Staff

Sidney Edwards | Co-Artistic Director

Sidney Edwards (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary theatre practitioner. Through Sacred Fools she developed her solo piece Ms. Edwards and directed the award winning solo piece TYT 5 (tight five) performed by Byron Coolie. Both shows were nominated for best solo show in the 2024 and 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festivals (respectively). Sidney is passionate about arts education and has worked as a teaching artist for Geffen Playhouse, Cleveland Play House and the legendary Karamu House Theater. She currently teaches elementary theatre for the Los Angeles Unified School District. Sidney has served as Theater Faculty at Baldwin Wallace and The University of Louisville, where she was the Director of the African American Theater Program.

Scott Leggett | Co-Artistic Director

Scott Leggett (he/him) has been a part of the Los Angeles theatre community since 2007 and has had the pleasure of working with some amazing artists - with the Fools and beyond. At Sacred Fools, he played the titular character in Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes as well as its sequel and earned praise playing Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle opposite French Stewart in the critically acclaimed production of Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton (also at Pasadena Playhouse). Scott is a Hollywood Fringe veteran, having directed This Show Is Surrounded By True Events in 2024 while at the same time producing 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, and 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. Scott is also an accomplished director, having staged for Sacred Fools the hugely successful adaptation of Forbidden Zone, Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to "Hamlet" and more. He also directed The Poe Show, which won Best Comedy at the HFF '15, He studied theater at Penn State University and has appeared in several films, commercials and TV shows.

Padraic Duffy | Managing Director

Padraic Duffy (he/him) As a playwright, Padraic has worked at theaters throughout L.A., including The Met Theater, The Echo Theater Co., Sacred Fools Theater Co., Theater of NOTE, Cypress College, The Road Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre LA. His full-length plays include Feet, The Mechanical Rabbit, Tell the bees., Something is Hidden Inside the Couch, Past Time, Beaverquest: The Musical!, and Puzzler. He has served as the Managing Director of The Sacred Fools Theater since 2010.

Bruno Oliver | Director of Operations & Peer Engagement

Bruno Oliver (he/him) is an award-winning stage and screen actor who has gone all-in on L.A.'s small theater scene. He has been working with Sacred Fools since 1998. For the company he produced The Art Couple, Gifted, Rose and the Rime, A Gulag Mouse, was Assoc. Prod. for Dubya 2000, and he's performed in many Fools’ productions, including Waiting for Waiting for Godot, Occupation, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Coarse Acting Show, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare, Timon of Athens, The Box, Serial Killers, Crime Scene and more. He is currently on the Board of Directors, on which he served as President for 10 years. Around L.A. he's also worked with Rogue Machine, New American Theater, I.C.T., Whitefire, Zoo District and all three years of the innovative SCI-FEST One-Act Play Festival. He's a long time Hollywood Fringe Festival veteran, having appeared in at least a dozen shows, including Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godominos and also directed The Dog Log, which is currently still playing in various venues. Bruno has performed in N.Y., Seattle, Chicago, Edinburgh Fringe, The Utah and Wisconsin Shakespeare Fests, and in a bunch of TV shows and independent films. • IG @BrunoOliverAct • FB @BrunoOliver

Emily Kosloski | Education Director, Business Manager & Grants Coordinator

Emily Kosloski (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based theatre and television actress who has been working with Sacred Fools for many years both on and off stage. She performed with the Broadway company and National Touring Company of Les Miserables and on London's West End with Joan Rivers in Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress. Regional credits include A Noise Within (A Christmas Carol, Noises Off, The Bungler, Ah! Wilderness), Geffen Playhouse (Joan Rivers Project), Ahmanson Theatre (James Joyce's The Dead), La Jolla Playhouse (Zhivago, Dracula), La Mirada Theatre (Evita), Playwrights' Arena (The Orange Grove), Theatre @ Boston Court (The Dinosaur Within, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Mother Courage), Sacred Fools Theater (Do Androids Dream...), and the Echo Theater Company (Thursday, Anon). Recent TV appearances include recurring roles on Dallas, The Fosters, and Weird City, and over 30 guest stars including those on Physical, Mom, Fam, Shameless, The Odd Couple, Criminal Minds, Southland, Cold Case, Big Love, and more. Emily has a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a Certificate in Musical Theater and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Northwestern University.

Rebecca Schoenberg | Technical Director

Rebecca Schoenberg (she/her) is thrilled to be serving as Sacred Fools' Technical Director at The Broadwater since 2022 where she has worked on Recent Alien Abductions, The One, Ms.Edwards and others. She is responsible for coordinating all the Tech/Stage Mgmt. in the building during the Hollywood Fringe Festival during which she also S.M.s the Broadwater Black Box, running dozens of shows every June. Rebecca has worked extensively in the L.A. Intimate Theater community with groups such as The Echo, The Road, Elephant and the LA LGBT Center. She lives in the valley with her husband and two cats.