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Jessie Bias

Adam Bitterman

An award-winning actor, Adam made his first television commercial at age 5 and has been a member of both SAG and AFTRA (pre-merger) since 1970. He is a graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts where he studied with Stella Adler, David Mamet and William H. Macy. A native Chicagoan with roots in the theatre, Adam moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and quickly established a career on screen; he was also a founding member of Hollywood’s acclaimed Sacred Fools Theater Company where he frequently appeared. Following the sudden death of his father (renowned artist Richard Bitterman) in 2012, Adam moved back to Chicago and continued to perform. In addition to his stage and commercial work, Adam has had roles in studio features and indie films, and has been heard in video games and animated series; he has been seen in several network and cable TV shows in a variety of co-star, guest star and recurring roles.

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Suze Campagna

Stage managed several shows including Neverwhere, both Watsons, Louis & Keely and Voice Lessons. Assistant stage managed several shows including Stoneface, Astro Boy, and CarnEvil. Assitant directed The Magic Bullet Theory. Ran sound for Fast and Loose and Serial Killers. Produced Ten Tops Staff position: Sound Master. Won a Thursty Award for best sound design for The Boring Astronaut  in Serial Killers. Wrote, directed, acted, ran video, took photos and video for Serial Killers.

BS in television radio and film production from Syracuse University.

Stage managed for Sanford Meisner center, Culver City Public Theatre, Write Act Rep, and Outlaw Style Thrance Company. Sound design for Aeroplane at the Loft Ensemble. Worked on several productions with the Annex film group as set dresser, assistant to the producer, script supervisor, art director, and props. Designed props for Culver City Public Theatre, Outlaw Style Thrance Co., Write Act Rep, and Theatre Unleashed.

I have worked many Science fiction conventions in Hospitality suites, Green room, daily newsletters, guest liaison, Program design, and threw themed parties. I am currently the stage manager for the main ballroom at an annual Doctor Who Convention. And I wrote and edited a monthly newsletter for a science fiction club.

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Corinne Chooey

Corinne is so happy to be a Fool! She's been seen in Rose and the Rime, Akuma-shin and The Birds (Hollywood Fringe). She is originally from San Francisco and has studied at The American Conservatory Theater, East West Players Conservatory, and UCLA's School of TFT. Corinne began her improv training at The Groundlings and is a graduate of both UCB and The Pack's improv programs. A past participant in Fox Broadcasting's Television Diversity Writers Program, Corinne studied sketch comedy at ACME and was a weekly performing sketch company member for over three years. You can watch her perform comedy every month with her sketch and improv group, The Color Collective.

Corinne's TV/Film credits include Code Black (CBS), The Young & The Restless (CBS), Switched at Birth (Freeform), Awesomeness TV (Nickelodeon), Reno 911! (Comedy Central), and Collateral (Paramount/DreamWorks).

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Marianne Davis

Marianne has appeared onstage in Don Giovanni Tonight, Don Carlo Tomorrow; Puzzler; The Magic Bullet Theory; Fast & Loose; and Serial Killers.

Additional work includes:
Choreographer: Serial Killers (Thursty award for Best Choreography)
Associate Choreographer: Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet
Assistant Choreographer: 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, Forever, Forbidden Zone:Live from the 6th Dimension
Costumer: A Kind of Love Story

Marianne acts, writes, directs and choreographs whenever inspiration and opportunity strike. She also teaches the Teen Comedy class at Scott Sedita Acting Studios, tours nationally with Murder Mystery Company Dial M Productions, and is the owner/operator of Sunshine Entertainment where she performs as a clown, character or princess for children's parties.

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Bob DeRosa

Bob has written for many shows at Sacred Fools including Crime Scene, Naked Holidays, Fast & Loose, and Serial Killers. His show "All The Best Killers Are Librarians was voted the winner of Serial Killers season ten and had a successful run at the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Bob has written for the big screen (Killers, The Air I Breathe), the small (White Collar), and the very small (the award-winning web series 20 Seconds To Live). He studies kenpo karate and lives in Studio City with his wife Jen and their three kids who look suspiciously like cats.

