DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES, Publicist
Also represents INTAR, Keen Company, Mint Theater, New
Federal Theater, New Georges, Page 73, and Red Bull
Theater, as well as the long-running hits
Black
Angels Over Tuskegee, The Devil’s Music – The Life &
Blues of Bessie Smith, and
Naked Boys Singing,
and
the entertainment complex New World
Stages and its parent company, Stage Entertainment.
David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the
Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (where
he is chair of the Press Agent Chapter) and is a member
of the Off-Broadway League and a founder of the
Off-Broadway Alliance.
www.davidgersten.com
DAISY WALKER, Director
Daisy Walker most recently was the
Assistant Director of
Jersey Boys with Broadway, the 1st
National Tour,
Chicago and Las Vegas companies.
Prior to that she served as Artistic Associate at
Classic Stage Company.
Directing credits include;
The Little Dog Laughed, Ride, Private Eyes, Stonewall
Jackson’s House, Day in the Life of Denise Ivanovich
and
Hazard County, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre on Cape Cod.
Durrenmatt’s The
Visit at the Payomet Performing Art Center
also on the Cape.
Uncle Vanya and the US premiere of Brian Friel’s
After Play
Hubbard Hall, Cambridge NY,
Hedda Gabler
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/Guthrie Theater BFA
program. Calling
All by Melanie Marnich
& Consumption by Courtney Baron, The Guthrie Lab (Minn).
Antonio’s Revenge First Look Festival, Classic Stage
Company NYC. 24
hour plays, Atlantic Theatre NYC.
Guitar by
Julia Jordan, music by Duncan Sheik, La Jolla Playhouse.
As Thousands Cheer
at the Adirondack Theatre Festival. Other Assistant
Directing credits include;
The Farnsworth Invention, The Music Box,
Sinatra, His Music, His World, His Way at Radio City
Music Hall, and
Twelfth Night in Central Park, The Public
Theatre/NYSF. 2005 Recipient of SSDC Sir John
Gielgud Fellowship. MFA from
UCSD.
ALAN LESTER BROOKS,
Playwright
Alan Lester Brooks is a physician by profession and
an author by preference. Born in 1942, he grew up
with a great awareness of the events in Europe in
that decade and beyond. As his surviving relatives
came to America from Europe, he met and grew up
among the brothers and sisters of the characters in
this play.
While attending
Pomona College, though a premed student, he
developed a special interest in political science
and philosophy. He attended UCLA School of Medicine,
and, after an internship, was sent to Vietnam as
Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy. There he
witnessed first hand the miseries of war, poverty,
starvations, deprivation and human degradation while
tending to civilian Vietnamese casualties. As a
physician Dr Brooks has had a special interest in
the developing world, teaching abroad extensively.
Dr Brooks has been developing A Splintered
Soul for more than five years. The play has been
presented as staged readings at Albee’s New
Frontiers Playwriting
Festival in Valdez Alaska in 2005, at the
International City Theater in Long Beach in 2005,
and at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles in 2006.
It won the Moondance International Film Festival
award for the best full length stage play drama in
2005. A full production was presented at the Odyssey
Theatre in 2007.
We are honored to have this newly developed
version presented at Theater 3 in this Off-Broadway
production. The story comes from a condensation of
the author’s experiences, and is, in many ways, is a
metaphor for the events in Israel today. However,
the situations and ethical dilemmas presented have
universal
applications. Dr Brooks is also author of a book
of fictional political philosophy , “UNITY (A
Futurists Fable)” published in 2002.
www.foundationofunity.org
KEVIN JUDGE, Scenic Designer
Broadway:
Irena’s Vow
(Walter Kerr Theatre). New York:
The Revival
and FUBAR
(Project Y), Two Rooms (Lion Theatre),
Irena’s Vow (Baruch Center for the Performing Arts),
The Color of Flesh (St. Luke’s Theatre),
A Brush With Georgia O’Keeffe (St. Luke’s Theatre),
Frankenstein
(37 ARTS), Duse’s
Fever (Kirk Theater),
Safety (Urban
Stages). Regional:
Mauritius (Dorset Theater Festival),
The Servant of Two
Masters (The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ),
Hopper's Ghost and
The Visit (Payomet
Performing Arts Center),
Durango
(Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park),
The Diary of Anne
Frank (Delaware Theatre Company),
Paris Commune and Guitar
(La Jolla Playhouse),
The Little Dog
Laughed and
Ride (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). Kevin
received his MFA from The University of California, San
Diego and currently teaches design at the College of
Staten Island.
PATRICIA M. NICHOLS, Lighting Designer
Patricia Nichols holds a MFA
in Lighting Design from University of California San
Diego. This fall she will be designing the First
National Tour of the
Gazillion Bubble Show. Her New York design credits include:
Fidelity
Futurestage at New World Stages,
Because I Can
at the Greenwich Theatre,
The Souls of Our
Feet at the Triangle Theatre,
Safety at
Urban Stages. Regional Theatre Credits include:
Barefoot In The Park for Skyline Theatre. Ms. Nichols is the
Associate Lighting Designer for the Broadway and all
domestic and international productions of
Jersey Boys,
Broadway’s Pirate
Queen, Freeman
of Color, and the Broadway and all touring
productions of
Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays. Her Assisting credits
include Lestat (Broadway), Mambo
Kings (San Francisco),
Lennon (San
Francisco), Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway and National Tour),
Dracula
(Broadway),
Sinatra (Radio City Musical Hall) and
Wicked (San
Francisco). Ms. Nichols is the recipient of the 2004
USITT Young Designer Barbizon Award for Lighting Design.
VALERIE MARCUS RAMSHUR,
Costume Designer
Lucille Lortel Nominee Outstanding Costume Design -
Victoria Martin
Math Team Queen (Women’s Project), New York
Premieres:
Glasshouse (FInfer),
Till the break of
Dawn (Hoch),
Jump/Rope (Kuntz),
Tuesday’s with Morrie, Meshugah (Naked Angels),
Inky (Women’s
Project). Little
Eyolf, Big Kids, Sword Master, The Wager, Life and Death
of Bessie Smith, Romeo and Juliet (The Acting
Company. Other credits include
Boston Marriage,
(Guthrie Theater, Mpls),
The Fantasticks
(Cabrillo Stage). Broadway: associate designer
Mother F**cker with the Hat,
Lombardi,
Behanding In Spokane, Ruined,
Caroline or Change,
Bobbi Boland
and Russell
Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, A Raisin in the Sun. TV:,
A Gifted Man,
All My Children,
One Life to Live, and The View. MFA, NYU Tisch
School of the Arts.
