Kirkland Tibbels
Producer
CEO of Funny Boy Films
Kirkland founded Funny Boy Films to create life affirming motion pictures and television projects for the LGBT community. He has been actively involved in a number of independent films as an investor, consultant and/or producer. Most recently, Kirkland produced the highly acclaimed films Adam & Steve, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me and the first Funny Boy Film Latter Days.
Naked Boys Singing! is Funny Boy's fourth film. Next up, Kirkland will produce the motion picture adaptation of Del Shores' hit play Southern Baptist Sissies and the television adaptation of Shores' hit movie Sordid Lives which will air on MTV's LOGO channel.
Darryl Anderle
Co-Producer
CFO of Funny Boy Films
Darryl is a founding partner of the Funny Boy Films team and today oversees IT, production budgets, financial reporting and business affairs as the company's CFO. His fascination with film and film accounting brought him to Los Angeles where he teamed with Kirkland Tibbels to form Funny Boy Films. His professional background includes both management and IT consulting at leading magazine and book publishing and distribution companies and is a 1988 graduate of Houston Baptist University.
His film credits include Adam & Steve, The Distance, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me and served as Production Accountant on, Latter Days, Adam & Steve and Arc. Darryl is a Funny Boy partner and Co-Producer of the motion pictures they produce. When he is not frantically working toward a deadline, he is sailing somewhere between Marina del Rey and Catalina Island.
Ilo Orleans
Co-Producer
Ilo is having a great time working with Funny Boy Films. He is an award winning director of the short film Click and won honors for producing/directing the thirty-second Public Service Announcement Reflections for GLAAD's marriage equality campaign. He recently directed the New York premiere of the play Ophelia for the New York International Fringe Festival.
Ilo is a founding partner in ad hoc productions, llc with film Editor, Phyllis Housen (Adam & Steve). He recently completed production on Emmy Award winning writer, Rick Cleveland's "My Buddy Bill" for Comedy Central, airing in 2008.
Jennifer Schaefer
Line Producer
Jennifer is the founder and owner of PowerGirl Pictures, and in 2005 produced (with 42 Frames Productions) the feature film Arc starring Peter Facinelli, Ken Howard, Ann Cusack, and Blake Robbins. Before starting her own company Jennifer was V.P. of Production for Funny Boy Films where with Kirkland Tibbels she produced the Award Winning feature film Latter Days. In late 2006 Jennifer teamed up with C. Jay Cox (Latter Days, Sweet Home Alabama) to produce his feature Kiss the Bride starring Tori Spelling, Tess Harper, Joanna Cassidy, Garrett M. Brown and Bob Foxworth.
Jennifer has been Line Producing and Post Supervising for feature films and TV for over 9 years, and her more recent features include Touched, Rome & Jewel and Adam & Steve. She co-produced the critically acclaimed independent feature The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me in 2000, produced the feature length film The Distance, and was delivery supervisor on the Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated film Y Tu Mama Tambien.