Jennifer Christina DeRosa

Actor in A Kind of Love Story, Serial Killers, Fast n Loose, The Mother Ship. Costume Designer on Richard III, The Magic Bullet Theory, Taste, Occupation. BFA in Theater Performance from University of Central Florida. Costume Designer for TV and Film.

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Dana DeRuyck

Prushka in A Gulag Mouse; understudy for Miravel, A Woman of No Importance, Bill & Joan, The Magic Bullet Theory. Frequent past contributor to Serial Killers. Also a founding member of Broads' Word Ensemble and a resident artist with the Porters of Hellsgate. Appeared in Lamprey: Weekend of Vengeance, winner of Best Comedy at the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

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Natalie Nicole Dressel

Natalie Nicole Dressel is a transgender actress/writer currently living in North Hollywood, CA. In 2019, she attained her MFA in writing for the Stage and Screen from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, and in 2013 she earned her BFA in Theater from Michigan State University. She is a graduate of the UCB LA improv program, and her play There is Evil in This House was a Second Rounder at AFF and was a 2019 O'Neill NPC finalist.

She has 10+ years of stand up comedy experience and in 2012 was named "Funniest Mouth of the South" in Chattanooga, TN. She has experience with ADR, Audiobook Narration, and Voice Over and is also a poet that has written free typewriter love poems for the last 3 years at Pride celebrations for anyone who walks by in Los Angeles and Denver (though this year she did it via zoom). She's worked on two projects that are currently available on HBOMAX (Veneno, The Lady and The Dale) and in 2021, she is the recipient of an artist grant from West Hollywood and will be putting up an exhibition of her work later this year.

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Padraic Duffy

Company member 2001- Present
Co-Artistic Director 2004-2008
Board President 2008-2010
Managing Director 2010- Present

Full Length Plays Produced by Sacred Fools:

FEET (2001)
Backstage West “Critic’s Pick”; LA Weekly “Recommended”; 2 Honorable Mentions for Playwrighting- BackStage West Garland Awards

THE MECHANICAL RABBIT (2003)

TELL THE BEES (2004)

BEAVERQUEST! THE MUSICAL! (2008)
L.A. Times “Recommended”; L.A. Weekly “GO”
LA WEEKLY Award Nomination “Best Director of a Musical”

PUZZLER (2011)
L.A. Weekly “GO!”, Backstage “Critic’s Pick,”
Ovation Recommended, Bitterlemons.com “100% Sweet”

PAST TIME (2016)
L.A. Times “Critic’s Choice”

Other Full Length Los Angeles Productions:

OLD HAT & SOMETHING IS HIDDEN INSIDE THE COUCH (2006) Echo Theatre Co.
L.A. Weekly “GO”; Backstage West “Critic’s Pick”

THE ILLUSTRIOUS BIRTH OF PADRAIC T DUFFY (2009)- Echo Theatre Company

COPY (2012)- Theatre of Note
Backstage “Critic’s Pick”

Literary Assistant, CTG 1999-2001
Literary Associate, Geffen Playhouse 2005-2008
CTG Writer's Workshop 2011-2012

Princeton University, A.B English, Certificate in Theatre

Sofija Dutcher

Sofija graduated from Michigan State University with a BFA in Studio Art - Graphic Design and minored in Theatre. Upon moving to Los Angeles in the summer of 2013, she was completely enamored by the independent theatre scene and nonprofit arts community.

Sofija served as the Marketing co-chair for Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles, a professional development organization for young arts professionals. Later, she was selected for the Skypilot Theatre Company board as Secretary for a year, where she co-produced and stage managed a double-bill of two one act plays. She was introduced to the Sacred Fools company by designing and operating the light board for Serial Killers. She is also a member of Flat Tire Theatre Company and directed a short for Cringefest: An Uncomfortable Anthology. She made her full-length directorial debut with Flat Tire Theatre Company directing There is Evil in this House.

Sofija wears many hats and enjoys all aspects of theatre and art, with talents in producing, directing, stage managing, marketing, graphic design and visual arts. She is very interested in producing new plays and readings and devised theatre.

