The Artists Company

Sam Anderson is best known recently for his work as Bernard on ABC's hit series, Lost. Sam also recurs on ER as the arrogant Dr. Kayson. He has over 130 film and television credits, including Forrest Gump, From the Earth to the Moon, all the CSI's, Angel and many more. Recipient of a Best Actor Ovation Award, Sam has also appeared on LA stages for the past 20 years. He is also a writer-director, on the board of the Road Theatre in LA, a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the proud father of 15 year old twins.

J. Paul Boehmer spent two seasons at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego appearing in A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Constant Wife, Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors. He appeared in Sir Peter Halls’ acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Off-Broadway in the New York premiere of Miss Evers’ Boys and off-off Broadway in New Yorrick, New Yorrick and End of the Day. He has appeared regionally at the Pioneer Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep., The Huntington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Cleveland Playhouse, Missouri Repertory Theatre, The Walnut Street Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Theatre Works Palo Alto. His film and television appearances include, The Good German, The Thomas Crown Affair, Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager and Deep Space Nine, Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light and All My Children. Paul also narrates Books on Tape and is most proud of the award-winning unabridged recording of Moby Dick.
 

Nanci Christopher's credits include: Film: The Check is in the Mail directed by Joan Darling, Crime of the Century/HBO directed by Mark Rydell. TV: ER, Two and a Half Men, USA High, Night Stand, All my Children, Ryan’s Hope, General Hospital among others. Theatre: The Transmogrification (Playwright's Horizons/NYC), Down the Road and Kindertransport (Tiffany Theatre/LA) HomeFire and Letters Home (Theatre West/LA). Nanci is currently working on her solo show, titled B.U.F.A., with director, Paul Linke. Fall 2006 production is planned.

David Clennon has performed in American Iliad by Donald Freed and Talking Things Over With Chekov by John Ford Noonan at the Victory Theatre in Burbank, and at the NY Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, and Off-Broadway and regional theatres. Film Credits include Syriana, Missing and Being There. TV credits include From The Earth To The Moon, Once & Again and ad mogul Miles Drentell in the series Thirtysomething.

Bob Clendenin Theatre credits include the Old Globe, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Stage and Circle X Theatre which he co-founded. He plays a lot of freaks on television. Bob has an MFA from PennState and a B.Sc from Cornell. He lives in Burbank with his wife, 2 sons, and a pug.

Matthew Patrick Davis Theatre credits include: L.A. Theatre Works' national tour of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial starring Ed Asner, James Cromwell, and Mike Farrell; Feste in Twelfth Night, directed by Brendon Fox (New Village Arts); Richard Henry Lee in 1776 (Lamb's Players); Emcee in The Buddy Holly Story (San Fran Post Street Theatre / Regional Tour); Leander in Scapin (Andak Stage Co); Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie (CCT).Television credits: Joan of Arcadia; national commercials

Seamus Dever has been in Los Angeles since 1998 and is very proud to be a member of the Los Angeles Theatre Community. Past LA productions include iWitness at The Mark Taper Forum, Mother Courage and Pera Palas (Ovation, LADCC, LA Weekly nominations) at the Theatre @ Boston Court, Clutter at the Colony Theatre, and the LA premiere of A Clockwork Orange (Ovation, LADCC nominations, Backstage West Garland Winner) at The Greenway Court Theatre. Seamus is a recurring character on ABC’s General Hospital. Recent television includes CSI: Miami, Close to Home, CSI: New York, NCIS, Threshold, CSI, Charmed, JAG, and Cold Case. Seamus holds MFAs in Acting from the Moscow Art Theatre and Carnegie-Mellon University. Seamus is also a new playwright having just finished his first two act play Little Water. He is a member of The Antaeus Company and The Actor’s Studio.

Brendon Fox is the Associate Producer of L.A. Theatre Works. He has previously directed for LATW two national tours: The Prisoner of Second Avenue (starring Hector Elizondo) and Private Lives; also for LATW: The Ruby Sunrise, Worksong, Arms and the Man, Antigone, and Spinning Into Butter, among others. Previously,
Mr. Fox served for seven years as the Associate Director for the Old Globe Theatre, where he directed a range of work, including: Sky Girls, Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy, The Countess, Private Eyes, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. At The Old Globe/University of San Diego Professional Actor Training Program Mr. Fox directed Sir Patient Fancy and Getting Married. His regional directing credits include: What the Butler Saw, Two River Theatre Company; Arms and the Man, Moonlight Stage Productions & Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Much Ado About Nothing, LA Shakespeare Festival; and Romeo and Juliet and The Floatplane Notebooks, Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Additional credits include: The Smell of the Kill, North Coast Repertory Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Borealis Theatre Co; Arms and the Man and Pericles, greasy joan & co; Richard II, Writers Theatre Chicago; Don Juan in Hell, Bailiwick Rep; A Bright Room Called Day (2006 Award, Best Ensemble), Cloud 9, Diversionary Theatre; and Sir Patient Fancy, The Juilliard School.

