Simona Shyne’s acting debut in Los Angeles started as a Co-Lead in the movie “Slasherparty” which she finalized after appearing in an Influencer Short Film on Youtube called “Don’t Trust Strangers”. 

When she first moved out here she met her acting coach Ryan Glasgow which she is still seeing till today to become better at her art. 

Ambitious as she is she is not waiting for success to magically come her way but works hard to achieve her acting goals which is why she is currently polishing her own feature film script with Director Tony Villalobos. Besides that she is always making some smaller appearances in music videos. 

The daughter of Bulgarian Immigrants in Germany was born in Cologne and raised in Siegburg and left her home town by herself to pursue her big acting dream in Hollywood. Growing up bilingual is the reason for her being fluent in German, Bulgarian and later on also in French. 

Simona is absolutely excited to work on a challenging projects in the future and show that there is more than only great male parts. 

Hollie graduated with her BFA in Acting from UC Santa Barbara’s intensive BFA Actors Training program, which is highly selective and maintains an exciting balance between rigorous classical training, exploration of new work, and individual artistic creation.

​Hollie also attended the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England where she studied and performed Shakespearean excerpts and the work of contemporary British playwrights. Hollie has recently had the privilege of performing in the Hollywood Fringe Festival as well as Zombie Joe’s Underground Annual Urban Death Tour of Terror. She currently resides in Los Angeles and is pursuing a career in film, television and theater.

Alex is an actress with years of experience and many credits to her name. Her portrayal of Abigail Folger in American Horror Story: Cult of FX is her favorite recent role, though many wonderful projects are on the horizon.

   Fostering her love for music and performance, Alexandra trained at Elon University, achieving her BFA in Musical Theatre; this accompanies her degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Drama. After years of dramatic schooling at schools such as Michael Chekov’s studio in NY and Stuart Rogers scene study in LA, Alex refined her comedic skills by studying with the UCB Comedy, completing each corse in their improv curriculum.

   The most recent iterations of Alex’s work include her grounded performance as unfulfilled housewife, Alice, in the short film. “For Display Only”, her regular hosting of the whisky-lover’s go-to Youtube channel, SingleMaltTV, and her hilariously committed portrayals of everything from a militant art teacher to a 1940’s starlet in various sketches produced by The Fun Police sketch comedy channel. On top of all of these versatile roles, she currently has a top secret digital series in post production which features Alex as a butt-kicking, tactical-gear-sporting soldier. From vulnerable, to tough ,to uproariously funny, Alex’s skills run the gamut!

   Working from her home in LA, Alex lives with her husband, Andy, and two small dogs. She loves to play guitar and sing, especially when taking impromptu requests from friends at parties. Delighting in travel, Alex and Andy have ventured to beautiful countries like Iceland and Thailand, and they hope to discover many more incredible places together in the future.

   Alex looks forward to many more years of creating art and making meaningful connections in the entertainment industry and elsewhere; delighting in what a privilege it is to be given the opportunity to live in and grow through “the work”.

Anna Ross is a Toronto-born, now LA-based actor, model, and dancer. Union affiliations include AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She received a degree as a Drama Specialist (Theatre Performance) at the University of Toronto in early 2011 and, throughout her years of dedication to her work, she has garnered significant experience in the realms of theatre, film & television, commercial acting, commercial/editorial modeling, and dance photography/videography.

Anna is a trained dancer in a broad variety of styles, including (but not limited to) ballet, jazz, swing, lyrical, contemporary, and Eastern fusion.

Anna has starred in plays, such as “New Talent” at the London Fringe Theatre Festival, Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival, and Hamilton Fringe Theatre Festival. The play received a five-star rating and Eye Weekly commends the cast’s “brilliant acting” and comments that “Ross heartbreakingly captures the frailty beneath her character’s veil of indifference”.

