Albie Selznick
Member since 2007
Road work: THE END OF THE TOUR, THE UNSEEN, LADY. Albie also produced THE FRIENDLY HOUR.
Other theater credits include ‘Detachments’ opposite Glenne Headly, the Fool in Robert Wilson’s ‘King Lear’, Mercutio in Deaf West’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and won an Ovation award for ‘A Flea In Her Ear’ at Stages Theatre Center.
Film: What's Cooking?, Ricochet
TV: ER, Desperate Housewives, 24, Shark, Dexter, Cold Case, Without A Trace, NCIS, and all three ‘CSI’s. Albie also spent two years on ‘Suddenly Susan’ as Rabbi Ben.
Ann Noble
Member since 2004
Road Credits: SIDHE, THE FRIENDY HOUR (LA Weekly Award Best Ensemble), AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY (Ovation Nominations Best Ensemble, Best Production; Garland Honorable Mention), BIG DEATH & LITTLE DEATH (Garland Honorable Mentions), BUNBURY (Ovation Nominations Best Ensemble, Best Production; ADA Awards Best Ensemble, Best Production; Garland Nomination Best Actress), SHOVE (ADA Award Best Actress; LA Weekly Nomination Best Ensemble), CUTS.
Regional/Chicago Credits: ETC of Santa Barbara, AppleTree, Northlight, Next, Seanachai, First Folio, CTE, Interplay. Local Credits: Victory Theatre (Craig Wright’s ORANGE FLOWER WATER: Ovation Nomination Best Actress), Hudson, Shakespeare At Play/Guild of St. George, Theatre Neo
Playwriting Credits: SIDHE, AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY, THE PAGANS, THE BOARDING HOUSE, ARIADNE’S THREAD, BY MOONLIGHT.
On the web: “We Have To Stop Now” (Creator, Actor) www.wehavetostopnow.tv and “Nurses Who Kill…” (Co-Creator, Actor) www.nurseswhokill.com.
For more info, please visit: www.annnoble.net
Avery Clyde
Member since 2009
Road work: "As White as O" (cover) Readings: 1776, Railroad Bill, Siegels of Montauk
Other stage work: Matrix Theatre (Stick Fly-2009 Ovation Winner-Best Ensemble, 2009 LA Drama Critics Circle Nominee, 2009 LA Weekly Nominee); Antaeus Theatre Company, Mad Cow Theatre; Orlando International Fringe Festival; Civic Theatre, PAB Blackbox Theatre
Film: Salena Incident (Cannes); Double (Cannes); Life with Fiona (as Fiona, Grand Jury prizes at Rome International and Estes Park); Your Name Here; Temp for all Seasons (2007 168 Film Festival Best Actress Nominee), Moon Lake Casino, Alice's Birthday Wish (director Kristin Hanggi.)
TV: Grey's Anatomy; Medium; NCIS; The Forgotten; ER; Tanner on Tanner; Joan of Arcadia; Dawson's Creek, Going to California, Love Life, Aces and Pick up the Beat.
Avery has a BA in Theater Arts and Communications from Virginia Tech, studies with Abigail Deser at Steppenwolf West and is also an Academy Company Member of Antaeus.
For more go to: www.averyclyde.com
Barry Jenner
Member since 2008
NY and Regional credits include work at: The Robert Lewis Theatre, The McCarter Theatre, American Place Theatre, American Place Theatre and The Whole Theatre Company. Barry's local credits include work at Liberty Theatre (multiple DramaLogue Awards), West End Playhouse (DramaLogue and NAACP Awards) and Main Stage Theatre
Films: The Boost, Popcorn, Looker, The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story, If Tomorrow Comes and Fly Away Home.
TV: includes recurring roles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Something So Right, Family Matters, Dallas, Knot’s Landing, Another World, and Somerset plus over forty guest star roles.
Bernie Zilinskas
Member since 2009
Regional: Nickerson Theater, MA. Bernie's local credits include work at Boston Court, The Met Theater, The Complex, and The William Alderson Studio Theater.
Film: Jurassic Park III, The Kiss, Your Own Best Enemy.
TV: ER, Frasier, JAG, E-Ring, LAX, The Root of All Evil.
Bernie earned a BA in Theater from Bucknell University, trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied with William Alderson in Los Angeles.
Bettina Zacar
Member since 1999
Road work: FRIENDLY HOUR (ADA nomination & LA Weekly award winner best ensemble) CUTS, CHRISTMAS CAROL, SEEING RED, NAPOLI MILLIONARIA.
