Jack Stehlin

JACK STEHLIN- Artistic Director / Actor / Director

Notable Circus Theatricals productions include Complexity, The Misanthrope, Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III, Tartuffe, True West, The Cheats of Scapin, The Job.

Other Los Angeles Theatre Salome (w/Al Pachino), Speed-the-Plow (Los Angeles premiere), and Habitation of Dragons.

Notable NYC credits include Richard II (dir. Steven Berkoff), Henry V (w/Kevin Kline), Casanova (w/ Ethan Hawke, dir. by Michael Greif), Henry IV, I (w/Mandy Patinkin, dir by Des McAnuff), Julius Caesar (w/ Al Pacino and Martin Sheen),Timon of Athens (dir. by Brian Kulick), Richard Foreman’s Don Juan, and Romeo and Juliet (dir. by Les Waters).

TV and film credits: Jack is best know on TV for his role as DEA Captain Roy Till on the Showtime series "Weeds." Other: the film "Salomaybe" with Al Pacino, "Without A Trace," "NCIS," "JAG," (recurring), "Buffy" (recurring), "Judging Amy," "The Practice," "Crossing Jordan," "NYPD Blue," "ER."

Jack Stehlin currently directs the Saturday Studio. He has also served as visiting Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Theater for Winter 2005.

Jack founded Circus Theatricals in New York in 1983, and has produced over 40 plays in NYC and Los Angeles. An award-winning actor, Jack has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, and stages around the world. Jack is an alumnus of John Houseman's The Acting Company and a graduate of the Juilliard School.

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JEANNINE STEHLIN -Managing Director / Actress

Produced over 40 plays for Circus Theatricals, including The Heiress, The Adding Machine, Man.Gov, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Misanthrope, Macbeth, Tartuffe, The Cherry Orchard, Richard III, Hamlet and The Cheats of Scapin, The Circle and the award-winning The Job by Shem Bitterman (LA and Off-Broadway). Sound design credits include Circus Theatricals 7th Annual Festival of One Act Plays (now playing), and The Circle (LA Weekly "Best Sound Design" nomination).

Acting credits include: The Heiress, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Job, Peer Gynt, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, Hippolytus, The Stronger, The Art of Success, Women and Wallace and the films, “Watch It,” and “Rancho Cucamonga." Jeannine made her TV debut as a childe on the popular children's program, "Romper Room." Sound design credits include: Man.gov, Greensward, Complexity, and The Circle (LA Weekly "Best Sound Design" nomination).

Jeannine holds a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Gigi Bermingham

GIGI BERMINGHAM - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals: Doreen in Tartuffe, (LA Weekly Award, "Best Comedy Ensemble) and Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard.

Her one-woman show Non-Vital Organs at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Other stage credits include: "Henry V" (Globe, San Diego), "Riga" (Inside the Ford), "Twelfth Night" (New York Shakespeare Festival), "House of Blue Leaves" (Alliance Rep), "Treasure Hunt" (Callboard Theatre), "A Dressing Room" (Circle Repertory Lab), "Strictly Improv" (1st Amendment Improv, NYC), "Crimes of the Heart" (Nehru Auditorium, Bombay) and "Ruffian on the Stair" (S.F. Actors Ensemble).

Television/Film credits include: "CSI," "Judging Amy," "State of Grace," "The Geena Davis Show," "Rude Awakening," "Third Rock From the Sun," "Any Day Now," "Oh, Baby!" "Beverly Hills, 90210," " Saved by the Bell," "Hudson Street," "Sirens," Inside/Out," "Get a Life," "As the World Turns," and "Days of our Lives."

CASEY BIGGS - Associate Artist / Actor / Director

For Circus Theatricals, Casey Biggs has appeared onstage in "True West" opposite Jack Stehlin in the Odyssey Theatre/Circus Theatricals co-production. He directed "Macbeth," "Richard III," "Hamlet," "Hedda Gabler," "The SeaGull," and "The Three Sisters."

As an actor, his long list of theatre credits include
"No Strings" (Broadway, City Center Encores,) the world premiere of "The Good German" (Westport Playhouse), the World premiere of "Shakespeare in Hollywood" (Arena Stage), the world premiere of Elmer Gantry (Arena Stage), and the Los Angeles premiere of David Mamet’s "Speed-the-Plow." Film credits include "The Shadow Conspiracy," "The Price of Freedom," “Dragonfly” with Kevin Costner, “Broken Arrow,” “Auggie Rose,” and “The Pelican Brief.” Television credits include four seasons as Damar on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” "E.R." "Appearances," "A Promise to Carolyn," "The Great Wallendas," "Ryan's Hope," “Legacy,” “Giddeon’s Crossing,” “X-Files,” "Touched by an Angel," "Stat," "The Profiler," and "Melrose Place."

