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.
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.
Tim Fannon is an actor, director, and acting teacher. CTL: Antipholus in Comedy of Errors. Acting in theatre nationally and throughout the world, film, television, commercials, voiceover and audiobook narration. Served 12 years as Artistic director of Fovea Floods, an experimental multimedia performance ensemble in Brooklyn. MFA in Acting Brooklyn College; BA Skidmore College in Theatre; Michael Chekhov School/NYC, Royal National Theatre and British Academy of Dramatic Arts/London. @fanooski
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.
With CTL: Exit The King, Midsummer Night's Dream, Numerous Staged Readings. Regional: Surviving Sex (Garry Marshall Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Rubicon Theatre). TV/Film: The Patient (FX/Hulu), American Crime Story: Impeachment (FX). Commercial/Voiceover: Over sixty national commercials, audiobooks and news articles. Proud member of SAG/AFTRA and Actor's Equity. Hails from the Midwest, loves to cook, read, swim and chase her kids.
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 an Artistic Coordinator and Board Member at CTL. For the company she has directed staged readings of Chekhov’s The Seagull and Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Suzanne is also a company member of the Road Theatre where she has directed and produced several highly praised productions of new plays. In 2012 she received awards from StageScene LA for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Play for the new work, Finding Fossils. Suzanne began her career as an international model and has a
"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
Jessica Ma is a graduate of SMU’s BFA program and Milwaukee Rep’s Acting Residency and a newcomer to Los Angeles. Favorite roles have included Bethany, Judy Chen (u/s) in Junk, and Afong Moy (u/s) in The Chinese Lady. You can see her as Tamsin in Sacred Fool’s production of Antigone: Presented by the Girls at St. Catherine’s or Teruko in HERO Theater’s production of Tea.
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
Mary Linda Phillips Worked in NYC at: Harold Clurman Theater, New Dramatists, Manhattan Punchline Theater, and Bruno Walter theater at Lincoln Center. Regional favorite roles: Frances in Light Up The Sky (NC), Dinah in South Pacific Lulu in Pinter's "The Birthday Party, U.K.: Maria in "Twelfth Night, L.A.: Peggy in A Late Snow (Robby Award winner), Kate in Dancing At Lughnasa (Theatre West), 14 characters in Spoon River and Mrs. Malins in James Joyce's The Dead (Open Fist Theater Company).
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
Jill Remez is an actor, writer and storyteller. She has appeared on stages throughout Southern California including, The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory and Laguna Playhouse. She recently played Kate in Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound at the Miles Memorial Playhouse and Ofelia in Anna In The Tropics at Open Fist Theatre. TV credits include “Yellowstone” “I Think You Should Leave” “AJ and the Queen” “This Is Us,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Good Place,” and “How To Get Away With Murder.” Fil
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
Favorite regional credits include 12 Angry Men, Twelfth Night, Stage Door, Fiddler on the Roof, The Crucible and Dupe. Studied at LACHSA and UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. Scholarships from the Ahmanson Group and Norris Foundation. Member of SAG-AFTRA. www.lonnisilverman.com
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
A career in television, film, stage, voiceover and singing, in the United States and the British Isles. Karen has been a member of CTL since 1990. With CTL: Duchess of York in Richard III, Bea in View from the Bridge, Agrafena in A Family Affair, Mrs. Tarleton in Misalliance, Constance in Madwoman of Chaillot, Andromache in Trojan Women, Emilia in Othello, Goddess Thetis in The Iliad, Volumnia in Coriolanus, The Wife in All Over, Klytemnestra in Elektra.
Trieu has appeared in numerous theatrical productions through the years. Notably, the role of Alan Strang in Equus (LADCC Nomination) with George Takei @EWP, the title role in Oedipus The King (Portland), The Legacy Codes (Dean Goodman Award) with TheatreWorks. Other favorites include: Rashomon, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part One, Richard III. Film: Tropic Thunder, Trade of Innocents, How High, Hancock, Desperation, Last Call. TV: Currently a series regular on Netflix’s Alt
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.
At the Lab: Berenger in The Romantics, Pinchwife in The Country Wife, Bottom in Midsummer and King Berenger in Exit the King. 2008 LA Weekly Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for “Fatboy.” Son of Semele Ensemble member Regional: NJ Shakespeare Pericles, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It