the world premiere of City Girls at the Sand Lake Arts Center in Averill Park, NY. She currently works as a law professor at Albany Law School and co-directs the Albany Law Clinic and Justice Center where, among other things, she teaches trial practice, the art of performing in a courtroom. She was a prosecutor in the NY County District Attorney's office from 1985-89, where she faced the toughest of audiences - a Manhattan jury.

Nathan Edmondson as Glen
Nathan Edmondson has been acting and improvizing in Philadelphia since graduating from Oberlin College where he studied English, Theatre, and Film. He is a founding member of the Comedy Improv troupe Rare Bird Show which has performed in numerours national Improv Festivals. Other improv projects include Slavoj Zizek Wet Dream, a post-structuralist dance troupe; HellBaby, an improv tragedy troupe which he directs; and the Philadelphia Improv Festival, which he co-produces. Nathan has recently starred in a handful of independent films and shorts. Throughout the summer, he can be seen portraying Thomas Jefferson in Once Upon a Nation's production of Independence After Hours in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

Huey the Cat as Howard
Huey is an untrained cat actor with a lot of personality. He is very proud to say that all of the "meows" in the film were delivered by him on cue - none were added in the editing process. Meowing is one of the things he does best, in addition to eating wet cat food and running when he hears the can open.