Gudrun Buhler

Member since: 2008

Most recently Gudrun appeared playing and singing the title role of Joan d’Arc (Schiller adapted by Pamela Wilkinson), Fringe Festival 2010. She holds a Masters 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. In March 2011 she sang Micaela from Carmen under the batton of Jason Tramm and performed in the acclaimed “Nordic Light Concerts” conducted by Sung Jin Hong. She is also a member of “Pacific Encore Performances”.

Maxemillian Corkum

Member since: 2011

Daniela Dakich

Member since: 2006

Graduated from Acting Conservatory Yugoslavia. Studied at HB Studio and UCB-New York. Performed in over 500 theatre shows, former child TV star. Worked Off-Broadway: In My Hands and Irena's Vow, featuring Tovah Feldshuh, directed by Michael Parva, Dog and Wolf, 59 E 59 Theaters, Jean Randich, Expatriates, Frigid Festival, 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), Laura Cunningham, Doug Howe, Florencia Lozano, Get Him to the Greek,... Imdb page, You Tube Page, Actors Access.

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

Rachel Errington

Member since: 2011

Rachel is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre.  Favorite roles include playing the title role in Medea, written and directed by two- time Tony nominee Tony Tanner, Cordelia from King Lear, and Miss Julie.  In Los Angeles, in addition to acting in independent films, Rachel was a member of the Classical Theatre Lab, where she appeared as Aricia in Phaedre, Annie in Anatol and Lydia in The Strongbox.  An abiding love of singing and dancing has impelled her to study both disciplines.  She has enjoyed appearing in Brigadoon and My One and Only.

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

Holly Horner

Member since: 2011

Holly has been studying acting intensively for the past two years at HB Studio. She performed in the Commedia Del Arte performance lab, The Three Cuckolds, directed by Rasa Kazlas and has been in a handful of short films. A graduate from Central Saint Martins School of Art in London she has worked closely with award winning director Andrea Arnold as a film stills photographer. Her photography and experimental film work have been featured in various publications. Exhibitions include: The Curzon, London and MoMA, New York. Holly is now exploring life on the other side of the lense.

Lindsey Ireland

Member since: 2011

Lindsey is honored to be part of the HB Ensemble. She is from La Jolla, California. Growing up, trained at Interlochen Arts Academy where she studied the flute and danced ballet. She studied Sanford Meisner technique. She is certified in Stage combat. Excels in Bikram yoga. In New York, studied with the Barrow Group Theatre Company, performed with The Upright Citizens Brigade. Various credits in commercial work and independent films. Off-Broadway: Sooze in SubUrbia. Off-off Broadway: Laureen in Suicide in B Flat ; Dana in Melodrama Play; Sam Shepard's early works. She continues to study at HB Studio. 

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

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

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.

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.

Aygul Maksutova

Member since: 2011

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

Gail performed regionally, wonderful roles, in Dinner With Friends, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Cat’s Meow, The Mercy Seat, The Guys, Boeing-Boeing, Brighton Beach Memoirs/Broadway Bound and others.  Having also worked in film/TV/commercials, one of her main goals was to perform in NYC. Reflections of a Heart (Christopher Roberts/dir Clurman Theatre), Locked House (Lisa Szolovits/dir Shapiro Studio/Columbia University), and readings: Sleep Tight (Catherine Siracusa/dir Abingdon), Dirty Little Black Girls (Michael Goldfried/dir Dixon Place), The Prophet of Borough Park (Diana Amsterdam/dir Irish Rep) made this a reality.  Gratitude to Austin Pendleton & Ilse Pfeifer for their support & inspiration! (AEA/AFTRA)

Junko Momose

Member since: 2011

Junko Momose is a native of Tokyo Japan. She studied method acting under Zen Hirano, who was a member of the Actors Studio. She has continued her studies with Rasa Allan Kazlas, and studied directing with Jack Hofsiss at HB Studio.

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

Allison Plamondon

Member since: 2011

Canadian theatre; Anybody’s in West Side Story, Molly in Fire and Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables at the Charlottetown Festival. NY theater; Dissatisfaction #4 at Impact Theater, Free Fall at Manhattan Theatre Source and Ludlow Fair at Theater 54. Other theater: Charley’s Aunt, The Skin of Our Teeth, Joseph Andrews, and Dames at Sea. Graduate of the theater program at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Other notable training; Second City Conservatory (Toronto) and the Broadway Theater Project with Ann Reinking. Off-Broadway dance choreography includes Freckleface Strawberry the musical (Associate/New World Stages) and a SDCF Observership with Kathleen Marshall on Bells Are Ringing (City Center Encores). allisonplamondon.com

Jo Anne Sellers

Member since: 2011

Jo Anne grew up in South Carolina and is proud of her southern heritage. She has studied acting in Columbia, SC, Atlanta, GA, and Santa Fe, NM.  She was most recently seen in an Off-Broadway production of The Awakening.  Past productions include Foxfire; Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Dark of the Moon; The Odd Couple (female version); Robber Bridegroom; Orpheus Descending; and True West.  She is currently studying at HB Studio with Austin Pendleton and Jack Doulin.

Danjiela Stajnfeld

Member since: 2011

Audrey Stanfield

Member since: 2011

Julia Wolfermann

Member since: 2008

Julia is originally from Munich. Her most recent NYC theatre credits include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, dir. Brian Lady & Austin Pendleton (Cherry Pit), Greta in What Of The Night – Springtime, Nina and Varya in Lady With A Lapdog, With Jokes and A Happy Ending (dir. Aleksey Burago), Flight Attendant in Valparaiso (dir. Rasa A. Kazlas), Gwen in Half In Love, Tabitha in How To Speak Woman (National Comedic Theatre) and Yelena in Uncle Vanya (Abington Theatre). Film: The Acceptance, My Grandfather Was A Nazi Scientist (dir. Amy Gerber, FlatCoatFilms), The Last Patient (dir. Eun-ah Lee), Jukka (2 audience awards). Commercials for Fendi and Crate & Barrel.

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