Talent

A native northern Californian, Alex Klein is an avid theater goer and actor and a recent UC Berkeley graduate. He has been fortunate to learn his craft from one of the best voice directors in the business, Jim Meskimen.

Alyssa Suede has spent the past year playing clubs in N.Y., Nashville, Los Angeles and Northern California. She also played at the 2009 Sundance festival, sharing the stage with American Idol 2008 runner up David Archuleta and Paul Oakenfold, and at the 2009 SXSW in Austin, Texas. Meanwhile, her single “Falling from Mars” has already generated a buzz in the film community winning “Best Music Video” at the Memphis Film Festival, Las Vegas Film Festival and “Best Original Song” at the Feel Good Film Festival in Hollywood.

Anna Easteden is an Award Nominated actress from her role in “The House of Branching Love” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Easteden’s TV roles include: “Two and a Half Men”, “Bones,” “Days Of Our Lives,” “Passions” and Stan Lee’s “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?”. Recently Easteden acted alongside Don Johnson (Miami Vice) in Michael Patrick King’s (Sex and the City) pilot “Mann’s World” for NBC.

Ben Rosenfeld is thrilled to be performing at The Golden Age Theater. Ben has appeared in over 78 stage productions, and he is a graduate of “The Second City” in Los Angeles, one of the premier comedy theaters and improvisation schools. Most recently he was cast in the new pilot “The CYA” created by Gary Kleinman (Disney). He would like to thank Bob (RF) Daley for this opportunity.

Bo Hopkins has appeared in more than one hundred film and television roles in a career of more than forty years. His feature films include American Graffiti, The Bridge at Remagen, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway, White Lightning, Radioland Murders, The Killer Elite, Midnight Express, More American Graffiti and A Small Town in Texas. On television, he has appeared on The Rockford Files, Dynasty, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox and Murder, She Wrote.

Bob Caso has brought a diverse array of characters to life, appearing on television in shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Crusade and starring in films such as Ocean Tribe and Out of the Wilderness.

Bob Walter is a founding member of the Company Theater. As a music producer/ sound designer he has worked on films as varied as Halloween to Apocalypse Now, and has designed sound for major theme park attractions such as Universal Studios’ Earthquake. After producing/directing hundreds of titles for publishers that include Random House, Simon & Schuster and Time Warner, he is now reading for such publishers as Books on Tape, Hachette and Galaxy Audio.

Bodhi Elfman is a veteran of the big screen as well as television. Bodhi has appeared in such feature films as Mercury Rising, Collateral, Godzilla, Armageddon, The Mod Squad, Keeping the Faith and Gone in 60 Seconds. He has also appeared in various television series such as CSI, The Mentalist, Charmed and many others over the last two decades.

Spanish born actor, Carlos Reig-Plaza has cultivated an international career. He is equally at home on stage, screen and television in Europe and the US. Classically trained, Carlos tackles a wide range of roles. In the US, he has appeared on CSI: Miami, For the People and Reyes y Rey. In Spain, he is well known for his work in television shows like Hospital Central, El Comisario and he was a series regular on El Cor de la Ciutat (The Heart of the City.) His movie credits include Romasanta, The Abandoned, Hidden Camera and the soon to be released feature film “13,” starring Mickey Rourke. As a voice-over artist, Carlos is the Spanish voice of many theatrical trailers and TV commercials.

Cathy Schenkelberg hails from Chicago and has worked for more than 20 years as both an actor and singer. She has appeared on the screen, television and stage, most notably in productions of Hair, Little Shop of Horrors and Chicago. She can be seen in the upcoming feature The Stepfather and is currently completing a one woman show, a musical parody on her adventures in the Cook County Court system.

Chris Emerson has voiced several television and radio campaigns for such clients as Starbucks, McDonald’s and Verizon Wireless. His voice can also be heard on such video games as MTV’s Pimp My Ride and as Harry Osborn on Spider-Man 3: The Video Game.

In addition to her remarkable voice work, Christina Huntington has appeared on Monk, on stage in London in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and has lent her voice to Disney’s Tangled.

David Aranovich is a talented actor who has appeared in films such as, Four Christmases, Get Smart, and Spartan as well as TV shows such as Sons of Anarchy, My Name is Earl and The Unit in addition to award-winning commercial spots and voice-overs.