NATHAN
LEIGH, Sound designer
Nathan Leigh has designed and composed for BTF, ART,
CRT, The Debate Society (Gothamist: Best Sound Design
2007The Eaten Heart),
Stoneham Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2009
Strangers on A Train),
Central Square Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2010
The Hound of the Baskervilles)
and many more. With frequent collaborator Kyle Jarrow,
Nathan has co-written the plays Big Money
(WTF Boris Segall
Fellowship 2008), and The Consequences.
His serial musical Sealand!
is currently running at The Flea Theatre as part of #serials@theflea.
Nathan's 2nd full length solo albumA
Life In Transit
will be released in fall of 2011.
www.nathanleigh.net
JUDY BOWMAN,
Casting Director
Upcoming projects include Dan Klores’
The Wood
(Rattlestick/dir David Bar Katz), The Elaborate
Entrance of Chad Diety (Actors Theatre of
Louisville), and After (Partial Comfort
Prods). FILM:
Tiger Lily Road, Benny the Bum, Pervertigo,
Body/Antibody, Duane Incarnate, American Falls
(w/Vincent d’Onofrio) & several award-winning
shorts. NY
Casting Associate: Mean Girls, Something’s Gotta
Give, Nowhere To Go But Up & Shortbus. THEATER:
New York Stage & Film, LAByrinth Theater
Company, HERO Theatre, & Packawallop Productions.
REGIONAL THEATERS: Humana Festival, A.R.T (7
seasons), Hangar Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival,
InterAct, & Southern Rep.
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Columbia
University’s MFA Film program. Billy Ray
(producer).
www.judybowmancasting.com
ELIZABETH JOY BOJSZA, Dramaturg
Elizabeth
currently serves as the Literary Manager of
Young Playwrights Inc., a non-profit theatre
company founded by Stephen Sondheim and
dedicated to fostering the development of
playwrights 18 years of age and younger. She
also works professionally as a freelance
dramaturg and director of community performance
projects. She most recently co-directed Swamp
Gravy's spring run of The Big Picture in
Colquitt, Georgia and is the resident dramaturg
of America-in-Play under the artistic direction
of Lynn Thomson. Elizabeth graduated from Stony
Brook University's MFA dramaturgy program in
2004, and has stayed on at Stony Brook as a
faculty member.
HANNAH WOODWARD, Production Stage Manager
New York: Lake Water
(IRT),
Little Black Dress
(The Exchange),
The Umbrella Plays
(The Tank),
Musical Legends
(Urban Stages),
In Paradise, She Plundered Him, All
Eyes & Ears, Night Over Taos
(all with Intar),
Artfuckers
(D.R.2),
24 Hour Plays on Broadway ’08-’10
(American
Airlines), 24 Hour Musicals ’10-’11
(Blender
Theater), Paula, Keep Your Baggage
With You
(Theater for the New City),
Radnevsky’s Real Magic(Talking
Band).
Regional:
McCarter, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival,
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Luna Stage,
Helen Hayes Youth Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse.
MARCY REED, Assistant Stage Manager
Marcy Reed most recently worked on Sleeping
Beauty Wakes both at the La Jolla Playhouse
and McCarter Theatre. Credits at McCarter
Theatre also include: The How and The Why
(World Premiere), An Iliad, Crimes of
the Heart,and A Christmas Carol. From
Milwaukee Wisconsin, Marcy is a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and she holds
a BFA in Stage Management.
DEBORAH WOLFSON, Assistant
Director
Favorite directing credits include
The Bobbed Haired
Bandit (also choreographer, NYIFF),
In Your Image (59 E 59), Monroe, IL: Over Here/Townie (On the Square at the Flea),
Twelfth Night (the What You Will Speakeasy),
America: A Problem Play (Planet Connections Festivity)
Williamsburg! The
Musical (also choreographer, NYIFF and FringeBENEFIT
Reading Series), Brecht's Drums in the Night (Bee Sting at The Flea), shows for
Sticky/Blue Box, TSI/Playtime, and multiple readings as
the Resident Director for On the Square Productions.
Other credits include: Red Bull Theater’s
Witch of Edmonton
and Revelation Readings,
The Farnsworth
Invention, Jersey Boys (Broadway, Chicago, Vegas)
and seasons at the Berkshire and Williamstown Theatre
Festivals as well as the Flea Theater in TriBeCa. This
season, she has been choreographing the half-time shows
for the Gotham Girl Roller Derby Jeerleaders. Deborah is
a graduate of the University of Chicago and an Associate
Member of the SDC.
LISA BOSTNAR, Actor
Lisa Bostnar most recently shot a
film, "Sweet Kandy" in New Orleans, and "The Sensation
of Sight" with David Strathairn. Earlier this year shot
“Law & Order, Criminal Intent” - adding to her Guest
Star appearances in several TV shows. She has been on
“Law & Order” several times. Some of Lisa's most
memorable performances were starring in the critically
acclaimed New York productions of The Voysey
Inheritance, Madras House, Arthur Schnitzler's
The Lonely Way and Far and Wide, Love Divided
By. She has done several show with Off-Broadway’s
The Mint Theater Company. Lisa has had the pleasure of
playing most of Shakespeare's women . . . at least once.
ELLA DERSHOWITZ, Actor
Ella Dershowitz is thrilled to be making her New York
theater debut. Regional theater: The
Screenwriter's Daughter (Vineyard Playhouse). FILM:
upcoming Knife
Fight, When in Rome, Macy
Madness (FunnyOrDie) and various student films (NYU
Tisch, Yale). Television: upcoming "Phil Spector
Biopic" written and directed by David Mamet (HBO), “Lie
to Me.” Training includes LAMDA and Yale University
(senior theater major).
DAVID LAVINE, Actor
Off Broadway: Counsellor-At-Law (Peccadillo
Theater Company, Obie and Lortel Awards). Regional: Stellyy (Berkshire Fringe); Moonlight & Magnolias, Count
Dracula (Gretna Theatre); Waiting
for Godot, The
Mystery of Irma Vep,
A Life in the
Theatre,
Master Harold ... and the boys (Fleetwood Stage). Film: “Taking
Woodstock,” “Knucklehead, Bedford Park Boulevard,” “Life
in Flight.” TV: “Pan
Am”
(fall 2011), “Blue Bloods” (fall 2011), “Mercy,” “Law & Order,”
“Cupid,” “Onion SportsDome,” “Onion News Network.”