Regional: Neptune Productions SF, Tabu Road Rep SF, (almost) LIVE Productions SF, NRL Showboaters DC, Tantallion Community Players MD
Film: Mighty Joe Young, A Smile Like Yours, The Game, Metro, The Rock
TV: Strong Medicine, Andy Richter Controls the Universe
For more: bettinazacar.com
Bryna Weiss
Member since WHEN
Road work: WHITE AS O, END OF THE TOUR, CUTS
Regional theatre work includes: The Kennedy Center, Studio Arena, The Odyssey, The Playhouse, Jewish Rep, Laguna Playhouse, San Diego Rep. Local venues include: The Falcon Theatre, Theatre East, Theatre 40, Circus Theatricals, Theatre at Boston Court. Bryna’s one-woman play, LILY, has toured in the U.S., Europe and Canada.
Films include: Slums of Beverly Hills, Delicatessen Story, Gossip-The Evil Tongue, Ashes, Quality of Life, My Dark Lady, Alibi, Taxi, Keeping Up With the Steins
TV: NYPD Blue, The District, Two of a Kind, Life with Bonnie, The O'Keefes, The Dew Carey Show, The Gilmore Girls, Reno 911, House, Desperate Housewives, Kath & Kim, Nip/Tuck .
Carlyle King
Member since 2008
Road credits: Understudy Grace “As White As O”
Off-Road as an actor: National Tours: Don’t Drink the Water, Macbeth, Duchess of Malfi (John Houseman) Seattle: You Never Can Tell and The Importance of Being Earnest Local theatre: Theatre 40, InterAct, Katselas Playhouse, Zephyr, Odyssey, etc.
Off-Road as a director: Katselas Theatre, Theatre 40, Greenway Court, Zephyr Theatre, regional theatre, etc.
Off-Road as a playwright: The Goddess, Abby Normal, Today, Not Tomorrow, etc.
Off-Road as a teacher: USC, South Coast Repretory, creator of Kid Shakespeare an after school Shakespeare program for kids from the ages of 7-12.
Training: MFA USC, Kim Stanley, Milton Katselas
Chet Grissom
Member since 2004
Road credits: THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS, SWIMMING. Regional: South Coast Repertory, Chicago Shakespeare Company, The Goodman Theatre. Los Angeles: Fountain Theatre, Odyssey, Orpheum, and numerous others both here and in Chicago.
Film: 2010’s Fair Game and The Crazies
TV: over 40 appearances, most recently guest starring on Castle, Mental, Criminal Minds, and Trust Me.
A graduate of The Theatre School/DePaul University, Chet lived and worked in Chicago for a decade before moving to Los Angeles. For more complete information go to:
Curt Bonnem
Member since 2000
Road work: MARKED TREE (2003 AADA Award nominee), THE PAGANS (AADA Award Winner), THE JUNTO, OUROBOROS (LA Weekly Award Winner).
Off-Broadway: Julia Mills Theater. Regional: Nevada Shakespeare Festival. International: HAIR at The Astrada Theater in Moscow. Curt's local credits include work at the Geffen in the award winning LOUIS & KEELY LIVE AT THE SAHARA, LOVELACE (LA Weekly Award Winner) & WILDWOOD at The Hayworth, THE BEASTLY BOMBING (LA Weekly Award winner) at The Steve Allen Theater, CARVED IN STONE at Theater Asylum, BIG RIVER at Actor's Co-Op, HAIR at The Candlefish, as well as work with Sacred Fools, Bare Bones Theatre Co., La Petite Musicale, Crown City Theatre Co. as well as many other 99 seat venues.
Film: Triple Threat, Everything Is Going To Be Just Fine, Double Cross, Blocked & Bothered, Sweetener.
TV: Criminal Minds.
Curt graduated with his degree in theater from Cal State University, Northridge.
Curt is also a musician and award winning filmmaker and was the 1987-88 Junior National Juggling Champion of the IJA.
Cynthia Glucksman
Member since 2008
Road work: THE FRIENDLY HOUR (Crew), THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS (Crew)
Cynthia is a playwright and member of the Dramatist Guild and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. She completed her M.A. in English and playwriting at California State University, Northridge.
For more information find her on: www.doollee.com
Darryl Johnson
Member since 2003
Road work as a Director: SOAR (part of CUTS), THE JUNTO, CHRISTMAS CAROL and a plethora of readings. As a Producer: AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY, SWIMMING, CUTS, THE PAGANS; Assistant Director: SWIMMING, SHOVE, THE PAGANS, MARKED TREE; and Stage Manager: THE SEVENTH MONARCH. As a past Managing Director, Darryl founded the Company's OFF-ROAD WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Darryl's local credits include work venues such as a InterAct Theatre Company, the Met Theatre, The Tiffany, The Matrix, Theatre Neo, Fremont Centre Theatre, and Yorba Linda Civic Light Opera.