Casey is a graduate of the Juilliard School, and an alumnus of The Acting Company. He is an Associate Artist of Circus Theatricals.

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SHEM BITTERMAN - Associate Artist / Playwright

For Circus Theatricals: playwright of Man.Gov, playwright and director of The Circle, The Job which won the Stanley Award & Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Ted Shmidtt Award for "World Premiere of an Outstanding New Play."

He is a graduate of New York’s High School of Performing Arts and alumnus of Julliard and The Playwriting Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he got his MFA.

Plays include The Job at Circus Theatricals, Ten Below at the WPA, (National Play Award), Peephole at Geva (Davie Award), Night-Side at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, The Ramp at South Coast Rep California Playwright’s Competition, Beijing Legends at The Pacific Jewish Theatre, (Fund For New American Plays), Self Storage at PKE and Iowa Boys at The Ohio (CBS/FDG Award).

He has developed plays at The Mark Taper Forum, Sundance, Midwest Playlabs and Steppenwolf.

Films include "Tinsletown," directed by Tony Spiridakis, "Out Of The Rain," directed by Gary Winick, "Peephole, (which he also directed), "Off The Lip," directed by Robert Mickelson and Open House, which he also directed (available online at fanbasefilms.com.) His newest script "Lenexa, 1 Mile," co-written with Jason Wiles, is being produced this summer in Kansas City. Shem has also taught screenwriting and playwriting in the California Prisons.

Shem also teaches playwriting for Circus Theatricals

JOHN BUNZEL - Associate Artist / Playwright

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mr. Bunzel has worked extensively as a writer/producer and production executive for nearly 20 years.

Circus Theatricals has produced the World Premieres and West Coast Premieres of his award-winning plays "Delirious" and "Gravity Shoes."

His plays have been produced at such notable venues as The Odyssey Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, the Pasadena Playhouse, and the Matrix Theatre. In 1991, he wrote and produced the series, STAT, on ABC and developed two other series for the network. In 1995, he co-wrote the film Born To Be Wild for Warner Brothers. He has also been hired to write screenplays for many of the major studios including Paramount, Lorimar and Fox. In addition, he served as President/CEO of the Los Angeles Playwrights Group from 1991 to 1998, overseeing the development of over 200 plays, many of them going on to productions in North America and Europe.

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ROBERT CICCHINI - Associate Artist / Director / Teacher
For Circus Theatricals: Director: First to the Egg, The Maids, The Lower Depths, The Sausage Eaters (all for Circus Theatricals), Courting Darkness, et. al.

As an Actor: Man.Gov, Tartuffe, Twelfth Night, Hedda Gabler, The Job (Garland Award)

His Television and Film credits include "American Dreams," "The Gilmore Girls,' "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," "The Practice," "NYPD Blue," "Godfather III," "Primary Colors," "Deep End of the Ocean," "Path to War," et al.

Bob teaches Improvisation for the Actor for Circus Theatricals

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JILL GASCOINE - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals, Jill most recently played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. Other roles with Circus Theatricals include Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, for which she received an LA Weekly Award Nomination for "Supporting Female Performance," and Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet."

Born in London, Jill's vast theatre credits include "St. Joan," "Antigone," "Twelfth Night," "Uncle Vanya," "Arms & the Man," "Candida," "Anthony and Cleopatra," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Joan of Lorraine," "Night of the Iguana," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Night Street", "42nd Street," "Destry Rides Again," and "Pal Joey." She starred in the long-running UK television series "The Gentle Touch" and then starred as the same character in its spin-off series "Cat's Eyes."

L.A. television/film credits include "Baseketball," Northern Exposure," and "Touched by an Angel." A published novelist,Jill is working on her foruth book. She is married to actor Alfred Molina, and recently became a United States citizen. Jill is a Circus Theatricals Associate Artist.

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KENT GEORGE - Circus Theatricals Board of Directors

Circus Theatricals: The Misanthrope, The Circle, Antigone, Tartuffe (Circus Theatricals/Odyssey Theatre), Loose Ends, As You Like It.

