Joe Matyas
JOE MATYAS (“John” in A Gaggle of Saints) is a graduate of The University of the Arts, His past credits include “Amy’s View” (Isis Productions), “The Elephant Man” (FeverDream Rep), “Precipice” (Bright Light Theatre Co.), “Take Me Out” (Plays & Players) and “To Kill A Mockingbird” (UArts). Joe is a certified actor/combatant by The Society of American Fight Directors and is currently fight choreographer for Bright Light Theatre Co.’s original devised work “All Places From Here”.
Pascale Smith
PASCALE SMITH (“Woman” in Medea Redux and “Sue” in A Gaggle of Saints) made her film debut in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village (2004). She has since appeared frequently on stage and screen, including performances at the Prince Music Theater, Plays and Players, and the Roy Arias Theater Center’s Off-Broadway Theater. Pascale is a member of Philadelphia’s Outside the Box Theater Company where she recently performed the role of Amanda in Timothy Mason’s The Less-Than-Human-Club, and of Tangle: Movement Arts, where she will appear as an aerialist in their 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival production of Ampersand. She makes her directing debut in her 2011 Fringe Festival production of Neil Labute’s BASH.
Josh Totora
JOSH TOTORA (“Young Man” in Iphigenia In Orem) is an actor, musician, and teaching artist in the Philadelphia area. As a performer, recent companies Josh has worked with are EgoPo Classic Theater, Bckseet Productions, and the Wilma Theater. With McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ Josh has composed/performed original scores for their education tours of Arabian Nights, and The Odyssey Experience. He is the resident artist of Little Fish Theatre Collaborative and a teaching artist with the Haddonfield Theater Arts Center
Lisbeth Bartlett
LISBETH BARTLETT (Acting Coach) is a professional actor and private acting coach. She has played leading roles on Broadway, Off Broadway and at regional theaters across the USA, including the Guthrie, Actors Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf, Stratford’s American Shakespeare Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Philadelphia Theatre Company and many others. Broadway and Off Broadway work includes The Dresser, Execution of Justice , The Lady’s Not For Burning, The Cave Dwellers and many others. Feature films include Rocket Science, Amadeus, Saint Christopher, Suspect and many others. Lisbeth has been nominated for and won several film and theater acting awards. She has taught acting and audition workshops at undergraduate theater programs, graduate conservatory acting programs and professional theater schools, including Temple University, Northwestern, Brandeis, University of the Arts, Drexel, the Wilma, and many others. She holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and Masters degrees from NYU Tisch and Sarah Lawrence College.
