Stephanie Braxton

Member since: 2006

At HB: New York and The Bald Soprano. Film: The Lilac Papers ( New York Independent Film and Video Festival, 2004), Death Wish (w/Charles Bronson). Theatre: Coocooshay (NY Public Theatre); Othello (Actor’s Studio); Twelfth Night (Syracuse Stage); Chapter Two ( Cape Playhouse); Private Lives and Man and Superman (Virginia Museum Theatre); Misanthrope, Playboy of the Western World, The Play’s the Thing (Stonybrook Stage); TheLion In Winter (Bermuda Arts Festival). TV: Hill Street Blues, Dallas, The Jeffersons, Quincy, Eight Is Enough, King’s Crossing (series regular), All My Children (Tara Martin), Edge Of Night (Winter Austen), Secret Storm (Laurie Stevens). As a writer, Daytime Emmys for General Hospital and As the World Turns; writer for Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live. AEA, SAG, AFTRA, WGA

Ilana Becker

Member since: 2010

Directing credits include The Longing and the Short of It (Disney/ASCAP Workshop), Series 6.2: Paint on Canvas (FringeNYC ’09), Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Jekyll & Hyde in Concert to benefit NY Society of Ethical Culture.  Ilana has served as assistant director to Terry Kinney (reasons to be pretty, Broadway & MCC), Jonathan Silverstein (I Never Sang for My Father, Keen Company), Randy White, and Nick Corley. As an actor, she has appeared in productions, workshops and readings at Ars Nova, Atlantic Stage2, The New Group, and Boston Center for the Arts, amongst others.  www.ilanabecker.com

Gudrun Buhler

Member since: 2008

Gudrun is honored to be part of the HB Ensemble. She appeared recently as the Merchant in Bertolt Brecht’s Play The Exception and the Rule under the direction of Rasa Allan Kazlas at HB studio. She holds a master degree from Manhattan School of Music in voice and has performed Opera and Lied in venues like the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Carnegie Hall, Muffathall (Munich), Karslruhe Opera House, Kaiserslautern Opera House and others. She appeared as Carmen from Carmen by Bizet, as Cherubino from Nozze di Figaro by Mozart, as Wellgunde from Das Rheingold by Wagner, as Giorgetta from Il Tabarro by Puccini, as Mimi from La Boheme by Puccini and others. In April 2009 she will collaborate with the “Maia” String Quartet performing Schoenberg’s Op.10. She is also a member of Pacific Opera.

Snezhana Chernova

Member since: 2006

Snezhana Chernova is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts in Russia, and in New York she studied with Uta Hagen. She was also a member of the Baltic Repertoire Theater. Theater: The Nose (MET), The Uncle’s Dream (International tour), Desire Under the Elms (WorkShop Theater), etc. HBEnsemble projects: Three Sisters, dir. Amy Wright; Lady With A Lapdog, The Master and Margarita, Picnic on the Battlefield, dir. Aleksey Burago; The Question House, dir. Catherine Siracusa. Film/TV: Love in The Big City, Lost in Time, Proof of Birth, The Child Within, The Louise Log, Alaska Kid and The Ring. Currently, she teaches the Stanislavski Technique at HB Studio.

Daniela Dakich

Member since: 2006

An honored HB Ensemble member. Graduated from Acting Conservatory in former Yugoslavia. Performed in over 500 theatre shows, former TV star. Off-Broadway: In My Hands and Irena's Vow, featuring Tovah Feldshuh, directed by Michael Parva. Off-off Broadway, Dog and Wolf, 59 E 59 Theaters, Jean Randich, Expatriates, Frigid Festival, Dog and Wolf, New York Theatre Workshop, Tlaloc Rivas; Lady with the Lapdog, Aleksey Burago; As You like It, Stephen Wisker; New York, Laura Esterman; Mountain Language, Rasa Allan Kazlas; The Word Progress, Ian Morgan (The New Group). Imdb page, You Tube Page, Actors Access.

