Renee O'Connor:
Executive Producer, Producer, Lead ActorRENEE O'CONNOR, a native Texan, is best known for playing the role of "Gabrielle" on the television series XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS from 1995 to 2001.
She began her professional acting career at the age of 18 with two serials for the New Mickey Mouse Club.
This led to several television movies, starring with James Garner, Ellen Burstyn, Cheryl Ladd, and episodic work on NYPD Blue, before coming to the attention of Executive Producers Robert G. Tapert and Sam Raimi.
They were so impressed with her performance in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys that they signed her for a starring role in Darkman II: The Return of Durant. They signed her again, as "Gabrielle", Xena's battling bard, in the syndicated hit show in over 80 countries.
Making the cover of T.V. Guide in August 2000 in one of eight collector's covers, O'Connor is still a fan favorite, making the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List of 2007.
After taking time for her new family, O'Connor returned to acting to play a supporting role in the western feature film Ghost Town, debuting in 2007, where she plays tomboy "Little Jack," a character from the wrong side of the tracks.
Coming in early 2008, is the psychiatrist character of "Dr. Ryan," in the Ghost House Pictures feature production of Boogeyman 2, again for Executive Producers Robert G. Tapert and Sam Raimi.
Having just headlined the SciFi Channel's original television movie Genesis Code, due to premiere in the late Spring of 2008, O'Connor is thrilled to see the completion and distribution of the beloved, grass roots project, the romantic comedy, Diamonds & Guns.
Dawn Higginbotham:
Producer, Story By, WriterDAWN HIGGINBOTHAM has been working in feature and post production for 12 years. In production on films such as Die Hard: With A Vengeance, Dogtown, Jim Cameron’s Titanic (as a second assistant to the producer), Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas and The Thin Red Line (as an assistant to the L.A. Coordinator), Godzilla and Armageddon, and as a post production supervisor for Lucasfilm/TAP where she worked for over 4 years on such projects as Star Wars: Episode I and II and most recently in Sydney, Australia on Episode III. As a writer, Dawn has 7 screenplays, in addition to Diamonds & Guns, under her belt. She produced the short film, Extra, Extra; directed, wrote, and produced the short films Merry Gentlemen and The Collector. Recently she Line-Produced the feature film Night of the Templar. And is currently in pre-production for Cordova Pictures as writer/producer for the feature films Off The Ledge and Passing Through.
Helena Beaven is currently from New Zealand where she worked as an actress and then seven years ago moved to America. After studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York she moved to LA. Helena decided that production was where her interests lay and set out producing a number of short films until she embarked on producing Diamonds and Guns. She has since moved into commercial production.