Greg Ainsworth. BA, Baylor University. Greg is a writer and actor in Los Angeles. His recent film credits include The Notorious Bettie Page and recent television credits include ER, HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow, The Wire and Oz. His one-man show Still Waters has been produced in Los Angeles and New York.

Greg is a native of Houston, TX and studied at Baylor University. After graduation, he relocated to New York City where he built a career as a Talent Relations Executive with HBO and began his training as an actor.  He was accepted into a two-year Meisner conservatory program at the William Esper Studio in New York, one of the foremost Meisner training programs in the country. He has also studied with Loyd Williamson at the Actor’s Movement Studio in New York.  Greg has performed in numerous off Broadway plays and musicals.  Favorite stage credits include “John” in Living Proof, “Eddie” in Pizza Man, “Guy” in Antioch and “Greg” in What a Piece of Work is Dan.

Greg has recently completed his first pilot script for television and appeared on stage last year in The 99Cent Show and The Cherry Orchard Project.

Duane Daniels. Duane is an actor, director and producer in Los Angeles. He was a series regular on Veronica Mars in the role of Principal Clemmons from 2004-2007.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Duane has been involved in theatre since elementary school directing his first production, Arsenic and Old Lace in the fourth grade. His resume includes numerous credits in stage, film, television, musical theatre, opera, commercials and voice over work. He was the long-time star of the show Triple Espresso, appearing in the lead role of Bobby for over 2000 performances during it's 11 year run in San Diego.

Duane is the founder of the Fritz Theatre in San Diego which gave many award-winning playwrights their West Coast premieres including Nicky Silver, Paula Vogel, David Mamet and Suzan Lori-Parks. Duane produced 17 seasons of the critically-acclaimed Annual Fritz Blitz of New Plays, giving hundreds of new playwrights their stage debut.

Duane is the newly named Artistic Director of Buzzworks Theatre where he directed the critically acclaimed production of Munched last spring.

Emily Firth. BFA, (Hons) Webster Conservatory of Performing Arts. Emily is an Equity actor in New York City and has just returned from a regional tour as “Mrs. Crachit” (and others) in the TheatreWorks USA production of A Christmas Carol.  Emily has appeared Off-Broadway, most recently as “Mr. Hang Back” in the Wreckio Ensemble’s main stage production of Me, Myself, I, and the Others, as “Danielle” in Small Talk for the Dalliance Theatre Company, and in “Twas the Night Before…” for the Flea Theatre where she was a resident company member from 2006-2007.

Emily hails from Oregon and attended the prestigious Webster Conservatory where she received the departmental Honors Award in Musical Theatre for her work, only one of which is given each year. Favorite roles include “Alexa Vere de Vere” in As Bees in Honey Drown, “Luisa Contini” in Nine, “Lady Fullbank” in Lucky Chance, and “The Witch” in Into the Woods.  Emily has worked at the Timber Lake Playhouse and won a number of coveted roles there including “Mrs. Robinson” in The Graduate, “Estelle” in The Full Monty and “Esmeralda” in the Regional Premiere of Cheri Coons’ and Tom Sivak’s adaptation of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. 

Emily co-founded the Dalliance Theater Company and serves Artistic Associate and Company Manager.  Their first production, Love No Evil, won critical acclaim and will be followed by The Restoration Project and August Strindberg's A Dream Play.

Gabriel Grilli. BFA, Acting, Hofstra University, MFA, Directing, Penn State University. Gabriel is a director, teacher, actor, and writer in San Francisco.  He spent 14 years in New York City teaching at institutions such as New York University, The New School, The School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University and Pennsylvania State University.

Originally from Rhode Island, Gabriel trained at Hofstra and Penn State where he was strongly influenced by the work of Robert Lepage, Julie Taymor and Anne Bogart and began creating movement theatre work.  His favorite projects include The Jungle Princess and The Windows of Albert Camus, a large-scale movement theatre spectacle.

In New York City, Gabriel worked with a wide variety of theatre companies including Manhattan Theatre Source, NY Fringe, Themantics Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Theatreworks USA. He wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed Stalking Christopher Walken for the New York Fringe Festival.  Gabriel has won numerous awards including the Choreographers Foundation Grant and the Geva Theatre Directing Fellowship, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the SDC Foundation Artists’ Action Committee. 

Kristy Hasen. BA, Yale University, MFA, Columbia University.  Kristy is an actor, writer, director, editor and producer in New York City. She has created promos, shows, and documentaries for Sundance Channel, USA Network, IFC, Court TV, Fuse, Oxygen and TRIO. Her films have won awards at the Toronto and Los Angles Independent Film Festivals and her one-woman show Business premiered at Ars Nova in New York last spring. 

Kristy grew up in Indiana and attended Yale University, graduating magna cum laude. She was accepted to the prestigious graduate film program Columbia University film school where she completed her MFA in screenwriting and directing. At Columbia, she wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning films, Frostbite and A Word From Rachel Cohen.  Other favorite screen credits include Fool For Love, Shall We Dance and Ms. Right.

Kristy went on to complete a two-year acting conservatory program, learning the Sanford Meisner technique. Her teacher, Maggie Flanigan, is considered one of the foremost experts on Meisner technique practicing today.  Kristy continues to train in cold reading, scene study, movement and clown with Anthony Abeson, Jan Leys, Virgina Scott and Diana Castle. Favorite stage roles in New York include “Alice” in Who’s On First, “Dawn” in Dear, “Ed’s Dream Girl” in 12 Fiery Women and “Blondella” in The Taming of Miss Shrew at the Sanford Meisner Theatre.

A native Nebraskan, Jennifer grew up in the dance competition scene and has competed at the state, regional and national levels winning top honors in jazz, tap, lyrical and voice. She was trained at the prestigious Webster Conservatory where she performed in 42nd Street and Pippin, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Nine. Other credits include “Betty” in The Gamster for Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, “Mrs. Souberry” in Oliver at the Ozark Actor’s Theatre, and “Cindy” with the Mostly Murder Theatre Company.

Jennifer lived in New York where she worked as an actor and dancer with the Handcart Dance Company and the Genesis Dance Company. She has taught at Soho Dance Studio and Broadway Dance Center and is currently a choreographer and company member with the Dalliance Theatre Company in New York. Off-Broadway credits in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels, which she also directed, Violations for the Dalliance Theatre Company and Refractions at the New York Fringe Festival.

Dan Milne.  Drama Studio London, MA Cambridge University. Dan is an actor and director based in London.  He has worked internationally including New York, San Francisco and South Africa. 

Dan has directed shows for the Young Vic Theatre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Pleasance Theatre. He has directed three shows for the Edinburgh Theatre Festival including Beaver Pitch and Excavting Rita. His stage credits include The Comedy of Errors with the RSC, As I Lay Dying with the Young Vic and A Servant to Two Masters with the Albery Theatre where he did the National and International tours. Film credits include a variety of BBC shows including a six month regular role on Eastenders. Dan has taught courses at Drama Centre London, Central School of Speech and Drama and the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation.

Dan has a keen interest in site-specific theatre, physical and visual work. He was the co-leader of The Space Project which which leads creative thinking workshops about spatial perception. His latest site-specific work, an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, premiered in LA in June 2009. His show Two Men Talking appears regularly off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre, New York. Dan also writes and performs his own work with his wife Jane and their work will premier in New York this fall.