David Campbell’s career began as violinist on “Lean on Me” and “Let’s Get It On.” Since then albums or film scores featuring his arrangements garnered 427 gold/platinum albums, 50 Grammy Awards and 2 Oscars. His clients include icons: Michael Jackson, Faith Hill, Celine Dion, Eric Clapton, Metallica, Beck, Ricky Martin, Leonard Cohen, Green Day, Beyonce, Ray LaMontagne, Josh Groban, Avril Lavigne, Jewel, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Paul McCartney. David has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic and is the arranger for the Broadway Musical “SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark.”

David Marciano is a professional actor, writer and director who has achieved a successful career over the span of twenty years. In his first series, David had the honor of working with entertainment luminary Steven Bochco who brought David into America’s homes on a weekly basis in Civil Wars as Jeffrey Lassick. Most recently David has completed a four year run as a regular cast member of the FX Emmy Award winning series The Shield as “old school” Detective Steve Billings.

David O’Donnell is an accomplished actor who has made over twenty-five guest star appearances on such shows as NYPD Blue, JAG, 7TH Heaven and many others. He has also appeared in over twenty feature films including Air Force One, Thirteen Days and Made Men.

Derek Moss is an actor and writer for various on-line comedy websites including Funny Movie Internet and Friends of the Family. He is very excited to be working with a terrific cast in a great show.

Elisabeth Moss has starred in several feature films including Girl, Interrupted, Did You Hear About the Morgans? and Get Him to the Greek. Elisabeth has also appeared on TV in shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing and Ghost Whisperer, and she currently stars in the Emmy Award-winning show, Mad Men.

Emelie O’Hara has been acting since she was a child. Her initial forays into the theatre consisted of parts in such productions as The Secret Garden, The Miracle Worker and, more recently, Private Lives, but she has since worked in film and television including In Plain Sight and Crash. She is pleased to say that her most recent appearance was in Last Stop, the first feature film production by Travis Oates.

Gino has starred at such premiere American theaters as The Mark Taper Forum, Lincoln Center and the New York Shakespeare Festival. His film work includes supporting roles in Collateral, Cellular and Bruce Almighty. In television, he has guest-starred on CSI:NY, 24 and ER.

Glenda is an accomplished actress and experienced director of theater. Recently, she’s been murdered on Close to Home, played the Vice President’s wife on Commander in Chief, served up caramel apples on The West Wing, was the Jury Foreperson on Boston Legal and an Alumni Wife on Monk.

Jack Armstrong has an extensive TV, film and theatrical acting career. His television career began with starring roles on daytime dramas including Guiding Light, All My Children, One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful. His prime-time TV and film career is also notable, with appearances on Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, CSI and 28 Days.

Award-winning actor Jeffery Patterson has performed for nearly 30 years on stage, and he recently starred in the films Shams & Delusions, Jack Rabbit Ranch and Amy Becker. Jeffery has also portrayed Mark Twain aboard paddle boats from Nashville, Tennessee to Big Bear, California and he has toured the east coast as a storyteller with his group of backup musicians, “Theatre of the Mind.”

Jennifer Aspen has starred in 5 television series including Party of Five and ABC’s Rodney. Her credits also include Friends, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy and the feature films Vanilla Sky and The Others. Currently she has a regularly recurring role on the hit show Glee.

Jenny Sommerfeld has been appearing onstage since nine, performing in school musicals and plays including: The Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arsenic and Old Lace and the British comedy Cash on Delivery. Currently she attends USC where she studies Theater and English. This is her first L. Ron Hubbard pulp fiction reading and she is very excited to join you on
the adventure!

Born in Los Angeles into a film, television and theatrical family, Jesse’s path to the entertainment industry was a dream established from a very young age. Jesse graduated Beverly Hills High School, having studied four years in film, television and theater arts receiving a diploma for excellence in the cinematic arts as a freshman. He has acted and worked on the production side of several independent films around the world. He is now studying acting at the Actors Path with William O’Leary.

Jim Meskimen is a well-known film, animation and TV actor whose credits include Apollo 13, The Grinch, Friends and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Jim provided the political impressions in JibJab’s internet shorts including the sensation This Land. Jim also has the distinction as the senior director, and major creative force behind the audio recordings of the Stories from the Golden Age.

A local radio personality from 1946-1950, Jimmy Weldon was an early television pioneer starring in the first children’s television show in Dallas, Texas in 1950. He moved to Hollywood in 1952 and appeared in various movie and television roles. But the role he is best known for is as the voice of “Yakky Doodle” in the Yogi Bear animated series. Mr. Weldon has been a motivational speaker for over 35 years.

