"Family Fries" Program

CAST & CREW

Pamela Eberhardt as Jake | Playwright

Pamela Eberhardt (she/her) has been a part of the fringe festival since 2017 and this marks her 10th show! Her original musical The Runaway Clone was nominated for Best Musical in 2018. Pam was also nominated for Best Cabaret in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 she was nominated for the Theatre Theater Playwrights Award for her comedy Under the Influence and was also nominated last year for her 2-person show This Show is Surrounded by True Events. Pam has been back and forth from New York to Los Angeles since the age of 14 and started writing plays professionally in Los Angeles at the age of 17. Her first play, A Norman Rockwell Christmas with the Donners, was actually the very first draft of FAMILY FRIES. Ahh, the power of revisions. Be sure to check out her other play at the festival, A Perfectly Still Curveball, produced by the Unknown Artists at the Broadwater Black Box. Thank you to Padraic, Will, Scott and Heather for providing and allowing everything and to Andy for putting up with everything. Oh, she also sings with her chihuahua Casper on the internet and they just started a podcast about songwriting! What?! www.casperandpam.com.

Lucas Alifano as Scotty

Lucas Alifano (he/him) is thrilled to be joining the cast of FAMILY FRIES! He recently starred in Death of a Salesman at the Ruskin Group Theater and The Singing Revolution at the Broadwater Mainstage. Some Fringers may know him as Bigfoot from the winner of last year's best musical award Bigfoot: the Musical. He has an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater and has done over seven fringe productions! Be sure to follow him at @earlofdadjokes for your daily dose of giggles and thanks for supporting live theater!

Amanda Blake Davis as Diane

Amanda Blake Davis (she/her) is thrilled to be back at Fringe! Previous shows include Three Guys, One Groupon, Oh! Lorraine, and The Planet Earth Farewell Concert. An alumn of The Second City in Chicago, she has written for Wabbit! on Cartoon Network and Work In Progress on Showtime. She can be seen performing with her long form improv group Heyday at various venues around town and she's excited to bring her short film Still Mine to the world. Give her a follow on the instagram @missamandablake.

Natasha Galano as Faye

Natasha Galano (she/her) is an aspiring producer, two-time cancer survivor, and someone completely obsessed with TV and film. She grew up doing theater and went on to study at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Natasha is a SAG-AFTRA member and represented by the most amazing team at Limitless Management, Daniel Hoff Agency Inc., and McDonald Selznick Associates. Her most recent "acting yay" was playing Margaret Pierce in Knox Goes Away, directed by and starring Michael Keaton. Calling it a dream come true is an understatement.

Scott Leggett as Mike | Producer

Scott Leggett (he/him) is a Fringe veteran, having directed This Show Is Surrounded By True Events in 2024 while at the same time Producing the shows TYT 5 and The Planet Earth Farewell Concert. He won Best Two-Person Play, along with Nedra Gallegos, for Ronnie Larsen's If I'm Good in 2023. He performed multiple characters in Burglars of Hamm's critically acclaimed production of Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, which won Top of Fringe in 2017. He was Monster in Cookie and the Monster at the HFF '15, which won Best Ensemble. He earned praise playing Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle opposite French Stewart in the critically acclaimed Pasadena Playhouse production of Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton. At Sacred Fools, he played the titular character in Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes as well as its sequel. He studied theater at Penn State University and has appeared in several films, commercials and TV shows. Scott is also an accomplished director, having staged the hugely successful adaptation of Forbidden Zone at Sacred Fools. He also directed The Poe Show, which won Best Comedy at the HFF '15, and Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to "Hamlet." He currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director for Sacred Fools.

Harvey Ryan as Nick

Harvey Ryan (he/him) Hailing from Central Arkansas, actor Harvey Ryan is just happy to be here.

Tyler Hayes Stilwill as John

Tyler Hayes Stilwill (they/them) spent most of their first life (pre-transition), bouncing from world to world, pretending to be a variety of "men" The Artistic Director of a Children's Theatre, an actor, a writer, a tattoo artist, a singer/songwriter, an international marketing executive, an acting professor and even a few years stocking shelves at Trader Joe's. Since the rebirth in 2019, they have been working to deepen their relationship with the Trans community; as an actor, an acting professor, a writer and a director, focusing in on telling their incredibly compelling and often completely ignored stories. In 2023 and 2024 they directed readings for ACTNOW's Trans/Gender-Nonconforming play reading festival. They've appeared in two other Hollywood Fringe productions: in 2021 as the Bandit King in the award-winning Gideon and the Blundersnorp, and in 2024 as Shiloh Beck in the award winning This Show is Surrounded by True Events.

Will Thomas McFadden | Director

Will Thomas McFadden (he/him) is an actor, writer and director born and raised here in Los Angeles! Last year, Will wrote, directed and starred in the political satire What The Chuck?! which was selected as a Best of The Broadwater and nominated for Best Comedy in the 2024 Hollywood Fringe. For over ten years, Will was a member of The Actors' Gang Theater Company, where he performed in countless productions, including 1984, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Harlequino: On to Freedom. He also directed the Gang's award winning production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist and the family-friendly fan favorites Toy Story Tempest and Much Ado About The Avengers. If you'd like to see Will on stage at this year's fringe, you can check out his two man clown show entitled Absolute Legends! playing on the Broadwater Mainstage!