Anna has worked consistently in film and television projects since her debut as an actor. The first film in which Anna had a principal role, “Whatever That Is” (2009), was one of only thirteen films across Canada to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival Student Showcase. She has also had major roles in “The Collapsed” (2011), “Corollary” (2013), “I Really Hate My Ex” (2015), “Those Among Us” (2015), “Chess and the Stranger” (2016), and that’s just to name a few.

Anna Ross can also be seen in televised episodes of Comedy Central’s “Kroll Show” (2013), “Casual” (2016), and “Motive to Murder” (2017), among others.

Anna’s previous modeling experience includes live appearances at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills & Balisi Fashions, on-camera appearances on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Dragons’ Den”, a fashion spread in “Bold Insight” magazine, as well as televised & print advertisements for “Rogers Wireless”, “Mattel Inc.”, “Pizza Nova” and “Staples Business Depot.”

Anna is committed to her training in dance, especially ballet. She has received a highly commended standing in Advanced Cecchetti Specimen Ballet from the National Ballet School of Canada. Anna has performed with Limitless Productions, Ismailova Theatre of Dance, and events sponsored by Sony Music & MTV. Anna also trains in singing and is an advanced piano player.

Annber Breimon is a graduate of the University of Dubuque’s Fine and Performing Arts program with a concentration in Acting. Learning from the techniques of Stanislavski, Meisner and Chekhov created the foundation for her to portray the ambitious Lady Macbeth, the roller coaster that is Cathy in the Last Five Years, the benevolent beauty Belinda Blair in Noises Off, the opinionated Claire in Proof, the hyper-serious Matt in Matt and Ben, and finally the conflicted Nina in Antlia Pneumatica. She earned her BA in May of 2018 and is now living in Los Angeles.

Annber spent her summer teaching Improv and Acting for the Screen at The Scene Studio in Dubuque, IA. She also hosted a movie camp where she co-produced, wrote, directed and acted in a short film in one week. She enjoyed playing the camp counselor because she could use the quirky character as a great foundation for many improvised lines that made it into the final cut.
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Originally from Wisconsin, Annber has that mid-western work ethic as well as a serious thing for cheese! She is a quirky individual with a laugh loud enough to quiet an entire room. Her red hair has always made her stand out and she is proud to be a Ginger. She enjoys traveling and learning about new cultures through their architecture and delicious food. She spends her free time hanging out with friends, working out, cooking, reading or watching TV. Although, she typically tries to keep herself busy because she can’t do “nothing” for too long.

She is eager to begin her professional career and looks forward to bringing her bubbly personality and infectious smile to roles like Jesse in New Girl, or a thrilling new Netflix Original Series.

Karis Bedey began her acting career in middle school, when she first attended a summer theatre intensive in her hometown in Montana. After going on to win acting competitions in high school at the state level, Karis was recruited by Emerson College to join their prestigious theatre conservatory program in Boston, Massachusetts.

Since graduating with her BFA and relocating to Los Angeles, Karis has had the privilege of working on various print shoots and independent films, including portraying a Hollywood starlet in a 1950’s-inspired video game trailer.

Karis is currently enrolled at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, practicing her craft with renowned teachers like Art Cohan and Michael Petted. In recent months, she also has studied improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade, and commercial and hosting (including teleprompter training) at Killian’s Workshop.

When she isn’t performing or training, Karis enjoys getting outside, hiking, swimming and skiing.  She also works as a personal stylist and fashion blogger and loves writing posts, taking pictures and partnering with companies.  Karis is passionate about her craft and looks forward to working with Netflix, Freeform or the Hallmark Movie Channel.

Playing various roles on stage made Mariam fall in love with drama at a young age. Although growing up she was put busy with learning languages such as Russian, while her parents made sure she focused on studying medicine. While in college, she decided to go back to her love of drama by performing in multiple theater productions. After taking a class for on-camera film, she fell in love all over again this time decided to go back to LA to pursue her dreams.