FILM/TV: Darryl attended the USC Film School and the American Film Institute and has directed several films. He is currently working as a film editor and is developing POV Pictures, an independent film production company.
Don Grigware
Member since 2004
Bunbury: understudy for Poe, Friar Lawrence, Old Algernon, George (Ovation nomination - Best Ensemble Cast). Don's local credits include multiple shows with the: Avery Schreiber Theatre, West Coast Ensemble and Actors Alley.
Don is a former theatre editor for NoHoLA, and contributor to www.reviewplays.com.
For current contributions to theatre, visit:
Donne McRae
Member since 2001
At the Road: SMOKE AND ICE FOLLIES, MARKED TREE, NAPOLI MILIONARIA; Off Road Series: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, IGNORE THE TREE, SEEING RED, THE JUNTO; co-producer of BIG DEATH AND LITTLE DEATH, STRING OF PEARLS, IGNORE THE TREE.
Other SoCal work includes: Santa Barbara Theatre; Fountain Theatre, The Odyssey Theatre; The Theatre @Boston Court; and Deaf West.
Elizabeth Sampson
Member since 2007
Road Work: CUTS - Director, LADY – Assistant Director, The Unseen -Assistant Director (w/Craig Wright), As White As O – Grace. Off Broadway: Bringing Home the Girl (writer/performer). Regional: The American Conservatory Theatre, The Orpheum, The Palace of Fine Arts, The Studio Theatre, The Tiffany, LA Women’s Shakespeare Co., Stages Theatre, A Noise Within, The Source Theatre,
Film: Easy As Pie, Battle of the Sexes, Disfigured, Leaving Barstow
TV: The Brotherhood of Poland New Hampshire, MTV's Aeon Flux, Port Charles, The Pretender, The Division, Medical Mystery Investigation, Strong Medicine, 7th Heaven, Boston Legal, E.R., The Unit, Without a Trace, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case.M.F.A.- American Conservatory Theatre, teaching associate Pepperdine University, has been performing her short stories as part of the Spark writing series for 5 years.
Francesca Casale
Member since 2009
New York theatre includes leading roles in The Three Sisters; The Stronger; Six Characters In Search Of An Author; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum; and The House Of Bernarda Alba. In Los Angeles she has worked with the Colony Theatre, Matrix Theatre, Actor’s Co-op, Promenade Playhouse, I.C.T.; Long Beach and Theatre Theatre. She was a 2008 Ovation Award nominee for Featured Actress in a Play as “Cheetah Bee” in The Fastest Clock in the Universe; (Celebration Theatre).
Film: One Wish, Eight One Eight, World Trade Center
TV: General Hospital, The Visitor, Life on Liberty Street, Law and Order, Detective
Francesca trained with Stella Adler; Yevgeny Lanskoy; Kathryn Gately; Stefan Rudnicki and Alfred Molina.
Heather Sher
Member since 2002
Road work: SWIMMING, SMOKE & ICE FOLLIES, NAPOLI MILIONARIA (Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play), THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING. Heather has worked at The Odyssey Theatre, The Coast Playhouse, The Lost Studio, and Stage 52.
Film: American Beauty, Joe Killionaire
TV: House, Passions, The Street Lawyer
A graduate of the USC School of Theatre, Heather has studied at BADA in London, at The Lost Studio, and with Diana Castle.
Jeanne Syquia
Member since 2007
Road work: BIG DEATH & LITTLE DEATH and the upcoming production of SIDHE.
Other local credits include the Echo Theater Company, where she is also a member.
Film: The Opening
TV: Brothers & Sisters
Jeanne is a graduate of the City University of New York, Hunter College, and has studied physical theater in Bangkok and apprenticed with Bread and Puppet.
Jennings Turner
Member since 2009
Road work: WHITE AS O
Regional: Past performances include the title role of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play and Oberon in MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM.
Education (Adam) Jennings hails from Detroit, MI and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Joe Calarco
Member since 2009
Road work: AS WHITE AS O. Chicago theatre: The Hypocrites, Mary-Arrchie, Bailiwick Repertory, Collaboraction.
Film: Jeff Farnsworth (Finalist: Rhode Island International Film Festival. Best of Festival: One Reel Film Festival), Small Town.
Finalist: KC/ACTF 2007, 2000. Freeman Scholar. Joe received an M.F.A. from California State University, Fullerton.
John Cragen
Member since 2001
Road work: CUTS, BUNBURY (Ovation ensemble nominee), The Smoke & Ice Follies, OUROBOROS, MARKED TREE, THE JUNTO.
