Company Members

Other theater credits: Geffen Playhouse, Odyssey theater ensemble, Whitefire, Need Theater, Pacific Residence Theater and outside of Los Angeles: Lit Moon Theater Company in Santa Barbara, The Walk About Theater Company in Chicago (also a co-founder) Buffalo Theater Company, European Rep. in Chicago, in Finland: The National Theater of Finland, Tampereen Tyovaenteatteri, Q- theater, Aurinkoteatteri, Theater Jurkka, Theater Little Finland etc…

Education: Nina holds a masters degeree from the National Drama School of Finland

TV/ FILM: Series regular in two Finnish TV series (Kolmannen Korvapuusti and Jaita Hattuun) , in Finland as a guest star: Ihmebantu, Finnish films: The Prodigal Son, The Glory and Misery of Human Life, Shear Fear , The Boat, and American Indie Films: Masterminds, Lilitu, Dot Got Shot, The Encore of Tony Duran

Also: Nina’s one woman show Poor Poor Lear has been touring around the world since 1998

Elizabeth Sampson is an actor, director and playwright. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at The American Conservatory Theatre. She teaches Acting at UCLA in their Professional Program and is also an adjunct Professor of acting at Pepperdine University in addition to her private coaching.

Road Work:

Actor – The Lighthouse (actor/writer) Melissa Arctic, That Good Night, As White As O/ and many, many, many, readings.

Director:  Finish and Trim and many, many, many, readings

Playwright: her plays The Petoskey Stones has been performed at The Road Theatre Company and The Bay Theatre Company in Annapolis, MD (chosen for the New Women’s Voices in Theatre Festival Washington DC 2015). Her short play trilogy Irish Coffee was presented in succession at the Road Theatre Company’s Summer Playwrights Festival 2013 with Kathy Baker and Perry King. It Was The Lark 2014 with Michael O’Neill.  The Lighthouse in 2015. In 2016 her festival play Hell Is Empty was performed at the Road Theatre. and has worked with playwright Craig Wright on several of his plays including Lady, The Unseen, and Melissa Arctic.

Off Road: While at A.C.T. she was asked to join the prestigious resident acting company where she performed in the west coast premiere of 1918, as well as Christmas Carol, and Twelfth Night.  Her NYC credits include Bringing’ Home the Girl (Here Space as co-writer and actor), King of the Moon (Present Company, director). As a Los Angeles based actor she has been seen in Detachments w/ Glenn Healdey at the Loretta Theatre Company. She is a founding company member of A Noise Within where she did The Way of the World. Other L.A. More LA theater credits include The Memorandum, The Dearest of Friends, Mr. Happiness, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ashbury Actor’s Group) and Measure for Measure directed by Tina Packer for the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. Elizabeth studied and performed at The Studio Theatre in Washington D.C., in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Other D.C. credits include, Ten Little Indians, Killing Real Estate Women.  She directed Spring Dance (Pepperdine University), King of the Moon (The Groundlings, Present Theatre Company)

Film: ‘Last Rampage – The Escape of Gary Tison’, ‘Leaving Barstow’, ‘As Easy as Pie’, ‘Battle of the Sexes’ (Sundance), ‘Disfigured’, ‘Modern Vampires’ (w/ Rod Steiger).

TV: ‘Law and Order True Crime The Menendez Murders’ ‘Aquarius’, ‘Rizzoli and Isles’, ‘Law and Order: Los Angeles’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Private Practice’, ‘Without a Trace’, ‘E.R.’, ‘Boston Legal’, ‘Strong Medicine’, ‘The Unit’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘The Pretender’, ‘Medical Mystery Investigation’ and a long recurring on ‘The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire’.

She has been performing her short stories in the heralded Spark Off Rose, Melt In Your Mouth and Tree People spoken word events in Los Angeles for the last 15 years. She is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA.

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, Five Hour Friends, Clandestine.

TV: Hung, Bedtime (Series Regular), 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.

