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 Susan Hinshaw has worked as an actor in London, Seattle, and Los Angeles, appearing in numerous leading roles on-stage and in films. Favorite roles include, Beatrice in
Much Ado about Nothing, Karen in the
Children's Hour, Emma in Betrayal and Le Marquis de Merteiul in
Les Liasons Dangereus. Currently, she is performing her solo show,
Nirvana, in various venues around the country. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in acting from California State University, Fullerton (where she was a scholarship recipient), and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington School of Drama.
Susan has trained and studied with many notable artists including Barry Kyle (artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company), members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Michael Shurtleff, George Shadanoff (formerly of the Chekhov Theatre, in partnership with Michael Chekhov), and studied seven years with Jose Quintero (cofounder of the Circle in the Square Theatre, collaborator/ interpreter of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neil).
Susan has studied voice using the Linklater technique with training from the Nobel institute in Sweden, and movement using the Alexander technique with training under Jean-Louis Roderique.
Susan's professional affiliations include Actor's Equity Association, the Screen Actor's Guild, American Federation of Television and radio Artists, Women in Film and Women in Theatre. She was inducted into Who's Who in American Teachers in 2004 and again in 2005.
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Paul Wickline is an actor and
director and holds a BA in Theatre and an MA
in education. From acting in a sketch comedy
show in Seattle with Bill Nye (the science
guy!) to singing with SOUNDSATION, a
critically acclaimed vocal jazz ensemble, to
acting professionally, Paul has always been
active as a performer. However, as much as
he enjoys performing, his passion is
teaching and directing.
From 2003-2007, Paul
was Director of Theater Arts and a theater
instructor at Walla Walla Community College.
During this period, he also directed the
annual Outdoor Summer Musical at Fort Walla
Walla and founded and directed the Walla
Walla Summer Acting Camp for high school
students. His theatrical training includes
studying classical acting for two years with
Wesley Van Tassel (director and author of
Clues to Acting Shakespeare), workshops
in the Meisner technique with Larry
Silverberg, and Spolin-based improvisation
with Paul Sills at his Wisconsin Game
Center.
Paul has produced and
directed more than fifty productions in the
last fifteen years including Cinderella,
The Foreigner, South Pacific,
Pippin, Godspell, The Fantasticks
(twice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Little Shop of Horrors, Rough Crossing,
Annie, Born Yesterday, Bye Bye Birdie, The
Dining Room, Vanities, Flaming Idiots, The
Odd Couple, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls,
and many more. A character actor, some
of Paul’s favorite roles include
televangelist Melvin P. Thorpe in The
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Frankie
in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de
Lune, and Barry Champlain in Talk
Radio. In 2005 the Kennedy
Center/American College Theatre Festival
awarded Paul a Meritorious Achievement Award
for his work as the text coach on Walla
Walla University's production of Othello.
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 Dee Marie Nieto is the founder, director and writer of the Shakespeare and Friends Foundation, a non profit professional acting company. The foundation was recently awarded "best practice in race and diversity" by the YWCA and has been given an assistance grant from Actors Equity Association.
Ms. Nieto has acted, sung and danced her way through a myriad of productions while also establishing herself as a respected director and acting instructor to both student and professional actors.
She has held leads in such plays as The Time of Your Life,
A View From the Bridge, Henry V,
Shakespeare's Women, Our Town,
La Ronde, and The Tavern with Henry Darrow; sold Tuborg Beer on TV; died in
Police Story and appeared with Joanna Gleason in
Once Upon a Mattress, starring John Rubenstein. Directing credits include
The Comedy of Errors, Tartuffe,
Story Theatre, and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. She has written and directed Shakespeare's Woodland Magic,
Building Bridges, Seeds of Violence As Seen Through Romeo and Juliet
and Farce: That's Shakespeare.