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Erik Engman

Erik is proud to be a Company Member of Sacred Fools where he is not only the Box Office Manager, but has written and directed for their late night show Serial Killers ("Dracula Bit My Ex Wife", "The Fox River Chronicles: Betsy") and has directed for their 24-hour play show, Fast & Loose.

Erik is a graduate of Western Illinois University (State School!) where he received a BA in Theater with an emphasis in directing. He has studied improvisation and sketch comedy in Chicago and Los Angeles at Second City, The Groundlings, ImprovOlympic West, Chris Barnes' Comedy Dojo and Players Workshop of the Second City, as well as teaching improv with Players Workshop West. He has written, directed and acted all over the Southland, most recently appearing in the Serial Killers off-shoot "Magnum Opus: Star-Crossed Love". You might even have caught him on an episode of "Days of our Lives" if you didn't blink too much.

Michael Shaw Fisher

As a company member, Michael has been involved as a writer, composer and actor. He is also a two time Ovation winner. In 2017 Best Lyrics & Music for Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to “Hamlet” (produced at Sacred Fools) and in 2016 for Best Book of an Original Musical for Shakespeare’s Last Night Out (produced with Orgasmico Theatre Company.) He is currently developing his latest musical A Midsummer Nightmare: A Musical Sequel to a “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Sacred Fools. In 2019 he mounted his Ovation recommended Doctor Nympho vs the Sex Zombies at Celebration Theatre. When Michael is not working on stage, film, television and literary projects, he is a professor of screenwriting at the Los Angeles Film School.

Heatherlynn Gonzalez

Has been involved in theatre all her life.

Stage Management with:
Sacred Fools Theater
Lamb's Players Theatre
North Coast Repertory Theatre
Pasadena Shakespeare Company
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Whittier College

At Sacred Fools: Production Manager - 2012 to present
Stage Manager - Numerous shows including Stoneface, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare, Astro Boy and many others.

Masters in Stage Management from CSULB, worked as Stage Manager, Asst. Company Manager, and Asst. Production Manager at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; resident stage manager at Ahmanson; Production Manager and Resident Stage Manager at Pasadena Shakespeare Company; and Resident Stage Manager at North Coast Repertory Theater among many others.

Marian Gonzalez

Marian's been with Sacred Fools for some time, having come in doing tech for shows like Dracula: A Musical Nightmare and Peer Gynt. She was the photographer for Serial Killers for nine years, and has even managed to appear onstage occasionally in that time.

Marian is an arm wreslter. She competes as part of Los Angeles Ladies Arm Wrestling, an organization that raises funds for local non-profits.

She's also a member of Broads' Word Ensemble, and an Honorary Member of Loft Ensemble. The former of which she's performed with in some Hollywood Fringe productions.

She's also known for her Human Encyclopaedia routine which she's performed in such distant and exotic lands as Black Rock City and North Hollywood.

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Gregory Guy Gorden

Triple G's first show in Los Angeles was Forbidden Zone: Live in the Sixth Dimension. He has also appeared in Don Giovanni Tonight, Don Carlo Tomorrow, Carnevil and numerous Serial Killers.

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Ryan Gowland

Ryan is a former member of Berkeley's Shotgun Players, San Francisco's Award-winning sketch group Old Man McGinty, and Amsterdam's Boom Chicago. He also toured international waters with The Second City.

With Sacred Fools he has appeared and written pieces in several seasons of Serial Killers and has understudied the productions of The Art Couple, The Value of Moscow, and Tangerine Sunset. His satire of armed teachers, Jordan Maverick: History Teacher, was produced by Sacred Fools for the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

He has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show, Adam Ruins Everything and the Lifetime movie I Am Watching You. Please watch his series F'd on Amazon Prime.

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Julia Griswold

Julia has been seen on stage at Sacred Fools in Past Time, The Behavior of Broadus, The Mother Ship, Neverwhere, The Coarse Acting Show, Forbidden Zone: Live in the 6th Dimension, approximately a billion Serial Killers, and several other late-night and off-night offerings. She was also seen in Night Witches at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She isn't sure if we ever came to a consensus as to whether we're writing these in first or third person, so she's going with third person because it sounds a little more distant and professional.