Jen Danby

Member since: 2008

HB Ensemble: Blanche Dubois, Streetcar Named Desire, summer 2010 (co-directors Austin Pendleton and Brian Lady); Helena, Lust; Hedda, Hedda Gabler; Delfina Treadwell, Valparaiso; Lady with a Lapdog with Jokes and a Happy Ending. HB Playwrights Theatre: Scratching the Surface; Chekhov's Rifle, with Austin Pendleton (reading); Homing, with Mary Beth Hurt  (staged reading, dir. Jack Hofsiss). NY/Regional: Revolution; Skriker; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Springtime; Crave; A Taste of Ashes (Repertorio Español, American premiere). TV/Film: One Life to Live; All My Children; Book of Daniel; True Hollywood Sitter. BA Drama, University of Texas Austin; MA Acting, LIU; Ph.D. Acting Styles, CUNY. AEA, SAG, AFTRA. www.jendanby.com

Kathryn Danielle

Member since: 2007

After having spent 15 years in Los Angeles working in TV (Frasier, Dear John, and Knots Landing), film (Brian DePalma’s Bonfire of the Vanities and Abel Ferrara’s China Girl), theatre (Queen of Swords and Taxes), numerous commercials, and as a business rep for the musicians’ union, Kathryn returns to New York where she was a member of the Circle Rep Lab, Art & Work Ensemble (Hazel Morse in Dorothy Parker’s The Big Blonde), and The Double Image Theatre Co. Upon returning “home” she blessedly found Austin Pendleton. He directed her in Tennessee William's Something Unspoken as Grace and in HB Ensemble's Summerfolk as Kaleria. She recently was in Wonderland at HB Playwright's and Rimers of Eldritch directed by Amy Wright. AEA, SAG, AFTRA

Yael Dray-Barel

Member since: 2010

Singer/Actress born and raised in Paris and Israel, Yael later lived in London and Sao Paolo. She sings in Hebrew, French, English and Portuguese. Yael appeared in Paris at bars such as Jocomo, L'apostrophe, Le Soleil de la Butte and in the outdoors festival, "La Fete de la Musique". She also performed in plays, musicals, commercials and short movies. Recently she appeared in Colony of Artists at Theatre for the New City.  Currently Yael is assistant director of a new musical Angel's Lure written and directed by the Misfits rocker Caesar Scordato.

Katy Frame

Member since: 2008

Katy Frame Graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a degree in Music and Dance.  A member of AEA and AFTRA, she has been in numerous productions in New York and across the world.  She has worked in both the Edinburgh and New York Fringe festivals, with Prospect Theater Company, Musicals Tonight! and other theater companies in and around the city.  Favorite roles include Nadine in The Wild Party, Louisa in The Fantasticks, and Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. AEA

Rosie Goldensohn

Member since: 2010

Rosie appeared most recently in Richard Maxwell/The New York City Players' Ads at PS 122.  She was raised in New Jersey, got her BA in philosophy from the University of Michigan and studies at HB Studio with Rochelle Oliver and Carol Rosenfeld. Other training includes SITI Company, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Studio 5 in Brooklyn. Michigan: Naomi in the Living Room, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Curse of the Starving Class. Rosie studies Fitzmaurice voicework with Ilse Pfeifer and is almost finished with her first play.

Sheri Graubert

Member since: 2009

Elizabeth Grey

Member since: 2006

Doreen in The Sleeper Awakens, directed by Carol Rosenfeld.  In 2008 played Livia in Valparaiso directed by Rasa Allan Kazlas for the HB Ensemble. She also played opposite Austin Pendleton in David Hare’s The Bay at Nice and was directed by him at Symphony Space in a reading of Martin Fox’s Two Handers.  Other favorite roles include Anna in Gorky’s Vassa, directed by Aleksey Burago, and Elizabeth in The Dancers, directed by Kate Bushmann.  Other New York and regional credits include the Wife of Bath in an adaptation of The Canterbury Tales, Eve in The Creation, A World Without Memory, Sit-in With the Sit-Outs, The Merry Widow, The Sound of Music, and “Cause Celeb!” at the Marquee.  Her one-person show, A Genuine Hustle, directed by Richard Mover, at the Estrogenius Festival 2004.  Film: Celebrity, For Love of the Game.  As a playwright: A Genuine Hustle, My Note and Strangulated. AEA, SAG, DGA

