In our 33nd Year!  

Joel Asher has been Artistic Director of Arena Fair in Ohio, N.H. Shakespeare Festival and the L.A. Shakespeare Company. In addition to his theatre directing he has produced documentaries including his “Actors At Work” series, a series of “Period Movement For Actors” plus explorations of the acting teachings of Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler for Insight Media. Joel also teaches acting at Joel Asher Studio.

Mia is a recent graduate from Drake University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Credits include, Drake University: 9 to 5 (Violet), Twelfth Night (Viola), Ordinary Days (Claire), Electra (Chorus), Wings (Ida). National Theatre Institute: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), As You Like It (Rosalind). miaalaimo.com

Member of the CTL since 1997. Theatrical roles include Richard III, Iago in “Othello,” J. Thomas Ismay in the world premiere of “The Last Lifeboat” by Luke Yankee and Jean Valjean in the LA premiere of Jonathan Holloway’s adaptation of, “Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.” . Film credits include “Happy Hunting,” directed by Louis Gibson ( son of Mel Gibson ), and the title role in the upcoming indie feature, “The Haunted Man.”

Christine Avila is an award-winning actress. Her credits include ZOOT SUIT (original cast), MERCHANT OF VENICE (LAWS), COYOTE CYCLE (Padua Hills), AGAMEMNON (Olympics Arts Festival; Stephen Berkoff, Director). Christine is a seven-time participant at the Sundance Playwrights Festival. Screen: BOSCH, 24, HOUSE, LIAR LIAR. Voice: UNKNOWN AMERICANS (2014-Random Hse awd), 1992 Teacher/Year Award, UCLA . AEA – 1967. www.christineavila.com.

A former Division 1 tennis player and BFA recepient at Loyola Marymount University Beau continued his education at the internationally renowned Actors Studio Drama School graduating with an MFA in 2010. Since then Beau has been seen Off-Broadway in NYC as Frankenstein’s Monster as well as in numerous TV shows and Movies some of which included HBO’s True Detective, Law and Order SVU, and Broad City. He currently resides in Los Alamitos with his wife Toni and his dog Bee.

Theater: Richard III, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, The Seagull, MacBeth, Three Sisters, Antigone, Double Play, Iphigenia At Aulis, Sister Cities, The Heiress, The Balcony, Savannah Bay, Garbage, the City and Death, The Little Red Hot Man, Over Nothing At All, Journey Among the Dead, Medea, Doll's House, Landscape, The Shawl, The Possibilities, The Unreasonable Are Dying Out. TV: Gilmore Girls, Judging Amy, Port Charles, General Hospital. Film: Unspeakable Act, Just My Luck, Brewster's Millions.

Mark Bramhall began acting professionally in 1966, in the original company of the American Conservatory Theatre He has performed off-Broadway, at regional theatres nationwide and at most Socal playhouses, including 34 productions while a Resident Artist at A Noise Within. Accolades: L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Garland, LA Weekly and Dramalogue awards; and three AUDIE wins, among his 500+ audiobook narrations. CTL member since 1990. www.markbramhall.com

Virtic is a proud new member of the Classical Theater Lab. Theater: No Word in Guyanese for Me (Ensemble Studio Theater), Supernatural: The Play (Chromolume Theatre) The Human Spirit (The Odyssey). Film, TV: Jacob Stone, Open Session, Without a Trace, The Shield, My 2 Black Girlfriends, All That. Producer: Will Unplugged, Redemption, Mission in Kosovo, Minutes ‘till Tomorrow. Directing: On Tour (in 70th Venice International Film Festival library.) Also a member of The New American Theatre Co.

CTL member since 2003. His Lab performances include major roles in The Seagull, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Doll’s House, The Night of the Iguana, Heartbreak House, Blithe Spirit, The Learned Ladies, Hay Fever, Measure for Measure, and An Ideal Husband. For CTL he has directed Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman and Pinter’s The Room, Celebration, and Moonlight. Chris is a proud graduate of Brown University and UCLA.

Carolyn Crotty has worked at The Laguna Playhouse, Boston Court, The Odyssey, The Celebration Theatre, EST LA, Son of Semele. She played Mrs. Ito (Peggy York), in the People v O. J. Simpson, American Crime Story. Other TV credits: This is Us, Colin in Black & White, (opposite Mary Louise Parker & Nick Offerman), For All Mankind, Ratched, Shameless, How to Get Away with Murder and Masters of Sex. Directed by Ryan Murphy and Regina King.