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Joe Hernandez-Kolski

Joe is psyched to return as a member of the Sacred Fools Company. Sacred Fools was Joe’s first theater company when he moved to LA in 1998. Sacred Fools credits include Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Padraic Duffy’s Tell the bees., and Kurt Wood Bromley’s Wants Unwished Work. Additional theater credits include Luis Alfaro’s Painting In Red (Playwright’s Arena), Richard Montoya’s Federal Jazz Project (San Diego Rep), The Stones (Center Theater Group), and The Bomb-itty of Errors (New Ambassadors, London). A two-time HBO Def Poet, Joe’s first solo show was published as part of a hip-hop theater anthology, “Say Word! Voices of Hip-Hop Theater.” For over sixteen years, he’s been running an open mic for LA high school performers called Downbeat 720. He received an Emmy as producer/host of the televised version. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the School at Steppenwolf.

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Joyce Hutter

Joyce Hutter is an artist / designer / puppeteer and Artistic Director of Strings & Things Puppet Theatre. She is also a member of Sacred Fools Theater Company (Scenic & Prop Designer) and has contributed to productions of Tangerine Sunset, The Art Couple, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Rose and the Rime, Mom's Dead, and Skullduggery. Other notable work include puppet designs for Sacred Fools' Carnevil; Rogue Artist Ensemble's The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone; The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch, and the Long Beach Opera's production of HK Gruber's Frankenstein!! Joyce has received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for Puppet and Mask Design.

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Crystal Keith

A happy Fools veteran, Crystal appeared in A Gulag Mouse, as well as her own hit Serial Killers storylines Daughters of Dissonance and In For a Penny. She is the Community Outreach Coordinator and a member of the Membership Committee.

Crystal's favorite shows include Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara (Geffen Playhouse) and The Burning Opera LA (King King). As a teaching artist, she has created her own Shakespeare For Kids curriculum and holds a Level II certification in Orff Schulwerk from The University of Las Vegas. As a session singer, she has recorded for Los Angeles band Sparks. As a songwriter, she fronts The Tight Family - a blues folk rock experience. She also works as a holiday caroler, artist's model, dialect coach, and piano teacher. But her favorite job is being Semele Blue's Mama.

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Corey Klemow

Corey has been a Fool since 1999. Foolish acting credits include The Adding Machine, Four Letter Words, Sweet & Sour Tears, Dubya 2000, GRIMM!, Feet, Retro Radio (Dark Night, Monthly and Christmas Cavalcade incarnations), Tongue-Tied Tales, the Kronis & Alger trilogy (dumbshOw, Cirque Picnique and Strange Beliefs), Tabloid Frenzy, Frankenstein in Love, Frankenstein, Vicki, Holon, Drood, Beaverquest! The Musical, Land of the Tigers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, as well as numerous installments of CRIME SCENE and Serial Killers, and almost every Fast & Loose since November of 1999, plus understudy gigs in Naked Holidays ('99), Crazyface, Peer Gynt, [sic] and Absolutely Filthy.  As a director, he helmed Quiet, Please, and co-directed I Wrote This! with Ruth Silveira and Jessie Marion, and also assistant directed Resignation Day, as well as writing and directing several Serial Killers, most notably The Cassette Chonicles.  He produced the 2009 production of Art Explained!  And he's also made a habit out of singing at every Music Night since October of 2000, which may be why we stopped doing Music Night a few years ago.  Theater credits elsewhere include The Cinese Massacre (Annotated) at Circle X and The Government Inspector at Boston Court.

Television credits include Angel and Party Down.  Film credits include Spiders (about a giant spider what eats some people up) and a bunch of stuff that never got released, including Wrong Way to Sundance.

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Emily Kosloski

With the Fools: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Beaverquest: The Musical. Co-Chair of our Summer Theatre Camp for Kids!

