New York, NY (Top40 Charts / Company) tello Films just released the highly anticipated comedy �Skirtchasers� starring
Elizabeth Keener ("The L Word", "
My Generation") as
Robyn Samuels and Barry Bostwick ("Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Spin City") as her estranged father,
Damien Samuels and Meredith Baxter ("
Family Ties", "Young and the Restless") as her divorced mother - https://www.tellofilms.com/series/skirtchasers
The five part web series was written and created by
James Berg & Stan Zimmerman ("The Golden Girls", "Roseanne", "Gilmore Girls", "The Brady Bunch" movies).
Amanda Bearse directed four of the webisodes, with Zimmerman directing one.
Bearse has directed and produced such series as "Big Gay Sketch Show", "MADtv" and "Dharma & Greg�.
As an actress, she is best known for her role as Marcy D'Arcy on Fox's "Married With Children" and the feature film "Fright Night�.
"There is a new media landscape that I'm thrilled to explore and I'm very glad to be doing it with my friend Stan Zimmerman and working with a company like tello with their focus on content for the lesbian community," said Bearse. Zimmerman and Bearse appeared on the Sean Hayes produced Bravo reality show, "Situation: Comedy.�
Robyn is freshly single after a break-up with her long time girlfriend the day before their wedding. As
Robyn deals with mending her broken heart, she realizes her issues delve further than her issues with commitment; they go way back, to her father. After the split of her parents, her best-selling novelist father, remarried a much younger woman, and became a father again, abandoning Robyn.
Watch the Trailer: https://www.tellofilms.com/series/skirtchasers/skirtchasers-trailer
Rounding out the "Skirtchasers" cast are Katie Walder ("How I Met Your Mother", "Mad Men"), Tangie Ambrose ("In Plain Sight"),
Jessica Lu ("
Awkward"), JJ Totah ("Jessie"),
Valerie Ortiz ("South of Nowhere", "Hit the Floor"), Shaughn Buchholz ("Scrubs"),
Brandy Howard ("The People's Couch") and Clementine Ford ("The L Word�).
"I am extremely excited to be bringing this new series to life," said Christin Baker, co-founder and CEO of tellofilms.com. "James and Stan's writing is phenomenal and targets the exact kind of audience tello is all about. Not to mention the amazing actors that have been drawn to this material.�
Known for �Maybelle�, "Nikki & Nora" and "Kiss Her I'm Famous," this new web series will be joining an astounding list of other well-known series on the tello Films website.
Recently tello confirmed that actress/comic/singer, Lea DeLaria, who plays "Big Boo" on the award winning Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black", will cover a classic tune as the theme song to the new tello Films comedy "Skirtchasers�.
