Director:

Debra De Liso

Debra is a critically acclaimed actor, director, and choreographer.  She teaches acting/playwriting at USC and AADA and at the L.A. Film School she teaches young film directors how to work with actors.  She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from UCLA, won the Jack Nicholson Prize for acting, and studied at the RNT in London.  She has guided the writing and directed over 250 one-person plays, a role she adores, helping people find their own unique story.  In 2008 Jay Sefton’s solo play, under Debra’s direction, won Best Solo Play, L.A. Weekly Awards.

Deborah Berman

Deborah Berman is a concert pianist and piano teacher, and has held faculty positions at the University of Michigan at Interlochen, Hope College in Holland, Michigan and Humboldt State University in northern California. She has served as Dean of the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and The Colburn School in Los Angeles. In 1987, she competed for and won a spot as Artistic Ambassador for the United States Information Agency. As a result, she played concerts and taught master classes in Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya and Nigeria. Deborah has also performed at major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Tully Hall and The Purcell Room in London. It is only recently that she has indulged her lifelong desire to be involved with the theater through writing and acting. She dedicates her play to her dog Mischa, her heart. 

Rochelle Duffy 

Rochelle earned a Masters' Degree and  Doctorate of Philosophy in Mythological Studies, with emphasis in Depth Psychology, from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Before her retirement, she taught in both in public and private schools for 25 years. Currently, she is editing her book "Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly: Shelley's Sibliography."

Glen S. Jimenez 

Glen received his Bachelors Arts from CSU Dominguez Hills in 2009 and his Associate of Arts from Rio Hondo Community College in 2008. He focused on Acting, Writing, and Directing. Some of his Theatre credits include Macbeth, Proof, Electricidad, Lysistrata, A Christmas Carol, An American Daughter, Rancho Hollywood, Roosters, Twelfth Night, & Decisions: 5 One-Act Plays, written and directed by Glen.

In 2000, he received a Meritorious Achievement Award from the American College Theatre Festival XXXII for his work as Stage Manager for The Good Person of Sichuan and an Ensemble Performance Award for Equus and Twelfth Night.

In 2008, Glen received the Teatro Dominguez Award from California State University Dominguez Hills from the Theatre Department.

Mindi Miller 

Performed all her own stunt work, with no body doubles. She has been trained extensively in karate (shotokan and kenpo). In addition, she is trained in using firearms, swordfighting, horseback riding, hand to hand combat, and gymnastics. Her natural ability comes from her father, Dave Kashner, who was one of the top stuntmen of his time, known as the father of the Bull Whip in Hollywood, and who taught many of the top principle actors in Hollywood from silent film eras up to and through the 1990s. She later worked with many of the same people in her films that her father did, including Jack Elam who was one of the top Western character actors of his day.

Summer Sinclair

Summer grew up on the Oregon Coast (Lincoln City and Newport), where she graduated from Taft High School. She was raised by her bohemian mother and her grandparents who owned an art gallery. She took to the stage and was cast in regional commercials at a young age, so it's no wonder she found her way to a career in film and television in Los Angeles. Her breakthrough role as mental patient Megan Hughes in the feature film "The Last Gamble" will be released in 2010. She is a recent award winner for her independent film "Now or Never", as co-writer, producer and actor, which won a jury prize at the 2010 Oxford Film Festival.

Anya Warburg 

ANYA WARBURG: Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, Anya moved to Los Angeles after receiving her B.A. in Theatre Studies from Emerson College in Boston. While in Boston, Anya had the privilege of training at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, M.A. and had the pleasure of playing Catherine in A View From the Bridge at the Apollanaire Theatre.

Since living in LA, Anya has performed with the Outlaw Style Thrance Co. as a dancer in A Christmas Thrance 2008, in sketch comedy at The Next Stage Theatre, and is a company member and performer for Shine! L.A.’s Youth Theatre. Last year Anya was awarded “Volunteer of the Year” for the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company for her work as a mentor with at-risk and incarcerated youth. She is a huge supporter of arts education and outreach and currently teaches theatre and dance for S.T.A.R. Education at Warner Avenue Elementary School in Westwood.

Her most recent and greatest theatrical accomplishment was debuting her first one woman show, Invisible, under the direction of Debra De Liso, in both the 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival and the 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival.

Elizabeth Wu

Elizabeth came to this country when she was eight. While learning English in school, the words seemed to leap off the page to be said in specific ways. Without knowing it, she had begun a love affair with the spoken word. 

In her work as director of clinician-patient communications training and in the children’s Sunday school program teaching human values, she has used drama and role-playing as a major tool. She minored in theatre arts in college, won awards in drama festivals, and acted in TV pilots and community theater.

While reading Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, Elizabeth was taken by its rich historical, social and cultural backdrop, impressed with the character of the author and struck by that of her stepmother. So much so, that she is portraying the stepmother and also hopes to impart a little of the social and cultural flavor of that era and society.