In addition to starring in the 2007 Oscar-winning short film, West Bank Story, Joey has also been featured in numerous films such as Executive Decision, Mother, The Siege and Three Kings. He has also made guest appearances on shows such as Las Vegas, ER, Charmed and JAG.

John started his professional career at age 9 in the title role of “Tommy” in the national tour of The Who’s Tommy. His first film was Allerd Fishbein’s in Love in which he played “Allerd.” At age 14, he and his family moved from New York to Los Angeles so that he could play the non-title role of “Sam Weir” in NBC’s Freaks and Geeks which began a long series of television and film roles leading to his current steady job as “Dr. Lance Sweets” in Fox’s Bones. He is also a prolific writer who, with his literary partner, has sold 5 screenplays in the last couple of years, the most recent to Dreamworks. John is a pianist and composer in his band, Dayplayer, in his spare time.

For the last 25 years, Emmy winning Actor John Mariano has been plying his craft in film, television, theater and animation. From directors the likes of Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, Blake Edwards and Jim Burrows, to actors such as Burt Lancaster, George Clooney and James Gandolfini, John has had the privilege and pleasure of working for and with them. He is grateful to contribute his talents to this production.

Jorjeana Marie is an actress and comedienne who got her start performing in theaters and comedy clubs in NYC at the age of nineteen. A few years later, Jorjeana came to call Los Angeles her home. Here she works regularly as an actress, voice-over artist and creator of fun moments. Her dream role came last year when hired to play an alien in a Steven Spielberg/Electronic Arts co-production, Currently Piotr is pursuing a career in comedy, “Ooomoogssshhttttz!.” Jorjeana is grateful for this opportunity to endeavor into Science Fiction with Author Services and work once again with the multi-talented Josh Robert Thompson.

A regular cast member on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Josh Robert Thompson is a comedian, voice and TV actor known for his uncanny impressions and remarkable character voices. Josh’s voice has been featured on Disney’s The Emperor’s New School, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show, and a number of popular video games including, Final Fantasy XIII, James Cameron’s Avatar, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Brutal Legend and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

Judy Norton is best known for her role as Mary Ellen on the Emmy award-winning TV series, The Waltons. She is also a veteran of the stage, having made her first appearance at the age of seven, starring in numerous productions including, Hello Dolly, Cinderella, The Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun and many others. Judy is also an accomplished director, playwright and singer.

Kaleo Griffith recently played Mistletoe in the comedy Christmas Interruptus off-Broadway at the John Houseman Theatre. Film and television credits include Talk Radio directed by Oliver Stone, Nocturne, The Street (ABC), recurring roles on One Life to Live, As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Other New York theatrical and regional credits include The Head at Chelsea Playhouse and much, much more.

Karen Black, a Golden Globe winner and Oscar-nominated actress, has created a diverse and memorable array of characters on both the stage and screen, most notably in movies including Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby, Day of the Locust and
Five Easy Pieces.

Lee has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, including: Eleventh Hour, Freaky Friday, Just Like Heaven, Clean, Gone But Not Forgotten, CSI, Cold Case, CSI NY, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Lee is very happy to be here and performing in this evening’s production of Reign of the Gila Monster His career spans four decades… from black and white TV to the Internet including appearances on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, True Grit, The Sacketts and Dallas. He also starred in Chinatown and Norma Rae.

Lee Purcell can currently be seen as “Eleanor Sullivan” in the NBC-TV prime-time TV series Persons Unknown, Saturday nights. Persons Unknown was created by Oscar winner (Usual Suspects) Christopher McQuarrie. Lee is the recipient of two prime time Emmy nominations, her first being for Long Road Home starring opposite Mark Harmon, the second for Secret Sins of the Fathers starring opposite Beau Bridges. This acclaimed actress has numerous film, television and stage credits, including her role as Louise St. Laurent on the TV series Due South, and her generation-defining performance as the sultry step-mom in the iconic film Valley Girl with Nicholas Cage.

Martin Kove is best known for his portrayal as the evil karate sensei, John Kreese, in The Karate Kid trilogy. He’s participated in some 100 films including Rambo II with Sylvester Stallone and Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner, The Gambler miniseries with Kenny Rogers. His favorite credits include westerns such as Hard Ground with Burt Reynolds and the re-make of Gentle Ben, both on the Hallmark channel. Mr. Kove stars in and co-produced Bare Knuckles, an independent feature due for release in 2010, and cameos in George Gallo’s Middlemen with Luke Wilson. He is a former board member of the Met Theater and has directed and performed at Author Services, Inc. (ASI) in three western shows. He also starred in the Emmy-winning TV series Cagney and Lacey for six years as Detective Victor Isbecki.