Mark is a transplant from the Midwest where he performed extensively for the Theatre Exchange, History Theatre, and Theatre in the Round. In LA, he's performed with A Noise Within, and the Classical Theatre Lab.

For CTL: The Night of the Iguana, Sweet William; Sacred Fools: Richard III, Endgame; ICT: The Clean House (StageScene LA Award) Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara: The Aspern Papers, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; The Gem Theatre: And a Nightingale Sang..(DramaLogue) Sierra Rep: Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves; The Mayfair Theatre. Education/Training: MFA UCLA. SAG AFTRA AEA.

Alice Dranger is an actor, writer, and director here in Los Angeles, California. Having moved here after graduating from NYU:TISCH, they found themselves writing and acting in several web series. They have been with the Pack since 2019, writing with previous house team Pageant and currently with team Kickball. Most recently, they played Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. They have acted in several other Shakespearian plays in New York City, including Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet.

An award-winning actress, theatre credits: Old Times, Hedda Gabler, A Flea in Her Ear, A Woman of No Importance, Don Juan in Hell, Hamlet, Winter’s Tale, Underground Woman, Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, Cocktail Party, The Tempest, Orpheus. Television credits, a year on The Young and the Restless and a variety of guest appearances.

Carlo Figlio is a Peruvian Actor. THEATRE: Don Juan in The Last Days of Don Juan (CTL); Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (Stella Adler Lab Theatre); Palabras Ajenas (REDCAT); Durango 66 (REDCAT); Caught (Firefly Theatre); Warsaw Uprising (CalArts CNP); Arturo Ui in The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (CalArts). EDUCATION: California Institute of the Arts (BFA) & Stella Adler Academy of Acting (Alumnus).

A long UK/US career in theatre, ranging from the RSC to the Edinburgh Festival & plays in rep, in the West End and on tour. LA credits include plays at the Odyssey, Matrix, Coronet, Stages & many other venues – most recently, A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF BEES and THEATRE IN THE DARK. (GREEK – BATCC award / DANCE WITH ME – LATCC nomination) Extensive voice credits.

STUART W. HOWARD (Milton). Recent: Friar Laurence in Lovers & Madmen’s Romeo and Juliet. Los Angeles: Classical Theatre Lab: “Othello” (Iago), “Canterbury Tales” (various), “Theft” (Sen. Chalmers), “The Liars” (Freddie), "The Iliad" (various), "The Libertine" (King Charles II), “The Rehearsal" (Mr. Wintershul); Hollywood Court: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (George); Pacific Resident Theatre: "Otherwise Engaged" (Stephen; Garland Award), “Playboy of the Western World” (Shawn), "Marat/Sade"

Giri in The Resistable Rise of Artura Uli; Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor; Dr. Daubney in A Woman of No Importance; Staged reading of The Cherry Orchard, The Lark, King Lear, The Seagull, Small Craft Warning, and Ben from Death of a Salesman.

Suzanne is Chair and Artistic Coordinator at CTL directing for WeHo "The Country Wife", "The Last Days of Don Juan", "The Romantics" and various staged readings. She is also a member of the Road Theatre where she has directed and produced several highly praised productions. Suzanne received Scenie Awards from StageScene LA for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production for "Finding Fossils" at the Road. Acting credits: appearances in over 100 TV shows, films and commercials SAG-AFTRA, AEA

"Walking to Buchenwald”: Open Fist Theatre,”Over the River”: Old Globe, San Diego, “Measure for Measure”: Brick Top Theatre, “Irma & Emma”: Met Theatre, “Romeo & Juliet": Shakespeare & Co, Maine, "Destruction of the World & All that": Zoo District; One woman shows: “Virginia Woolf, in her own Words”, “Monologue” (Simone DuBeauvoir): Theatre West; “Ms Furr & Ms Skeene” (Gertrude Stein): John Anson Ford Theatre: Directed: “Petrified Forest” “Skin of Our Teeth"

Julie is an actress, director, and classical theater enthusiast. Recent credits include Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard (cut short by the pandemic), Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (The Porters of Hellsgate) and Rosaline in Love's Labor's Lost (Chase What Flies). When she is not acting, Julie proudly serves on the Artistic Management Committee of Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood and works as a teaching artist at various theaters and schools around Los Angeles. Her original web series Get

Maegan McConnell: has done theatre, concerts and opera throughout the United States. She has worked Off Broadway and with The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Disney Hall, Center Theatre Group, The 5th Avenue Theater, TUTS, McCoy-Rigby, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, International City Theatre, A Noise Within, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Garry Marshall Theatre, The Troubadour Theater Company, The Golden State Pops Orchestra, Tesserae Baroque Ensemble and several others.

