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Russell Legaspi is an actor from Manila spending most of his time in the Cultural Center of the Philippines performing and training. Some of his credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Mother Courage, Three sisters, Le Malade Imaginaire. He has done several films and national tv commercials for Coke, Johnson & Jonson, and enervon to name a few. He has also received nominations and received awards for his acting on screen and stage. Currently he is hiding in his cave writing plays and other stories.

Born in Detroit but raised all over the midwest, Ella’s central home was a cabin built by her great grandparents on the shore of Lake Michigan. With beautiful but isolating surroundings Ella would spend time acting, writing and playing music to connect with her favourite literary characters and with others around her.

Feeling deeply connected with Stella Adler Studio’s core belief that growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous, they moved to New York and graduated from Stella Adler Studio’s Three Year Conservatory program.

Her creative focus is exploring connections made through artistic mediums, art as a benefit to mental health and trauma recovery, and shedding light on otherwise overlooked parts of humanity.

Mouna Soualem has been acting since the age of 11, having appeared in such films as: Steven Spielberg’s MUNICH (2006), Amos Gitai’s LATER YOU WILL UNDERSTAND (2008), Hiam Abbass’s INHERITANCE (2012), Hafsia Herzi’s YOU DESERVE A LOVER (2019), and Dina Amer’s YOU RESEMBLE ME (2020). Up next, she will play the female lead in the Disney+ series, OUSSEKINE, by French director Antoine Chevrollier.

Mouna earned a degree in cinema at the University of Paris 8, where she made her foray into theater, starring in lead roles such as Nina in THE SEAGULL, directed by Hélène Babu. She was then accepted into the Gabriel Fauré Conservatory in Paris 5 and later moved to New York where she studied at the renowned Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

A multi-faceted artist, Mouna showcased a creative piece at the 2018 Avignon Festival Section OFF in France. Last year, she was an artist-in-residence at The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She recently wrapped rehearsals on a dance show, set to premiere in 2022, called BROKEN THEATER, directed by Bobbi Jene Smith and created at the La Mama Experimental Theater Club in New York.

Dominic Williamson is an American actor, based in New York. He graduated from Texas A&M Corpus Christi with a major in Theatre: Acting/Directing and a minor in Communication. Currently he is training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (Class of 2021). Some of his Credits include Phillip in The Shape of Things (Stella Adler Studio), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), Marquis De Sade in Marat/Sade (Warren Theatre), Joseph Surface in School for Scandal (Wilson Theatre), Tiphy’s in Argonautica (Warren Theatre), Norman in moonchildren (CC theatre), Yang Sun in Good Woman of Szechuan (Warren Theatre).

(Co-Founder and Director of TeamTheatre)

Gwendolyn Snow is an award-winning director, producer, and actress based in New York City. She studied at the University of Southern Indiana and graduated Stella Adler’s Three Year Professional Conservatory in 2019. She co-founded TeamTheatre LLC and established it as a legitimized company in 2020. She has been working to create, develop, and complete projects for TeamTheatre. The most recent being a producer and director for Fun Fast Feb Fest 2021 which had a global audience, and her favorite directing project being a devised theatre piece developed in 2019 called Golden Girl by the Sea by Dorothea Gloria. In that year she also produced and directed Almost, Mane by John Cariani for The G.C.C. in Astoria, NY and The Philosophy Play by Yiqing Zhao for Riant Theater in Manhattan. Her other credits include three original works framed at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, at Shetler Studios in Manhattan. The Truth by Yinging Zhao, Express by Mack Velle, which won the best one-act award as a part of their summer one act play competition in 2018, and The Sun Tries Dating which was asked back for their best of 2018 short play celebration that December. Gwendolyn is also passionate about her “day job” of managing households for people with physical and/or mental disabilities. She also runs a successful Etsy tarot-reading business and an instagram page dedicated to documenting urban witchcraft.

Ig: @gwendolynthesnow, @gwynwitch

Regina Carregha, is a vibrant bilingual actress from Cancún México, based in New York City.

She trained at Santa Fe University of Art and Design (New Mexico), and The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York).

Some of her credits include, Heather's The Musical (SFUAD), The Three Penny Opera (SFUAD), The Clean House (SA), Between Riverside and Crazy (SA), and Twelfth Night (SA), to name a few.

Whether is acting or writing, Regina loves working on Latinx and Womxn's empowerment stories. With her art, she wants to bring more visibility for these groups on Theater, Film and Television.

She is a proud associate of TeamTheatre.

To know a little more about Regina (Reh-Hee-Nah): https://linktr.ee/ReginaCarregha

Tim is a British actor from Romford, Essex who is Meisner trained at Michael Warner Studio in NYC. He currently resides in Brooklyn where he is a Finance Director and a working actor. He has played various roles in British Theatre and American repertory theatres off Broadway. He has also performed in various short films and TV features in the U.S. He is excited to be an Associate of TEAM.