Other Theatre: The Big Funk (Odyssey), Freedom Rider(PALEF Foundation world premiere musical), The Miracle Worker, Mame and Little Shop of Horrors (SRT), The Marriage Proposal and Baby with the Bathwater (Exit Theater, SF), Macbeth (Diego Rivera Theater, SF), Cyrano de Bergerac,Barbarians, Beggar’s Opera, Candida, Mikado and Hot l Baltimore (ACT and ACT Studio). Feature films include: "Gods and Monsters," "The Relic," "Art House" and "In Love with You." Television: "Murder in Small Town X" (series regular), "Alias," Passions." Kent is a graduate of American Conservatory Theater and Princeton University.

Daniel Gibbons

DANIEL GIBBONS - Associate Artist / Board of Directors
Circus Theatricals credits include: Malcolm in Macbeth, Valere in Tartuffe, Ratcliff in Richard III, Guildenstern in Hamlet, Orlando de Boys in As You Like It, Tuzenbach in The Three Sisters and Medvedyenko in The Seagull. Other stage roles include The Greeks Parts I and II (Odyssey Theatre), Hatful of Rain, Macbeth, Lil’ Abner. Independent films: “Dave’s Life,” (Chicago Film Festival), and “Last Cigarette.” Graduate of Bowling Green State University. Circus Theatricals Associate Artist.

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JAMES KARR - Associate Artist

Circus Theatricals credits include: The Circle and As You Like It.

Broadway: The Ponder Heart, The Loud Red Patrick, others. LA: Three Sisters, Engaged, Cyrano de Bergerac, Major Barbara, As you Like It, Ah! Wilderness, Much Ado About Nothing, Heartbreak House, Another Part of the Forest, The Wild Duck (A Noise Within), Richard III, The Miracle Worker, Uncle Vanya, The Changeling (all w/Knightsbridge Theatre), As You Like It (Actors Co-op), The Three Sisters (Interact), Moonchildren Holy Ghosts (both w/University Wits Rep.).

Education/Training: Beloit College, Yale School of Drama.

Thomas Kopache

THOMAS KOPACHE - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals: Man.Gov, The Circle, Macbeth, Deconstructing the Torah, Antigone, As You Like It.

Many Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and regional theatres. Film/TV: “Boston Legal,” “CSI New York,” "Catch Me if You Can," "Leaving Las Vegas," "Breakdown," "Stigmata," "West Wing," "The Practice," "Star Trek," "JAG," "X-Files," and others. Circus Theatricals Associate Artist.

Jordan Lund

JORDAN LUND Associate Artist

For Circus Theatricals: Safe, Twelfth Night, The Adding Machine, Weedwacker, Man.Gov, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe and the One-Acts: First to The Egg, Bender, The Sanest Men in America. Jordan also directed the One-Act, Joey.

Jordan appeared on Broadway at the ( Belasco Theatre , NY Shakespeare Festival) in Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Macbeth all directed by Estelle Parsons. Also in NY: The Golem, Twelfth Night, and King John (NYSF Delacorte Theatre in Central Park), Eric Bogosian’s I Saw the Seven Angels (The Kitchen), Sleep and Tis Pity She’s A Whore (LaMama), Israel Horovitz’s Henry Lumper (the Actor’s Outlet), and BH Barry’s production of Treasure Island (Blue Light Theatre Company at the Ohio Space). Regional credits include: Sir Peter Hall’s Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theatre), Scapin directed by Bartlett Sher (Portland Stage Company), On The Waterfront (Cleveland PlayHouse), What the Butler Saw (Great Lakes Theatre Festival) and Scaramouche directed by BH Barry (TheatreVirgina). In the Bay Area Jordan appeared in the World Premieres of My Antonia (TheatreWorks), and Marius ( Aurora Theatre ).

Over 75 film and TV appearances include: "The Bucket List", "Doc Hollywood", "Speed," "Species," "Lockup", "The American President," "The Rookie," "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man,""Life," "Fletch Lives", "Lonesome Dove", "The Stand," “Without A Trace”, "NYPD Blue," "Cop Rock", "Cheers," "Frasier," "Firefly", "Walker Texas Ranger," "Murphy Brown," "Life Goes On," "Law and Order," "Star Trek DS9 & TNG," "Enterprise," "Providence," "ER," "Chicago Hope" and "The Practice."

Jordan received his training at Carnegie-Mellon University . tlbrsm

ALFRED MOLINA - Associate Artist / Actor / Dramaturg / Teacher

With Circus Theatricals: Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Buckingham in Richard III .

ALFRED MOLINA is an accomplished and versatile actor with over seventy film, television and theater productions to his credit. He recently completed the feature The Little Traitor in Israel filming the adaptation of the Amos Oz Prize book, Panther in the Basement. Produced by Marilyn Hall and written and directed by Lynn Roth, the movie will be released in 2007.