The Road: According to the Chorus (female swing, performed Stacey and Nicki)

Regional: Wait Until Dark at Geva Theatre Company (Rochester) and Arizona Theatre Company  (Phoenix and Tucson), Der Foygl Fun Geto at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NY), It Can’t Happen Here at Nation Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYC), Basket Weaver at Playwrights Horizons (NYC), The Glass Menagerie directed by Austin Pendleton at The Barrow Group (NYC), Ludlow Fair at the Barrow Group (NYC), and several staged readings at Urban Stages (NYC).

TV: Current season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon, Will and Grace (NBC), Still Standing (20th Century Fox), the voice of Lucy in several Peanuts series, films, and video games (ABC/Walt Disney).

Film: BatSh*t Bride on Amazon, Revenge of the Green Dragons, Admission, My Dead Boyfriend.

Training: BA English and Theater at Columbia University in New York, The Barrow Group Master Classes with Lee Brock and Seth Barrish, MN Acting Studio On Camera Audition Master Class with Matt Newton.

For more information: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 and www.laurenschaffel.com

Training: American Academy of Dramatic Arts NY

Website: www.danawritesplays.com

Albie’s many shows at the Road include Red Speedo, The Water’s Edge, Pursued by Happiness, The Unseen, and Lady. His hit show, Smoke and Mirrors, which he wrote and starred in, ran for 18 months at the Road. Other theater credits include Detachments opposite Glenne Headly, Robert Wilson’s King Lear, Deaf West’s Romeo and Juliet, and A Flea In Her Ear, for which he won an Ovation award.

Albie has done over 100 guest star and recurring roles on Television, most recently, How to Get Away with Murder, Code Black, Goliath, My Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, and Amazon’s The Last Tycoon.

Albie is also a magician. He’s a lifetime member of the Magic Castle in Hollywood and currently hosts a weekly magic show at the Santa Monica Playhouse called Magic Monday (MagicMondayLA.com).

Theater: Letters of a Suicide, Basement Admission, My Big Fat Italian Funeral

Film: Hommage Al’ Amour, Killer Party

Short Films: Virgin Virgin, RainBro, American Terror Story: Theatre Degree

Training: American Musical and Dramatic Academy

Website: imdb.me/rickshattuck

Theater: Titus Andronicus (Pinnacle Acting Company), My Brother was a Vampire (Plan-B Theatre Company), Eleemosynary (Pygmalion Productions), 1222 Randall Ave. (Salt Lake Fringe Festival), Red Bike (Pygmalion Productions), Ion (The Classical Greek Theatre Festival)

Film: April is Missing

Training: BFA Acting from Westminster College, LAMDA

Website: sydneyshoell.weebly.com

Film/TV: The Sopranos, The Only Way, The Interpreter, Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story

Experience & Training: Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio Acting/Directing Units. MFA in Acting The New School University NYC, Member of Rogue Machine Theatre, Founding member of Connection Theatre Company in NYC. SAG-AFTRA & AEA Member.

Website: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/traceysilver

Road Work: THE WATER’S EDGE, LAKE ANNE, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD, and MUD BLUE SKY

Alex’s local credits include work at Son of Semele Ensemble and the Classical Theatre Lab

A graduate of Arizona State University, Alex received his degree in the concentration of Theatre Acting

The Road

Directing: Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby– Assistant Director, A Delicate Ship – Assistant Director, Dry Bones The Word Reading- Director, At The Table The Word Reading – Director, Darkstar – SPF 8 – Director.

Playwriting–Five Minute Life – SPF 7

Acting– At The Table – Nate (understudy)

Regional Theater

Acting: The Tempest (Studio Stage), Tracing Sonny (The Sherry), The Woodsman (Underground Theatre), All in the Timing (The Sherry), All The Kings Men (El Portal Theatre,) 25 Plays Per Hour-Hollywood Fringe Festival, White Trash Wedding and a Funeral-Hollywood Fringe Festival , Best of Albuquerque Fringe 2025-Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Directing- He was a member of 2018 Dirctors Lab West  and served as Artistic Director for Theatre Unleashed. TUNY Awards for BEST DIRECTOR in 2015, 2013, and 2012, and was nominated in the Best Ensemble category for the Stage Raw Award in 2019. 25 Plays Per Hour-Hollywood Fringe Festival,  Best of Albuquerque Fringe 2025 -Hollywood Fringe Festival,   Three Can Keep a Secret -Hollywood Fringe Festival-Nominated for BEST ENSEMBLE, and BEST COMEDY.