Although tough to break into an industry she knew nothing about, she decided to take some classes at UCB for a little extra push. Comedy came naturally to her, for she always made everyone laugh and so she still takes various classes there. At SMC she stumbled upon an acting workshop which drove her further into wanting to do more TV than theatre. Mariam decided to take an auditioning class, despite her lack of experience, she made the students gasp with her thrilling mock audition. Amy Lyndon provided some of the best techniques that she still uses now.

Mariam had many passions in life and she always felt grateful that dancing was one of those things that let her perform on stage. When she was really young she had a natural talent for singing and when one of her friends found out they convinced her to audition/play for a musical at their school, which despite having any singing lessons she did wonderfully. Eventually she was only allowed to practice sports like swimming, basketball, snowboarding, soccer, and volleyball instead.

When she wasn’t playing sports, you could find her writing away fantasies that streamed through her consciousness. She filled the creative in her heart with learning different skills like archery, horseback riding, mountain/road biking, and even poorly strumming on the guitar while she sang songs she wrote. Currently she is trying to get behind every camera she can, even if she has to write, direct, and produce it herself. Ultimately she knows one day she’ll get to work with all the amazing people that brought great stories into this world, and so she’s acquiring skills and taking classes to get pursue this live long dream.

Meghan Aruffo’s acting experience started at a young age performing in Duxbury Massachusetts’s Snug Harbor Dinner Theater at the age of seven. She even appeared in a Nessen commercial that aired at the Boston Red Sox games. She ventured into Musical at the age of nine appearing in Oliver as one of Fagan’s boys. She also has professional training in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Tap and Pointe having performed in the Nutcracker Ballet as a party scene girl, mouse, rose petal, and Snow Princess. She also performed with the Academy Youth Dance Company. Meghan’s other musical performance roles include Ariel, the female lead in Footloose the Musical and lead Dorothy Brock in 42^ndStreet. She traveled with competitive show choir winning several awards for her performances. She also sang the National Anthem at the Chicago Railcats games.  Meghan Performed with the prestigious Broadway Theater Project‘s Musical Review “Musicals Old and New” at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in various roles.

Meghan Graduated at the University of Central Florida where her passion for performing was more focused on Television and Film. She worked on several student films at FullSail. Meghan Booked a Principal role of Aimee Dudley on Investigation Discoveries “Dead of Night” filmed in Jacksonville Florida. She also appeared in several Commercials including Mercedes Benz, T.J. Maxx, Taps from Scratch, GetBuzzed, Walt Disney World Resort, and Universal Studios Orlando Resort.

Meghan studied with Art Sake Acting Studio in Orlando Florida focusing on scene studies, auditioning on camera, Meisner, and received the Flight Award while studying under Yvonne Suhor. After college Meghan Moved from Florida to Los Angeles to take her career to the next level. She studied at Margie Haber acting studio’s fundamental Intensive on camera with Barbara Gannon. Meghan currently receives private coaching with Craig Wallace,Tim Powell, and Alan Pietruszewski to hone her acting skills.

            Meghan enjoys working out daily and living a healthy lifestyle. She loves to travel and always has her passport ready to go. She enjoys pending time with her Pomeranian, and loves getting lost in books. Some of her interesting skills include singing, having taken vocal lessons from Mary-Kay Wilson, actor Patrick Wilson’s mom. She also has traditional cheerleading experience, basic juggling, and is an excellent swimmer, having been a Lifeguard for Walt Disney World. Meghan is on the path to success and cannot wait to see where her story ends.“If a dogged work ethic and a fully formed identity can lead to opportunities that knock, then Meghan Aruffo might just be the new girl next door”(The Huffington Post).

