Mark Feuerstein
Actor

Mark Feuerstein, a familiar face to audiences for over thirty years, has enjoyed a long, successful career as actor-writer-director on the big and small screens, appearing most recently in the new MGM+ series Hotel Cocaine and the upcoming action-thriller Guns & Moses. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as Dr. Hank Lawson on USA’s hit series Royal Pains, which aired for eight seasons. Feuerstein has received critical acclaim for his numerous roles in film, television, and theater, including a 2022 Emmy nomination for his role on the Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club. He also starred in and developed the CBS comedy series 9JKL, and has had recurring roles on such shows as The West Wing, Prison Break, and Sex and the City. His film credits include Practical Magic (1998), The Muse (1999), What Women Want (2000), In Her Shoes (2005), and the WWII epic Defiance (2008), among many others. A native of New York, Feuerstein graduated from Princeton University and studied abroad as a Fulbright scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the L’Ecole Phillipe Gaulier in Paris. He and his wife, writer and producer Dana Klein, are the parents of Lila, Frisco, and Addie.

Sal Litvak
Director

Sal was born in Santiago, Chile and moved to New York at age five. He attended Harvard, NYU Law, and UCLA Film. His latest movie is Guns & Moses, an action thriller about a beloved small-town rabbi who becomes an unlikely gunfighter after his community is violently attacked, starring Mark Feuerstein, Neal McDonough, Alona Tal, Christopher Lloyd and Dermot Mulroney. Sal’s first film was the Passover comedy and cult hit, When Do We Eat?, starring Max Greenfield, Ben Feldman, Shiri Appleby, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Lerner and Jack Klugman in his final role. Sal directed Saving Lincoln, based on the true story of Abraham Lincoln and his closest friend & bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon. This epic indie features a new visual style called CineCollage, which places the actors within actual Civil War photographs. The film’s Gettysburg Address scene has been incorporated into Houghton Mifflin’s standard American history textbook, used by students across the country. Sal wrote both films with his wife, Nina, and produced them under the banner of his production company, Pictures From The Fringe. Sal & Nina share Jewish wisdom, humor and history with over a million followers at Accidental Talmudist. He teaches a daily Talmud class to a diverse audience of thousands of people around the world. His first book, Let My People Laugh: The Greatest Jewish Jokes Of All Time!, published by Skyhorse, is an Amazon bestseller.