In Spring of 2007, Miramax will release Hoax. Molina stars opposite Richard Gere for director Lasse Hallstrom, reuniting with Hallstrom who also directed Molina’s performance of the feature film Chocolate with Johnny Depp. Also in Spring of 2007 you will see the release of Molina’s performance in the HBO film As You Like It starring opposite Bryce Dallas Howard for director Kenneth Branagh.

Molina recently starred in Da Vinci Code for director Ron Howard and Sony Pictures where he had previously created the ground-breaking role of Doc Ock for that studio in 2004 for director Sam Raimi. Mr. Molina continues his association with Sony and has recently finished filming The Company for producers Sir. Ridley Scott, John Calley and TNT.

Molina has completed a run at the Mark Taper Forum of The Cherry Orchard opposite Annette Bening. His history in the theatre has been highly recognized with two Tony nominations, for Fiddler on the Roof and for Art, as well as, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Circle Critics Award for Art. He will next be seen in the spring of 2007 in playwright Patrick Marber’s Howard Katz for the Roundabout Theatre, in New York.

Some of his other films include Frida, opposite Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush and Ashley Judd, earning him Best Supporting Actor nominations from BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Critics Association. Molina also appeared in the Columbia Pictures thriller Identity, opposite John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet, the Jim Jarmusch film Coffee and Cigarettes and the Miramax release Undertaking Betty, a comedy with Brenda Blethyn, Naomi Watts and Christopher Walken

Molina made his movie debut with a small role in Raiders of the Lost Ark and had a notable role as a Soviet sailor in Letter to Brezhnev. His breakthrough role came in 1987 when he portrayed Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. In 1998, Molina earned accolades for his powerful performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Boogie Nights, which won the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by a cast in a theatrical motion picture. His other films include The Imposters, Anna Karenina, Species, The Perez Family, Maverick, Enchanted April, Pete’s Meteor, Not Without My Daughter, Dudley Do-Right and Texas Rangers. For television, Molina served as a producer and actor for the CBS situation comedy Ladies Man, co-starring Sharon Lawrence and Betty White.

Molina made his Broadway debut in 1998 in the Tony winning play Art with Alan Alda and Victor Garber. In addition to his own Best Actor Tony nomination, he received a Drama Desk Award for his performance, and the production was honored with an Outer Circle Critics Award for best ensemble. He starred in the off-Broadway production of Molly Sweeney, for which he was honored with a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Most Outstanding Debut Performance. His other theatre credits include roles in two Royal National Theatre productions, Night of the Iguana, and David Mamet’s Speed the Plow, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance; and Serious Money for the Royal Court Theatre and The West End. Molina also received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance in Oklahoma at the Palace Theatre.

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Dylan Kussman

DYLAN KUSSMAN - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals:Greensward, Modigliani, The Circle, Macbeth, Tartuffe (LA Weekly Award, Best Comedy Ensemble).

Other Theatre: Richard II, The Skin of Our Teeth (both w/Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Romeo and Juliet (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), Missing Persons (Berkely Rep), The Birthday Party & Henry V, (both w/Shotgun Players), Andromache, Crimes in Hot Countries (both w/CentralWorks). TV: "Monk," "The X-Files," "My Sister's Keeper." Film: "X-Men-2," "The Way of the Gun," "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken," "Dead Poets Society."

Scott Alan Smith

SCOTT ALAN SMITH - Associate Artist

Eric Pierpoint

ERIC PIERPOINT - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals: Greensward, Boy's Father in The Circle, King Edward IV in Richard III.

Other stage: Panache (Players Theatre, NYC), A Man for All Seasons, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hasty Heart, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Film: "World's Fastest Indian" (with Anthony Hopkins), "Liar, Liar," "Forever Young," "Where Truth Lies," "Maggie," "Holes," "Eulogy." TV: "Alien Nation" (series regular), "Mister Sterling" (recurring), "Fame," "Hot Pursuit," "Hill Street Blues," "WIOU," "Silk Stalkings." Plus many episodes and MOWS.

ELISE ROBERTSON - Circus Theatricals Associate Artist / Teacher

For Circus Theatricals: directing credits include Seduced, Sister Cities, Ellipses..., What Went Wrong wth the King and Queen of America; also writer/director Max (Circus Theatricals 7th Annual Festival of New One Act Plays); and actor in The Circle, Antigone, Deconstructing the Torah, Loose Ends, The Three Sisters,The Seagull. 