Kate Fuglei got her professional start at the Guthrie Theater and has played leading roles in regional theaters such as La Jolla Playhouse (Mrs. Webb in Our Town), Arena Stage (Sonya in Crime and Punishment), the McCarter Theater (Dora in Dark Lady of the Sonnets), Portland Stage (Widow Begbick in Mann Ist Mann) and the Utah Shakespeare Festival (Blanche in Streetcar and Raymonde in A Flea in her Ear), the New York Shakespeare Festival (Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost) and LA Shakespeare Festival (Emilia in Othello), among others.  Kate founded a theater company in New York, DearKnows, which created original work as well as performing James Joyce's The Dubliners.  Kate is a trained singer and currently studies with Kay Montgomery. Her most recent stage appearance in Los Angeles was as Aunt Eva in a new musical version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.  Film and television work includes The Onion Movie, Touched by an Angel, Bernie Mac, Seventh Heaven, Crossing Jordan and Nip/Tuck.

John Getz has appeared in productions at Manhattan Theater Club, The Arena Stage, The New York Shakespeare Festival at Lincoln Center and at The Delacorte Theater, Baltimore's Center Stage, and many others. Most recently he was Trigorin in The Seagull at The Old Globe in San Diego and Orgon in Tartuffe at La Jolla Playhouse. He appeared on Broadway in M. Butterfly, in the movies Blood Simple, The Fly, Born On The Fourth Of July and many more film and television programs.

Joel Gross’ play Marie Antoinette: The Color Of Flesh was produced by the NJ Repertory Company. The play had its New York premiere in April, 2007 at the 45th Street Theatre. and is opening soon at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton Other works by Mr. Gross have been presented in workshops at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Old Globe in San Diego, and the Actors Studio in New York. Joel co-wrote the film NO ESCAPE and wrote the TV film Blind Man’s Bluff. He has worked on features for Universal, Fox, HBO, and Sony, including (uncredited) The Mask Of Zorro and Die Hard IV. His film Mortal Armor: The Legend Of Galahad goes into production this Spring, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Peter Hoffman. His novels, including The Book Of Rachel, have been selected by the Book of the Month Club and the Literary Guild. He is a member of PEN, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, the Authors Guild and the Playwrights Unit of the Actors Studio.

Jeanie Hackett has performed on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, Ah Wilderness, and has extensive off-Broadway and regional theater credits, most notably at The Williamstown Theater Festival. L.A. Theater credits include Antaeus, Boston Court, South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, and The Matrix. Recent film/tv: King of California with Michael Douglas, Kids in America with Topher Grace, Henry Jaglom's Going Shopping, Criminal Minds, Medium, The L Word, Judging Amy (recurring).  She is Co-Artistic Director of The Antaeus Company and is the author of two books on acting.

Estelle Harris, best known as Mrs. Costanza on Seinfeld, also co-starred on The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and has appeared in ER, Providence, Night Court, The Parkers, Half and Half, Cybill, Living Single, Moesha, Star Trek: Voyager, In the House, Mad About You, Law and Order and Married With Children. Estelle played Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story 2 & also in Toy Story 3 – currently in production, and her infamous voice is also heard in Tarzan 2, Brother Bear, Home on the Range, Teacher’s Pet, and in numerous animated TV series. Estelle can be seen in the mockumentary The Grand, and is in many other features including Out to Sea, Odd Couple 2, Lost and Found, My Giant, One Upon a Time in America, Stand & Deliver, This is Your Life, Addams Family Values, Good Advice, What’s Cooking and Playing Mona Lisa. On stage, Estelle co-starred Off-Broadway in Enter Laughing and The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, and in LA in Vagina Monologues. She has portrayed a vast array of roles throughout the nation in such shows as Pippin, The Cemetery Club, Beau Jest, Norman Is That You?, Bells Are Ringing, Bell Book & Candle, Come Back Little Sheba, Blithe Spirit, Guys And Dolls, Carousel, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl, and Fiddler On The Roof. In her spare time, she is an avid collector of exotic antiques and furnishings, adores her dogs ZsaZsa and Valentino, and expects to never retire from her prolific acting career. God willing.