Hanna Hayes

Member since: 2006

In HBensemble productions: Anfisa in Three Sisters, Picnic on the Battlefield, Behind the Mirror, Lady With a Lapdog, Master and Margarita, Summerfolk and readings of A Cocktail Party and Don Juan in Hell; off-Broadway: Louisa in Ladies in Retirement; regional: Hecuba in Trojan Women, NJ Shakespeare’s Pride and Prejudice; some other NY credits:Mrs. Willard in Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, Jigsaw, Getting Out, Agnes Of God, Golem Stories, King John, King Lear, Overruled, The Anniversary, and The Balcony.  Winner of an Insight Award for the indie film Significant Other.  English-language dubbing for the Spanish cinema. AEA, AFTRA

Grace Kiley

Member since: 2007

Superior Supporting Actress Award (IMTF -09) solo piece NeverCracked, A Life in the Theatre (TheRep@NYU), Old Times, Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot, Summerfolk (dir. Austin Pendleton), Hot Flashes (I.F.F), Death of a Salesman (Waterfront Theatre), Six Degrees of Separation (Wings Theatre), Shirley Valentine (Flynn Center),The Novelist (Olde Castle Theatre). Independent films: Bedford Park Boulevard (Tribeca Film Festival 2010) Bleeding, Apologies (best dramatic short LIFILM), Law and Order, PBS Mini Series Windy Acres. Performance/Acting Coach, teaches at NYU Tisch /Kanbar Film & TV, Stella Adler Summer Conservatory, Stonestreet Studios for screen acting, Trinity/La Mama Urban Arts Program. Studied with Uta Hagen. SAG, AEA

Catherine Kjome

Member since: 2008

HB Ensemble: The Chase (Ruby Hawes), The Question House (Paramedic #1). HB Playwrights Theatre/ HB Studio: Things Change, readings and workshops of Wiring, Chekhov’s Vaudevilles, The Millionairess, Festival Fools, and Beyond Therapy. Other NY credits include: Embraceable You (Abington), D.U.I.-a moving violation, World of Tomorrow, A Body Without a Head (Manhattan Theatre Source), The Magical Forest of Baba Yaga (Urban Stages), and Rikki Tikki Tavi (Manhattan Children’s Theatre). A formal principle dancer with extensive training in ballet and modern, Catherine also has experience in sketch comedy, as a singer, in film, and is a visual artist. AEA, AGMA

Cam Kornman

Member since: 2007

Alenka Kraigher

Member since: 2009

Alenka is honored to be a member of the HB Ensemble. She recently  made her Off-Broadway debut  in a lead role alongside Willem Dafoe in Richard Foreman's Idiot Savant at the Public Theater. Other performaces and readings include Lust (HB Studio), Leaves of Grass, Blue Skies (The Cell Theater). The film My Little Sweethearts where she plays lead was awarded the FIPRESCI award for best film at The Slovenian Film Festival. She also holds a degree in Film and TV directing from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. HB training: Michael Beckett, Rasa Allan Kazlas, Sam Groom, Carol Goodheart, Ilse Pfeiffer, Amanda Quaid. Representation Stewart Talent Agency. AEA

Jasmine-Beatrice Leigh

Member since: 2010

Jasmine Beatrice is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She is originally from Sweden, where she has played numerous classical stage roles at Gota Lejon, Oscars Teatern and other prestigious venues in Europe, in productions like Pygmalion, A Doll’s House, and Twelfth Night. In addition she has also appeared extensively on film (notable The Glassblower’s Children) and television, and is the Swedish voice of Hermione in all of the Harry Potter movies. In her spare time she loves ballroom dancing, writing letters, and singing songs.