Ms. Nieto is a member of the Southern California Educational Theatre Association, Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild and holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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 Theresa Layne holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the United States International University and an MFA in Acting from the University of Arizona, where she appeared at the Arizona Repertory Theatre as Miss Pross in A Tale of Two Cities, Mme Pinglet in A Little Hotel on the Side, Mama Maddelena in Nine, and Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Her first theatrical home was at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in San Diego where she played Abigail Adams in 1776, Agnes Gooch in Mame, and the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, among many other productions.
Since transporting herself to LA, she has worked at the Civic Light Opera of the South Bay Cities in Sound of Music, and The Candlelight Pavilion in The Secret Garden. Theresa's new theatrical home is the Colony Theatre Company -an award-winning, nationally-recognized professional company located in Burbank. She made her Colony debut as the Alto of The Angel City 4 in the Theatre LA Ovation Award-winning production of
City of Angels. She has also appeared as Sister Felicity in the second stage production of
Suddenly
Last Summer.
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David Stears is an actor, director and producer originally from New York and has been involved in live theatre for the past twenty years. David is a founding member of the highly acclaimed Actor's Project in Long Island and trained at HB studio’s in New York. David came to California where he continued his training at California Institute of the Arts School of Theatre (Libby Apple, Dean). David has produced and directed over thirty productions and has been involved in over sixty as an actor. Upon graduating, David founded The Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre and was the company’s Producing-Artistic Director until July 2001.
As SCRT’s leader, David developed the company’s Educational Outreach Program. Fostering relationship with school districts and working with teachers and professional theatre artists, the SCRT’s Educational Outreach Program reached more than 20,000 students each year, developed nine original scripts, five bilingual plays, dozens of in-school workshops and garnered the support of the Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, winner of the Los Angeles Times Community Partnership Award (1994) and the Citibank Education award (1994). Mr. Stears was the consultant and producer of four curricular based plays for children as part of the Spotlight Project with the Sulphur Springs School District. Also while at SCRT, David initiated the Summer Theatre Festival/ Shakespeare in the Parks series & Apprentice Programs and designed and opened the new facility for SCRT located in Downtown Newhall.
David is one of the Founding Members of the Arts Alliance in Santa Clarita and has a certificate in Fund Raising from U.C.L.A. He works as an independent producer/director and fund raising consultant, running Stears & Associates, a producing & event management and fund raising consulting company.
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Mark Salyer has been a professional actor and director for the past fifteen years. Favorite roles include: Hedwig in the Atlanta premiere of
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Best Guest Artist, Creative Loafing Magazine, Outstanding Performance, Southern Voice Magazine) Clive/Edward in
Cloud Nine, Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, Huck Finn in
Big River, and the title role in Strider (Best Actor in a Musical, Virginia Theatre Magazine). Last June, Mark was invited to perform in a three person adaptation of Sophocles's
Electra at the International Syposium on Greek Drama in Delphi, Greece.
Directing credits include Suddenly Last Summer for the Alma Mater Theatre Company,
Madama Butterfly for the Santa Monica Civic Opera, Menotti's
The Medium for the Los Angeles Opera Theatre Company, and
Die Fledermaus for Opera d'Angeli. Mark sings professionally as a cabaret artist and with a country bluegrass group performing at L.A.'s Largo. Mark teaches acting and musical theatre privately and on the faculty of both the College of the Canyons in Los Angeles where he directed
Big River and Jesus Christ Superstar and the University of Virginia's College at Wise where he directed
Into the Woods in 2000.
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 John DeMita has been a teacher and professional actor for more than 18 years, and is currently a faculty member of College of the Canyons, Santa Ana College, Citrus college, and El Camino College. As an actor, he has performed with many of the nation's most prestigious theater companies including the Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle's Intiman Theater, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Currently, he can be seen on the CBS series
Jag as Marine Colonel Clifford Blakely. John was also a series regular on Comedy Central's
The Clinic and has guest-starred in more than 40 films and television shows. His most recent credits include TNN's 18 Wheels of Justice and
Life of the Party-The Pamela Harriman Story with Ann Margaret for Lifetime Cable Television. Directing credits include:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hot L Baltimore,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Holiday,
Marisol, and Grease. John also continues to work as a voice actor in such cartoons as Disney's
Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke,
Spawn, and the feature film Final Fantasy.