Lorey Hayes is a Playwright and Actress, She is an original member of the cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough by Ntozake Shange. Since that time, she has starred on and off Broadway, in England and at numerous regional theaters throughout the country. She has starred in plays with such noted performers as Kevin Bacon, Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Smits and Melba Moore. She recently returned from London, England starring as Eunice Evers in Miss Ever’s Boys at the Royal Shakespeare Festival. She is also a familiar face on television and has guest starred on several award-winning shows. These credits include: Family Law, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope, Sister, Sister, All My Children, Another World, Ryan’s Hope and The Doctors. Look for Lorey in Dreamgirls, The Movie, scheduled for release Christmas Day 2006

Beth Henley is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress who first entered the critical spotlight in 1978 when her play  Crimes of the Heart, a black comedy about three maladjusted sisters set in the small town of Hazlehurst, Mississippi--won the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. This work went on to win several more awards, including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best new American play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, both in 1981. Henley then received a Tony Award nomination for best play and, five years later, an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. The play and subsequent film version showcased Henley as one of a new breed of American dramatists dedicated to preserving regional voices on the stage. Other plays by Ms. Henley include Am I Blue, The Miss Firecracker Contest,and The Wake of Jamey Foster.

Russell Hornsby Fresh off the stage in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, he is currently the lead in Paul Fitzgerald’s Forgiven, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.  He will next be seen as the lead in ABC Family’s latest drama series Lincoln Heights. The Oakland native attended Boston University’s well respected theatre arts program, and then studied with the British Academy of Dramatic Arts at Oxford University. Russell then moved to New York City, performing leading roles in productions such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Joe Louis Blues, and Six Degrees of Separation.  He made his debut on the Off-Broadway stage playing the character of Young Blood in August Wilson’s Jitney. He was recently on Broadway in Intimate Apparel opposite Viola Davis. Russell’s television and film work includes; series regular roles in Playmakers as aging running back Leon Taylor, Haunted as Detective Marcus Bradshaw and Gideon’s Crossing as Chief Resident Dr. Aaron Boise; as well as lead roles in the films Big Fat Liar and Keep the Faith, a television movie for the Showtime network.  Most recently, he was seen in Jim Sheridan’s Get Rich or Die Tryin opposite 50 Cent and Edmond opposite William H. Marcy.

Michael Jaeger directed Laura Shamas' MOLIERE IN LOVE for Pacific Stages in February 2006, He is currently directing MANSFIELD PARK at USC. Recent credits include workshops of Dan O'Brien's THE DEAD DEPORTEE and KEY WEST at the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, and staged readings of Ian McCrudden's MAN OF THE HOUSE at Ars Nova in New York (with Tony winner Blair Brown) and at the Old Globe in San Diego. Michael also directed the second national tour of Broadway's JEKYLL & HYDE, Circle X's Ovation Award-nominated world premiere of FATHERS AND SONS in LA, Shaw's THE PHILANDERER in NYC, and regional productions of BETRAYAL and AMERICAN BUFFALO, among others, and spent three summers directing at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has worked as an associate director for Jack O'Brien, Nicholas Martin, Mark Brokaw, David Warren, and John Tillinger on and off-Broadway and is also an occasional screenwriter/story consultant and a graduate of Yale University.

Salome Jens started her career on the New York stage and has appeared in many off-Broadway and on Broadway productions, as well as in television and movies.   She is currently directing a new play, Bad Hurt on Cedar Street at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Associate Professor at UCLA.

Matt Letscher appeared onstage most recently at Lincoln Center Theater in The Rivals.  Other theatre credits include the Broadway premiere of Neil Simon's Proposals, Love's Labors Lost at the Old Globe in San Diego, and, as a member of Pacific Resident Theatre, Tonight At 8:30 and On Approval. Television credits include Criminal Minds, Good Morning Miami, Joey, NYPD Blue, Providence, and the upcoming Old Christine.  Film credits include  Straightjacket, Gods And Generals, Identity, Super Sucker, Lovelife, and The Mask Of Zorro.

Lauren Lovett has appeared in As You Like It (Rosalind), Merchant of Venice (Portia), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; iWitness, Mark Taper Forum; Lobby Hero, Old Globe Theatre; Dutchman, Providence Black Rep; Fraulein Else, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf and McCarter Theatre; Twelfth Night, NJ Shakespeare; Immigrant, Importance of Being Ernest, Glass Menagerie, Bad Dates, Indiana Repertory; and on TV in The Guiding Light. She is a graduate of Juilliard.

