LOS ANGELES — Three actors from the popular, long-running Web series Star Trek: Phase II and Star Trek: Hidden Frontier were cast in the the time-bending campus drama, Judas Kiss, the film’s producers announced today.

Julia Morizawa (Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Odyssey) has been signed to play snarky college student Abbey Park, best friend of Danny Reyes (played by Caprica‘s Richard Harmon). Ron Boyd (Star Trek: Phase II) will portray Ralph Garlington, a curmudgeonly cinematographer judging the Keystone University Film Festival alongside lead Zachary Wells (Charlie David of Dante’s Cove and Mulligans). Tim Foutch (of the Hidden Frontier spinoff, Star Trek: Odyssey) will appear as Tommy, another Keystone film student competing against Danny in the festival.

“I’ve had the pleasure of directing and acting alongside these actors for some time,” said Judas Kiss director J.T. Tepnapa. “They’re talented and hard-working performers who are a joy to have on a set.”

Tepnapa and Morizawa met on the Hidden Frontier set, where she played the popular Vulcan character, Lt. S’Tal. She was later cast as a telepathic ship’s security officer in the Hidden Frontier spinoff series Star Trek: Odyssey. She has worked on 15 features and television series as an actor, writer and producer. She recently completed a Los Angeles theater run of a play she wrote, produced and starred in, Twenty-Two, and also stars in the scifi Web series Frontier Guard.

Tepnapa and Judas Kiss writer-producer Carlos Pedraza also worked with Boyd in Star Trek: Phase II, the Hugo-nominated Web series that also won TV Guide’s Award for Best Online SciFi Series and was named among Rolling Stone’s five Web series you shouldn’t miss. Boyd plays the acerbic Lt. Vincent DeSalle. He has also appeared in the Canadian TV series, Corner Gas. Boyd is also well known as an artist for DC Comics.

Foutch is already well known among Judas Kiss fans for his portrayal of Tim the Intern in the Judas Kiss podcasts. He also plays the chief engineer in Star Trek: Odyssey and Cadet Fetch Zisser in the Web series Frontier Guard.

Judas Kiss is being produced by Blue Seraph Productions, a Los Angeles company headed by Tepnapa and Pedraza. Their previous work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, Variety, Frontiers, Fab magazine, the Today Show, MSNBC, and other international news outlets. The film is scheduled to shoot this summer in Seattle.

Links

• Julia Morizawa‘s IMDb profile
• Ron Boyd‘s IMDb profile
• Tim Foutch‘s IMDb profile
• Blue Seraph Productions Web site