Regional: Cowboy Mouth (ACT San Francisco), Les Liasons Dangerouses (Hillbarn, SF), Small Craft Warnings (Actor's Theatre, SF) Local: Johnny Morran (Hudson), The Foreigner (Two Roads)
Film/TV: Leverage, Star Trek, Boston Legal, The Siege At Ruby Ridge, Godzilla, The Big Lebowski, Total Stranger, Are You Scared?.
John is a native of San Francisco, an avid traveler, and is happy to be currently performing as a Sherpa for his 3 year old son, Finn.
John Gowans
Member since 2008
Road Work: THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS (running crew), AS WHITE AS O (set finishing).
Off-Broadway: ONE FEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Regional: Asolo State Theatre. Local credits include work with, Mark Taper Forum, Mark Taper Lab, Doolittle Theatre, Theatre East, The Odyssey Theatre, The Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Beverly Hills Playhouse, The Stage Door
Film: Star Trek:The Motion Picture, First Family, Battle Beyond the Stars
TV: NUMB3RS, Lincoln Heights, The Practice, Judging Amy, The District and about 100 others.
Graduate in Theatre Arts and Elementary Education from Frostburg State University.
Judith Scarpone
Member since WHEN
Broadway: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GOLDS. OFF -B’WAY and REGIONALLY: (Kennedy Center, The Hartman, Pasadena Playhouse, The Paramount,Walnut Street, Marines Memorial Theatre, Syracuse Stage, GeVa, Whole Theatre Co., Bergenstage etc.) Los Angeles Theatres: (Boston Court, The Odyssey, The Hayworth, The Court, The Coronet, The Canon, The Hudson, The Open Fist, The Road)...INTERNATIONALLY: Florence International Theatre Company.
Film: Everybody Wants To Be Italian, Jesus,Mary & Joey, Welcome Back Miss Mary, The Manual, Divorced White Male.
TV: Bedtime, Law & Order, ER, Lincoln Heights, Dragnet, Education of Max Bickford, Drew Carey, Ellen, One Life to Live, All My Children, Roseanne:Portrait of a Domestic Goddess, A Mother’s Wish, The Bachelor’s Baby, A Case for Murder, A Match Made in Heaven, The Twilight of the Golds,
Member of The Open Fist Theatre Co., The Road Theatre Co.
June Sanders
Member since 1998
Road work: Hitler’s Head, A Christmas Carol and several readings.
June's other theater credits include work at: Theatre East, Cast at the Circle Theatre, Agape Theatre, Strasburg Theatre, Hollywood Actors Theatre, Veterans Theatre, West End Playhouse, Golden Theatre and Colony Theatre
Film: Beginners (2010 release), The Promise, The Big Fix, Loving Couples, Mommie Dearest, Romantic Comedy, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Airplane II, the Sequel, and Hard to Hold
TV: Two Minute Warning (MOW), Specter on the Bridge (MOW) High Midnight (MOW), House Calls, Archie Bunker’s Place, Quincy, Marion Rose White (MOW), Crisis Counselor, I Want to Live (MOW), Divorce Court, General Hospital, Family Medical Center, Challenger, The Story Behind the Story & Unsolved Mysteries.
June has produced for Theatre East (Love Letters, Two Outs Bottom of the Ninth, Waiting for Betty Freidan, Beau Jeste, The Book of Esther anf Cemetery Club), the West End Playhouse (Octette Bridge Club) and Theatre West (A Dream of Butterflies and Saturday Night at Grossinger’s).
Keelia Flinn
Member since 2009
Road work: AS WHITE AS O
During her BFA studies at Cal State Fullerton, Keelia performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, ITS OUR TOWN TOO, and COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN. Keelia received a nomination for the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship. She continues studying towards her BA in dance.
Lenne Klingaman
Member since 2008
Road work: THE FRIENDLY HOUR (understudy). Regional: Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Intiman Theatre. Lenne's local credits include work at A Noise Within and with Theater Movement Bazaar
Film: A Night in the Sunlight
TV: Cold Case
She received an MFA in Acting from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz. She also studied at the American Conservatory Theater's Summer Training Congress.
Leon Russom
Member since 2007
Road work: AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY (Ovation nominee Ensemble), THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS (producer), AS WHITE AS O (producer).
Broadway: THE PROMISE, A TALENT FOR MURDER, BOBBY BOLAND. Off-Broadway: FUTZ!, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, OH! CALCUTTA!, THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE, MISS JULIE, THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR, LAUGHINGSTOCK, THE SEAGULL, OLD FLAMES, THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN and (as director): DEAR NOBODY. Lincoln Center Rep: CYRANO DE BERGERAC, New York Shakespeare Festival: THE WARS OF THE ROSES (Henry V!, Parts I, II & III and Richard III), THE BASIC TRAINING OF PAVLO HUMMELL. Multiple plays with the LaMama Troupe. Brooklyn Academy of Music: THE NEW YORK IDEA, THE THREE SISTERS. Regional theatre: Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, Front Street Theatre, Buffalo Studio Arena, Front Street Theatre, Charles Playhouse, Drama Guild, Shakespeare & Company, Whole Theatre Company. Local theatre: Mark Taper Forum, Interact Theatre Company.