Johanna Leister

Member since: 2008

Johanna Leister grew up in Texas, trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and continued studies with Uta Hagen and Carol Rosenfeld in NYC. Broadway: Whose Life Is It Anyway w/Mary Tyler Moore, Tartuffe w/Victor Garbor, Dracula w/Raul Julia, and Whodunnit. Television: 4-years as Phoebe Smith on The Edge of Night, Mariane in Tartuffe for PBS Great Performances, and Liz Posen in the Kennedy mini-series starring Martin Sheen. Regional Theatre: Long Wharf, Geva, Actors Theatre Louisville, Alley, Pioneer, Walnut Street, Two River. National Tour: Jill Mason in Equus. Taught acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for 4 years. Most recently Mrs. Reeves in Horton Foote’s The Chase and Rose in Julie McKee’s The Sleeper Awakens. AEA, SAG

Alicia Lobo

Member since: 2009

Alicia was born and raised in Madrid. There, she studied Drama at William Layton´s Theater Laboratory, dance (ballet, contemporary, jazz, flamenco, hip-hop and tap) and received her degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Publicity and Public Relations.  Alicia has worked in Spain for over 8 years as an actress and a dancer in stage (classic, contemporary and musical productions), film, tv and commercials.  In september, 2008, she came to NY with a Fulbright Scholarship in Performing Arts. She is currently studying at HB Studio, Juilliard and Broadway Dance Center and occasionally takes workshops with LABrynth Theater Company.  She feels honored to be an Ensemble member and is looking forward to participating in future projects.

Kellen Lopes

Member since: 2010

Kellen Lopes started her life in acting when she was child doing plays in local theaters in her city, Santos, Brazil.  A few years later she won the “Prestigious Actress” award in the city theater festival, “FESTA”.  This was later followed by a nomination for the best actress of the year of 2003 in two other city festivals.  She studied at Theater School Celia Helena, in Sao Paulo, where she later graduated with Harlequin, Servant of Two Masters playing the role of Harlequin.  She came to New York in 2008 to study as a full time student at HB Studio where she finished her studies in March of 2010.

Dina Lucchesi

Member since: 2009

Dina Lucchesi is thrilled to be a part of the HB Ensemble among so many talented artists. Dina is from the bay area in California and has dreamed of living in New York City pursuing her passion since she was young. She received her BA in Theatre Arts with a minor in Psychology from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo and studied at The American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco upon graduation. Among her favorite roles there have been "Dorothy" in The Wizard Of Oz, "M'Lynn Eatonton" in Steel Magnolias, "Cecily Cardew" in The Importance of Being Ernest, and "Meg MacGrath" in Crimes of the Heart. Dina feels so blessed to be here and is excited to start working with this amazing theatre community.

Mindy Luce

Member since: 2007

Mindy Luce has appeared at HBPF in Hedda Gabler (dir. Amy Wright), Lady with a Lapdog with Jokes and a Happy Ending (dir. Aleksey Burago), Summerfolk (dir. Austin Pendleton), and Scratching the Surface in The Waiting Room Plays. Prior to her work for HBPF Mindy appeared in Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Synchronicity Space), Dead Air (Theatre Studio, Inc.) and A Criminal Sorority (Todo Con Nada Theatre). Film: Penis Envy, Body, Getting Ready For Later. TV: Oz. She is a graduate of AMDA and studies with Jack Hofsiss, Louise Lasser, Rochelle Oliver and Austin Pendleton at HB Studio.

Nanie Mendez

Member since: 2010

Nanie was born in a car and raised in Puerto Rico in a small coastal town nestled in between the beach and the rainforest. She attended high school on the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Ceiba, PR surrounded by F-18's, sailors and mangroves. She earned her B.A. at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Foreign Languages, French and Portuguese. After undergraduate school, Nanie furthered her studies earning her J.D. at the UPR Law School. After 3 years as a practicing lawyer, Nanie quit her job and moved to New York to pursue her dream of becoming an actor.