Broadway Company and National Touring Company of Les Miserables, London’s West End and the Geffen Playhouse with Joan Rivers in Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress, Regional Theaters including: A Noise Within (The Maids, The Bungler, Noises Off) The Theatre@Boston Court (Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Mother Courage, The Dinosaur Within), Ahmanson Theatre (James Joyce’s The Dead), La Jolla Playhouse (Zhivago, Dracula), La Mirada Theatre (Evita), Playwrights’ Arena (The Orange Grove), International City Theatre (Bed & Sofa), and Echo Theater Company (Uncle Vanya, Thursday). Film/TV: Dallas, Criminal Minds, The Odd Couple, House of Lies, Shameless, Southland, Cold Case, Big Love, Helen of Troy (mini-series), and others. Education/Training: B. Mus. And B.A. from Northwestern University.

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Scott Leggett

Scott Leggett most recently appeared as Monster in Cookie and the Monster at the Hollywood Fringe Festival '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. Scott is a member of the Sacred Fools Theater Company where he played the titular character in Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes as well as its sequel Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini. Other shows include 43 Plays for 43 Presidents and The Swine Show in addition to numerous other productions. He studied theater at Penn State University (where he worked with Keegan Michael Key and Ty Burrell) and has appeared in several films, commercials and TV shows.

Scott is also an accomplished director having staged the hugely successful adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at Sacred Fools. He recently directed The Poe Show which won Best Comedy at the Hollywood Fringe Festival'15. His next directorial effort is Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet which will have its World Premiere at Sacred Fools.

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Richard Levinson

Member since 2007, active in Ten Tops and Serial Killers prior. First mainstage participation: Swine Show. Written at least 100 songs for Serial Killers (6 Thursty Awards!), Fast'n'Loose and other shows. Mainstage musical Savin' Up For Saturday Night, premiered 2009, now published by Samuel French, Ovation nominated for music and lyrics, Ovation winner for Male Performance (Brendan Hunt). Assoc. Prod on many shows, 1 year term on Board of Directors. Performed in Louis and Keely at Sacred Fools and beyond. Proudest immortal achievement: naming the "Swine Booth." Never did concessions for Fast'n'Loose.

40 year career as a professional dilettante. Songwriting for dozens of TV shows (usually in the deep background, don't bother asking), radio spot production for Capitol Records, approximately 300 jingles with all major (and minor and scammy) advertising awards including 2 Clios, one hit comedy song sung by Burt Reynolds before you were born, several years working with Fred Willard's sketch group "the Mohos," multiple projects for National Lampoon and Jazzercise, Inc. Magazine writing for Los Angeles Magazine, Lampoon, Paul Krassner's Realist, and the late, lamented LA Reader and BAM. Marketing, copywriting and advertising consultant for... ok, that's enough. Local theater highlights outside of Fools? Peace in Our Time (Antaeus), Clown Bar, No-Shame Theater, Priscilla's Perfect Day, and Thanks a Lot - My Gratitusical! (LA Fringe). I'm also a father to a very cool daughter. And oh yeah, I know an actor who was in the original Oh, Calcutta. So do you.

Mike Mahaffey

Mike Mahaffey is thrilled to be in the Sacred Fools Theater Company and Neverwhere. Live Theatre roles: Littlechap in Stop the World , Baloo in Jungalbook , Jinx in Forever Plaid, Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream, MacBeth . Selected Film and TV credits: Resident Evil: Degeneration, Chronicles of Narnia, The Bannen Way, The Squirrel King, Warriors, Finding Cody, A Star is Scorned. As a fight director, Mike has choreographed Obie, Tony and Emmy-award winning artists at San Diego Opera, English Theatre of Frankfurt, Tacoma Actors Guild as well as numerous theatres and short films in the greater Los Angeles area, including Carmen at San Diego Opera and originating the Money & Run series at Theater Schmeater, where he won numerous awards for his entertaining fight direction. Mike is recognized as a Fight Director and Certified Teacher by the Society of American Fight Directors and has received numerous other awards and accolades for his work as a performer and choreographer. Mike is also an avid motorcyclist, and if you see one parked out front of the theater, it's probably his. Follow @MikeKMahaffey on Twitter too! Thanks!