Other Theatre: Ourselves Alone, Oleanna, Betrayal, Amadeus. TV: "Six Feet Under," "Grey's Anatomy," "Gilmore Girls," "2 1/2 Men," "10-8," "Miss Match," "Passions."  Film: "Good Humor Man," "Eros." Elise is also an Emmy and Cine Golden Eagle award winning television director.  Credits include:  Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game", F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Sensible Thing," director of dramatic scenes for "Ralph Ellison: An American Journey."

Circus Theatricals Associate Artist. Teacher of Scene Study Studio with Performance Workshop, Mondays at Circus Theatricals

CHUCK ROSE playwright/ Associate Artist

Most recently with Circus Theatricals: SAFE.

An award-winning filmmaker and prolific playwright, Mr. Rose's writing/directing credits include the film Side Effects, starring Arye Gross, premiering this spring at the Breckenridge Film Festival; the feature Come As You Are, starring James Russo;The Elevator (Best Short Film - Denver, St. Louis.  Official Selection - Toronto, AFI, Fort Lauderdale).  Other screenplays include Nervous Rex for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, Steps, currently in development at Endgame Entertainment, and Almost Dangerous at Mandalay Films.    Produced plays include Eye to Eye (American Globe Theatre, NYC), the critically acclaimed, Weekend In Goshen (Theatre Geo, Los Angeles), Opening Ethyl (West CoastEnsemble, Los Angeles), Tryst and Shout (Circus Theatricals at the Hudson Theatre, Los Angeles) and Looking For Lois (Finalist - Actors Theatre of Louisville's National One-Act Play Contest).

Daniel Nathan Spector

DANIEL NATHAN SPECTOR - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals, Dan played Cleante in Tartuffe, Touchstone in As You Like It, Austin in True West, Martin in The Job, Feste in Twelfth Night, and George Tesman in Hedda Gabler. As a director, Dan directed an orginal adaptation of Aristophones' Lysistrata.

Other stage credits include Jumping for Joy (Laguna Playhouse), Visiting Mr. Green (Pasadena Playhouse), Beast on the Moon (International City Theatre), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Seattle’s Intiman Theatre), Our Town (Long Wharf), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage), The Two Gentlemen of Verona(New York Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare Festival/L.A.), Kingdom of Earth (Westport Playhouse & Hudson Avenue). TV roles include: "Miracles, " "Boston Public," "Ally McBeal," "Leap of Faith," "American Family," "JAG,". Film: "Running Wild," "Just Ask My Children," "Past Tense," "Along for the Ride," "Inconceivable."

Dan is a Graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and holds an M.F.A. from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a Circus Theatricals Associate Artist.

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NEIL VIPOND - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals: Queen Margaret in Richard III.

A veteran (war-torn) of the acting profession for 50 years, Mr. Vipond began his career in Canada. After two seasons of weekly stock, appearing in over 40 plays, he joined the Stratford festival in Canada for its first season, with Alec Guiness playing "Richard III" and Irene Worth as Queen Margaret. He played principal roles at Stratford for the next four seasons under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, and then went to New York where he immediately joined Uta Hagen and Zero Mostel in Eric Bentley's production of "The Good Woman of Szetzuan." He then played "Hamlet" in a performance The New York Times called "Electrifying."

Since that time, he has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theatres, in many Los Angeles productions and in numerous television & film roles. His wide range of roles in the theatre include James Joyce in "Mr. Joyce is Leaving Paris," Hamm in Endgame," (both directed by Jim Sheridan), Danforth in "The Crucible" (Roundabout in NYC), Dodge in "Buried Child," Polonius in "Hamlet" (Circus Theatricals/Odyssey Theatre), Joe in "The Cosmonaut's Last Message (La Jolla Playhouse), and this past summer, Grover in "House" at the Falcon Theatre. His innumerable appearances on TV and film include guest roles on "Frasier," "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek - Voyageur," HBO's "The Day the World Ended," and most recently two appearances as Julius on "Will and Grace."

Steve Zuckerman

STEVE ZUCKERMAN - Associate Artist

With Circus Theatricals: directed MAN.GOV and HARM'S WAY.