Gail Merzer Behrens

Member since: 2010

NYC: Readings of Dirty Little Black Girls, (Michael Goldfried/dir Dixon Place), The Prophet of Borough Park, (Diana Amsterdam/dir Irish Rep), Casting For Ruth (Blue Heron).  Regional: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Cat’s Meow (East Coast Premiere), The Mercy Seat, The Guys, Boeing-Boeing, The Mousetrap, Rose’s Dilemma, Match, Brighton Beach Memoirs/Broadway Bound, The Diary of Anne Frank, Nuts & others.  Film: The Plan Doctor, Loss of Hope, Cycles, Shadayim.  Television: All My Children, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Sex and the City. Gail is currently studying with Austin Pendleton & Ilse Pfeifer. Thanks & Gratitude! AEA, AFTRA

Dara O’Brien

Member since: 2006

HB Ensemble: Hedda Gabler (director Amy Wright), Summerfolk (director Austin Pendleton), The American Clock (director Austin Pendleton), The Long Goodbye (director Amy Wright). Other NY stage credits: The Painters Project (director George Bartenieff, The Cherry Lane); The Seagull (director Austin Pendleton, Classic Stage Company First Look Festival); His Name Is Richard (director Austin Pendleton, 78th Street Theatre Lab); Breathe (director Sally Burtenshaw, FringeNYC); Strangulated (director Kate Bushmann, The Abingdon Theatre); Ghost Writer (ATA), The American Aunt, 1929 and Semicontinuous (Around the Block); A Stellar Market, (Red Room) The Last Nightingale (Pantheon); Gringita (The Culture Project). Film and television: The independent features The Child Within and The Book.

Marci Occhino

Member since: 2006

HB Ensemble: Summerfolk (Austin Pendleton, dir.), Valparaiso (Rasa Allan Kazlas, dir.), The Long Goodbye (Amy Wright, dir.), The Dancers (Kate Bushmann, dir.).  With Amy Wright's Performance Lab at HB Studio: The Girl, Hot L Baltimore and Lulu in Pinter's The Birthday Party, both directed by Ms. Wright.  Readings with the HB Ensemble: Peter Coston's, The Gatekeeper (Arthur French, dir.), American Tet (Karen Ludwig, dir.) and Elizabeth Grey's, Strangulated.  Other NY Theatre credits include: Louise in Katherine Snodgrass' Haiku (Spotlight On Award, "Best Actress/One-Act Play"), Down the Shaw (WorkShop Theater Company) and reading of Grey's Strangulated at Abingdon Theatre Company.  Regional: Lobby Hero (Alliance Repertory Theater, affiliate of the NJ Theatre Alliance). Film/television: Dan in Real Life, (Peter Hedges, dir.), Law and Order: SVU, Laura and Guy, Columbia Grad (Kate Barker, dir.), Motherless Child, screenplay by brother, David Occhino (Silver Award, Philafilm Festival) and Favorite Son, Howard Libov, dir. SAG 

Pamela Paul

Member since: 2009

Pamela Paul has appeared in New York most often for Abingdon Theatre, of which she was co-founder - most recently as Ms. Nevers in Cry Havoc, a love story ended by politics in modern Egypt.  Also at Abingdon, as a former exotic dancer married to an Elvis impersonator played by Fred Willard, in Elvis and Juliet.  This year, she appeared in three shows for Greenbrier Valley Theatre in West Virginia - Steve Martin's The Underpants, The Spitfire Grill, and Bach at Leipzig.  Other roles at GVT include Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Dotty Ottley/Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off, and Grace in Eccentricities of a Nightingale.  She has also appeared as Ethel in On Golden Pond at Triad Stage, NC, and in Schumann's Manfred with the Bard Music Festival.  TV: :  the sadly departed Ed and Sex and the City.  Film:  "Natale a New York," a hit Italian feature with the DiLaurentiis group. AEA

Amanda Plant

Member since: 2005

Theater credits include: Uncle Vanya (Classic Stage Company, NY), Dog Day Afternoon (Barefoot Theater), The American Clock (Director Austin Pendleton), Habitation of Dragons (Director William Carden), The Quick Change Room (HB Playwrights Theater); The Cherry Orchard, Three Days of Rain, Talk to me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen and The Lover.  Film: The Shoes, and Waterlilies. 