Film: THE BIG LEBOWSKI, SILVER BULLET, BEHIND ENEMY LINES, THE PHANTOM, NO WAY OUT, MEN OF HONOR, ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN, STAR TREK VI, HE SAID/SHE SAID, FRESH HORSES, DOUBLE DRAGON, PRIMEVALS, THE RESCUE.
Television: TV 101, SMITH and PRISON BREAK, over one hundred guest starring roles, more than two thousand daytime episodes, fifteen television movies for one of which, THE LONG ROAD HOME, he received an Emmy nomination.
Lila Waters
Member since 1998
Road work: Props Designer for THE SIDHE, THE UNSEEN, BUNBURY, MARKED TREE and THE PAGANS. Lila designs props for films, television, and theatres. Contact her at: PropsDesign@aol.com
As an actor Lila has appeared in over 100 stage productions at various theatres including The Alley Theatre, Westside Dinner Theatres, Los Angeles Philharmonic, El Portal, Town and Country Playhouse, Theatre Exchange, Theatre Suburbia, The Megaw, and Pasadena Rep.
Films include: Paper Moon, The Second Door, Hot Shots, Part Deux, Frances, Hinterland, The Orkly Kid, Transgressions, Me and Miss Mandible, Creosote, First Leave, The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, etc.
TV: Prime Time Glick, America’s Funniest People, Huckleberry Finn, Sweethearts, California Fever, Little House on the Prairie, General Hospital, Not Necessarily the News, Chips, The Rodney Dangerfield Special, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, etc.
Lila has been associated with the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory since 1978 and still teaches several classes at the American Film Institute.
Linda de Vries
Affiliate since 1996.
Road Work: She directed THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Since 2001, she has been the Resident Voice and Dialect Coach of the Road Theatre, where she has coached 17 productions, garnering a total of 26 nominations and awards.
She is also an actor, director, choreographer and playwright who has founded three theatre companies and directed over 100 productions--several of her own authorship. She has worked with 16 regional theatres in seven cities. And also coaches numerous individual actors in film and television.
Dr. de Vries holds an MFA in Acting from Boston University and a Ph.D. from UCLA. She has served on the faculties of two conservatories and six colleges and universities.
Lori Jaroslow
Road Member since: 2009
Roadwork – Road Signs Monday Night reading Series: Reasons to Live. As director: Meryl Cohn’s Seagulls of Montauk. Playwright of Project Baby, an original musical theatre piece with composer Fonda Feingold, which will also be in the first New Works Summer Festival.
Broadway: Grease, Fiddler On the Roof (with Herschel Bernardi), 91 with Topol.
Regional theatre and Off Broadway includes, Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral, Nunsense, Gypsy, Excerpts from Shakespeare, Broads.
Classically trained, Lori has studied at Neighborhood Playhouse, with Mira Rostova, Larry Moss, and Shakespeare with Robert Smith.
Lori heads up the Road outreach classes at The Piedmont Senior Community
www.loriadajaroslow.com
Mark Doerr
Member since 2007
Road work: LADY (2008 Ovation & LA Weekly Award nominee), AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY (2008 Ovation Award Ensemble Nominee), CUTS, SWIMMING.
Broadway: THE VISIT (with Jane Alexander). Off-Broadway: Playhouse 91, Triangle Theatre and Actors Stage. Regional: Portland Stage Company, Weston Playhouse. Mark's local credits include work at Antaeus Theatre Company, Andak Stage Co., LATC, The Odyssey Theatre and the Oasis Theatre Co, which he co-founded
Film: Red Tails, Fortress, Brother's War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II.
TV: Leverage, CSI:NY, Mad Men, Eleventh Hour, Bones, Criminal Minds, The Unit, NUMB3RS
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mark has studied Shakespeare in Oxford, Chekov in Moscow and musical theatre in Ann Arbor.
For more tidbits: www.markdoerr.com
Mark St. Amant
Member since 2006
Mark serves as a member of The Road's Artistic Board and is chairman of the Literary Committee.
Road credits: Directed the critically acclaimed and long-running West Coast Premiere of Keith Huff’s, THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS, as well as appearing in The Road’s productions of AS WHITE AS O (World Premiere), AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY (Ovation Nominations - Best Play and Ensemble), and BIG DEATH & LITTLE DEATH (West Coast premiere).
