Sharon Lawrence
Best known for her three-time Emmy-nominated role as D.A. Sylvia Costas Sipowicz on NYPD Blue and as Maisy Gibbons on Desperate Housewives, Sharon Lawrence recently appeared on Broadway as Velma in Chicago. Other theater credits: Zorba, Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway; Tongue of a Bird with Cherry Jones at the Taper in L.A. and Public in NYC; Paint Your Wagon and Under The Blue Sky at the Geffen; The Guys with Keith David at Berkeley Rep; Company and I'm Getting My Act Together... for Reprise!; and, most recently, No Time for Comedy at NYC's Bay Street Theatre. Recent film and TV: Word of Honor for TNT; Little Black Book with Holly Hunter and Brittany Murphy; Nearing Grace starring David Morse; and The Alibi with Rebecca Rojmin-Stamos, John Leguizamo, Selma Blair and James Brolin. She was a series regular on the critically-acclaimed Wolf Lake and starred opposite Alfred Molina on Ladies Man, both for CBS, and in her own sitcom, Fired Up, for NBC. She is currently filming Augusta, Gone, set to air on Lifetime in March.
Nicholas Gonzalez
TV Guide called Nicholas Gonzalez a "knockout discovery" for his starring role as Alex Santiago in Showtime's original series Resurrection Blvd. Film credits include the starring role in the just-completed Behind Enemy Lines II: Land of the Morning Calm for Twentieth Century Fox; Anacondas, in which he starred as Dr. Ben Douglas; Screen Gems' Dirty, alongside Cuba Gooding, Jr.; the independent feature Spun with Mena Suvari, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy and John Leguizamo; and Scenes of the Crime opposite Jeff Bridges. He has a recurring role as Mike Sandoval on Law and Order SVU, and recurred on The O.C. and PBS' American Family. Nicholas knows the world of academia well; he has a degree in English from Stanford and studied at Oxford University and Trinity College (Dublin) to complete his thesis on James Joyce's Ulysses.
Carlease Burke
Carlease Burke earned a 2005 NAACP Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at the Theatre@Boston Court. Feature films: The Terminal with Tom Hanks, The Toolbox Murders, In Her Shoes opposite Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette. She has appeared on Desperate Housewives, Strong Medicine, Malcolm in the Middle, Monk, Judging Amy, Without A Trace and Wanted, and as a stand-up comic in comedy clubs and festivals across the country and internationally.
Anne Marie Howard
Anne Marie Howard is best known as Nicole Love on Another World and Kimberly Donovan on Days of Our Lives. She's currently featured in The Weather Man as co-anchor with Bryant Gumbel on "Hello, America," and recently interviewed Donald Trump for his new Wealth Building Seminars. She can be seen in the films Blue Streak, Prince of Darkness, Shopgirl, and the upcoming Lost Signal. She's a recurring guest-star on Nickelodeon's Unfabulous and has appeared on E.R., The West Wing, and Cold Case, among others. Favorite theater experiences include An Ideal Husband and Quilters in Santa Barbara and Baseball Wives in NYC.
Peter Husmann
Peter Husmann has been on stage in L.A.: Virtual Devotion, Murder by Moonlight (El Portal); A Grand Night for Singing, Portrait of A Nude (West Coast Ensemble); and, in theaters around the U.S.: The Shadow Box, The Nerd, Sweet Charity, Romantic Comedy, The Bear and Othello. Films: Faith Happens (upcoming), Contact (with Jodi Foster), and the lead in Two Weeks from Sunday, a short film with Ed Asner, Brock Peters and Stuart Whitman.
Joel Polis
Joel Polis will star as Ezra Pound in Pound of Flesh at the Odyssey, a role he created at the Edinburgh Festival. Also at the Odyssey: Three Travelers and Flags. Joel originated the role of Richard in Jane Anderson's The Baby Dance (Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, and Lucille Lortel Theater, New York). Off-Broadway and regional: Julius Caesar (Old Globe); The Merchant of Venice; Richard III, Oleanna, A Midsummer Night's Dream, What the Butler Saw. A graduate of Yale Drama School, Joel has performed in over 80 plays and 100 films, MOWs, and episodic TV.
Javier Morga
Javier Morga has recently completed back to back films Richard III with Scott M. Anderson, Maria Conchita Alonso, and Sally Kirkland and Central Booking with Al Sapienza, Michael Bergin and David Ramsey. His next project is shooting Zombie Farm a horror movie for director Brian Barsuglia. He is also known for the role of Augustico ‘Tico’ Santi on One Life to Live.
Alison Vail Fuller
Alison Vail Fuller has directed on both coasts. Her New York City work includes The Escape Artists produced by Colleen Dewhurst at the American Place Theater, Monologues By Seven and Private Moments at Our Studios, and in Hartford, Ct., The Magic Fishbone at the Creative Space Theater. In Los Angeles, Alison directed more than a dozen pieces at West Coast Ensemble, including Ken Lipman's The Precipice (with Sharon Lawrence and Jason Broad), Holding Vigil (born out of the L.A. riots that Alison also wrote), and her critically acclaimed I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates. Alison also directed the West Coast premiere of Le Mal du Pays at the Rose Theater and The Unintended Video by Dale Griffiths Stamos at the Road Theatre in North Hollywood.
Dale Griffiths Stamos
Dale Griffiths Stamos' plays have been produced around the country. She was named co-recipient (with Romulus Linney) of Actors Theatre of Louisville's prestigious Heideman Award for The Unintended Video, and Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night was performed by Actors Alley at the El Portal in North Hollywood. A co-leader of the Story Structure Workshop at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Stamos received an Emmy Award nomination for the CBS-commissioned after school special Words Up!. Also a published poet, her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, ONTHBUS, Rattle, and Mothering.
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