Danijela Popovich

Member since: 2008

Danijela Popovic studied acting with Ed Morehouse and Austin Pendleton and is a graduate of The Juilliard School – most recent credits include: The Circus of Life directed by Lynn Barr,  Lady With a Lapdog and Other Jokes With Happy Ending directed by Aleksey Burago. The Dome, Prospect Theatre; Chamber Music, Abington theatre, directed by Austin Pendleton; The Proposal directed by Sally Burtenshaw; Things Change, MTS.  Danijela is proud to be a member of the HB Studio Ensemble.

Briana Pozner

Member since: 2010

Briana Pozner grew up in Denver, Colorado where she attended The Denver School of the Arts. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with a theatre concentration. Past roles include Alice in Closer, Chris in Dancing at Lughnasa, Pooty in Reckless and Cassandra in Trojan Women dir. Ed Sherin. Past training includes The Berkshire Theatre Festival and The British American Drama Academy where she played Hekabe in Hekabe directed by Mark Wing Davey and Servant in Alcestis directed by Ian Wooldridge.

Jody Prusan

Member since: 2009

Judy Rosenblatt

Member since: 2006

Judy Rosenblatt earned her BFA at Cornell University and went on to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Further study: Joseph Balfior, Sanford Meisner, Bill Esper, Uta Hagen and Austin Pendleton. Most recently appeared in Jennifer Maisel's World Premiere of There or Here at The Hypothetical theatre company. NY credits include: Peggy Guggenheim Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (French Institute Alliance Française), Summerfolk, The American Clock, The Dancers and New York (HB Playwrights), Chaos Theory (Greenwich Theatre), Black Sun (LaMaMa), Evensong (The Players Club) and The Man Who Loved Words (NYSF/Public Theatre). London and Regional Credits: The Room, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Rose Tattoo, Plaza Suite, and The Diary of Anne Frank. TV: The Sopranos (multiple appearances).

Julissa Roman

Member since: 2008

Julissa has most recently appeared in Worst Day a short film of Horizon Pictures, she is also in the Discovery Channel’s short film Nueva York film which participated at The Tribeca Film Festival and NY International Latino Film Festival. Julissa is part of Crossings play invited to the International Theater Festival “Excluded” in Poznan Poland and the NYC Fringe Festival. Other New York credits include: Is Anybody Listening at the Pregones Theatre, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Carol Goodheart), Girl Talk and Talk with an Expert (dir. Jessica Wolfson), among others. Julissa has studied a full time program at HB Studio.

Catherine Siracusa

Member since: 2005

Catherine Siracusa is an actress, director & costume designer. NY theatre credits: Hedda Gabler, Lake Hollywood, The American Clock, New York, (HB Playwrights Theatre); Mercurial, Safety Pin (Abingdon Theatre); The Siblings (MITF); Better Babies & Among The Missing (Turnip Festival); Thieves Carnival, The Rimers of Eldritch (Amy Wrights’ Perf. Lab HB Studio); A Friendly Fiasco (Bad Plays Festival). As director: The Question House, (Kraine Theater) staged readings: Embraceable You, Fast Car, Prize Begonias (Abingdon Theatre). Indie films include: Fourhand; Sky People; Bllindfold; The Radium Follies; Luvrgirl; ; The Louise Log #5 & #10 &#12 (YouTube).