Steve Zuckerman directed Nuts by Tom Topor on Broadway which received two Tony nominations and a Drama Desk Award. As Associate Director of New York’s WPA theater he directed many productions including the premieres of Nuts , Steve Metcalf’s The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, Shem Bitterman’s Ten Below and Israel Horovitz’s Unexpected Tenderness and North Shore Fish. His collaboration with Mr. Horovitz also resulted in the premieres of Today I am a Fountain Pen , A Rosen By Any Other Name and The Chopin Playoffs. He directed a filmed version of North Shore Fish for Showtime which starred Mercedes Ruehl, Peter Riegert and Tony Danza. Revivals of Tennessee Williams Vieux Carre and Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken with Kim Hunter received Drama Desk Awards. He has been Director of Play Development at The Circle in the Square Theatre and Artistic Director of the Impossible Ragtime Theatre in New York and the Sharon Playhouse. He has directed at the Manhattan Theater Club, Circle Rep and many regional theatres including Baltimore’s Center Stage, The La Jolla Playhouse and the Yale Rep. Mr. Zuckerman was trained at the University of Michigan and the Yale School of Drama. In addition to his long theater career, Mr. Zuckerman has directed over 350 episodes of prime time television including such shows as “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Friends,” “Murphy Brown” for which he recieved an Humanitas Award, and “Empty Nest.”

JOSH ALLEN

With Circus Theatricals: Twelfth Night, SAFE (Circus Theatircals Festival of One Act Plays 2007/2008)

Orginally hails from Providence, RI ome previous theatre credits before coming to Los Angeles include: Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Hamlet in Hamlet, Noah in The Grapes of Wrath, The Young Man in The American Dream and Goose in Goose and Tomtom. This is Josh's first production both with Circus Theatricals and Los Angeles. Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble.

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Joe Bays

JOE BAYS - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: Twelfth Night, The Adding Machine, Love & Sex over Dinner & Drinks (writer/director), The Circle.

LA theatrical credits include Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens at the Attic.  New York credits include Dispatches From Hell, Streamers and W.C. Fields - 100 Proof.  He was also in As You Like It at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Death of a Salesman and O. Henry’s Christmas at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre.  Film and TV credits include “That Championship Season”, “Mike Hammer”, “3rd Rock From the Sun”, “Even Stevens” “Office Space”, “Space Jam”, “Office Space”, “Indecent Proposal”, and the upcoming film “Shopgirl” with Steve Martin. 

Strawn Bovee

STRAWN BOVEE - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: THE HEIRESS, IPHIGENIA in AULIS, TARTUFFE, Mdm.Pernelle, (L.A. Weekly Award for Best Ensemble); RICHARD III, Duchess of York; ANTIGONE, Nurse; MACBETH, First Witch and Doctor; DECONSTRUCTING THE TORAH, Mrs. Sladnowsky; THE SEAGULL, Paulina; THREE SISTERS, Anfisa; THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Charlotta.

Other Stage: in 2005 with The Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble: DOUBLE PLAY, Gertrude Stein and dramaturge, (REDCAT Theater); I LIKE TO SIT, dramaturge (Highways). Previously: THE DANCE CRAZY KID, Ruth St. Denis and dramaturge, (Armory Center for the Arts). Other roles include: MEDEA, AUNTIE MAME, THE BALCONY, LANDSCAPE, THE SHAWL, QUARTET,  SAVANNA BAY,  JOURNEY AMONG THE DEAD, THE DOLL HOUSE, WOYZECK, THE POSSIBILITIES, LITTLE EYOLF, THE UNREASONABLE ARE DYING OUT, EH,JOE!, VERA BAXTER, THE HEARING TRUMPET,  and GARBAGE, THE CITY AND DEATH.

TV: GILMORE GIRLS, THE OTHERS, GENERAL HOSPITAL, PORT CHARLES, THE GUARDIAN, JUDGING AMY. Recent Film: the acclaimed auteurist examination of religious life, ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA, co-starring with Edith Meeks, the tender science fiction tale, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, starring Norman Lloyd, and the romantic comedy, JUST MY LUCK, supporting Lindsay Lohan, a May 2006 release.

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DANA LYN BARON - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: The Women.

Other favorite stage roles include: Meg in Crimes of the Heart (HB Playwrights Foundation), Darlene in Hurly Burly (The Actors' Loft, NYC), Carol in Red Cross (Duality Playhouse, NYC), and Maria in Twelfth Night (Knightsbridge Theatre), among others. Her professional stage life began singing and hoofing away in musicals: Slings and Eros (West Coast Premiere), Weird Romance (West Coast Premiere), Bye Bye Birdie, 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain, No No Nanette, Sugar Babies, and Phantom. Upcoming films: David Zucker’s An American Carol (starring Kelsey Grammar), Rene Alberta’s Dream Date, Tasha Oldham’s Everything’s Going to Be Alright. Television: General Hospital. Voice Over: 24 Day Zero (as Teri & Kim Bauer, opposite Kiefer Sutherland), World of Warcraft, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, among many others. While living in NYC, she began producing short films under her LongStoryShort Productions banner, including Riley’s Fan and Ultraviolet. Dana attended the British American Drama Academy at Oxford, the La Jolla Playhouse Summer Conservatory, and is a graduate of UCLA (BA Communication Studies). www.danalynbaron.com

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ALINE ELASMAR - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: The Women.