A professional actor for 37 years, Melinda was introduced to radio theatre performance by her darling husband, Phil Proctor, where she played every female from a vampish nymphomaniac to a Philippino nurse in NPR’s HEAT with John Hockenberry in 1990. A committed theatre actor and member of Los Angeles’ renowned The Antaeus Company, she is pleased to now be performing with The Golden Age Theater, a group she has admired for years.

Michael Gough is a diverse and talented actor whose work as a voice-over artist has included roles on Winnie the Pooh, Shrek 2 and 3 and Justice League. His television and film work includes appearances on Shattered Spirits, General Hospital and To Wish Upon a Star. He has also performed in numerous stage plays, winning four Dramalogue/Backstage Awards and Two Robby Awards for his leading roles.

Michael Yurchak is an actor and multi-talented voice-over artist whose credits include various film and television projects as well as voice work for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, ESPN 2, Scholastic Books, Educate Inc., NY1, Capcom and THQ.

Best known as the spiky-headed underachiever Bart Simpson, Emmy Award-winning voice actor Nancy Cartwright is also the voice behind The Simpsons’ characters Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz and Todd Flanders. Nancy has also voiced popular characters on many other shows including Rugrats, Ri¢hie Ri¢h, Kim Possible and The Replacements.

Noelle North is a veteran actor of film, television and radio, featured in the film Carrie and regular co-starring voices in such hit TV shows as Adventures of the Gummi Bears, The Legend of Prince Valiant and Smurfs.

Aside from anchoring the morning shows on the ABC and FOX affiliates in Dayton, Ohio, Pete loves to sing, act and play keyboards. An aspiring voice actor (and avid fan of cartoons), he is very humbled to be part of such a talented cast. He would also like to thank his wife Amy for her love and support.

Phil has performed in films, TV and on stages from Broadway to the Mark Taper Forum. As a voice-over artist, he’s been a member of the Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre for 43 years and is heard as the Drunk Monkey in the Dr. Dolittle series, Howard in the Emmy-winning Rugrats cartoons and Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, as well as characters in scores of interactive games, commercials and the Golden Age audiobooks.

Pierce Driessen began performing at the age of five when cast as the lead in the original musical The One and Only Owen in Florida. He has since continued to expand his career into plays, musicals, voiceovers, commercials, TV shows and movies right here in Los Angeles. He is also part of “Kids on Stage for a Better World,” a children’s singing and dancing group.

Crawling on animation celluloid as a child, Piotr gained an interest in art . . . later on with a musical ear, mimicry became an instinct. Currently Piotr is pursuing a career in comedy, with a focus on visual arts, animation, stand up and voice acting. With his master skills of impressions, mixed with odd observances, Piotr has wowed audiences in England, Hawaii and Southern California.

R.F. Daley works as an actor, writer, director and illustrator and has been fully professional in these fields for more than thirty years. In addition to doing voice work and acting in television and film, he has spent a good deal of his career singing in musical theater, including a decade spent in Broadway musicals prior to relocating to Los Angeles. His most rewarding job, however, has been serving as narrator for the 153 pulp fiction audiobook stories for Author Services and Galaxy Press.

Raven Kane’s career started in NYC starring in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown followed by: other musicals, a soap opera, numerous national TV and Radio commercials, singing on films: Rent, Tigger, Aladdin, Mermaids, Land Before Time, Joe Versus the Volcano, Made in America, Dracula, etc. Raven has also performed and/or recorded with: Paul McCartney, Neil Diamond, Cher, Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen, Kenny Loggins, Aaron Neville, Ringo Starr, Diana Ross, and Willie Nelson. Her compositions have been performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony. Raven’s duets with Neil Diamond are featured on his CD Live In America.

Richard Reich is a diverse and talented voice, stage, and screen actor, earning him numerous accolades over the years. Richard is delighted to be performing for us tonight in this pulse-pounding mystery tale.

RFL or “BOBBY,” as most call him, has been acting in film and TV episodes and TV films for over 40 years on most of the popular shows of the times. Some TV shows he appeared in go back to: Bonanza, Gun Smoke, Magnum P.I., Falcon Crest, Murder She Wrote, and Roswell. Some feature films: Pendulum, Getting Straight, Shoot Out, Cease Fire. He recently completed 2 independent feature films: Confession and Peach Plum Pear and a recent role on: Criminal Minds. All to be released in the near future.