MICHAEL
SAMUEL KAPLAN, Actor
Michael’s west coast stage credits include Sight
Unseen (Jonathan Waxman), The Unvarnished
Truth (Bill), The Substance of Fire
(Martin Geldhart), Castaway (Edmund), Dylan (John
Brinnin), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead (Guildenstern). Chicago credits include
Unfinished Business, The Radio Play, The Age of Pie,
and Breaking the Code. He’s appeared
Off-Broadway in Craig Lucas’ adaptation of Miss
Julie at Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theatre,
Intimate Apparel (Mr. Marks) at Arkansas
Repertory Theatre, A Christmas Carol (Bob
Cratchit) at The Arts Center Of Coastal Carolina,
Family Time (Vinnie) at Manhattan Theatre
Source, At A Loss (Josh) at The Kitchen
Theatre in Ithaca, in a one-person performance of
Deer Season at The Players’ Loft in Greenwich
Village, and in the 2006 and 2007 Theatre Brut
Series at New Jersey Repertory. From 2008 to
2011, Michael served as an Artist-in-Residence and
Visiting Lecturer at Cornell University. His credits
in the Cornell Performing Arts Center’s include the
regional American premieres of God’s Ear
(Ted) and The History Boys (Irwin), as well
as Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
(Jim Stools), It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play
(George Bailey), The Government Inspector
(Osip), Our Town (Stage Manager) and Those
Learned Ladies (Trissotin). TV credits include
Seinfeld, Saved by the Bell and Law &
Order.
BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and
additional training from the Yale School of Drama,
American Conservatory Theatre, and University of
California, Los Angeles.
www.michaelsamuelkaplan.com
JOHN MICHALSKI, Actor
John Michalski has just returned from Virginia
Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg VA, where he
appeared as Polonius in
Hamlet.
His most recent appearance in NYC was as Graham in the
world premier of In
Your Image by Rob Benson, at 59E59. His work
in theater now spans nearly 40 years from Broadway (Herzl,
Sherlock Holmes, Gorey Stories), Off-Broadway
(Roundabout Theatre Co, Minetta Lane Theater’s
Gross Indecency),
Regional, Stock, National Tours (M.
Butterfly, Sherlock Holmes) and Showcase. TV
includes General
Hospital and
Unsolved Mysteries. He is an alumna of The
Juilliard School, Drama Division, Group II, under the
direction of the late John Houseman. His wife, Jillian
Lindig, is also an actor.
ANYA MIGDAL, Actor
A child actor in
her native Russia, Anya switched to classical piano at
the age of 10 upon moving to the US and continued to
study professionally at the prestigious Manhattan School
of Music, winning numerous competitions and awards. As
an actress, Anya studied with such luminaries as Larry
Moss, Patsy Rodenberg, Wynn Handman, Bob Krakower as
well as at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab.
Most recently, Anya was seen as Irina in HERO
Theatre's benefit staged reading of Chekhov's
Three Sisters, directed by Lisa Peterson and featuring Arian Moayed
and Jeremy Shamos. Some of her other stage credits
include the role of Ariel in a special production of
The Tempest at
the Public Theater, directed by Joe Morton;
Two Bare Arms at the York Theatre, a play about a classical pianist,
that allowed her to combine her two loves – acting and
music; Agnes in Tony Kushner’s
A Bright Room
Called Day;
Money: A
Chamber Opera a musical play based on several
Chekhov short stories; and
Full Moon and High
Tide in the Ladies Room, which was her stage
debut. Her TV credits include numerous guest star
appearances on “Law & Order CI,” “SVU” and “Trial by
Jury.” She recently completed work on “Detour”, a film
directed by Bobby Webster (Cinematographer on the
Academy Award winning “God of Love”).
Anya & The Unpredictables – a band she formed in
which she plays the piano and sings lead vocals – is
currently recording its first album for the Composers
Concordance/Naxos labels.
KENNY MORRIS, Actor
Broadway:
Hairspray; Les Miserables; Jacques Brel… (20th
Anniv.); The Tenth Man (LCT). National/Intl Companies:
Sunset Boulevard;
Jolson: the Musical; Joseph…; Doubles (w/Robert
Reed); Sessue
(Tokyo); Les
Miserables (SF). Off-Broadway:
A New Brain
(LCT); The
Quick-Change Room (dir. Orson Beane). Regional:
Caroline, Or
Change (Guthrie Theater Kushner Festival),
Cabaret
(w/Deborah Gibson),
Visiting Mr. Green (Public Theater),
Gypsy (w/Karen
Mason), Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom; Diary of Anne Frank; City of
Angels; Rags. Films/TV: “Law & Order: Criminal
Intent;” “Third Watch” (NBC); “Big;” “Radio Days;” “Nous
York” (Upcoming Nov 2011).
SID SOLOMON, Actor
New York: Romeo
and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors (The Acting
Company), David Lindsay-Abaire's
Snow Angel
(LCT Directors Lab),
Einstein and
Mileva (Crosshatch Theatre),
Much Ado About
Nothing (Boomerang Theatre). Regional: Guthrie
Theater, Florida Stage, Georgia Shakespeare,
Minneapolis' Children's Theatre Company, among others.
TV: "Law & Order.” Training: B.F.A., University of
Minnesota/Guthrie Theater; High School of Performing
Arts, New York.
BRIAN TOM
O'CONNOR, Director
Brian O'Connor's New York or world
premieres include Reggie Cheong-Leen's The Nanjing Race
at at Abingdon Theatre Company, Skeleton at the Feast by
Jim Beggarly, Robert Cessna's David and Arthur, Arthur
and David (Workshop Theater Company), Demolition by Ben Sahl (Columbia Dramatists),
Taking Liberties by Dave Carley, and Mr. Cessna's Trios and
Final Vows. Opera
credits include The Magic Flute, The Impresario, and
La Serva Padrona for the Bronx Opera Company. Brian has
also directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
Stella Adler Conservatory, and the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln. He was artistic director of The New
Moon Theatre Company in Vermont, and also directed the
first staged reading of Samuel Beckett’s first play,
Eleutheria, at the National Arts Club. With Debra Vogel,
Mr. O'Connor created and performed in three O'Connor &
Vogel musical comedy cabaret revues, Guy & Doll, How To
Be Perfect, and Found & Lost, which the duo performed at
Don't Tell Mama, Odette's, and Seven Angels Theatre. As
an actor Mr. O’Connor appeared with Resonance Ensemble
(Caesar and Cleopatra), the Workshop Theater (Henry IV,
as Falstaff), Opening Doors Theatre (The Best Little
Whorehouse Goes Public), The Shakespeare Project
(Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nebraska Rep (Rough
Crossing), and StageWorks (Man of Destiny), among many
others.
