Bob is a former professional kickboxer.  He won the WKA United States Super Middle Weight Championship.  Bob fought the middleweight champion of the world three times, has appeared on ESPN six times and Pay Per View twice.  He also won two amateur comedian contests before landing the lead role as Marshall Luke Canfield, the soft hearted, hard fisted, fast shooting Marshall of “Sand Prairie”.

Ann Hagemann - Ann is a professional actress with many film, commercial, and theatre credits.  Some of her independent films include "Wicker Park" with Josh Hartnett, "Stalling", "Hit the Ground Running", "Bully Breath", "Altered Boy", and of course, Dixie in "Sand Prairie"!  Commercial and Voice Over credits include spots for Caterpillar, Inc., Lippman's Furniture, Toyota, Farm and Fleet, to mention a few.  Her stage credits are diverse - a few of her favorites are:  Kate in Shakespeares' "Taming of the Shrew", Eva Peron in "Evita", Peter in "Peter Pan", Catherine Holly in Tennesse William's "Suddenly Last Summer", "Guenevere in "Camelot", Eliza in "My Fair Lady", and the Narrator in Eastlight Theatre's "Joseph...Dreamcoat".  Ann studied acting and voice at the American Dramatics Academy, Bradley Univ. and ISU. For the past 7 years she has performed her one woman show, "Acting Up With Ann",  at many elementary schools throughout IL. and Iowa. At the writing of this bio she is appearing as Vi Petty in "The Buddy Holly Story' at the Mercury Theatre in Chicago, IL.  Ann credits her husband and best friend, Bob, for always supporting her in her career.  "He is always there for me and my #1 fan!"  She wants to thank Sharon Stanard for introducing her to the great writer/director Jim Conover - for without Sharon's recommendation she would not have had this  wonderful opportunity! Enjoy the "Sand Prairie" experience ya'll!!!  And thank you for supporting us!!!

William Homel – Asa Brown / Line Producer /1^st Assistant Director

Bill came on board Sand Prairie when he was still President of Artistic Community Theater. He has performed in many local stage plays. Bill has had quite a diverse job on this picture from Line  Producer to 1^st Assistant Director  to doing a great performance as Asa Brown, not to mention working almost 7-days a week in helping the Producer get Sand Prairie put together in preproduction, production and in post production. He also brought apples for the horses used on the set- especially Cinnamon.

Bob Krouse is currently performing with THE GREAT AMERICAN WILD WEST SHOW.  He started singing when he was just six years old, and began to perform across the Midwest.   He has performed his "cowboy music" on Radio, and Television shows across the United States.

Bob served in the U.S. Army, and was a member of the Teamsters Union.  He is an avid hunter. Pursuing his Quary with Longbows, and Recurve bows.  Since being introduced to horses and riding at the age of 3 months, Bob has spent a lot of time in the saddle. To act in a Western Movie has always been elusive,....until now !!!

Tim started in the acting business back in 1995 at Zellmers Dinner Theater in Farmington, IL, and spent 3 - 4 years learning as much as he could about the theater business.  He became skilled on the technical side the industry in lighting design, lighting operation, set construction, set design, and pyrotechnics. He has performed on stage singing, dancing, and acting. He went to Hollywood to become a star.  During the 7 months he was there he managed to be cast as an extra in ″Jawbreaker″ with Rose McGowan,  in ″Super Dave The Movie″,  in "On Common Ground"  and one TV show "The World's Most Dangerous Magic  He also did a TV talk show which he co-starred in "The No Whiners Diner."  Tim returned to Peoria and spent about 5 years in community theater doing plays at Cornstock Community Theater and Peoria Players Theater.  When he learned about ″Sand Prairie," he contacted, Jim, the director, and was cast in the role of Mayferd Brown.

Justin, 11-years old, gave up a lot of baseball, basketball, soccer practice and weekends with friends to make his movie-acting debut in Sand Prairie.

Even though his prior acting experience was only in school plays, Justin delivered a wonderful performance as Billy Braswell. Justin endured extreme cold in winter months wearing only a pair of pants with no shoes, extreme heat in the summer going barefoot in the hot sand, all without even the slightest complaint. 

Jace, 9-years old, like his brother Justin, also gave up a lot of baseball, basketball and soccer practice to make his movie acting debut in Sand Prairie. Though his prior acting experience was only in school plays, Jace gave a wonderful performance as Johnny Braswell. Jace endured extreme cold in winter months wearing only a pair of pants with no shoes, extreme heat in the summer going barefoot in the hot sand, all without even the slightest complaint. 

Both Jace and Justin were the masters of playing practical jokes on the leading man, Bob Handegan.

Rob is a local celebrity in his own rite.  He is a nationally known paranormal investigator who has been featured in numerous national television shows.  Rob started working on Sand Prairie at the very conception of the idea of making a western movie. From Location finder to set construction to Transportation to Production Assistant and finally as an actor, he has been there. In Sand Prairie he is Karl Zimmer. Prior to Sand Prairie, Rob has been featured in three (3) episodes of the TV Series Sightings, One (I) Episode of the TV Series Unexplained, One (1) episode of the TV Series Scariest Places On Earth and One episode of the TV series Haunting.

Arnold has been involved with horses for years, but he wore many hats in this movie.  They included acting, wrangling and assisting the director.  He used his horsemanship abilities to lead the posse and Brown Gang on their treacherous journeys.
Although this was his first movie, he dove into all aspects of making the production.  That included far more than wrangler or horse activities.  If you
needed a hand, Arnold was there.
There is a special thanks from Rob Conover for the help that Arnold gave him during the movie.

Michelle grew up in Chicago and started doing theater at the age of six.  In Chicago, she did a variety of work including theater, film, commercials, modeling and runway.  Now she lives in Peoria and continues performing as well as singing jazz in a variety of Peoria area “hot spots” as Jazzslayer.  In her “non-performance” life (is there such a thing?), she owns the Early Learning Center and is the mother to three beautiful children Taylor, Lauren and Jack.

Curt has always had a love for Western Movies.  He started working with the movie team during the town construction phase.  Soon his rugged looks and acting abilities impressed everyone.  He was asked if he wanted to play a good guy or bad guy.  He chose the Dark Side and wound up playing a member of the notorious Brown gang.  Curt, a native of Pekin had one heck of a task cut out for him.  He not only acted, but helped with the construction of the sets, ran boom mike, helped with lighting, electrical set up and dolly operation.  Finally he was an assistant scenic artist.