Follow the journey of Tim on Instagram @timjamescordell

Tim - IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6899279/

Evan Walker is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and a member of the prestigious National Youth Theatre in the UK.

Evan has played many diverse roles including: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Stella Adler Studio of Acting); Lottie/Carmen in By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), Claire in Promethea: Or The Mother of Science Fiction (Hudson Guild Theatre), Stephano/Boatswain/Ceres in The Tempest (Stella Adler Studio of Acting) and Frida in Lines (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Evan has a keen interest in work that promotes diversity and focuses on Black and working-class experiences. She is extremely excited and proud to be working with TeamTheatre, as well as beginning work with her new theatre company, The Silver Lining, in London.

Prior to training as an actor, Evan was the Assistant Stage Manager for multiple productions at the West End theatre Trafalgar Studios. She has also worked in several positions at The London Palladium and is looking forward to branching out into other aspects of the industry.

Anastasia is a London-based actress and theatremaker. With a background in classical acting (LAMDA, MA), as well as years as an innovator in science and AI tech, Anastasia is interested in cross-disciplinary approaches and themes in classical and contemporary storytelling. Amongst others, her work focuses on innovative ways of expanding access to theatre for both performers and audiences. She has lived and worked as a performer and theatremaker in Athens, Zurich and London, collaborating with entities that advocate diversity in modern cosmopolitan habitats (Old Diorama Arts Centre, Mazi Theatre Company, Royal College of Arts). In her ongoing partnership with Team Theatre Company she has been working towards projects focused on cross-cultural heritage and advocating under-represented or mis-represented voices within the storytelling and casting standards of the performance arts industry.

Award winning actor, playwright, and producer. She has been nominated for acting and writing Broadway World Awards for her debut play, “For Love, Sir” and starred in productions of “Lysistrata” (Lysistrata), “John and Jen: A New Musical” (Jen), “Gidion’s Knot” (Corryn), and many more. @daringduffy

Nina is a teacher, lighting/sound designer, stage manager, and actor from Asheville NC. She holds a BA in theatre studies from Guilford College in Greensboro NC.

In her regular life she is a forest school teacher with Brooklyn Nature Days and spends her days exploring nature and fostering a love for all things leafy, feathered, and spiky in her students. In her spare time she enjoys birdwatching, staring at the moon, and couch potato-ing.

Melanie is an actor and stage combatant from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned a BFA in acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2015), and graduated from the Stella Adler 3-year Professional Conservatory here in NYC (2019). She has been training in the art of stage combat since her undergraduate with the Society of American Fight Directors, accumulating hundreds of hours of learning, as well as teaching alongside the accredited choreographer, J. Steven White (recent credit of Burn This with Adam Driver and Keri Russell on Broadway). Melanie's favorite theatrical credits include: Marci in Almost, Maine (TEAM Theatre), Abigail Williams in The Crucible, Bev & Kathy in Clybourne Park, Rosaline in Love's Labours Lost (Stella Adler), Kaliope in She Kills Monsters, and Dani in Cementville (UWM).

www.melanieliebetrau.com

Adam Martin is a director, acting coach, and script editor. Adam most recently directed The Play of The Future by Paul Atreides as part of TeamTheatre’s Fun Fast Feb Fest. Other directing credits include: Half Empty; Half Full by Kiana Wu at The Hudson Guild Theatre and Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really at IATI Theater with Wrong House Productions, Sam Shepherd’s Fool for Love at Stella Adler Studio, and Donald Margulies’ one act Misadventure as part of the Big Apple Slices Festival of Short Plays at the Bridge Theatre. He was part of the directing team for Wrong House Productions’ Sketchy Weekend at TADA! Theatre, and as part of the directing team for Wrong House’s first sketch show, Sketchy Launch. Adam most recently assistant directed Macbeth at the Stella Adler Studio, and Almost, Maine by John Cariani at the Greek Cultural Center. Other assistant directing credits include: Golden Girl by The Sea by Dorothea Gloria at the Greek Cultural Center,The Sun Tries Dating by Dorothea Gloria at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, which was part of the Best of 2018 Short Play Celebration, Express by Mack Velle, which won the one-act summer play festival at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and he served as assistant director to Stephanie Yankwitt for the Stella Adler 2017 Industry Showcase for the Three Year Conservatory and the NYU BFA acting program. Adam has studied directing under Austin Pendleton at HB Studio. He is a graduate of the Three Year Professional Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from California State University, San Bernardino, and has been fortunate enough to study with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Adam is currently in apprenticeship at the Stella Adler Studio for scene study under Sam Schacht the former dean of the Actors Studio.