Sizzle reel from our workshop in April 2025

STEPHANIE BENTLEY (AKA STEPHANIE ROSE) is a professional actor, writer and audio book narrator. With a dynamic voice that has brought over 500 audiobooks to life, narrating mostly romance under Stephanie Rose (American Queen by Sierra Simone, Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin) Stephanie has garnered awards and recognition for her talent and dedication to the craft of storytelling. (Audie Award Nominee, Earphones Award Winner).

Stephanie was both a musical improv comedy performer (UCB) and romance audiobook narrator for years before the most passionate of passion projects struck and she brought the best of both worlds together.

She has performed at many LA comedy spots including regular shows at UCB, iO West, & Westside Comedy. She continues to narrate romance novels and loves every steamy minute of it. 

As a performer, Jenni has starred on Broadway in Beetlejuice, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Performers, The Nance, Annie, Sunday In The Park With George, All My Sons, and as Glinda in Wicked. Her other theatrical credits include the Signature Theatre revival of Lynn Nottage’s By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, As You Like It & The Tempest for The Bridge Project directed by Sam Mendes, From Up Here at Manhattan Theatre Club, Paint Your Wagon, A New Brain, and Urinetown at NYCC Encores, and Sunday In The Park With George at the Huntington Theatre, winning the 2017 Elliot Norton Theatre Award for portraying Dot/Marie. Television credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Master of None, Elementary, Smash, Law & Order: SVU, The 68th Annual Tony Awards (‘For Good’ – Glinda, Wicked 10th Anniversary Performance), Live from Lincoln Center (The Nance), and as Lisa Heffenbacher in the Emmy Award-winning The Electric Company. Jenni has recorded several audiobook titles for Simon & Schuster, including tween favorite The Dork Diaries Series. She can be heard on the 2015 Original Cast Recordings of A New Brain and Paint Your Wagon, as well as the 2017 Broadway Cast Recording of Sunday In The Park With George. Jenni has been a guest lecturer, director, and choreographer for the University of Southern California (Adjunct Professor), Pasadena Playhouse, Ohana Arts in partnership with the University of Hawaii, NYU Tisch, the University of Michigan, TUTS (Houston), and Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC). She is a solo performance coach for the National High School Music Theatre Awards (aka “The Jimmy’s”) and currently serves as a theatre panelist for YoungArts National Arts Competition. She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan BFA Musical Theatre Department.

Anthony Lucca is an award-winning music director, orchestrator, and arranger. 
 

World premieres include KING OF PANGEA (King's Head Theatre),

BRONCO BILLY (Skylight Theatre Company, LA Drama Critic's Circle Award), MUTT HOUSE (Kirk Douglas Theater), CULT OF LOVE (IAMA Theatre Company), INTO LIGHT (short-film), and workshop productions of new musical theatre in Los Angeles, New York, and London. He is currently music director for KID GLOVES! at the Skylight Theatre and the upcoming production of MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING MUSICALS at the Colony Theatre Company.

SAMI KOLKO (Producer; SAG AFTRA) has a diverse background spanning film, television, and theatre. Currently, Sami is in pre-production on a thriller feature and in post on a horror feature. She just wrapped her first comedy pilot Sandwiched (Meg Swertlow) that will have its world premiere at the Napa Valley Streamfest this April. Other theatre producing credits include: Time Stands Still (The Lounge Theatre), The Brothers Abelson 1946 (Electric Lodge), Kid Gloves (Skylight Theatre).

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TED GOLDENBERG From his roots as a freelance stage manager to his years directing artistic and administrative operations for educational theatre programs, Ted has always loved the "controlled chaos" of a production. After a long hiatus from the theatre world, he couldn’t ask for a better team or a better project to welcome him back to live performance. He is thrilled to be behind the scenes once again and grateful for the opportunity to help bring this vision to the Fringe stage.

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After graduating with an MFA in Theatre from the California Institute of the Arts, Beth Holmes began her career casting television at Aaron Spelling Productions. Beth also built the commercial casting department for Bengston/Cohn Casting, pioneering the trend of casting both professional actors and real people in numerous award winning campaigns. She opened her own business, Beth Holmes Casting, Inc., in 1988 and has enjoyed continued success as a leader in the Los Angeles casting community. Her casting career came full circle with director Ted Melfi, and producer Fred Roos, who brought Beth back to film casting, hiring her as the Los Angeles Casting Director for the film ST. VINCENT in 2014. Films include EL CAMINO CHRISTMAS for Netflix, INDIA’S SWEETS AND SPICES for Bleeker Street Media, HAIL MARY for Sparkhouse Media and CAMERA for Jay Silverman Productions. In early 2025, Beth cast REUNION the last feature produced by Fred Roos, and which screened at the Cinequest Film Festival, followed by YALE, another Jay Silverman production.

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Beth continues casting for commercials as well, working with film directors Grant Heslov(Nespresso) and Damien Chazelle(Apple, Squarespace) when they venture into directing commercial campaigns.
 

Elizabeth Vitale received her BA in Visual & Media Arts from Emerson College, and her Master’s degree in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University. Elizabeth has contributed her casting expertise to high-profile projects such as HBO’s limited series Love and Death (directed by Leslie Linka Glatter), Disney's smash-hit Hocus Pocus 2 (directed by Anne Fletcher), and the independent feature Audrey’s Children (directed by Ami Canaan Mann), among many others. Her exceptional work in casting earned her a 2025 CSA Artios Award for the Netflix animated series Blue Eye Samurai.

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In 2019, Elizabeth launched Vitale Casting, where she has made a meaningful impact by casting undergraduate & graduate student thesis films, giving back to her education by helping the next generation of filmmakers. Since opening, she has expanded Vitale Casting's portfolio to include a diverse range of short films and independent features, establishing herself as a respected force in both emerging and established filmmaking circles.