KENDALL RILEIGH, Actor
Kendall Rileigh is delighted to be
part of this production. National Tours: Great
Expectations; Charlotte’s Web. NY: off-Broadway revival
of Another Part of the Forest; The Drunkard; Sex &
Violence; The Tempest; The Three Sisters; A Piece of My
Heart; There Will Come Soft Rains; The Melting Pot.
Regional: Romeo & Juliet; The Seagull; The Cherry
Orchard; The Lonesome West; The Miss Firecracker
Contest; Antigone; Midsummer Night’s Dream. Upcoming:
The Orpheus Variations. Film: lead in feature Eight
Lessons in Living Together. Training: Duke University,
Moscow Art Theatre, NY Circus Arts, Streb Lab. Kendall
is also an aerialist and a playwright. Her plays
Marginalia; Taking Toll; Some Fatal, Some Fortunate; The
Fish Can Dance; and An Ideal Husband (adaptation) have
been produced in NYC.
www.kendallrileigh.com
SHARA ASHLEY ZEIGER, Actor
Most recently you could have seen
Shara Ashley Zeiger as Rebecca in Angry Young Women in
Low-rise Jeans with High Class Issues at Theater for the
New City. Some of Shara's more memorable work has been
seen at La MaMa E.T.C., PS 122, Kitchen Theatre, Society
Hill Playhouse, on tour with The National Theater for
Arts & Education and with various sketch groups. She is
an active member of The RiFraC Collective, and does many
readings around town. Shara was a regular comedian on
MTV’s FNMTV and you can see her promo for Millionaire
running on ABC. She recently shot the short Gasp! that
will premiere at festivals this spring. Shara is alum of
Ithaca College ’s Theatre Department, and The O’Neill
Center’s National Theater Institute. She currently
studies at UCB.
www.youtube.com/SharaAshleyZ
MAXWELL ZENER, Actor
Maxwell Zener appeared
Off-Broadway in Men of Clay and American Girls. Other NY
credits: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Lower
Depths, Caesar and Cleopatra, Time to Burn, Strange
Bedfellows (Resonance Ensemble); The Memo, Linguish
(UTC#61); Twelfth Night (Dog Run Rep); A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Oberon). Regional
credits include: As You Like It (Williamstown Theatre
Festival), Here to Stay (Signature Theatre – VA), and
Rounding Third (Millbrook Playhouse). He appears in two
recently released independent films: Jim and
Shooting
Script. He is a proud member both of Resonance Ensemble
and of Second Studio Theatre Company.
ANDREW LU, Scenic Designer
Andrew Lu's recent design credits include: The Nanjing
Race by Reggie Cheong-Leen (Abingdon Theatre, NYC);
Truce by Marilee Talkington and Justin Quinn Pelegano (NOHspace,
San Francisco and The Woodland Opera House, Woodland
CA); Eminene by Barton Bishop (NYC Fringe 2009);
Still
the River Runs by Barton Bishop (Center Stage, NYC -
Nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for
Outstanding Lighting Design); Attrition by Marilee Talkington (Exit on Taylor Theater, San Francisco);
Professional Skepticism by James Rasheed (Abingdon
Theatre, NYC); Measure For Measure by William
Shakespeare (Theatre 3, NYC); Crave by Sarah Kane
(Centre Stage, NYC); The Passion of Winnie composed by Bongani Ndodana-Breen (Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto);
The Polished Hoe by Colin Taylor and Alison Sealy-Smith
(Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront, Toronto); Lion in the
Streets by Judith Thompson (Abingdon Theatre, NYC).
www.andrewmeyerlu.com
ISABELLA F. BYRD, Lighting
Designer
Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Prospect Theatre),
Misanthrope (Lehman), Binge (SLANT Theatre Project),
Order and Othello @ Theater Row, Long Way Go Down
(Clurman Lab Theater), Golden Gate (Williamstown),
Crimes of the Heart and Swan Lake at
College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati.
Associate/Assist credits: The Lisbon Traviata (Kennedy
Center), Play Dead (Teller & Todd Robbins),
A Steady
Rain (Bway). Isabella has also worked with the
Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Alley Theater,
Cincinnati Ballet, Stella Adler Studio and is the Assoc.
General Manager for 13Playwrights.
www.isabellabyrddesign.com
JULIA FRIERI, Assistant
Director & Assistant Stage Manager
Julia Frieri recently graduated from Bucknell University
with a BA in Theatre and a minor in dance. Directing
credits at Bucknell include bobrauschenbergamerica by
Charles Mee and Mud by Maria Irene Fornes. Assistant
Directing credits include Once Upon a Time in New Jersey
(Prospect Theater Company) and Three by the Sea (Looking
Glass Theatre). She is a member of the East/West Project
and will be performing with the ensemble at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival next summer.
ELINA de SANTOS, Director
Elina de Santos’ Los Angeles
directing credits include: for the Pasadena Playhouse,
the highly acclaimed Vincent in Brixton; for the Pacific
Resident Theatre, Rocket to the Moon (LADCC Nominee for
direction 2004), Death of a Salesman, A Delicate
Balance, and Orpheus Descending, which garnered multiple
awards including the top LADCC Awards for performance,
direction and production 2003; for the Odyssey Theatre
Ensemble, the LA premiere and multi-award winning Speed
the Plow, All My Sons and a nine month run of Awake and
Sing!; for the Ark Theatre Company, A Doll’s House which
garnered a LA Weekly nomination for Best Director 2007.
Regional credits include: Orphans (OC Weekly Best
Production, BSW Best Production, LADCC Best Production
Nomination), Tennessee in the Summer, Romeo and Juliet:
Circus Verona (Ovation Nomination), Awake and Sing!
(Winner of LADCC award, LA Weekly nomination, multiple
BSW awards), All My Sons, Speed the Plow (west coast
premiere, several BSW awards), and shows with Berkshire
Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Deaf West
Theatre, International City Theatre.
www.elinadesantos.com
GREG
MULLAVEY, Actor
Greg Mullavey has appeared in well over 100 theatre
productions all over North America. On Broadway, he
starred in Romantic Comedy, with Mia Farrow and Tony
Perkins, in Rumors, and in the National Tour of
The
Sisters Rosensweig. He has also appeared in numerous
Off-Broadway productions. Some of his regional credits
include: Alaska Light Opera; Coconut Grove Theatre
(directed by Tony Award winner, John Rando); Old Globe
Theatre (directed by Tony Award winner, Jack O’Brien);
The Guthrie; Cleveland Playhouse; George St. Playhouse;
Pittsburgh’s Public; and GEVA. In Los Angeles he has
received six Drama-Logue Awards and a L.A. Weekly Award.