Danusia Trevino

Member since: 2007

Danusia Trevino (Actress, Writer) was most recently seen in her solo play Wonder Bread, (dir Aleksey Burago) at HBPF. She performed an excerpt of Wonder Bread at the HB Gala Benefit celebrating Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara at The Players Club. Danusia also appeared in Summerfolk (dir. Austin Pendelton) The Master and Margarita and Lady with a Lapdog with Jokes and Happy Ending (dir. Aleksey Burago) at HBPF, She was Masha in The Seagull (dir. Rochelle Oliver) and Sunna in Unity (dir. Carol Rosenfeld). Other New York credits include Scenes From an Execution (dir. Yelena Gluzman) at Horace Mann Theater and two productions at P.S.122, Miracle Now and The Birth of Anne Frank directed by the singer Antony. She toured nationally with Anne Bogart’s production of War of the Worlds—The Radio Play. Film: Acts of Worship (dir. Rosemary Rodriguez), Where is Joe Baum? (dir. Pearl Gluck) AEA, SAG

Sharon Wajswol

Member since: 2006

Sharon Wajswol has appeared in many one-act festivals in NYC, at the New York Friars Club (Manhattan Playwrights), as Molly in Israel Horowitz's Line (13th Street Repertory), wrote, produced, directed, and starred as Frances Langford, Gracie Allen, and Fanny Brice in Radio Mirth & the Third Reich (13th Street Repertory), Sherry in The Affair in 22B (Triad Theatre), Head of Female Chorus in Lysistrata (Michael Chekhov Theatre Company), Sarah Siddons in The Actor's Nightmare (HB Playwrights Theatre) Maria/Mother in Lady With A Lapdog...(HB Playwrights Theatre), Sarah Linden in film, Heartstrings (Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival); member Dramatists Guild

Pamela Wilkinson

Member since: 2008

Shaun Bennet Wilson

Member since: 2007

HB Ensemble: Summerfolk (dir. Austin Pendleton, HBPF). NY Theatre: Strangulated (dir. Kate Bushmann, Abingdon Theatre) The Danger of Strangers (WorkShop Theater Co.), Rightsized (The Drilling Co.), The Letter (dir. Rasa Allan Kazlas, Emerging Artists Theatre), The Conjugality Test (MITF), Monday Morning Baseball (The Turtle's Shell Theatre) andWaiting For Anthony (HB Playwrights Foundation). Film: Pieces of Cake, Mothers' Day Special.  Training: AMDA, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and HB Studio (Carol Rosenfeld, Austin Pendleton, Julie McKee-Playwrighting). DGA www.shaunbennetwilson.com. B"H

Julia Wolfermann

Member since: 2008

Julia was born in Munich, Germany, spent some time in Florence, Italy and lives now in New York. Her most recent NYC credits include Nina and Varya in Lady With A Lapdog, With Jokes and A Happy Ending (HB Playwrights Theatre, dir. Aleksey Burago), Flight Attendant in Valparaiso (HB Playwrights Theatre, dir. Rasa A. Kazlas), Gwen in Half In Love (HB Studio), 7 different women in Play It Again, Sam (HB Ensemble reading), Tabitha in How To Speak Woman (National Comedic Theatre) and Yelena in Uncle Vanya (Abington Theatre). Film: Passage (dir. Kristen Wynn), The Family Secret (dir. Amy Gerber, Flatcoatfilms Productions), Emptiness (dir. Isilay Yanbas), The Center (Essentia Productions), The Last Patient (dir. Eun-ah Lee), Jukka (dir. Emanuel Trousse). Julia was chosen for the Camel World Of Pleasure Tour 04, a documented trip around the world. She feels honored to be an Ensemble member since 2008.

Iryna Yemialyanava

Member since: 2009

Born in Belarus, Iryna started studying dance, music and arts at the age of 7. At 12 she joined a dance company that toured Europe. At 14 Iryna joined a Theatre studio for young people in Gomel, Belarus and eventually became an actor at an experimental Youth Theatre that gave regular performances and participated in international festivals such as an International Youth Festival for Performing Arts in Berlin, Germany. For the past three years Iryna has been studying at HB studio mainly focusing on directing.

Di Zhu

Member since: 2009