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. As 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.

Road Credits: 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).

Julia’s Local Credits Include: Work at Sacred Fools, The Falcon Theatre, Theatre 40, 2Cents Theatre Company (winner of the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Award for Best Immersive Play) Open At The Top at NoHo Arts Center, Repertory East Playhouse, The Grove Theatre (Upland), and SkyPilot Theatre Company (where she won a 2012 Stage Scene L.A. Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress). 

Film:  Music (scheduled to be released Fall 2020), Transformers 4, Butterfly Caught, The Prestige, Something’s Gotta Give, Wristcutters:  A Love Story, The Cost of Heaven, Dawn, Waning Moon, The Book.

TV:  Artista Obscura (pilot), Body of  Proof, Harry’s Law, Mad Men, Monk, Criminal Minds, Life, In Justice, Dr Vegas, Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Dragnet, Wings, Beyond Belief, General Hospital. 

Web Series: Burt Paxton, Undertow.

Education: A graduate of University of Alabama, Birmingham in theatre/dance, Julia studied ballet with Stevan Grebel, Melanie Mihalic, and Yahuda Maor (San Francisco).  She studied acting at American Conservatory Theatre and with Eric Morris and Cliff Osmond (Los Angeles).  

www.nowcasting.com/juliesanford

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.

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).

Film/TV: The Sopranos, The Only Way, The Interpreter

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

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

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:  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.

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. 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, and Commerce to Gem Media, and Shocktopus to WashAshore Productions.

Scott served as the The Road Theatre Company’s Associate Artistic Director, a position he held from 2011-2019.

Scott began his acting career studying at the legendary Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. he then studied at Washington’s Studio Theatre and worked extensively there before getting his M.F.A. at San Francisco’s prestigious American Conservatory Theatre.  He began working in Los Angeles upon graduation landing guest starring roles on television and films such as MAGNOLIA, MOUSEHUNT, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, STARGATE, DÉJÀ VU, BEWITCHED, X-FILES: THE MOVIE and most recently A MATTER OF FAITH. He serves as the Associate Artistic Director of the award-winning Road Theatre Company and has been the Summer Playwrights Festival (the largest new play reading series in the nation) Festival Director since it began in 2010. At The Road he has directed the critical hit Melissa Arctic by Craig Wright (LA Times Critic’s Pick), Sovereign Body (world premiere, Don Shirley’s 25 best plays in Los Angeles of 2014 list), That Good Night (world premiere and Ovation Recommended) and Lady by Craig Wright (4 Ovation nominations and 5 LA Weekly Award nominations with 2 wins) Scott also directed New York Mets (ADA nominated) and So Nice to See You (1 Dramalogue award), and The Petoskey Stones. At Pepperdine he has directed The Yellow Boat, Almost, Maine, These Shining Lives, Three Days of Rain, Bus Stop, Proof (with Michael O’Neill), The Roads to Home. Other 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 Elizabeth Sampson’s play Bringin’ Home the Girl. He has assistant-directed Mother Courage, Light (Theater@Boston Court ) and True West (Deaf West Theater). Scott is co-author along with Adam Paul of King of the Moon which ran Off-Off Broadway, in Los Angeles at the Groundlings Theater and HBO Workspace. He co-wrote and produced the film version which and was made for FOX Searchlab and premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. He directed Ed Harris for the L.A. Philharmonic’s 2005 Season Opening Gala at Disney Hall, and Heart…Beat for the Boston Court’s Music at the Court series. As an Associate Artist at the New American Theatre he directed The Adding Machine.  

Scott’s lengthy acting career includes The Dinosaur Within (Theatre@Boston Court – Stage Scene L.A. Award), Apollo (Taper Too), Richard III (with Alfred Molina), King of the Moon, Kindertransport, Detachments, The Memorandum, The Water Engine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Rose Tattoo. Scott has also appeared regionally at the Studio Theater, Scena and the Source Theater, as well as in New York at the Present Company where his two-man show, King of the Moon, ran to sold-out houses. His over 100 appearances in television and film include playing Kate Walsh’s therapist on ‘Private Practice’ appearing in 21 episodes. Other TV credits include ‘Scandal’, ‘Switched at Birth’, ‘Rosewood’, ‘Scorpion’, ‘The Fosters’, ‘State of Affairs’ ‘Revenge’ ‘Newsroom’ (with Jeff Daniels), ‘Rizzoli and Isles’, ‘Murder in the First’, ‘Hung’, ‘CSI: Miami’, ‘CSI:NY’, ‘CSI’, ‘Medium’, ‘NCIS’, ‘NCIS:LA’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘Without a Trace’, ‘Next’, ‘Rules of Engagement’, ‘Bones’, ‘Three Rivers’, ‘True Blood’, ‘House’, ‘Chuck’, ‘The Closer’, ‘Veronica Mars’, ‘Big Love’, ‘Entourage’, ‘Justice’, ‘Philly’ (recurring), ‘NYPD: Blue’, ‘Boston Legal’, ‘Six Feet Under’, ’24’, ‘JAG’, ‘Alias’, a recurring role as Dr. Jack Gannon on ‘The Young and the Restless’, and others. Scott’s film credits include “ A Matter of Faith”, “The Curse of Sleeping Beauty”, “Stargate”, “Mousehunt”, “D.C.9/11”, “Magnolia”, “Déjà Vu”, “Bewitched”, “The Ring”, “X-Files: The Movie”, and “Bounce”.  He is also featured in the documentary, No Net about making intimate theater in Los Angeles. Scott trained at Arena Stage and the Studio Theater before earning his MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, SAG-AFTRA, AEA, SDC and the Actor’s Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, and is also a proud alumnus of the Director’s Lab West ‘05. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Pepperdine University, and a lecturer at Cal State Northridge and UCLA.

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