His roles range from his portrayal of Lee Strasberg,
(one of Greg’s teachers,) in Names, to Shylock in
Merchant of Venice, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard with
Alfred Molina, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Serge
in Art, Tiger Brown in Three Penny Opera, as Victor
Fleming in Moonlight and Magnolias, and most recently at
The Odyssey Theatre, How the Other Half Loves. He is a
member of the TV Academy and his extensive television
credits range from Gunsmoke to E.R. with 100s in
between, included James Michener’s mini-series,
Centennial. He has been a regular on four TV series, but
is best known for his role as “Tom Hartman” on Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman. Greg is also a member of the
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts &Sciences and has
appeared in over 40 films.
ARMIN SHIMERMAN, Actor
After graduating from UCLA with a degree in English and
a specialization in Shakespeare, Armin Shimerman
apprenticed at the prestigious San Diego Old Globe
Theater and eventually took over the lead comic roles.
Armin went on to work many years on Broadway in Three
Penny Opera at Lincoln Center, St. Joan at the Circle in
the Square, Broadway, and finally Richard Rogers’ last
musical I Remember Mama. Regional Theater work followed
including classical plays at Stage West, Connecticut
Shakespeare Festival, Vermont Champlain Shakespeare
Festival, Indiana Repertory, Rutgers’ Mason Gross
Theater, Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
Theatre Center, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Seattle’s ACT,
and the San Diego Repertory Theatre production of King
Lear. He has guest starred in over 80 different TV shows
and had major recurring roles in Beauty and the Beast,
Brooklyn Bridge, Invisible Man, the Handler, Judge
Hooper on Boston Legal and, of course, Principal Snyder
in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, he is perhaps best
known as the Series Regular QUARK on Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine. He was nominated for LA Drama Critics Award
for his performance of The Birthday Party at The Matrix
Theater. He is a Shakepeare teacher, a journalist for
Back Stage East, a three time published novelist, and a
current Board member of the LA classical theatre, the
Antaeus Theater Company.
NICK MENNELL, Actor
Nick Mennell was awarded the Los
Angeles Theater Audience Award for Best Actor for Susan
Rubin’s Bitch in 2007. He graduated from The Juilliard
School of Drama in 2005. In 2004, he was awarded an
additional scholarship to train in Oxford, England under
the auspices of teachers from London’s Royal Academy of
Dramatic Arts as well as other renowned professionals of
English stage and film. Some of his favorite New York
stage credits include A Memory of Two Mondays, Three
Sisters, Hamlet, and the world premieres of American
Occupation and The Odyssey. He can be seen on the TV
series Numbers (CBS) as well as the upcoming NBC series
Southland. He can also be seen in the films My Little
Eye (WorkingTitle/Universal), Halloween (Dimension), and
the upcoming Lost Tribe (Lionsgate) as well as the new
hit remake of Friday the 13th (Warner Bros).
MOLLY SCHAFFER, Actor
Molly Schaffer's most recent
theatre credits include Elina de santos' production of
Proof at Pacific Resident Theatre, Tom Beyer's three
person adaptation of Richard III at PRT, and Maggie in
Marshall Mason's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at both Cincinatti Playhouse and Repertory Theater of St. Louis.
Other favorite roles include Leonora in Noel Coward's,
Tonight at 8:30 (LADCC Best Actress Nomination), Sarah
in Spinning into Butter at Actors Theater of Phoenix,
and Hannah in Marshall Mason's Night of the Iguana.
Molly's most recent television credits include NBC's The
Black Donnelly's (recurring guest star) and CBS's
The
Unit. She also recurred on The West Wing and was in the
Academy Award Winning film Crash.
MAGGIE PEACH, Actor
Maggie Peach recently won the Four
Star Theatre Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in
Madwomen of Chaillot at Ojai Arts Center, received an
Orange Award Nomination for her role as "Maria Callas"
in Master Class at Long Beach Playhouse, and won a show
Award for Lead Actress in Noel Coward's Still Life at
the Melrose Theatre.
CHRISTOPHER FRANCIOSA, Actor
Christopher Franciosa was seen
Off-Broadway in The Charity That Began at Home at The
Mint Theatre, with Brendan Fraser in the film Monkeybone
and as Darth Vader on Chapelle’s Show. Regional theater
credits include among many others Antony & Cleopatra
with Mercedes Ruehl at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville,
Camino Real with Eli Wallach at The Actor’s Studio,
Dan
in Closer at The Hippodrome Theatre, Treplev in The
Seagull, Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath, Ellard in
The
Foreigner, Laertes in Hamlet, Trinculo in
The Tempest,
and all the male roles in The Trojan Women. A writer as
well, Christopher was recently invited to participate in
the prestigious Warner Bros. Dramatic Television Writing
workshop and was a finalist in England’s Sussex
Playwright’s Club Television Play Competition. As a
playwright, he has had numerous works produced
throughout the U.S. and recently enjoyed a workshop
production of his Pompeii at the Ruskin Group Theatre in
Santa Monica.
ORESTES ARCUNI, Actor
Orestes Arcuni had recently been
seen on stage in the LA area as Marek in My, Antonia at
The Pacific Resident Theatre and at the Rubicon Theatre.
Entertainment Today nominated him in the Best New
Discovery Category in their Theatre Awards for 2008.
Last year Orestes also performed in W;t at the Repertory
East Playhouse in Santa Clarita playing the role of Dr.
Jason Posner. Favorite regional roles include George in
Of Mice and Men (Human Race Theatre in Dayton, OH) and
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Kentucky Repertory Theatre).
Originally from NY, Orestes holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch
School of the Arts and an MFA from The Hilberry Theatre
at Wayne State University in Detroit. TV credits include
Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless, All My
Children, and Another World. Orestes maintains an
interest in writing and directing as well. He is the
co-author of the feature screenplay Rumble Doll currently optioned by Transplant Entertainment, and was
the Assistant Director for the original NY production of
Portraits (Union Square Theatre).
www.orestesarcuni.com
DAVID CLAYBERG, Actor
David Clayberg has recently
appeared as Happy in Death of a Salesman, directed by Elina de Santos. Other favorite roles include Ronnie in
Ray Cooney's Out of Order at the El Portal Center for
the Arts, Donal Davoren in Sean O'Casey's Shadow of a
Gunman, stints as Adhémar in Divorçons and Prince Albert
in The Swan, and Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night's
Dream.
LEIGH ALLEN, Lighting Designer
Leigh Allen is a recent recipient
of the Career Achievement Award for Lighting Design from
the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Some of her work
includes: Champagne (for Regent Cruise Lines),
Shimmy! (for Princess Cruise Lines), Snoopy on Ice
(for Jill
Schultz), Killer Joe (winner of LA Ovation Award:
Production of the Year), The Prince of LA (at The Old
Globe in San Diego), and Vincent in Brixton (at Pasadena
Playhouse). She has also received the LA Drama Critics
Circle and LA Weekly Lighting Design Awards for Johnny
Got His Gun.
