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Alan Cumming Joins Cast of Chuck Griffiths Shifting the Canvas



Tony Award winning stage, film and television actor Alan Cumming is now the latest star to be cast in writer/director Chuck Griffith's upcoming indie motion picture, Shifting the Canvas.



Appearing as lead antagonist Jack Gresham, the eclectic Cumming will be playing the dramatic role of a Machiavellian New York real estate developer seeking to turn the urban hipster community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn into another gentrified neighborhood of "condos, PinkBerrys, and IKEAs."



Among his extensive film work, Cumming wrote, directed, produced and acted (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) in The Anniversary Party, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit Award nominations. Other films include: X Men 2: X Men United, the Spy Kids trilogy, Eyes Wide Shut, Emma, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Urbania, Nicholas Nickleby, Sweet Land (which won him a 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for also co-producing) Titus, Goldeneye and Circle of Friends. Cumming's television work includes The L Word and Reefer Madness on Showtime, Sex in the City on HBO and Tin Man on The Sci Fi Channel. In Britain he wrote and starred in the cult sitcom The High Life as well as many other films for the BBC including Bernard and the Genie for which he won a British Comedy award. He currently hosts Midnight Snack on The Sundance Channel and the upcoming Masterpiece Mystery! 2008 Series on PBS.



He is also no stranger to theater -- his many credits include Sam Mendes' revival of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret (for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World, New York Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate's Awards), Hamlet, The Threepenny Opera, Bent, The Seagull and Accidental Death of an Anarchist (for which he won The Olivier Award). Alan will next be seen on stage this summer at The 2008 Lincoln Center Festival in the North American Premiere of National Theatre of Scotland's production of Euripides' The Bacchae, directed by John Tiffany.



"Alan's versatility is unrivaled by most," said Griffith. "He approaches his characters with a complexity and passion that's aligned with the overall vision of our story."



In addition to Cumming, the drama will also star Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall), John Paul Pitoc (Trick), and Matthew Montgomery (Long-Term Relationship) and appearances by Christian Campbell, Gedde Watanabe, Cheyenne Jackson, and various New York nightlife icons.



Shifting the Canvas is being overseen by Roaring Leo Productions and by Producer Robert Zimmer Jr and Duke Greenhill. Production begins this summer and has been granted a completion guarantee by the Screen Actors Guild in case of an actors' strike.



To learn more about Alan Cumming, please visit www.alancumming.com. For more information on "Shifting the Canvas," please visit the production company's official web site, www.roaringleo.com.






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