Mark has appeared in theatre, film, television, and commercials around the country, working with such directors as Adrian Hall, Robert Falls, Michael Maggio, Gary Griffin, Rhondi Reed, and Joanna Settle, at theatres including The Kennedy Center, The Goodman Theatre, American Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, New American Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Circle Theatre, and Casa Manana.
Other L.A. credits: The West Coast Premiere of AMERICAN DEAD (Backstage Garland Award for performance in a play) at Rogue Machine, TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE at The Odyssey, and directed the West Coast Premiere of I AM YOURS for Mad Scene Theatre Co. at the Ivy Sub Station.
Some of his favorite credits include the World Premieres of the Pulitzer Prize nominated, THE GLORY OF LIVING, and THE MUSTACHE, as well as TEEN ANGEL (American Premiere), CABARET, A CHORUS LINE, BURIED CHILD, COMPANY, MERILY WE ROLL ALONG, and LLOYD’S PRAYER.
While a student at Texas Tech University, Mark had the distinction as being the only student in the history of The American College Theatre Festival to be a two-time national finalist in The Irene Ryan Acting Competition, performing at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
He now calls Los Angeles his home, along with his wife, Deborah, and son, Wyatt.
Michael McKiddy
Member since 2007
Road work: AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY, END OF THE TOUR.
Michael's local credits include work at The Victory Theatre, The Group Repertory Theatre, and Glendale Centre Theatre.
Film: Deadheads, Surviving the Rush, Suck, Secrets of Fenville, After April
TV: Cold Case.
Writing credits: Aurora, Shooting Blanks, In Between Fading, Reenactment, and the web series Paranormal, Burbank
Michael has studied theatre, improv, Shakespeare, and scene study in Macomb, MI and Los Angeles.
For more info: www.MichaelMcKiddy.com
Nicole Farmer
Member since 2010
Off Broadway: American Theatre, Horace Mann Theatre, Theatre Row Studio. Regional: Marymount Theatre, Mary Moody Theatre, Portland Stage, Memorial Hall at UNC, Zack Scott Theatre Center. Local work includes: Theatre of NOTE, LATC, Oasis Theatre Company
Nicole is a graduate of The Juilliard School. She has studied Shakespeare at LAMDA and RADA, Checkhov in Moscow at the Moscow Arts Theatre, and Suzuki training with Ann Bogart and SITI Co. in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the Oasis Theatre Company in Los Angeles.
Film: The Wharf Rat, Red Autumn, Life with a Vampire, Honeysuckle Rose, Sonata
TV: Law and Order
Nina Sallinen
Member since 2009
International: The Finnish National Theater, The Tampere Theatre (Finland), Q-Theater (Finland), Aurinkoteatteri (Finland)
Regional: The Walk About Theater Company (Chicago - Co-founder)
Nina's local credits include The Odyssey Theatre (LA Weekly Award nomination), needtheater (Ovation Award nomination), Lit Moon Theatre Company (Santa Barbara Independent Theater Award)
Film: Armed Response (Producer)
TV: Various guest and leading roles in Finland including on: JÄITÄ HATTUUN, KOLMANNEN KORVAPUUSTI
Nina is originally from Finland where she received her Masters Degree from the Theater Academy of Finland.
Paris Perrault
Member since 2009
Road work: As White as O (Eva Understudy)
Other theatre credits include Pericles, Prince of Tyre, A Doll's House, Some Girl(s), One Night Stands, L'Chaim
Paris graduated from UC Davis in 2008 with a double major in Dramatic Arts (emphasis in Theatre) and Political Science. She has also studied at UCLA School of Theatre Film and Television.
For more information: www.parisperrault.com
Patrick Joseph Rieger
Member since 2009
The Hostage: Theatre Banshee, In A Little World of Our Own, Long Day's Journey Into Night: The Actor's Studio, The Merchant of Venice: Ethos Theatre Co., Jesus Christ Superstar, Midsummer Night's Dream, Dancing At Lughnasa, The Duchess of Malfi, Of Mice and Men, Into The Woods, Reine, The Laramie Project.
Training includes, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, Theatre de La Jeune Lune, The Guthrie, The Children's Theatre, The Actor's Studio, The Abbey
Rebecca Jordan
Member since 2009
Los Angeles area theatre credits include work done at The Geffen Playhouse, needtheater, Gangbusters' Theatre and International City Theatre.
Regional theatre includes work at The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and European Repertory Theatre. Rebecca was a founding member of CHicago's Shattered Globe Theatre.
Film: Lawrence Melm, Serious Business, and various small independent features.