STEPHEN GIFFORD, Set
Designer
Stephen Gifford hales from Missouri where he worked
closely with The Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and the Muny for five
years before moving to New York to attend NYU's Tisch
School of the Arts. He received his MFA in Scenic Design
and designed She Loves Me, The Good Person of Setzuan
(NYU); A Way to Begin (Alternative Theatre);
The Bicycle
(Bicycle Productions); Into the Woods and Anne Frank and
Me (City Lights Youth Theatre); and The Barber of
Seville (Juneau Lyric Opera). Since moving to LA in
2005, he has designed: Frankie and Johnny in the Claire
de Lune and The All Night Strut (International City
Theatre); The Graduate, Miss Witherspoon, Assassins, The
Sweetest Swing in Baseball (West Coast Ensemble);
Hollywood Christmas Show, 1776, Leading Ladies, Makin
Hay (Actor's Co-op); Aladdin, The Dangerous Christmas of
Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast (Nine O' Clock
Players); Beggars in the House of Plenty (Shadwell
Productions); Lady (The Road Theatre); Oliver!
(Alex
Theatre). Stephen is happy to be working again with Elina on
Misalliance after working together on Razorback
for Rogue Machine last year. Upcoming productions
include the West Coast premiere of Is He Dead? and
Facing East at ICT, Sidhe at the Road, and
Big for West
Coast Ensemble.
www.stephengifforddesign.com
DENNIS BALLARD, Costume
Designer
Dennis Ballard has designed SpringScape, Tea and
Temptation and Staged Fright for American Ballet
Theatre. His New York, Off Broadway designs include Acts
of Love, Ascension, Frankenstein Summer, and Bartleby
the Scrivener. He has recently designed productions for
the Hudson Stage, Florida Stage, and the Berkshire
Theater Festival. His theater design work has been seen
throughout the United States as well as in France,
China, England and Japan. He is currently a Design
Teaching Artist for the American Ballet Theater and
travels with the company when they perform throughout
the United States. Dennis is thrilled to work with
director Elina De Santos again, having recently designed
her production of Rogue Machine's Razorback.
www.dennisballard.com
CHRISTOPHER MOSCATIELLO,
Sound Designer
Christopher Moscatiello's international broadcast
credits include original music for NBC, Fox Television,
AOL Time Warner, National Geographic, Channel 5 (U.K.),
ZDF (Germany), The Discovery Channel, The Learning
Channel and MSNBC, as well as numerous independent
films, television commercials and multimedia projects.
In 1997 he completed a ballet commissioned by the Kirov
Academy of Ballet that saw its world premiere in the
spring of that year. Prior to relocating to LA, he spent
three years as Associate Artistic Director and Conductor
of The Boston Chamber Ensemble. Chris holds a Master's
Degree in Conducting and a Bachelor's Degree in
Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He
composed music for the beloved documentary March of the
Penguins.
www.moscatiello.com
ARIANA JOHNS, Actor
Ariana Johns performed her solo show, Vampingo…a comedy
with bite in the 2007 N.Y. International Fringe
Festival, after its premiere at Actor’s Art Theatre in
L.A. Also at AAT, she performed in and wrote the
long-running Moonbite and Rapturous Delirium, and she’s
currently developing a screenplay of Vampingo with
Jolene Adams. Off-Broadway, she’s acted in Pigeons On
The Walk and I Got The Stagestruck Blues On A Mobius
Trip, which was also produced at the BoarsHead Theatre
in MI. Other credits include The Killing Of Sister
George, Eccentricities Of A Nightingale, and Stay Pretty
(actor/author). Regionally, she’s worked with Allison
Janney (The Real Inspector Hound), Joanne Woodward and
Judith Ivey (Hay Fever), and Mark Moses (Spring
Awakening). She is the recipient of a Drama-Logue award
for The Midnight Court, and received an A.D.A.
nomination for Baby With The Bathwater. She received
critical acclaim for her work as Shelly Winters in the
world premiere of Robert Patrick’s Hello, Bob, and for
her original monologues that she performed in the SOLO
series with Sandra Tsing-Loh.
www.vampingoproductions.com
MICAH FREEDMAN,
Actor/Graphic Designer
Micah Freedman’s New York credits include Angels in
America, Arcadia, Mad Forest, Jean Anouilh’s Antigone,
Scenes from an Execution, Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, and Ghosts (with Abigail Rose
Solomon.) His regional credits include Fiddler in the
Roof and Almost Like Being in Love (Barter Theatre),
Showboat and Phantom (Gateway Playhouse), and Music Man
(Mill Mountain). Micah graduated from Stanford
University where he studied Music, Acting and Computer
Science. He is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of QED
Productions, based in New York City, where he lives.
www.qedproductions.org
ALEXANDER WRIGHT, Music
Director & Composer
Alexander Wright is a member of the Eighth Hand String
Band, has written music for "Twelfth Night," played
banjo in "Three Penny Opera," played for Native Voices
"Berlin Blues," produced CD recordings of "Lies Like
Truth" and "John O'Connor" and played on Arigon Starr's
"Red Road." He was recipient of the LAWEE Career
Achievement and Production of the Year Awards and
honored as an Alton Jones Arts Future recipient.
CHRISTINA WRIGHT, Costume
Designer
Christina Wright most recently costumed "Culture Clash"
and "The Birds" at the Getty Villa. She has designed
costumed for Native Voices at The Autry for seven years.
Over the past 26 years, she has designed and created
costumes for Robert Wilson and Philip Glass' opera
"Monsters of Grace," David Schweitzer's
"Transformations," Bill Viola's "Quintet of the
Astonished," "Notes: On Performance" at the Wallenboyd
Theatre and many Shakespeare productions directed by her
husband, Alex Wright. Other favorite productions include
"The Mystery of Irma Vep" and "The Rocky Horror Show" at
the Tiffany Theatre, and "Surfing DNA" at East West
Players.
MAURA MCGUINNESS, Lighting
Designer
Maura McGuinness has designed lights for a variety of
events on both coasts and has traveled the world with
different companies as a lighting designer, master
electrician and technical director. In Los Angeles, her
designs include the acclaimed "Internet Dating- The
Musical" at Artworks Theatre (World Premiere), "Los
Muertos" at the Elephant Asylum (World Premiere), "The
Merchant of Venice" at the Ivy Substation and "the
Tempest" at the 24th St.Theatre, both with LAWSC. She
has also done design for performance art and dance and
her designs have been seen at The Lillian, Odyssey,
Hudson, Ivar and Coronet theatres and the historic
Hollywood Bowl. She also works and designs for Grand
Performances, which offers free access to varied artists
from around the world, in the heart of downtown LA.