Tierra Amira Jones was born on August 23rd in Washington, DC. Due to lack of good public education, she left DC at the age of 11 to attend a junior boarding school in New York.  There, Tierra flourished her love and skills in dance and acting. Her acting experience started as the role of Carion form The Never-Ending Story and Bagheera in The Jungle Book. Her dance experience began in tap dance, where her natural knack led her to join the advance students. She also continued training in Ballet, Hip-Hip-, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary and attended the Debbie Allen Dance Academy to further study Flamenco, Dunham, and African. Tierra then graduated to attend an all-girls boarding school she continued to further her progression while acting, dancing, and singing in HS production such as West Side Story, Chicago, and Guy and Dolls. Since she attended an all-girls school, Tierra often played male as well as female roles in the production.

After high school, Tierra attended the University of Oklahoma where she majored in International studies with a minor in Spanish. During college, she also got to live in Mexico for a semester. She also continued to dance and joined the Sooner Dance Company as a company member.

Immediately after her college graduation she travelled, for the 2^ndtime, to the Cannes Film Festival where she worked with several Entertainment companies. A short month after the festival ended, Tierra moved to Los Angeles. Since moving she has been featured tv shows such as Showtime’s Shamelessplaying Biff’s Wife and on HBO’s Westworldas Dolores’s Horde. Tierra is also currently starring in two webseries, Life On Pauseas Dr. Henderson and The Story, and featured as a dancer in Mario’s Let Me Help You music video.

In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, whether it be on her motorcycle or jet setting across the world. In addition to living in Mexico, she has travelled to France, Italy, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, and Canada, just to name a few. And not only does Tierra have the travel bug, she is also musically inclined, as a trained guitarist.

Tierra is looking forward to furthering her career in television and film and starring along side the actors that inspire her most, Will Smith and Taraji B. Henson.

Carrie John’s acting experience started at the young age of 5.  She performed in many school shows and received her first paid role at age 14 in “Florida’s Official State Play, Cross and Sword”.  After performing in various children’s theater productions, including “Jack and the Beanstalk”, and “Sleeping Beauty”, as well as Broadway musicals “42^nd Street” and “The King and I”, Carrie decided to attend Florida School of the Arts. There, she would continue her studies of the performing arts. After receiving her Degree, she took on the featured role of Maleficent with Walt Disney World Resorts.  To date, some of Carrie’s strongest roles include:  Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family (Musical)” and nominated for best actress in a musical at IMCOM-Europe Tournament of Plays, Brook Ashton/Vicki in “Noises Off”, and Deirdre McDavey in “I Hate Hamlet” and  nominated for best supporting actress in a comedy at IMCOM-Europe Tournament of Plays.  Now moving into film and television, Carrie was featured in an action/thriller short film titled “Reborn Lost” playing the role of Nina, a mother/operative.  She has done some background work for television series including:  “Rizzoli and Isles”, “How to Get Away with Murder”, and “Lethal Weapon” giving her the experience of working for Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, and ABC.

Carrie’s training derived primarily from Florida School of the Arts.  There she took acting lessons, class voice, dance, improv, stage combat, dialects, stage movement, and make-up.  She also attended acting workshops by Jonathon Lamer, IMCOM-Europe Tournament of Plays adjudicator/Actor.  In addition, Carrie graduated from Barbizon Modeling School, Tampa, FL, where she learned photo movement and runway techniques.

Carrie expresses great interest in travel.  She lived abroad for 5 years in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she worked for the U.S. military. She traveled to Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Austria, and England.  Although not licensed anymore, Carrie is advanced in Massage Therapy including Swedish massage, Sports Massage, and Neuromuscular.  Carrie also expresses interest in Events.  Some of her successful events include:  “Hotel of Horror”, a haunted house production, director of 30 volunteers, 15 themes, and generated earnings of $5,000, “Masquerade of  Horror” a Halloween Ball Production, director of 30 volunteers, dance and drink specials, and decoration of ballroom, and “A Musical Theatre Happening”, a sweet sixteen birthday party, 40 guests, DJ, decorations, games and prizes.  Out of all of Carrie’s interests, her utmost passion is Acting, and doing so in a professional environment. She is very much looking forward to continuing her acting career with film and television.

