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Abel Arias is an actor, improviser, and an all-around good human. He has appeared in successful network shows such as Criminal Minds and Angie Tribeca.
Growing up in San Francisco, Abel fell in love with acting and comedy from a young age. Eager to pursue a career in the arts, he enrolled in Theatre classes at UC Santa Cruz. While there, a growing interest in DJing inspired him to create an entire radio show that is still captivating KZSC listeners to this day. Abel's curiosity led him to complete classes in the art of clowning and juggling as well - learning a playfulness that he utilizes in all of his acting work.
After graduating, Abel moved to Los Angeles and immediately enrolled in classes at The Groundlings, Upright Citizen Brigade (UCB), and ComedySportz (CSz). For the next 15 years, Abel made a living working in the entertainment industry and performing stand-up at iconic venues such as The Comedy Store, The Ice House, and The Improv. After years of performing, Abel took this knowledge to teach at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and guest teach at high schools in the Los Angeles area. His experience motivated him to create a curriculum specifically for actors who want to apply the principles and skills of improvisation to scripted performance.
Abel continues to act, teach, improvise, and explore the many facets of the entertainment industry.- Actress
- Writer
Cathy Diane Tomlin was born and raised in South Los Angeles, CA. She began taking acting classes at the age of 14, first at Inner City Cultural Center, then at Theater of Arts in Hollywood.
Cathy's fledgling acting career was put on hold when she attended Tuskegee University, an HBCU in Alabama, to study Mechanical Engineering. While there, she managed to find time to perform in a handful of college theater productions. After graduating with honors, she moved to Greenville, SC to start her engineering career. However, she was sidetracked by rediscovering theater and performing in local productions.
Ultimately, Cathy decided to move to New York City (abandoning engineering altogether) to pursue acting full-time. Within a few months, she booked her first acting job as a stand-in on the Cosby Show --- standing in for Tempest Bledsoe and Sabrina Le Beauf --- for the last three seasons of the show. She was cast from a massive open call that saw upwards of 2,000 actors.
In between Off-Off Broadway productions, Cathy had co-starring roles on Daytime Dramas --- All My Children (NY & LA), One Life to Live, Another World, Loving (2 years) and As The World Turns (12 years) --- appeared on Prime Time shows such as Law & Order, and co-starred opposite George Clooney in Michael Clayton.
After many years in NY, Cathy returned to Los Angeles. She studied Commercial acting with Stuart K. Robinson, and Theatrical technique with Will Wallace. She also joined several theater companies ---The Group Rep, The Vagrancy, Theatre 40 and Theatre West. In her free time, Cathy remains active and has been on an Adult League Softball Team for over twenty years.
Since being back in LA, Cathy has performed in Theatre, Film, TV - Primetime/Daytime/Cable, New Media, Print and Voiceover.- Actress
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Esther Canata is an international singer/songwriter, recording artist and actress of stage and screen.
Born and raised in NJ, she began singing in church at 5 years old and performed throughout childhood studying voice, dance and acting. Esther attended the esteemed Somerset County Vocational/Technical gifted and talented program in high school, further advanced her theatrical studies as apprentice actor to the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and then became a 2nd year alumni of the prestigious William Esper Drama School in NYC where she trained with Vicki Hart and Bill Esper. She attended Bill Esper's 3rd year MasterClass by invitaion only and Shakespeare Intensive as well.
As indie-film actress she can be seen in a starring roles in American Mummy, opposite Michael Madsen in Hired Gun, Metro, Slammed and with Drea De Matteo in "Love,Rome".
Notable stage credits include Othello and CowBoy Mouth at The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival , Mark Weiser's rock opera The Cure at infamous NYC Club Limelight, award winning Disassembly by Steve Yockey at Theatre of Note in Hollywood and various works at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She has trained alongside and appeared in stage productions opposite the likes of Peter Dinklage, David Harbour and Drea Dematteo and is a member of Theatre of Note in Hollywood.
Esther is a long term member of ASCAP, shared a publishing deal w/ BMG music, licenses her music to Film/TV soundtracks w/ Warner Bros, Miramax, Lifetime, SyFy and Netflix etc. and has performed globally in different genres ranging from neo-soul, electronica, pop rock and house music. She is front woman of cinematic, electronic-pop duo, LionGale, w/composer/producer Lionel Cohen. Esther has graced the stages of famous venues from NYC to LA to Europe such as Joe's Pub, The Cutting Room, The Whiskey GoGo, The Knitting Factory ,The House of Blues,The Viper Room, The Roxy, and The Lovestock Festival and was a contestant on Fuse Tv's , Redemption Song. She has collaborated with award winning producers such as Jimmy Harry, Tommy Coster, Frederik Weidmann, Peter Michael Escovedom, Lionel Cohen, Angelo Milli, Lucas Vidal, Andy Heard , Anthony Krizan, Skully, David Merige, and Mark Garcia.- Actor
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Frank Caeti is a multi-talented performer who embodies life as an actor, writer, and director. He has appeared in several major network shows including Chicago Fire, Modern Family, MadTV, NCIS, Adam Ruins Everything and Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Caeti has come a long way from growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. With his unbeatable determination to succeed, Caeti was the first person in his immediate family to go to college and to pursue a career in the arts. After graduating from college, and feeling inspired, Caeti headed straight to The Second City in Chicago, enrolled in classes, and immersed himself in the vibrant Chicago comedy scene.