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David Mayes

Producer: Hamlet Shut Up (2009); Richard III (2012); Neverwhere (2013); Bill & Joan (2014); A Woman of No Importance (2014); The Poe Show at Sacred Fools (2013 and 2014); Mom's Dead (2016)

Associate Producer: Skullduggery (2016)

Writer, Actor - The David Mayes Show; Serial Killers (2014)

Actor - Various Serial Killers pieces throughout the years.

I am an active litigation attorney, I do lots of physical activities, I sleep sometimes.

I am a member of a film production company called, "Watermelon Pirate" along with JJ Mayes and Roger Kovalchick; we have one short in post-production currently.

I produced The Poe Show and Faster for the Hollywood Fringe and acted in Toddler Bangs America, also with the Hollywood Fringe.

I have never performed in Oh, Calcutta! on Broadway, but a boy can dream.

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JJ Mayes

For Sacred Fools JJ has directed The Magic Bullet Theory, Live! From the Last Night of My Life, as well as numerous pieces in Fast & Loose and Serial Killers, where he is a four-time "Mosty" winner for "Most Director." JJ has appeared on stage in Tallgrass Gothic, Land of the Tigers, Madness in Valencia and Easy Targets. He has Produced Louis & Keely, Savin’ Up for Saturday Night, Forbidden Zone, Puzzler, Voice Lessons, A Kind of Love Story, The Behavior of Broadus, Serial Killers, and F&L. JJ also served 3 terms on the Artistic Committee and as Marketing Director. JJ was chosen to represent Sacred Fools in the Creation of TPLLA.

Away from the Fools, JJ has directed and produced for Television, Film, Theater, and the Web. His dog has an awesome instagram account, @king_renly_the_chug.

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David LM McIntyre

David is a 4th generation Los Angelino and can sometimes be quite smug about it.  He has appeared in Theatre Movement Bazaar's trilogy at Sacred Fools (dumbshOw, CÏRQUE PÏCNÍQUE and Strange Beliefs) as well as in Crazyface, Retro Radio, Tell the bees., Dubya 2004, and I Wrote This.  At Sacred Fools he has directed the World premiere of RESIGNATION DAY by Charles Pike and the Los Angeles premieres of VALPARAISO by Don DeLillo, [sic] by Melissa James Gibson, FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE by Clive Barker and Kookamonga Falls by Todd Miller.  He produced Land of the Tigers, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Big Blonde, Naked Holidays 2003, Laura’s Bush, My Uncle Sam, F.L.E.A.S.H.O.W., and many years of Fast & Loose.  He has a BFA from NYU and an MFA from UCSD and the initials in his name are a preventative ward against werewolves.

Outside of Sacred Fools, David has toured to Scotland, England and China with Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat and Track 3, appeared with Helen Hunt in Our Town directed by David Cromer, appeared in two plays directed by Anne Bogart in New York, one, produced by En Garde Arts in a former Cancer Hospital, and the other at the Joe Papp Public Theatre in a co-production with Mabou Mines. Assistant directed productions for Les Waters, Robert Woodruff, Anne Bogart, Michael Greif and Walt Jones.

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Cj Merriman

Cj started out doing Magnum Opus with Fools way back in 2007. Since then she has been in buckets full of Serial Killers as well as Mary Watson in Watson, Marsha in The Magic Bullet Theory, Whitey the Chicken in The Behavior of Broadus and Dull in Skullduggery.

Cj proudly got a BFA in acting at Webster Conservatory for Theatre Arts. Productions outside of Fools: Tybalt in the Mine Is Yours production of R&J, the doctor in Cymbeline at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and many beloved productions at the Hollywood Fringe Festival: Night Witches, Poe Show, and Toddler Bangs America.

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DeAnne Millais

Set Designer for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Taste, Occupation, Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Past Time, and Skullduggery.

Nominated for an L.A. Weekly Theater Award for Best Scenic Design: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Winner of the inaugural Stage Raw Award and nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design: Taste.

In addition to design work for theater, film, exhibits and live experiences: Over 18 years in event production, project management, marketing communications, and branding for corporate and non-profit clientele. Events include galas, sales meetings, incentive trips, golf tournaments, donor cultivation events, product launches, community programs, lectures, and much more.

