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Marissa Irvine arrives to collect her young son Milo from his first play date, but the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. She doesn’t have Milo and has never heard of him. As every parent’s worst nightmare begins to unfold, new questions lead to deep secrets, revealing cracks in the Irvines’ seemingly perfect world until everything is left shattered. (Synopsis by Peacock)

Minkie Spiro is an award-winning film and television director and executive producer with a career spanning British and American TV. In the UK, she most recently directed and executive produced the acclaimed series Toxic Town (Netflix), a gripping drama about corporate greed and council corruption in 1990s Britain, written by Jack Thorne and starring Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood and Rory Kinnear. 

In the US, she has directed many iconic series such as Better Call Saul (AMC), Dead to Me (Netflix), Barry (HBO) and Fosse/Verdon (FX). She has piloted many shows including The Plot Against America (HBO), Pieces of Her (Netflix) and Three Body Problem (Netflix). Her latest project is the global sensation and award winning All Her Fault (Peacock), the psychologically intense child abduction drama written by Megan Gallagher and starring Sarah Snook, Michael Peña and Dakota Fanning, which Minkie directed and executive produced. Minkie is currently in post-production on the upcoming series The Five-Star Weekend, starring Jennifer Garner, Chloe Sevigny, Regina Hall, Gemma Chan, D’Arcy Carden and Timothy Olphyant, for which she serves as executive producer and pilot director. Minkie continues to leave a distinctive mark on television across all genres spanning both sides of the Atlantic.

Jeff Beal is a Five-time Emmy® winner. His improvisatory method, sense of timing, and sophistication have made him a favorite of directors, including Ed Harris (Pollock and Appaloosa), David Fincher (House of Cards), Oliver Stone (JFK Revisited, The Putin Interviews), Lauren Greenfeld (The Queen of Versailles, Generation Wealth), and Rob Reiner (Shock and Awe). His work on documentaries Blackfish, The Biggest Little Farm, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel, Athlete A, Rather, and dramatic scores for Rome,Canivàle, The Newsroom, USA’s Monk, House of Cards, Raymond & Ray have shown him to be one of the most distinctive and recognizable composers working today. His latest film, Can You Hear Me? will be released in the fall. In addition to his distinguished scoring career, Beal is a prolific composer of concert music. Recent commissioned works include “The Paper-Lined Shack” for Leonard Slatkin, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and soprano Hila Plitmann, “Sunrise” for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, A flute concerto for Sharon Bezaly/Minnesota Orchestra, and “Body in Motion,” a violin concerto for Kelly Hall-Tompkins.

Beal’s performing, conducting, and composing worlds converged in 2016 when he led the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in the premiere of House of Cards in Concert, with further performances in Miami, Denmark, the Netherlands (Concertgebouw), and Jerusalem.

His latest recording, New York Etudes, is a collection of solo piano works and has already had 3 million streams on Apple Classical. Beal was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2006, and these compositions focus on the connection of music making, wellness, and mindfulness. He has been featured on NPR and BBC3 Radio performing and discussing the works, and has been named an official Steinway artist.

Beal has also conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in his original score for Keaton’s silent film The General, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the film score of BOSTON, as well as the Boston Pops Esplanade for the live-to-picture premiere of BOSTON. In March of 2019, he led the Qatar National Symphony in the world premiere of his work The Radiant Pearl, commissioned for the opening of the Qatar Museum in Doha. He also led the Rochester Philharmonic and Eastman Philharmonia in the world premiere of an antiphonal orchestral work, “The Cathedral,” in honor of the centennial of the Eastman Theater. Beal gave his Carnegie Hall Debut in June, leading the Silver Nitrate Big Band and Fourth Wall in a concert of his score to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, - presented as a part of Carnegie Hall’s 2024 Weimar Festival.