TV: Cupid
For more info please visit: www.rebeccajordan.biz
Richard Herd
Member since 1993
Road work: THE WALKERS, MY LAST CONFESSION (Drama Logue Award). As a director: IDLE WHEELS
New York Theatre: ELECTRA, HARLEQUINADE, 20 POEMS…e.e.cummings and THE COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES for which he earned Vernon Rice and Obie Awards.
Regional work includes shows with: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Old Globe Theater, The Forum Theatre Metuchen.
Films include: The China Syndrome, All The Presidents Men, F.I.S.T, The Onion Field, Summer Rental, Sgt.Bilko, And Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Checkers
TV: Seinfeld (Screen Actors Guild Award Winner), Everwood, V, Seaquest, Star Trek Voyager, TJ Hooker, JAG, The O.C., The Fugitive, E.R., Family Law, The District and numerous others.
Richard was recently inducted into the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame for his work in Old Time Radio. He is also the co-author of PRISONER OF THE CROWN which had its world premiere at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, recently completed an extended run Off-Braodway at the Irish Repertory in NYC and will soon be published by Dramatists Playwights.
Sam Anderson
Member since 2005
Sam serves as Co-Artistic Director of The Road Theatre Company as well as a member of the Artistic Board.
Sam is most recently known as Bernard on ABC’s megahit LOST. In a film and television career spanning thirty years and close to 200 roles, some of his favorites are the Principal in FORREST GUMP, the lethal attorney Holland Manners in ANGEL, Donna’s racist father in LA BAMBA, Dr. Fonzie in FRIENDS, the befuddled FBI agent in EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, as well as his participation in “event” television projects FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON as Dr. Tom Paine, head of NASA, and Stephen King’s THE STAND as Whitney. His role as the arrogant cardiologist Dr. Kaysen on E.R. earned him a SAG Award (Best Ensemble). Road credits include his Ovation-winning leading turn as the father in NAPOLI MILLIONARIA, THE BIRD & MISTER BANKS (Ovation nomination). Other local work includes: Odyssey Theatre (ROAD TO NIRVANA - LA Weekly Best Actor), TAKING SIDES, RHINOCEROS, David Mamet’s EDMOND - LA Weekly, Backstage West Awards); LATC, where Sam originated the role of Finney in Marlene Meyer’s KINGFISH and was directed by Simon Callow in Milan Kundera’s JACQUES AND HIS MASTER.
His directing credits include AS WHITE AS O and the world premiere of Mark Eisman’s SHOVE at the Road (LA Weekly Best Director nomination). He was co-director of Development for the Wesley School in its first years of existence, and is a graduate of the LA Grantsmanship Institute. He has an MA in American Literature and Creative Writing and is a proud member of the Mystery Writers of America. He teaches a professional Scene Study workshop and often guest lectures on acting for various schools. His own studies include two years at Descanso Garden’s Master Class in Horticulture, yoga, Tai Chi and ten years with the legendary director and teacher Jose Quintero. He is the proud father of 16 year old twins.
Scott Alan Smith
Member since 1995
Scott serves as a member of The Road Theatre Company's Artistic Board, a position he also held in 1998
At the Road he has directed: LADY by Craig Wright (4 Ovation nominations and 5 LA Weekly Award nominations with 2 wins), assistant directed Craig Wright on his directorial debut with THE UNSEEN, NEW YORK METS (ADA nominated) and SO NICE TO SEE YOU (1 Dramalogue award). He is set to direct Wright's Melissa Arctic at Theater 150 in 2010.
Directing credits include: Bus Stop at Spokane's Interplayers Theater (People’s Choice Award), Tabak (The Met), Lynette at 3AM, Mr. Happiness, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bringing Home the Girl. Assistant Director: Mother Courage, Light (Theater @ Boston Court ) and True West (Deaf West Theater). Co-author King of the Moon which ran Off-Off Broadway, in Los Angeles at the Groundlings Theater and HBO Workspace and was made into a film for FOX Searchlab where it premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. He directed Ed Harris for the LA Phil's 2005 Season Opening Gala at Disney Hall and Heart...Beat for the Boston Court’s Music at the Court series. Associate Artist of Circus Theatricals where he directed The Adding Machine
As an actor, L.A. theater credits include: Apollo, Richard III, King of the Moon, Kindertransport, Detachments, The Memorandum, The Water Engine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rose Tattoo. Regionally at the Studio Theater, Woolly Mammoth, and the Source Theater.
TV/Film includes: Next, Déjà Vu, Magnolia, Bewitched, D.C.9/11, The Ring, Rules of Engagement, Mousehunt, Stargate, X-Files:The Movie, Bounce. Bones, Three Rivers, True Blood, House, Chuck, The Closer, Veronica Mars, Big Love, Entourage, CSI: NY, Justice, Philly (recurring) NYPD: Blue, NCIS, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, CSI, Six Feet Under, 24, JAG, Alias, a recurring role as Dr. Jack Gannon on The Young and the Restless and others.
