Ruby Karp is currently a Digital Coordinator at After Midnight on CBS. She formerly was a Video Producer at Betches. Her live show We Hope You Have Fun has been running since 2012. She's been featured on JFL, Comedy Central, MTV, and more.
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Courtney O’Donnell is an LA-based comedian, actor, and writer. She’s hosted successful shows at venues across the country such as Dynasty Typewriter, Union Hall, and Club Cumming. Most recently, she performed her half hour at New York Comedy Festival.
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Rachel Pegram is an LA based comedian, writer, and actor. Most recently she was a writer for Peacock’s Killing it. Prior to that she was a writer on Netflix’s Blockbuster, Harley Quinn for HBO Max, NBC’s Connecting and NBC’s Kenan. She also recently shot the TBS pilot Space from Nick Stoller, opposite Jake Lacy. Previously, she was a writer and performer for the National Lampoon Radio Hour.
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Kiran Deol is a stand-up comedian/actor who starred on the NBC/Hulu comedy Sunnyside from Mike Schur and Kal Penn, in addition to other shows like How to Get Away with Murder and Modern Family. She stars opposite Alex Winter and Jonah Ray in Destroy All Neighbors, coming to Shudder this January after a theatrical release; and the lead in Meera Menon's latest work in progress feature Didn't Die. She’s a co-host on Crooked Media’s Hysteria podcast and a touring stand-up comedian. As a writer/director, Kiran has made films for HBO and Sundance, premiered at TIFF, been nominated for an Emmy, and shortlisted for an Academy Award.
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Asta Leigh is an award winning actress. She began focusing on creating stories that inspire, educate, empower and bring new perspectives to audiences. On film, she’s acted in and co-produced the award-winning Sand Angels, co-produced League of Legend Keepers and acted, produced, and starred in multi-award-winning Running on Empty. She wrote and directed the short film Perception and played a role in Golden Globe Winner Paul Walter Hauser’s short film Heirloom. On stage, she has appeared in The Open Couple, Agamemnon, and The Odd Couple.
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Writer/Producer Nina Concepción & Director Rachael Drummond teamed up to shoot NO THANK YOU, screening at the Lyric Hyperion for “Satan’s Shorts” on 10/22.
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Courtney Pauroso is an L.A. based actress, writer, and comedian and known for her one woman “sexy clown” shows — GUTTERPLUM and VANESSA 5000, both of which had sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019 and 2023. She wrote on and appeared in the comedic short series Two Pink Doors for FX, and can also been seen on Jackass Forever, Reno 911, The Prank Panel, Key & Peele, Like and Subscribe, The Opening Act, and the indie feature Dogleg. She is an alum of the Groundlings Sunday Company and Washington D.C. based physical theater company Synetic Theater.
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Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based Director & Producer, a member of The Kilroys, and an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theatre. She began training with The SITI Co. in 2002 and performed with the company in 2010 & 2013 at The Getty Villa. As of 2020, she is currently the Chair of The SITI Co.’s Board. She was an Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts in 2019. Jessica Co-Founded Bootleg Theater, serving as Producing & Managing Director for 12 years.
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Traci Thomas is the creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast about books and the way they shape culture. The show asks the questions that provoke meaningful, poignant, and often hilarious conversations. Traci also hosts a live literary series with LAist called One for the Books, is a monthly contributor for NPR's Here & Now, and she writes a monthly column on shereads.com.
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EJ Marcus (he/him) is an LA-based actor, writer and comedian whose work and TikTok videos have been featured on USA Today, Funny Or Die, Bustle, and The Face. He performs comedy all over LA and New York.
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We interviewed Series Creator and Executive Producer Andrea Lewis & Director Kwanza Gooden about The Black Beauty Effect, available to watch on Netflix on Oct 15.
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This season Lisa's play SUMO was co-produced by La Jolla Playhouse and Ma-Yi Theater Company and Hungry Ghost was produced by Skylight Theatre. She has recently worked on multiple projects with Meow Wolf and was a member of The Geffen Writers' Room. Lisa's work has been developed/produced by The New Group, Actors Theatre of Louisville, East West Players, Circle X, SCF @ Son of Semele, Playwrights’ Arena, Rogue Artists Ensemble, UCSB Launch Pad Series, CalArts, The Motor Company, Theatre of NOTE and Skylight Theatre. Lisa was a member of writers groups at East West Players, Boston Court, Circle X, Chalk Rep and The Vagrancy and has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center and Yaddo. Lisa graduated from the University of Southern California. She was awarded the 2021 Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency at Yaddo, which honors one promising young writer a year. Lisa is working on commissions for Antaeus Theatre and Rogue Artists Ensemble.
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This, And My Heart is an original theatre/concert piece celebrating the genius of Emily Dickinson, interspersing spoken readings of her texts with musical settings of her poems presented by the Verdi Chorus. Rather than looking at Emily Dickinson’s life in a chronological manner, the piece looks at the different areas of her thought in the context of her life - how she saw nature, fame, religion, love and death.
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Anna Akana is an actress and writer with over 2.8 million followers across her Youtube channel where she discusses mental health. You can see her in Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy, Comedy Central's Corporate, or in the film Go Back To China.
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Reena Dutt is dedicated to new and reimagined texts that catapult polarizing conversations through unexpected stories with the bodies, voices and life experiences of the under-heard. She directed the development workshop of Accidental Feminist at The Public, Guards at the Taj in the Berkshires, the midwestern premiere of American Fast and assistant directed The Collaboration with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope on Broadway. Dutt is a seasoned film director/producer, having screened at over 80 venues, including Sundance, Outfest, NBCShorts, HBO, BET and PBS/Latine, and is an award-winning audiobook narrator/director. Fellowships: Drama League, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, DLW, Project Involve, SFFilm.
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Natasha Mercado is a Los Angeles alt-comedy darling with a sensitive side. She's an actress, a director and above all else, a clown. She's internationally touring her two solo shows and has appeared on HBO, Adult Swim and TBS.
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Natalie Badillo-Griffen is an LA-based screenwriter, New Yorker cartoonist, performer, and stand-up comic who grew up in a large Mexican-American family in the Bay Area, CA. She attended Stanford University where she majored in mechanical engineering (as all comedy writers do) and won a (very impressive wow) NCAA National Soccer Championship, earning her a Super-Bowl-sized ring that is now her dad’s most prized possession.
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Two Girls One Ghost is a paranormal comedy podcast hosted by Corinne Vien and Sabrina Deana-Roga. Episodes are released every Sunday and Thursday, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Sophie Buddle is a Canadian cutie that moved to America about a year ago because America number one. Woo! Since moving she has appeared on the Late Late Show with James Corden, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and Comedy Central. She tours the country making people laugh and giggle. Check out her debut album Lil Bit Of Buddle that won her the Juno award for best comedy album in Canada, also making her the first woman to ever win.
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June Carryl’s play The Wronged Party performs at Atwater Village Theater on 9/24. Other plays include Blue (Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Rogue Machine, developed at Echo Theatre’s Playwrights Lab); Colossus (Residency, 2023 Ojai Playwrights Conference; semi-finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference), N*gga B*tch (Residency, Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre, developed at Vagrancy Theater’s Blossoming Project) and more.
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