MARY TRAHEY, Hair & Make
Up Designer
Mary Trahey has been with the L.A. Women's Shakespeare
Company since 2001, doing make up and hair designs for
"The Tempest" and "The Merchant of Venice." Some other
credits include: "A "Circus" Christmas Carol" (ICT Long
Beach), "Macbeth" (El Camino College), "Feel Better
Fast" (short film), and working with the national
touring company of "Cats" in Chicago.
SCOTT ASHBY, Fight
Choreographer
Scott Ashby is a fight choreographer and teacher with
years of experience in the field of Film and Theatre
Education. His training as both a classical actor and
certified stuntman, along with his lifelong studies of
philosophy and behavioral science are the basis for his
teaching methods and choreographic style. His practice
of teaching nonviolence through the use of Classical
Theatre and Stage Combat techniques have been adapted as
a standard in several Theatre Schools and training
programs.
KIMBERLEIGH AARN, Actor
Kimberleigh Aarn's L.A. Women's Shakespeare Company
roles include Gratiano in "The Merchant of Venice"
(Ovation Award Nomination, Hermione in "Winter's Tale,"
Claudio in "Much Ado About Nothing," Helena in
"Midsummer Night's Dream," and Claudio in "Measure for
Measure." Regional she has worked with Actors Theatre in
Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, New Works, Geva, Center
Stage, Arena Stage, Old Globe, O'Neill Theatre Center,
Yale Rep, and Shakespeare & Company. She appeared on
Broadway in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (Tony Award &
Drama Desk Nomination), and Off-Broadway in "One of the
All Time Greats" at the Cherry Lane Theatre. On
television she has appeared in "Angel," "Family Law,"
"The People," "Guiding Light," and in an independent
short film "The Portrait."
FRAN BENNETT, Actor
Fran Bennett has worked at Theatre at Boston Court,
REDCAT, the Getty Villa, as well as playing several
roles for L.A. Women's Shakespeare Company. She has
worked abroad in France and Italy and spent 12 years at
the Guthrie Theatre as an actress and voice and movement
director.Fran has won an Ovation Award, an NAACP Theatre
Award, a Drama-Logue Award, and is the recipient of the
first AEA/AFTRA/SAG Diversity Honor Award. Her TV and
Film credits include "Boston Legal," "Crossing Jordan,"
"The Book of Daniel" (series regular), "In the Heat of
the Night" (recurring), and "Chicago Hope."
DREYA WEBER,
Actor/Aerialist
Dreya Weber recently produced and starred in "The
Gymnast," recipient of 18 awards at various film
festivals. Her theatre credits include the West Coast
Premiere of Austin Pendleton's "Orson's Shadow" which
won Garland, Ovation and LADCC Awards for Best
Production. She has also worked with the New York
Shakespeare Festival and Roundabout. She toured for
three years at choreographer and aerial soloist for
Cher's Living Proof Farewell Tour. She has also
choreographed aerials for Madonna's Re-Invention Tour,
Christine Aguilera's Back To Basics Tour and Pink's I'm
Not Dead and Try This Tours.
www.thegymnastfilm.com
CATE CAPLIN, Choreographer
Cate Caplin has produced, directed and choreographed
over 100 productions. Her work has been seen on
television, in films and in theatrical venues world wide
from the Paris Opera House to the Broadway Stage. Cate
is also a published writer and coaches both actors and
dancers. She has won 34 first place titles including
five “US Open” , three World Titles and Multiple Gold
Medals in Theatrical ShowDance with dance partner Gary
Franco and her Production company, Night and Day
Entertainment, co-founded with Creative partner Vernon
Willet, custom designs entertainment for private
parties, corporate events and industrial trade
shows.www.catecaplin.com
JOCELYN JACKSON, Actor
Jocelyn Jackson grew up in the Bay Area where she
studied at the American Conservatory Theater and
performed on the mainstage. She also worked with the San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival and the African American
Shakespeare Company. She received her M.F.A. in Acting
from the University of Washington (ranked third in the
nation by U.S. News & World Report). Her television
credits include "House, Passions, Bill Nye the Science
Guy and Crime Strike." Among others, she has worked with
TheSpyAnts, Ark, and Blue Sphere Alliance theater
companies.
CHRISTIAN S. ANDERSON,
Actor
Christian S. Anderson just finished a run of A Bed and A
Bar at the Gloria Gifford Conservatory Theatre. He has
worked regionally at The Rubicon Theatre, The Utah
Shakespearean Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival,
Shakespeare Sedona, and The Southwest Shakespeare
Festival. Born in Chicago, Christian worked locally at
The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, First Folio Shakespeare
Festival, and the Organic Theatre. On TV, Christian has
appeared on "Will & Grace, According to Jim, Cuts," and
multiple times on "The Young and the Restless." Most
recently, he co-starred on the NBC pilot Community
Service.
SARAH SIDO, Actor
Sarah Sido's recent theatrical credits include Abigail
in The Crucible at The International City Theatre, Renee
in Dark Rapture at the Evidence Room, Bianca in The
Taming of the Shrew at the Orpheum Theatre, and
Desdemona in Othello with Will and Company. Favorite New
York credits include Bloody Poetry at the Classic Stage
Company and Heart of a Dog at Theatre for a New City, as
well as having toured with The National Shakespeare
Company. Television and Film credits include Without a
Trace, Lollilove and Les Superficiales; the latter two
having just screened at the Cannes Film Festival Market.
She can also be seen and heard in numerous commercials
and video games.
RYAN MICHELLE BATHE, Actor
Ryan Michelle Bathe was nominated for a 2006 SAG Award
for the hit series "Boston Legal" on which played the
role of Sara Holt. She most recently shot the ABC comedy
pilot "Pink Collar" with Alicia Silverstone. Ryan has
also appeared in TV movies "Lackawanna Blues" and "Good
Fences", as well as on "ER", "Girlfriends", "Half &
Half", and "The Education of Max Bickford". Her theatre
credits include "As You Like It", at The Guthrie
Theater, "Much Ado about Nothing" at the Old Globe and
"Hot Mikado" at the Ford Theater. Ryan received her BA
from Stanford University and her MFA from Tisch, NYU
Graduate Acting Program.