He trained at Arena Stage, the Studio Theater and holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, SAG, AEA, associate member of SDC, the Actor's Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit and is an adjunct professor of theater at Pepperdine University.
He is also a proud alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab West (Gold Medal Class of '05)
Suzanne Hunt
Member since 2009
Road work: Director, Finding Fossils (Play Reading Series).
LA theatre includes: Bare Bones Theatre, CalRep (LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination); Theatre/Theater; Theatre East; Renegade Theatre, Park Plaza Playhouse, The Morgan Wixson
Film: Popcorn; Swim Team; Woofer; Vinnie and Angela’s Beauty Salon and Funeral Parlor (Gold Cinneman Award/Best Short Film).
TV includes: Recurring on House Calls and the soap Capitol. Also, Entourage, Conan the Adventurer, The Oregon Trail, It’s a Living, Alf, The Cavanaughs.
Suzanne holds an MFA (’08) and an MA (’06) in acting/directing and theatre studies and has been teaching at the university level for the past five years. She lectures on the business of acting and has a forthcoming book on the topic. Member: Classical Theatre Lab and Michael Chekhov Studio
Taylor Gilbert
Member since 1991
Taylor Gilbert is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Road Theatre Company. She also serves on the Artistic Board.
Taylor has worked as a Producer on over 30 Road shows. Her Road directing credits include: the award winning In The Name of the People, Mooncalf, My Last Confession, The Chisholm Trail Went through Here, Slumber Party. She also co-directed Hitlers Head and Homefires, both with Ken Sawyer.
Taylor has been seen on the Road's stage in: Balm in Gilead, Why Things Burn, Vig, Pirates, Akela, Merlin, American Romance, White People, A Mislaid Heaven, The Seventh Monarch, The Pagans, Oroboros, Backwards in High Heels, And Neither Have I Wings to Fly.
Her film appearances include: Spiderman 1 and 2, Hancock, The Island, Twister, Tucker, The Dead Pool, The McMartin Trials, Torment.
TJ Marchbank
Member since 2009
Road work: AS WHITE AS O, and Fight Coordinator for SIDHE.
Regional: Canton Players Guild and the Louisville Theatre.TJ’s local credits include work with The Dionysian Theatre Company, Open Fist Theatre Company, and Serenity Theatre Group(Co-Founder).
He is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). TJ is also a member and has also studied advanced Stage Combat for stage and film with the Los Angeles Fight Academy (LAFA), and is a member of the Soceity of American Fight Directors (SAFD) as well.
Tom Knickerbocker
Member since 2004
Road work: END OF THE TOUR, THE JUNTO, 7TH MONARCH, CHRISTMAS CAROL
Other theatre credits include work at: Pasadena Playhouse, Odyssey Theatre, Colony Theatre, Lyric Repertory, Pacific Conservatory
Film: Rules of Engagement, Primary Colors, Spun, Eve of Destruction
TV: House M.D., Without a Trace, Scrubs, Cold Case, Boston Legal, West Wing, Star Trek and many others including over 100 commercials
Travis Michael Holder
Press/Publicity consultant since 2007.
Veteran of five Broadway shows and the original cast of HAIR. Regional: Oscar in OSCAR & SPERANZA, Washington, DC (Helen Hayes nomination); on tour as Dysart in EQUUS, Ken Talley in FIFTH OF JULY, Amos “Mr. Cellophane” Hart in CHICAGO; and LAMENT FOR THE MOTHS, AN ODE TO TENNESSEE and THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, New Orleans.
AWARDS: Kenneth Halliwell in NASTY LITTLE SECRETS (LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Leading Performance, Maddy Award, LA Weekly nomination, GLAAD Award finalist), Lennie in OF MICE AND MEN (Drama-Logue Award, LA Weekly nomination), Frank in SUMMERTIME (NAACP nomination), Quentin in SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS (LA Weekly nomination), J. Edgar Hoover in AMERICAN ILIAD (LA Weekly nomination), Secunda in FEDUNN (LA Weekly nomination), Brian in THE SHADOW BOX (ReviewPlays.com Best Featured Actor), Oscar Wilde in BEDS (Maddy Award), Greta in BENT (Maddy Award).
Film: SURPRISE, SURPRISE (lead and co-adapted screenplay from his play of the same name); DARKMAN; WHAT’S UP, SCARLET?; AUDITIONS; SENATOR PLATO; BODY DOUBLE; MASTURBATION: PUTTING THE FUN IN SELF-LOVING