Other work includes roles in Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, Antigone, and Three Sisters at Dallas Theatre Center, the Monomoy Theatre, and Shakespeare Dallas. Aline recently graduated from University of Houston with her M.F.A. in Acting. Thanks to all the women involved for making this show such a great experience.

Member of the Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble.

BYRON FIELD - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: Love & Sex over Dinner & Drinks, Antigone, As You LIke It, Loose Ends, The Three Sisters, The SeaGull, Straight Talk.

Other Theatre: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Another Part of the Forest Careless Love (Theatre Group), Men Without Dates (Artists Play Circle) and Long Days Journey in to Night (Artists Play Circle). Film/TV credits include: "Carpoolers," (ABC), series regular on “Spyder Games” (MTV), “Chain of Command” (HBO Movie), “City Guys” (NBC) and “The Real McCoy” (Propaganda Films).

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ALINA IVETTE

Originally from Dallas, Alina moved to Los Angeles one year ago to study fashion design and marketing at American Intercontinental University. Circus Theatricals acting credits: Lea in My Sister in This House (Questionable Acts), Agnes in Agnes of God (Liars, Lover and Thieves).

MJ KARMI - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: The Women

Since her arrival in Los Angeles in 2001, M.J. has appeared as Helen in A Taste of Honey at 2100 Square Feet, Annie in Short Hairs at The Third Street Theatre, Maureen Folan in The Beauty Queen of Leenane at The Hudson Guild, Nanette in Miss Anita’s Big Pies at The Lillian Theatre and Blackout at The Egyptian Theatre. New York credits include Handshake at The Miranda Theatre, Electra at The Actors Studio Raw Space, Helen in A Taste of Honey at Playwrights Horizons and Gertrude in Hamlet. At the Circle in the Square Downtown she was seen as Martha in Too Hot to Kill, and Kay in Kay’s Needle. Her regional credits include Chamber Theatre in Washington, D.C., Dona Elvira in Don Juan, Josie in Moon for the Misbegotten, Elsa Barlow in A Road to Mecca and Eugenia in Breaking the Silence and Molly in Road at The Studio Theatre. TV credits include Brothers and Sisters Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Jericho, Guiding Light, The Guardian on CBS TV, Ghost Stories on UPN and The Awful Truth on Bravo. Film credits include Julia, Moonlight Sonata, The Key Man, The Accountant, Curtains and Flatbush. M.J. holds an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio at The New School and is a Life Member of the Actors Studio. She teaches at The Lee Strasberg Institute for Film and Television.

Member of the Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble.

SUSANE LEE - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

FLOYD LEWIS - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: Barnette Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart (Great Scenes from Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays), Oscar in Another Part of the Forest (" Great Scenes from Classic American Plays") Tuzenbach in Three Sisters (" Great Scenes by Anton Chekhov") Norman in Boys Next Door ("Ten Great Scenes"). Most recently in L.A. as Kurt in Drunk Talk. Originally from North Carolina, Floyd is a UCLA graduate,proud member of Circus Theatricals Studio for Actors and just living the dream!

Emma Messenger

EMMA MESSENGER - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theaticals: Dolores in The Birds Sing Too Loud

Originally from England, Emma spent her childhood in Texas. She graduated from TAMU with BA’s in both Theater and English. She interned at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida. Favorite roles include Julia in Lend Me a Tenor, Maria in Twelfth Night, Stella in Dear Liar, Eleanor in The Lion in Winter, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. Emma recently finished acting in the independent film Young Again. She can also be seen in the online pilot for Retail at www.retailpilot.blip.tv.

Cameron Meyer

CAMERON MEYER - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

With Circus Theatricals: Andrea McKay in SAFE, Janet in Joey (Circus Theatricals Festival of New One Act Plays).

Theatre credits include: Cold/Tender (Theatre at Boston Court, directed by Jessica Kubzansky), Six Characters In Search Of an Author (Off-Broadway), Sounds from a Converted Garage (The Groundlings), Italian-American Reconciliation (Zephyr Theater), Crime Scene (Sacred Fools Co.). Television: "Monk," "Veronica Mars," "Day Break," "As The World Turns," "All My Children." Sketch comedy: "Sands of Passion" (nationalbanana.com - directed by Jerry Zucker), and weekly performances at The Laugh Factory, The Friars Club of Beverly Hills, and Improv Olympic West. Training: Yale, Wynn Handman Studio. Member of the Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble.