Robert Towers diverse career as a talented voice-over artist has included roles on Superfriends, Doctor Dolittle, The Real Ghostbusters and Betty Boop among others. His film appearances include Masters of the Universe, Let it Ride, Don’t Look Up and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Robert Wu has appeared in numerous award-winning films including, November, Kung Phooey and Nanking. He has also guest-starred on several television shows such as Numb3rs, Threshold, The Shield and 7th Heaven and his voice can be heard on many interactive games including Rise to Honor and Narc.

Semi Musoke was born in Uganda and came to the US in 2005. He has been performing for local audiences and acting in independent films for the last three years. He was featured in a major TV show Flash Forward. Amongst his favorite roles: Egeus in the Midsummer Night’s Dream, as himself in the Morgan Freeman documentary Through the Wormhole and as a Restaurant Patron in the King of the Underground alongside Faizon Love, Larry King and Dex Elliott Sanders.

Shaun Duke is a talented actor and musician. His extensive acting career includes the movies Hanging Up, Stigmata and Patriot Games. Shaun has also made a number of appearances on dozens of television shows, including guest spots on The Agency, The Hughleys, ER, NYPD Blue, JAG, Alias, The Unit, 24 and Prison Break.

Skip Harris is a veteran Broadway stage actor and a talented and versatile singer. His stage performances include appearances in the original Sweeney Todd, Cats and Beauty and the Beast. Skip is delighted to be performing tonight and looks forward to delivering a performance that is simply out of this world.

Suliana Gonzalez is a Latina television entertainer and former Miss Mexico beauty pageant winner. Suliana has worked as an entertainment reporter in Los Angeles for KCRA, and has regularly appeared in the comedy show Como TV. She was also a co-host on De Todo un Poco. Suliana has worked as a correspondent on Al Rojo Vivo on the Telemundo Network since 2005 where she writes and produces her own stories.

Tadao Tomomatsu is a wonderfully talented actor, comedian, and entertainer. His biggest role to date has been as a lead actor in USA Network ́s Banzai Movie Friday and Banzai TV United Kingdom as Mr. Shake-Hand ́s Man. This unique role has led to the development of a worldwide fan base. Recently he was a guest star as Detective Furakowa on NBC’s Heroes.

Tait Ruppert is an accomplished actor who has performed on Broadway, in film and on television, appearing in such films as Basic, Swordfish and Diner, in addition to numerous TV shows including Fat Actress, 7th Heaven and Charmed.

Tamra Meskimen is a film, television and radio actress who has performed in a number of bestselling audiobooks and TV shows such as One Life to Live, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Arli$$. She is also the founder of the Really Spontaneous Theatre Company.

Taylor Meskimen is an accomplished dancer in a variety of styles including ballet, tap and hip-hop. Now in the beginning of her acting career, she has appeared in several plays and musicals, and has acted professionally on an infomercial and several audiobooks.

Travis Oates is best known for continuing the role of Piglet in the My Friends Tigger & Pooh cartoon and other Winnie the Pooh-related media since 2005. He also was one of the original co-hosts of the G4TV original program Arena, a competitive gaming show with Wil Wheaton in 2002.

After receiving his BFA in Acting from USC, he cruised the world for a bit on an enormous ship, singing in the a capella quartet, The Naturals. He is now settled down in LA, doin’ the LA hustle. Past productions include: Company (Bobby), The Fantasticks (Matt), Macbeth (Macduff), Spike Heels (Edward), among others. This is in addition to several festival-winning short films that you probably haven’t seen, but trust him, they’re pretty good. He hopes you enjoy the show!

Victoria co-starred in the horror film The Zombie Diaries and just wrapped a starring role in the upcoming horror film, Dracula Reborn. Besides her burgeoning film career, Victoria is an accomplished singer and ballerina dancer. She began dance classes at the age of 3, piano at 10 years, and made her professional singing debut at the age of 11. She played Nancy in a school performance of ‘Oliver” which lead to a scholarship at the prestigious Arts Educational School of London. She has also performed in stage productions of the film Alfie and Brighton Rock at the Almeida Theatre in London. One of her most memorable performances was to sing for the Queen of England. She continues to pursue her musical talents in Los Angeles as she performs at various local engagements. She is currently writing her own music and recording an album as well.