“Paul and I are both big lovers of ambiguity to a certain degree,” he adds. “We are trying to examine a situation that can illustrate to us how slippery truth and clarity really is and how quickly it can slip away from us.” “We’re a proud cousin of all of those works,” Williford says. That may explain why Williford’s film has something in common with several plays, notably Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt. So it’s not surprising that his cast is filled with actors who come from the theater world, too - not just Jackson, but Harner, who played Hamlet at the Dallas Theater Center in 2003. Williford directed nearly 150 episodes of the recently axed soap opera All My Children from 2004 to 2011, but his background is in theater (he directed a production of Driving Miss Daisy in the early 1990s at Dallas’ Park Cities Playhouse, back when it was called the Plaza Theatre). It causes tension with the teacher’s partner, played by out Broadway hunk Cheyenne Jackson (also known for his recurring roles on 30 Rock and Glee), and in the community. The story they ended up with concerns a high school teacher, played by Jason Butler Harner, who is accused of an inappropriate relationship with a male student. The screenplay is written by Paul Marcarelli, best known as Verizon’s “can you hear me now?” guy, who recently came out publicly. That question would eventually lead him to his first feature film as a director, The Green, currently on the festival circuit and screening at USA Film Festival Saturday. “I always wondered what would happen if something in my life happened that brought my sexuality to the forefront, like if I was at a party and kissed my partner.” “Months went by and I started to wonder if I was the poster boy for gay,” he says. At dinner parties and social events, his sexuality was a subject that came up often, usually as a result of others’ curiosity. MARK LOWRY | Special Steve Williford never felt any homophobia directed at him when he lived in southwestern Indiana, his perception of what others thought of him as a gay man was something that stuck with him for many years. Harner returned to VCU as a Master Teacher during their 2007-08 Guest Artist program.IDYLLS OF THE QUEENS | A quiet couple (Dallas theater veteran Jason Butler Harner and ‘30 Rock’s’ Cheyenne Jackson) becomes immersed in controversy when one is accused of an affair with a teen in the USA Film Festival entry ‘The Green.’ After graduating from VCU, he was an apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville he subsequently moved to New York City and received a Master of Fine Arts in the Graduate Acting Program from Tisch School of the Arts in 1997. He graduated from VCU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting in 1992. At 17, after graduating from high school, he worked as an usher at the Eisenhower Theater, part of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Although Harner was the president of his high school drama club, he spent his time building sets rather than acting since many of his relatives were carpenters or plumbers. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, in 1988. His middle name Butler is his mother's maiden name. Harner was born in Elmira, New York and grew up in suburban Northern Virginia, where he saw a handful of plays at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. Jason Butler Harner is an American actor who portrayed Toby Carlson in AMC's The Walking Dead.
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