Sandra Massie, actress & director, trained at LAMDA, has an M.A. in theater from California State University Los Angeles, an M.F.A. from California State University, and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and Drama Therapy. She has performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Off Broadway including a one woman show, Virtuosa, in theater companies in L.A. She is a teacher and expert voice and dialect coach with private coaching.

Elliots, Blood Relations, Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite, The Trouble in Chiozza, Our Town, Dissonance, Bleak House, Black Coffee, R&J, Twelfth Night, Richards II and III, Midsummer , The Tempest, Old Globe, Theatricum Botanicum, Boston Court, Falcon Theatre, A Noise Within, Grove Shakespeare Festival, Nevada Shakespeare, Odyssey Theatre. TV/Film: Honeymoon in Vegas, Lobster Man from Mars, You Talkin’ to Me, I’ll Do Anything and Out at the Wedding, Mama’s Family, Murphy Brown, and Murder, She Wrote

Garth was born and raised in New York City where he attended the High School of Performing Arts, on which the film FAME was based. Broadway: Ivanov (directed by William Ball), Caligula. Regional: Come Back Little Sheba (opposite Joan Blondell). Garth has also been seen in summer stock productions on both coasts throughout the years, including numerous Shakespeare Festivals at Ashland, Oregon, Burlington, Vermont and Stratford, Connecticut. Los Angeles Theatre: The Goddess, Sticks and Bones, Anna

LA: THE LARAMIE PROJECT, Colony Theatre and Laguna Playhouse (Ovation award); A SHAYNA MAIDEL, THE CLEARING, THE LIVING, (Colony Theatre); JOHNNY BOY (Falcon Theatre). Member, Interact Theatre Company. NY: Elise in THE MISER (Lincoln Center), Inez in COAL DIAMOND (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Lady Macbeth in MACBETH, Isabella in MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Roxanne in CYRANO DE BERGERAC among others. TV: FRIENDS, TWO AND ½ MEN, THE PRACTICE, MAKE IT OR BREAK I

Sara Shearer got her BA in Theatre from UCLA and then completed a 2 year course in London at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. For CTL: "A Woman of No Importance," "Anna Christie," "An Ideal Husband as Victorian Noir," "The New York Idea, "A Pair By Moliere," among many others. Sara has appeared in numerous productions in LA and has been active with Theatre 40 and Theatre West. Her recent roles include Vera, the youngest of five prostitutes in "The Oldest Profession" at the Odyssey, Ph

With CTL – Sweet Williams, Exit The King. Regional Los Angeles: Mrs. Warren's Profession (The People's Theatre), We'll Never Be Young Again (The Kirk Douglas Theatre and Theatre 40), Apple (Theatre 40), Rumors (Theatre 40), Blood Wedding (Theatre 40), Chinamen (Theatre 40), Two Noble Kinsmen (The Globe Playhouse), Killing Sister George (Scorpio Rep), Natural Affection (Actors Forum), Cabaret (Scorpio Rep) TV: Milk and Honey (milkandhoneyseries.com), General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Santa Bar

Donald Wayne is a Broadway, film, television and commercial actor,voice over artist, singer and spokesman based in both New York City and Los Angeles. He is the recipient of two Clio awards for his commercial work. Among Donald's film credits are Funny Lady, Deadly Intentions, Coma, April Fools, Past Imperfect and the HBO movie Path to War. TV credits include: The Practice, Dark Shadows, Dynasty, Medical Center and One Life To Live. Donald had played nationally in more than a dozen classical pla

Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure and Cornwall in King Lear at Savannah Shakespeare; Duke Theseus in Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macduff in Macbeth at Shakespeare Rep. Founder and Executive Director of Sea Island Classical Studio, for whom he also played Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Other classical roles include Alceste, The Misanthrope; and Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac. Also, more than a dozen regional productions of Broadway musicals.