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Linda Muggeridge

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Guy Picot

Wrote and directed The Christmas Present. Played Charlie Chaplin in Stoneface (also at Pasadena Playhouse). Written, directed and acted in several Serial Killers. as well as for Fast and Loose. Served on the Artistic Committee 2013/14.

Played Eddie/Dr. Scott in European tour of The Rocky Horror Show. Wrote episodes of Primetime Network UK shows Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives. Co-wrote the book for the West End Musical Ferry Cross the Mersey starring Gerry Marsden. Wrote lyrics for touring UK and US children's shows Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Pigeon Party. Associate director of Sock Puppet sitcom theatre.

Paul Plunkett

Paul grew up in Albuquerque, and began acting at age 7 in plays and then at age 8 in the film John Baker's Last Race, playing Mike, the sad little boy in the wheelchair. Later child acting credits also include playing Butch Cassidy's son in Butch and Sundance The Early Days and Otis Fagin, the clumsy demolitions expert in Independance.

He did all kinds of theatre (Writing, Producing and Directing, although the degree is in Acting) at the University of New Mexico, then moved on to New York, Seattle and now Los Angeles.

He was a founding Fool and had two of his full-length plays Catching Hell and The Swine Show produced on the Fools mainstage. He was a co-producer of CRIME SCENE during its first year and a half, as well as writing and directing the storylines "City of Angles", "Crocodile Gandhi Solver of Crimes" and "Cat City".

After hearing of overnight theatre projects in other cities, he proposed the Fools do it as well in their own way and coined the name Fast-N-Loose, but will never claim ownership of any kind.

He has produced several large-scale projects for the company, including the 2000 LA Weekly Theatre Awards (Sacred Fools was the host theatre), Dubya 2000, The Mechanical Rabbit and Frankenstein in Love.

He served a term as Literary Manager, and has been elected to three terms on the Artistic Committee (99-00, 03-04, 04-05).

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Marc Antonio Pritchett

Marc Antonio Pritchett is a classically trained actor, singer and stunt combatant with over 20 years of professional experience. He has appeared on the small screen in such shows as The Privateers, JAG, Arrested Development with Jason Bateman, and The West Wing with Martin Sheen. On the big screen, some of his appearances include The Onion Movie, The Bacchae, Soldier of God, and Frost Portrait of a Vampire with Gary Busey. He has also worked with award-winning recording artists such as Justin Timberlake, 30 Seconds to Mars and Josh Groban and performed live with Jordan Smith on NBC's The Voice. Most recently he sang on the Lion King (2019) soundtrack. As keyboardist of the indie band Velvet Chain, his talents were featured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sex and the City.

In addition to actively pursuing his acting and singing careers, Marc is quite active in the stunt fighting world as well. With over 20 years of theatrical combat experience and over 30 years of martial arts experience, he has worked in live events, theatre, opera, TV, film, and has just begun a foray into the world of motion capture. He works professionally through his company Artistry In Action and teaches theatrical combat through his combat school, The Art of The Swashbuckler.

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Ari Radousky

Ari is a graduate of California State University Northridge. Along with Sacred Fools, he's been a member of the Sons of Beckett Theatre Company, and the Independent Shakespeare Company. He's a writer, actor, and the presenter of the Five Minute Quiz, a fast paced, high pressure game show.

Matt Richter

Lighting and Sound Design. L.A. Weekly Award for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Stage Raw nomination for Astro Boy and the God of Comics. Almost went broke outfitting lights and sound for A Gulag Mouse, but it was absolutely worth it. Member since 2009 or so.

LADCC Award winner, StagesceneLA winner, L.A. Weekly Award winner, Stage Raw nominee, Robby Award nominee, Ovation Award nominee... but my parents say I'm already a winner.

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Jaime L. Robledo

Sacred Fools Company member who wrote and directed Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes, for which he was nominated for an Ovation Award for Direction and won Best Comedy Direction at the L.A. Weekly Awards. For Sacred Fools, he has also directed the World Premiere of Stoneface: the Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton, the West Coast Premiere Neighborhood 3:Requistion of Doom (Ovation Nominated) and the West Coast Premiere of Tallgrass Gothic.

