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 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).

Julia’s local credits include work at The Falcon Theatre, Theatre 40, NoHo Arts Ensemble,  Attic Theatre, Repertory East Playhouse,  Missing Piece Theatre, The Grove Theatre (Upland) and SkyPilot Theatre Company (2012 Stage Scene L.A. Award winner:  Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress).

Film: The Prestige, Something’s Gotta Give, Wristcutters:  A Love Story, The Cost of Heaven, Dawn, Waning Moon, The Book, Transformers 4.

TV: Harry’s Law, Mad Men, Monk, Criminal Minds, Life, In Justice, Dr Vegas, Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Dragnet, Wings, Beyond Belief, General Hospital.

Graduating from 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 Cliff Osmond (Los Angeles).

At The Road: Through The Eye Of A Needle (alternate cast)

Regional (Los Angeles): American Misanthrope at Archway Theatre, Macbeth at The Harold Clurman Lab Theatre

Training: Melelani received her BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice from the University of San Francisco and went on to graduate from The Art of Acting/Stella Adler Studio’s professional conservatory.

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).

THEATRE: Circle in the Square Downtown, Cherry Lane, The Directors Company, Theatre for The New City, The National Arts Club, Center Stage, Westbeth Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre, Odyssey Theatre, Actors Studio NY/LA/Raw Space, Cornerstone Theater.

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.

Road Credits: Directed in The Word Reading Series, and for the 2017 Summer Playwrights Festival – for which he also served as Producer.

Theatre: Directed over 50 theatrical productions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and at theaters and universities across the country. He has worked as a Visiting Professor or Guest Director at university programs in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, Texas and California.

Oberservation: He has observed with Mark Cendrowski on The Big Bang Theory, with Jim Burrows on Crowded, and with Tony Morina on The Young & The Restless.

Film: His first short film, Peeling It Off (2008) was an official selection of numerous film festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including the Slamdance Film Festival. He has recently finished his latest short film, Childish Things (2017), based on the play by Arthur M. Jolly and featuring numerous actors from The Road.

Training: He received his BA in Theatre from Alma College, a Certificate in Digital Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy, and his MFA in Directing from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

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

Road credits: Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby- Assistant Director

Regional: Theatre Unleashed- The Tempest, Tracing Sonny, The Woodsman, All in the Timing. NOLA Productions at El Portal- All The Kings Men. Hollywood Fringe Festival- 25 Plays Per Hour, White Trash Wedding and a Funeral, Best of Albuquerque Fringe 2025.

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

Training: Meisner work at University of Iowa under John Cameron, Upright Citizens Brigade, Riverside Shakespeare Festival, Elizabeth Mestnick Summer Intensive

Scott serves as the The Road Theatre Company’s Associate Artistic Director, a position he has held since 2011.

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

Local credits include The Mirror Theatre and Kingsmen Shakespeare Company.

Hannah Mae is a recent graduate of California State University Fullerton where she received her BFA in Acting. CSU Fullerton credits include The Diary of Anne Frank, All This Intimacy, The Laramie Project, Violet, and others. She was a national finalist for the KCACTF Irene Ryan Awards and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and has studied Shakespeare in Oxford with the British American Drama Academy.