NICK HOFFA, Actor
On stage, Nick Hoffa was most recently in the
award-winning Theatre at Boston Court’s production of
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children
directed by Jessica Kubzansky and starring Camille
Saviola. Prior to that, he acted with Wendie Malick, Dan
Lauria and Dorian Harewood in Questa, a play that was
executive produced by David Milch. Other credits include
roles on Alias, Monk, Strong Medicine and in several
independent films and national commercials. He is
relatively new to Los Angeles, coming most directly from
San Francisco, where he worked with Sierra Repertory
Theatre, New Conservatory Theater, Subterranean
Shakespeare, Fools Fury, and 42nd Street Moon. He
trained at the American Conservatory Theatre and Full
Circle and for three years directed the IMCO theater
company. A Massachusetts native, Nick attended Wesleyan
University.
JENNIFER ROSEN, Actor
Jennifer Rosen wrote, performed in, and produced her
solo show, "Tall Girl", at the Groundlings Theatre. The
show, which received LA Weekly’s Comedy Pick of the
Week, was directed by Groundlings’ founder, Gary Austin.
After graduating from the Circle in the Square Theatre
School in New York, Jennifer acted in several NYU films
and off-off Broadway plays including Alan Ball’s "Five
Women Wearing the Same Dress" and Ibsen’s "An Enemy of
the People." She also performed in two improv troupes,
On The Spot and The Grown-Ups’ Playground at the New
York Comedy Club. Since moving to Los Angeles, Jennifer
has acted in USC graduate films and most recently
completed "Blue Ribbon," an AFI film. She is currently a
member of the Theatre District at the Cast theatre
company in Hollywood. Jennifer earned her M.A. and B.A.
in English Literature from Stanford.
www.jenniferrosen.net
JULES WILLCOX, Actor
Jules Willcox recently received her MFA from UCLA’s
Department of Theatre, Film and TV. While at UCLA she
received the Jack Nicholson and Rod Steiger Awards for
Excellence in Acting. Having grown up on a farm in
Missouri, her love for theatre and film has taken her
from the University of Missouri to the Off-Broadway
theatres of NYC to the soundstages of LA. Favorite roles
include: Ophelia in Hamlet, Dorinda in The Beaux’
Stratagem, and Tessa in the west coast premier of
Charles Mee’s Summertime.
CHRIS BROWN, Actor
Chris Brown is excited to be in her fifith performance
in LA. This past season she played the lovely "Sasha" on
Fox's cartoon show "The Bratz". She is a graduate from
The University of Tennessee with a degree in Theatre and
a minor in dance.
WILL BEINBRINK, Actor
Will Beinbrink just wrapped on a pilot called "Companytown"
playing a yoga teacher. Recently he shot a commercial
for Jeep and a Guest star for "Related" on the WB. Most
recently theater credits include "Monipulat" at
Manhattan Class Company last fall and "Twelfth Night"
for the LA Shakespeare Festival.
MICHAEL MULLEN, Costume
Designer
Michael Mullen is a graduate of U.S.C.'s School of
Theatre and The Fashion Institute of Design and
Merchandising's fashion design department. Michael has
costume designed many projects on stage and film. He
just recently received a Garland Award honorable mention
for his costumes in "THE MULLEN MIX", a one-man show
that he co-wrote, performed in, and costumed. As an
actor, some of you might also remember him as "Miss
Texas" in the Los Angeles premiere of the campy hit
musical "PAGEANT" which ran for about four months at The
Hudson Avenue Theatre a couple of years ago.
RACQUEL LEHRMAN, THEATRE
PLANNERS, Producer
Racquel Lehrman is the founder and managing director of
Theatre Planners, her own theatre production/PR firm.
She graduated from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and
lived in NY for over ten years producing theatre.
Theatre Planners has since developed into a very busy
and successful outlet for actors, producers and theatre
companies. Doing everything from publicity, consulting,
printing and graphics, we love making productions a
reality and helping to keep the theatre scene in LA
alive and strong. Racquel has recently acquired the
Actor's Gang old space on Centro and is the new owner of
the LOUNGE THEATRE in Hollywood on Theatre Row.To learn
more about Racquel and Theatre Planners, go to
www.theatreplanners.com
MICHAEL DONOVAN, C.S.A.,
Casting Director
Michael Donovan casts for film, television, theatre and
commercials. His credits include the upcoming features
"Comedy Hell" and "Hot Tamale", nine TV series, and over
1,000 commercials. Michael casts extensively for the
theatre, and is the recent recipient of the Casting
Society of America's Artios award, given for Outstanding
Achievement in Casting. Current and upcoming productions
include "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure" (both at
Pasadena Playhouse and Arizona Theatre Company), "Zorba"
(Reprise!), and "Bark!" (both at the Coast Playhouse in
L.A., and at the Chicago Center for the Performing
Arts). Recent credits include "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" (Shakespeare Festival/LA), "A Picture of Dorian
Gray" (at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena), and
"The Story" (at I.C.T. in Long Beach). Also a director,
Michael recently helmed GuerriLA Theatre's production of
"Banned Plays." Michael is currently teaching at
U.C.L.A., and is the Artistic Director of the
newly-formed Culver City Playhouse.
PHILIP SOKOLOFF, Publicist
Philip Sokoloff is L.A.'s most active theater publicist,
representing over 100 live attractions annually in L.A.
and Ventura Counties. Also an actor, he recently
appeared in "The Tempest" at the MET and in Ray
Bradbury's "Almost Midnight" at New Place Theatre.
SOPHIA ALEXANDER,
Production Stage Manager
Sophia Alexander is a native of Los Angeles. She is a
Journalism Major at California State University, Long
Beach and a soon to be graduate May 2006. She got her
start in production in High School working for a student
run show “Ed.News” where she was a assistant director,
reporter, and camera person. She has been involved in
production for 6 years. Sophia has held internships at
Fox 11 News, has been a segment producer, editor, stage
manager, sound tech, and reporter for a student run
television show called “College Beat”. She got her start
in theatre on a play called “Waste of Shame” by Ron
Klier as an assistant stage manager. She is also working
on “Stages” by Abigail Rose Solomon. As well as “I
Captured the Castle” directed by Cameron Watson.
SCOTT TUOMEY, Technical
Director
Scott Tuomey has been the Technical Director a the
Fountain Theatre since its inaugural production of
"Winter Crane" in 1990. He has overseen virtually every
Fountain production, on and off site, including their
numerous flamenco shows. He has appeared on The Fountain
stage in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Declarations: Love
Letters of the Great Romantics" and "Master Class."
Scott's talents as actor/singer/guitarist were also seen
in the Shakespeare Festival L.A.'s production of "As You
Like It" and "Twelfth Night" at the Globe Theatre in
West Hollywood and in the upcoming film "A Day in the
Life of Sunny Paradise."
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Attorney at Law
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Designer
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