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Harim Sanchez

Harim Sanchez is an award-winning playwright and director hailing from the dirty desert dustbowl Adelanto. He received his B.A. in CSUN and has also performed in a variety of shows, from Porthos in Three Musketeers to Jules in Nachtrieb's Boom, as well as various devised projects in Art Share LA. His work with Sacred Fools is showcased more recently with Serial Killers (Dir. Bros & Georgia Everly: Loose Cannon Wine Glass Designer) and Fast & Loose. He has Assistant Stage Managed Boston Court's Bars and Measures (2016) as well as Akuma-Shin (2018) and Crunch for Sacred Fools in the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. He is also a credited Assistant Director for Goonie (2017) in Atwater Village Theatre and more recently Four Clowns' Welcome to Illyria! (2019) which he also stage managed.

Sanchez is also a member of Four Clowns and has studied clown/idiot through Wet The Hippo and Zach Zucker.

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Travyz Santos Gatz

Travyz has stage managed The Magic Bullet Theory and served as the worst stagehand on The Coarse Acting Show. He also assistant directed Rose and the Rime and played Dale in the 2016 Serial Killers finalist, Questions and Comments. He is currently a producer of Serial Killers.

Travyz attended the University of La Verne where he received a BA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in directing. There he studied under Steve Kent and famed Croatian director, Georgij Paro. Since graduating in 2013 he has hit the ground rolling. His play The Sound of Silence was part of the OC-Centric new play festival. He has also written and directed the play Forced Conviction at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The following year he followed it up with producing and directing Faster by Adam Rapp at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In 2017 he created the Orange Mango Cabaret which also premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

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Ruth Silveira

Ruth has been active at Sacred Fools Theater since 1999. Acting: Naked Holidays 1, Comedy of Errors, Feet, Peer Gynt, Mechanical Rabbit, Crazyface, Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, [sic], Poona the Fuckdog, The Swine Show, Wintertime, Land of the Tigers, Puzzler, The Coarse Acting Show, and Past Time; Directing: Dracula: A Musical Nightmare, Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays, Slow and Tight, Fast and Loose, I Wrote This! (co-director), There is a Happiness That Morning Is; Writing: Grimm!, Naked Holidays 3; Costuming: Comedy of Errors, Caprice, Feet, Mechanical Rabbit, Don Juan in Chicago; Producing: Tell the bees., Love Tapes. Puppets: Watson.

She has in her life acted in a variety of vehicles, from Antigone to The Young and the Restless, from Hamlet to Laverne & Shirley. She spent years doing improv comedy up in San Francisco. She spent more years doing voice work down here in Los Angeles. She has two daughters, both of whom are also part of the Sacred Fools family: Jessie Marion and Maggie Marion.

Glenda Suggs

Glenda fell in love with Sacred Fools after seeing a production of Absolutely Filthy. She started her venture with Sacred Fools as assistant scenic painter for Neverwhere, and continued her painting for several shows at the Fools, including lead scenic painter for There Is a Happiness That Morning Is.

Glenda is a an actor in commercial, film and theater as well as a voice over artist and musical improvisor. Graduate of Cornish College of the Arts and the Second City Conservatory program. Reccurring cast member of Delusion, the interactive horror theater company, since 2013.

Outside of acting, Glenda is also a writer and producer. Most notably, she was the 1st AD for the award-winning holiday horror feature, All Through the House.

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Dan Wingard

Dan grew up in San Diego where he’s appeared at the Old Globe Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep and Starlight. Dan is a longtime member of Sacred Fools, where his appearances include award-winning productions of La Bête and The Swine Show, as well as Richard III. Dan is also a longtime member of Theatre of NOTE where appearances include award-winning productions of Hamlet: The First Quarto and A Mulholland Christmas Carol (original cast). Other L.A. appearances include Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Dan has won an ADA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy, and his television appearances include Vanishing Son, Point Pleasant on Fox and Eagleheart on Adult Swim.

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