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Andrea Slominski is a director and producer with over 24 years of professional experience, having received two degrees from the University of Rhode Island, one in fine art and one in theatre, directing and acting. Ms. Slominski's training includes voice, Seth Riggs method, acting, Meisner method with Kimber Wheelock and David Eliet of Trinity Square Repertory Theatre, Providence R.I. Her movement training included Grotowski and Alexander as well as various forms of dance.
Andrea served as artistic director of the Astor's Beechwoood Theatre in Newport R.I. Following two successful seasons she opened a musical cabaret theatre of her own in Houston Texas, where she co-wrote, directed and produced 11 shows in three years.
Currently, she is writing a musical about
the Divine Feminine as told through the
stories of women in history and is a founding director of the Santa Clarita Theatre Project in partnership with Mark Salyer. Andrea is the Director of COC's Summer Theatre Academy.
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 Leigh Kennicott
received her Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Colorado in summer 2002. Prior to that she directed more than 30 plays both in Los Angeles and the Denver area, including
Tales of the Lost Formicans, at CU;
Strange Interlude at Cal State
Northridge, where she earned a Master's
Degree; Lanford Wilson's Women at LA's Victory Theatre; and
Superwoman at Hollywood's Matrix Theatre.
Before returning to the university she worked in film and television." for Leonard Goldberg Productions, in Current Television at ABC, and in production for Miller-Boyett Productions, who brought
Perfect Strangers, Family Matters and
Step by Step to the small screen.
She has written, directed and produced two films - the festival short "Rubber Gloves" and the documentary "Streakin'.
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Stephen Whelan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in acting and directing at Cal State University Long Beach. Stephen had the pleasure of getting to participate in workshops conducted by John Houseman and the Acting Company from Julliard, Patrick Stewart and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Stella Adler. He received a broad range of exposure to classical, modern and experimental plays from professors such as Mathias Reitz, Betsy Hamilton (currently at DePaul University), William Raffeld and Michael Lyman.
Upon graduation he studied with Michael Holmes at the Chandler Studio in Los Angeles where he assisted in teaching Uta Hagen-style technique classes and played the role of Macbeth from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy and the dual roles of Posthumous/Cloten in Cymbeline.
After teaching and directing for two years at the Orange County High School of the Arts, Stephen worked for the film director/producer Martin Brest and on such feature films as
Scent of a Woman with Al Pacino and
Meet Joe Black with Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt. After almost eight years in the film industry he returned to teaching at the Orange County High School of the Arts for one year, but for the past five years has been the sole theatre arts instructor and director at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita. He also holds a Teacher's Certificate and Master of Education from the University of La Verne.
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 Annette
Reid Crump
is an actor-producer. She started
acting in summer stock with her father at
the age of nine. She received a BFA in
Music Theatre from The Ohio State University
and an MFA in acting from Cal State
University, Fullerton. She took a long
hiatus from acting, working for Disney and
traveling the world. She recently returned
to the business, and has appeared on
Desperate Housewives, in the short film
“Training Wheels” which was featured at
the International Family Film Festival,
and most recently appeared onstage in Los
Angeles with Mariette Hartley in the world
premier of In the Wings.
Other favorite stage
roles include Mrs. Hardcastle in She
Stoops to Conquer, Billie in Women of
Manhattan, Edward/Victoria in Cloud
Nine, and Woman 2 in Side by Side by
Sondheim. As a producer she worked with
the Classical Theatre Lab, and the Will Geer
Theatricum Botanicum “Seedlings” New Plays
series. She has done voice over work for
Walt Disney Imagineering, giving voice to a
number of interactives in worldwide theme
parks, for HeadTrips Audio Tours, and most
recently can be heard as the voice of
“Mnemnosyne 99” in the most recent episode
of The DNA Files: Unraveling the
Mysteries of Genetics with John
Hockenberry.