Producing-The Spidey Project, A Very Die Hard Christmas– won BEST COMEDY at Hollywood Fringe/nominated for BEST ENSEMBLE.

Playwriting- Met Again (writer) was runner-up for the Fringe Award for BEST PLAY, FRINGE FIRST, and won an ENCORE PRODUCERS AWARD.

Film/TV

Film/TV Acting: The Living (2016), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Mary: The Virgin Mary Documentary, MUSIC OFF!, Ron Scales: Werewolf Hunter

Film/TV Directing and Screenwriting:  Has directed or produced over 70 film, television, online content, web series, and reality television projects, and is on the development team for Hold for Plane Pictures, including Tubi’s “Prepare to Die,” starring Michael Madsen and Lorenzo Lamas.

Post Production: Discovery Channel, Original Productions, the Emmy Award-Winning Series The Deadliest Catch, Berring Sea Gold, Ax Men, Storage Wars, and Hell’s Dungeon.

Training: TV/Film production at The University of Iowa and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell College with a degree in writing. Upright Citizens Brigade, Riverside Shakespeare, Elizabeth Mestnick Acting Studio.

Screenwriting: Jacob has recently been awarded with the Best Screenwriting Award for his Film, Almost Lost, from the 100-Hour Film Race Festival. Currently, Jacob D. Smith is a represented Screenwriter/ Director with Emmy Award Winner Darla Marasco of Marasco Management. Jacob is currently writing and producing a TV pilot for the international hit book, The Disappearance of the Universe. Most recent script sales include Little Lion,  Commerce to Gem Media, and Shocktopus with WashAshore Productions, and includes coming features Prepare to Die (Tubi) and Slinky, directed by Amy Redford. 

Regional: Residence Elsewhere (EAST WEST PLAYERS), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (THEATRE THREE), Wait Until Dark (CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF DALLAS), Sacrifice (UNDERMAIN THEATRE), Celebration (UPSTART THEATRE), The Crucible (STAGE WEST THEATRE)

Film/TV: Silicon Valley, This is Us, Criminal Minds, One Day at a Time, Teachers, Days of Our Lives, Dallas

Training: The New Actors Workshop, Actorswork, Upright Citizens Brigade

NYC Theatres: The Awesome 80s Prom (off-broadway), Titan Theatre Company, Theatre For a New City, and Hudson Warehouse

Regional Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Door Shakespeare, Powerhouse Theatre (WA), Lincoln Amphitheatre, The Lost Colony, and The Sierra Madre Playhouse.

TV: Younger, My Crazy Ex, Most Evil, Amish Horror Stories, and Steve Harvey’s Little Big Shots.

Training: MFA from The University of Houston, BA Hope College

Destinee Stewart is a performer and filmmaker. As a performer, she has Her short films THE TRUTH OF US and BAGELS & COFFEE have enjoyed festival screenings worldwide. In 2021, Destinee was the recipient of the Cucalorus Writing Residency. Most recently, Destinee expanded her directing skills to dubbing as the creative lead on NETFLIX shows CHRISTMAS FLOW, IRON CHEF: BRAZIL, IRON CHEF: MEXICO, SUMMER JOB, REPRESENT, and the film IN HIS SHADOW.

When she isn’t directing, Destinee enjoys producing. Collaborating with BIPOC filmmakers, Destinee has produced the award-winning short films PREGGERS and COFFEE SHOP NAMES, the latter of which can be viewed on HBOMax.

Theatre: To Kill A Mockingbird; Vesta

Directing: Leo Rising Short Play Festival – Hope

Training: Michael Chekhov Technique (Hugh O’Gorman); Scene Study (Amber Sealey); Intensive Character Study (Steven Anderson); Improv I Intensive (Second City)

Website: For more information, please visit www.destineestewart.com