Sandy Martin was a founding member of the WPA and Perry St Theatre. As an invited director to the Academy of Dramatic Arts/LA she formed the Hothouse Stage Co.. Their production of Welcome To Andromeda ran off-B'way and at the Matrix. Other work at Hothouse includes The Killing Of Sister George which won Best Revival / L.A Weekly Awards. High Times: Prairie Ave. with Ed Harris, Ensemble Studio Theatre/NYC/LA. Joan & The Zulu's opposite Grace Zebriskie at the Cast Theatre.  Award winning, Hothouse by Megan Terry - Matrix Theatre. The Juiceman Commeth, The Showtime One-Acts at the Met. Rinoceros at the Odyssey. TV and Film credits include Southern Comfort, CSI NY, Nip/Tuck, Desperate Housewives, Tom Hanks's new film, The Great Buck Howard, and indie megahit Napoleon Dynamite. As an Associate Producer, Sandy enjoyed a 10 yr. relationship with Moctesuma Esparza & Bob Katz during their renowned productions of Milagro Bean Field Wars, Gettysburg and Selena, and she recently spent four years as the President of Edward James Olmos' Co. at ABC.

Michael Medico Credits include LA Theatre: All in the Timing (Rubicon Theatre,) and Three Grooms and a Bride (The Coast Playhouse).  Off Broadway: The US premier of Murder in Mind (La Mama). Regional theatre: Old Globe, San Jose Rep, Huntington Theatre Co., McCarter Theatre,  Arden Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Caldwell Theatre, and Saratoga Shakespeare Co.. Television: Will and Grace, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Threshold,Frasier, Sex and the City, Law and Order:SVU, Roswell, Angel, and Good Morning Miami. Films: Grace, Vanessa,Life's Too Good, Pro-Choice! and the spoof Queer Eye for the Homeless Guy.

Caitlin Muelder is a graduate of the Old Globe/University of San Diego MFA program and Knox College. She has performed in NYC (Broadway; The Invention of Love, dir. By Jack O’Brien), (Off Broadway; Engaged, dir. By Dough Hughes), and many regional theatres including; The Cincinnati Playhouse; Closer, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, The Glass Menagerie, the Old Globe Theatre, Vincent in Brixton, Ford’s Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Tooth & Nail Theatre, Pittsburgh Classical Theatre, and at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival where she performed her one woman show on Amelia Earhart. .On television, she appeared as a recurring character (Lisa) on The Education of Max Bickford (starting Richard Dreyfuss). Her television credits also include Law & Order and Law & Order Special Victims Unit. She can be seen in the independent films, Going In and If You Could Say It In Words.

Megan Austin Oberle recently played Lydia Lubey in All My Sons at the Geffen Theatre. Regional theatre credits include: the roles of Kit and Shona in Top Girls, Nora in Sixteen Wounded and Julia in Pack of Lies with LA Theatre Works, and various plays with The Company Rep; Taper Too; Berkeley Rep., Baltimore's Center Stage; Milwaukee Rep., Appletree Theatre, Lifeline Theatre and the St. Croix Festival Theatre.  Television and film credits include E.R, Six Feet Under, Sex, Love & Secrets, the 70's, Ping and Ball Lightning.

Chris Pine is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UC Berkeley. He has appeared in multiple productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and is a busy film and TV actor.  His most recent credits include Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan and Smokin' Aces with Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia. He would like to thank everyone at Pacific Stages for including him in this wonderful reading.

David Proval, hails from Brooklyn and currently makes his home in Redondo Beach. He has worked as an actor, director and producer for over forty years, and is perhaps best known for his roles in feature films and TV. These include Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorcese, the mobster Richie Aprile in The Sopranos, an endearing Italian father on Everybody Loves Raymond, and many, many more lead and supporting roles too numerous to mention. David has also directed a short film, Sweaty Sex And Chinese Take Out here in Los Angeles, off-Broadway plays in NY and The Bagel Incident at the Zephyr Theatre in Hollywood. David is now working on a film co-written with his wife Cheryl, in which he plays the lead character.

Linnea Pyne is an MFA graduate of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Linnea began her acting career working in various Shakespeare Festivals on both coasts; her favorite roles including Juliet in R&J at The California Shakespeare Festival and Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in many national commercials as well as Off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway and Fringe Festival shows here and abroad and has a penchant for theatre that is a little left of center. She and her husband of nine years, director Michael Jaeger, have joyfully created two successful productions together and hope to continue their working relationship when their two wonderful daughters enter the fast paced world of kindergarten.

Michael Redfield has most recently appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Daisy Foote's When They Speak Of Rita, for which he received the 2005 Ovation Award Nomination for Best Featured Actor. As a composer, he most recently scored the feature film Miles. As a director, he is currently