8/10/16
by News Department on 08/10/16Ashland native to star in movie...
An Ashland native is getting a chance to perform on screen with rapper and actor Ice-T.
John W. Groody, who began his acting career with some roles as an extra in the film “The Happening,” and an extra in the TV show “Political Animals,” has been cast in the film “Bloodrunners,” which is set in the time of Prohibition in the 1930s and is about a corrupt cop discovering that the new speakeasy in town is a sinister operation run by vampires.
Groody is a 2006 graduate of Cardinal Brennan Junior-Senior High School and a 2010 graduate of Kutztown University.
The film, directed by Dan Lantz, will premiere Aug. 27 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.