Jessica Noboa

JESSICA LYNNE NOBOA - Member Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble
With Circus Theatricals:The Women, Maria in The Heiress, Irina in The Three Sisters (Great Scenes from Chekov and Ibsen). Jessica recently finished two productions, A Tribute to SNL and A Boys Life, at Hollywood Fight Club Theater. Before that she was living in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington, where she played Balthasar in an all-girls production of Romeo and Juliet. Some of her other works include Laura in the Glass Menagerie and Eng-Eling in Golden Child.

CHRISTOPHER OCEPEK

STEPHANIE O'NEILL

With Circus Theatricals: The Women

A native to San Francisco, Stephanie's theatre credits include: The Odyssey, performed in Santa Barbara with Boxtales Theatre Co., the LA premiere of Giants Have Us in Their Books by Jose Rivera, Dibujos de Nuestra Frontera performed in Puebla, Mexico as part of the 3er Festival Inter. de Pantomima, Catherine in A View From the Bridge, Amiga Gringa from In The Blood, Talk Radio, Fork, and a variety of original works. Film credits include: This is How We Know and The Sound on the Moon. Stephanie works through East Los Angeles Classic Theatre Company teaching performing arts and playwriting to children throughout the Los Angeles public schools. She received her BFA in Theatre at UC Santa Barbara.

CHELEA POVALL
Born and raised in the LA area, Chelsea’s theater credits include: The Night of the Black Cat at Edgemar Center for the Arts, Brigadoon GCT, at PCPA Theaterfest: Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Sound of
Music, and Brighton Beach Memoirs. At Tuacahn Amphitheater: Annie Get your Gun, Seven Brides... Oklahoma!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She also performed as a Lead Singer and Dancer for Holland America Cruise Lines, in Alaska and the Caribbean. She is a graduate of The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. (PCPA). Member of the Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble.

Jade Sealey

JADE SEALEY - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

Circus Theatricals credits include: The Heiress, Iphigenia in Aulis, Coffee to Go (The Circus Theatricals 7th Annual Festival of New One Act Plays), The Circle, Deconstructing the Torah.

Recently relocated from New York, Jade Sealey’s latest stage credits include the roles of Cavale in Sam Sheperd’s Cowboy Mouth, Indra’s daughter in Strindberg’s A Dream Play, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, The Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Constanze in Amadeus.

SCOTT SHELDON - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

DRE SLAMEN - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

BIBI TINSLEY

In Chicago, Bibi worked with Element, Steppenwolf, and Frump Tucker. Los Angeles theatre: Cubicles, Dancing With The Bad Man, Sister Cities at Alliance Rep; Hamlet, The Fox, As Bees In Honey Drown, Frozen at The Ark; A Match Made In Hell at TheatrExpresso; and 10 X Ten and The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell at The Met Theatre Company. Films include: “Baron Road”, and “Almost Salinas”. She is a member of The Met and Alliance Rep, and is thrilled to be a new member of The Studio Ensemble at Circus Theatricals.

VANESSA WATERS

Vanessa has made many appearances on stage here in Los Angeles. Some favorite roles are: Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Jill in Johnson Over Jordan, Helen in Baby with the Bathwater, Petra in An Enemy of the People and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. She has enoyed working as an assistant director and director for theater as well. Vanessa has also had much fun acting for the camera in film and television. She especially enjoys working as a loop group, voice over artist. Vanessa is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts and received her BFA in Theater from Ithaca College. Vanessa is a new company member here at Circus Theatricals and is very happy to be a part of such a talented group.

HOLLIS WELSH - Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

SUSAN ZIEGLER - Member of Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble

For Circus Theatricals: The Circle, Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Rosalind in As You Like It, and What Went Wrong with the King and Queen of America.

Off-Broadway includes: Oona and Lurleen (The Public Theatre), Angel City, Suicide in B Flat, Hamlet, The Duchess of Malfi and the title character in Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (The Public Theate: W.O.W. Cafe.). LA theatre includes: the critically acclaimed Cheyenne (The Lillian), The American Way, Under My Thumb (as Marianne Faithfull), and Boiler Room (Actors Art Theatre). TV includes: “The West Wing,” “Silk Stalkings,” “Arrest & Trial,” and “Days of Our Lives.” Recent film: “Lying in Wait (w/Rutger Hauer), and “Big Brother Trouble.” A graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing; member of Circus Theatricas Studio Ensemble, The Sevedor Conderaccy, Actors ARt Theatre and FirstStage.

MURIELLE ZUKER