Frank is an alumnus of The Second City where he toured the world, as well as wrote and performed shows with resident companies in Las Vegas and Chicago. While performing on the resident company he was hired as a series regular on MadTV, which brought him to Los Angeles, and he has been working in the entertainment industry ever since.
Recent work is an indication of Frank's diverse range of talent which includes a mostly non verbal and hilariously physical Boom Operator in the Slamdance Award winning cult classic film Dave Made A Maze, several voices on the upcoming Netflix animated series Chicago Party Aunt, a memorable turn as Captain Kangaroo in Jimmy Kimmel Live's parody of Tom Hanks' A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a guest star on Chicago Fire, co-writing the off-Broadway play #DateMe, and directing two plays at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Frank aspires to continue to diversify his talent to incorporate more acting, writing, directing, and teaching.- Jeremiah Hahn is an actor and writer who has had the good fortune to play recurring roles as both a grieving father and as a scheming cult member in two different series on the Blumhouse backed Crypt TV. He has also worked on more than a dozen other commercial, music video and filmed projects.
An avid swimmer and runner in his free time, Jeremiah resides in Los Angeles. - Actor
- Writer
Jessie Serpas is a Salvadoran actor born in Glendale, California. Growing up, when his Aunt worked as a make-up artist on a variety of film sets, Jessie begged to be taken along to watch the actors perform. He fell in love with the craft from a young age.
Eager to continue his education and pursue a career in the arts, Serpas attended the Theatre of Arts school in Hollywood, immersing himself in a variety of disciplines such as Acting Technique, Commercial Technique, Motion Capture, and Stand-Up Comedy. While there, he starred in plays at the esteemed Black Box Theatre in Hollywood and wrote and performed his own comedy set at the World Famous Comedy Store.
Since graduating, Jessie has been accepted into the Groundlings School of Improv, worked with UCLA's directing program on a thesis film, and starred in a short Watching You that was selected for the Get It Made film festival. With Jessie's hunger for knowledge and determination to succeed, he continues to attend workshops, classes, and seminars to further expand his knowledge.- Actor
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Matthew Garcia is a film and theater actor born in McAllen, TX, a small town located in the Rio Grande Valley on the Mexican border.
In high school, Matt discovered his passion for acting while starring in main stage plays and creating short films with friends. For his broadcast news experience, he was awarded the 2nd Place Anchor at the Student Television Network competition. Eager to continue an education in the arts, Matt attended St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, and graduated with a BA in Theater Performance.
Moving to Los Angeles, Matt furthered his studies learning the Meisner technique at the prestigious Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, landed roles in a variety of national and regional commercial ads, created, produced, and starred in a series pilot On The Rocks, and took the stage in performances of The Importance of Being Earnest and Comedy of Errors.
In his spare time, Matt enjoys playing the drums, cooking, and staying active outdoors.- Make-Up Department
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- Producer
Robert is a Los Angeles-based writer/director.
Born to Robert and Dale Etta Hensley of Ohiopyle, he was raised before the backdrop of the lush Laurel Highlands. Even growing up in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, Robert felt a certain connection to the entertainment industry. His father's lineage produced several iconic performers, most notably Patsy Cline. Throughout his academic career, Robert excelled in the arts, and sought opportunities to work in and around the theatre, developing a keen interest in working with actors.
With over two decades of experience working in entertainment; first in theatre and then film, Robert began his career as a costume designer, later transitioning to makeup and special effects, and now film-making. As a costume designer, his work has included work on contemporary ballets and world premiere plays off-Broadway and in Los Angeles. His work on Gatsby in Hollywood by Joshua Rebell was nominated for Best Costumes at the 2003 Garland Awards. As a makeup artist, his talent and skills with cosmetics have allowed him to travel and create styles for some of the most famous faces in the world for red carpets, magazine covers, television shows, and on film.
While writing had always been a hobby, a dare led Robert to write his first play, The Dark Sisters, a short adaptation of a Grimm Brothers' fairy tale. It was originally produced as part of George Larkin's Grimm Fest at the MET Theatre in Los Angeles in 2003, and was later published as part of a Grimm Fest anthology by JAC Publishing. His next play, the full-length dark comedy Turning Out, was produced in Los Angeles by the Blank Theatre Company, and was also published by JAC. He later self-published a collection of short plays, Death, Life and a Creme Filled Center, which had been produced as a staged reading at Anthony Meindl's Meta Theatre.
His first self-published work of fiction was the YA novella, Leo's Love Story, an LGBT-themed, sci-fi teen romance. It was nominated for the YA Fiction Award at the 2013 Los Angeles Book Awards. He most recently published a collection of short screenplays, Short Attention Span.
Robert's first produced screenplay, the short film Texas Toast, was produced by Alyson Fouse and directed by Chane't Johnson. Over the past ten years, he has written, directed and produced a variety of scenes and short films, including the drama A Mother's Love, starring veteran character actress Veronica Alicino, which can now be viewed on his YouTube channel. His award-winning short film, The Taste of Salt, screened in five festivals in five months, winning five awards, and is now available for streaming on Amazon. His most recent short, the award-winning contemporary ghost story, Homewrecker, which was inspired by the traditional fable of "La Llorona," is currently screening at festivals.
Robert has also written several feature-length screenplays and a pilot. Robert is currently attached to direct the romantic comedy, Roasted, from a screenplay he wrote, which was optioned by Leonian Pictures.
Robert was recently inducted into the Uniontown Area High School Academics, Arts & Athletics Hall of Fame.