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Allan
Trautman is a professional actor,
puppeteer and director. His career spans 34
years, the last 28 in Los Angeles. As an
actor, he has appeared in the Coen brothers
movie Intolerable Cruelty and the
1984 cult classic Return of the Living
Dead, in which he performed the infamous
Tarman. Recent television appearances
include Joan of Arcadia, Grounded
for Life, and a Dr. Pepper commercial.
Recent stage work includes leading roles in
Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing
and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Mr.
Trautman has performed with the Jim Henson
Company for the past 18 years as a lead
puppeteer, performing Ferdinand the duck in
Babe, Eddie Murphys dog in Dr.
Dolittle, one of the leads in The
Country Bears, and various roles in
Cats & Dogs, Muppets from Space,
and many other projects. He also worked on
the two Men in Black movies,
Monkeybone, and Jack Frost. He
was a series regular on Dinosaurs and
Unhappily Ever After, and his work
appears in Greg the Bunny, Muppets
Tonight, A Very Merry Muppet
Christmas Movie, and The Muppets
Wizard of Oz. Recent Internet
appearances include the lead character of
Skrumpy in The Skrumps on Yahoo Kids,
and the soon-to-be-released SUDS and
Alt Reality on Warner Studios 2.0. He
is currently appearing in Hollywood monthly
in the Henson company's improvisational show
Puppet Up - Uncensored, having toured
to sold-out successes at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe in Scotland and the
Melbourne International Comedy Festival in
Australia.
Mr.
Trautman has just finished directing
episodes of the new PBS children's TV series
Sid the Science Kid. He has also
directed stage productions throughout the
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 Technical Director
Brodie Alan Steele is a Scenic Designer and Technical Director with over a decade of theatrical experience and 80 productions to his credit. A native of Indiana, he holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theatrical Design from Ball State University where he designed many shows including
Dancing at Lughnasa, Keely and Du, and
Les Belles Soeurs.
He holds the rare distinction of winning both the 1st place and runner-up regional American College Theatre Festival awards in the same year for his designs of
A Streetcar Named Desire and Sweet Charity. Brodie was later honored at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with the National Design award for
Charity. He designed the first regional production of
Titanic in New York and adapted the Broadway set of
State Fair for regional production in Connecticut.
He has worked as a Technical Director in a myriad of venues and locations, including summer stock, corporate production companies, and road houses. He toured nationally with the New York-based production of
Meet Me in St. Louis and technically directed shows for Sandra Bernhardt, The Bacon Brothers, and Bernadette Peters, among others, in New York. While working for Staging Techniques in Manhattan, he assisted in research and development of 3-D, projected scenery methods in addition to operating as ATD for productions for Microsoft, American Express, and Broadway.
Brodie is also an accomplished rigger and master carpenter as well as an experienced flyman, welder, and scenic artist and has worked in many of these capacities for such theatres as Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Starlight Musicals, Clowes Memorial Hall, Goodspeed Opera, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Gallery Players, Gateway Playhouse, the Norris Center, and University of California, Irvine. |
Production Manager
Tami Toon
is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, where she earned her Associate’s Degree in Theatre. In her twenty years of professional stage management and production management experience, Tami has worked in a wide variety of locations, including Japan, Europe, New York, Miami, Denver and Broadway.
Fool Moon with Bill Irwin and David Shiner,
Burn This with John Malkovich and Joan Allen,
A Lesson from Aloes with Lou Gosset Jr.,
A Lie of the Mind with Holly Hunter, ‘night Mother with Kathy Bates,
Roza, directed by Hal Prince, and King Lear
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, are among her many professional credits. She has also worked with two-time Pulitzer prize winner, August Wilson, Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, and Lanford Wilson.
She has managed corporate events with such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli, Milton Berle, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert and Natalie Cole. Southern California venues include the Mark Taper Forum, the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, the Doolittle Theatre, the Coronet Theatre, the Geffen Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse, and the La Jolla Playhouse. At College of the Canyons, she serves as production coordinator. Tami is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. |
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