Elena Kornilova is portraying Jenny in «The Red Velvet» short film that will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival this spring 2016. In Russia Elena had a chance to be a part of the famous “Comedy Club” TV series.

Elena studied different acting techniques at Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory and trained with such well-known acting coaches as Sean Barnes, Ilia Volok, Peter Frisch, Thom Rivera. Elena Kornilova has a journalism degree. She attended the writer’s workshop by Paul Brown.

Elena won several vocal competitions with original songs and the songs from the musicals.  One of her favorite is “Cabaret” by Liza Minnelli. Elena has a dance and modeling experience. She is also fluent in Russian, and speaks basic German and Spanish. She loves to travel and absorb new cultures.

Elena is looking forward to working on interesting projects where she can apply her personal work and skills.

Laura Quirk grew up in San Luis Obispo, California acting in community theatre productions and studying dance whenever possible. While a full time high school student, she began to commute to Los Angeles for acting and modeling work. She worked alongside director Marc Webb and Nickelodeon sitcom, Drake and Josh. She booked the lead in Gary Allen’s music video, Best I Ever Had (over 16 million views) and POD’s, Will You? (over 2 million hits) as well as many commercials and modeling jobs.

After graduating from Westmont College with a degree in English and minor in Dance and Theatre arts, Laura took brief break from acting to travel and teach English.

Since returning to pursue her first love, acting, Laura has worked on Unusually Thicke starring Alan Thicke, Removed Part Two, and booked the lead in two music videos for MAGIC! (26 million views and 8 million views). She has also booked nearly a dozen commercials.

Laura has trained with Deborah Lemen, Patrick Baca, Killian McHugh, and at groundlings with Samantha Roy and Arian Price.

Laura enjoys dance, yoga, hiking and time spent with her big family and friends. She lives with her husband who is a commercial fisherman and her golden retriever who she is currently trying to make “instafamous.”

Laura continues to study with Deborah Lemen and is currently writing and producing her own comedic shorts.

Manika Beverly Mills (otherwise known as Nikki) is an American film and television actress, writer, and producer. Born in Nyack, Ny to Haitian American parents. Manika is the creator of That’s Just Nikki TV on YouTube. A channel that features short comedic content and sketches written and produced by the actress. Manika Beverly Mills has also appeared on Television networks Disney and CBS on shows like Hannah Montana, Good Luck Charlie, and CSI NY. One of her notable roles was in the Oscar winning film, The Social Network. Manika is greatly influenced by ALL things comedy. She grew up watching Martin Lawrence, In Living Color, SNL, and the Jamie Foxx Show. Manika at an early age developed a flair for performing. She grew up entertaining in church, school plays, and trained in summer theater camps. Her parents however amused, were very strict when it came to education. She attended Virginia Tech and majored in Electrical Engineering. Despite her vigorous course demands she managed to fit in theater and acting classes. She also performed in various theater productions such as Girl, in George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum, and as Martha, in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.  Manika insisted on a life in the arts so she moved to Los Angeles to further her acting career. She has since trained in improv at Groundlings with Tony Sepulveda, studied acting at Margie Haber studios, and most recently studied at casting director Phaedra Harris’ The Audition Lab. She has since received her Electrical Engineering degree from California State University Northridge. Manika for fun enjoys playing tennis, watching re-runs of her favorite show Martin, and loves watching stand up comedy; especially Kevin Hart. Manika Beverly Mills is surely one of America’s rising stars and one to watch. Her talent and vision for success will inspire you, her wit will charm you, and her passion in life is to entertain you.

Michelle Winters is a SAG/AFTRA on-camera personality currently residing in LA. Originally from Wisconsin, she has that mid-western work ethic as well as a serious thing for cheese! She holds a BA in Theatre with a Film minor from Arizona State University and has taken comedy classes with The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, drama classes with Anne Bogart and the CITI Company from New York City, screen acting classes from The Phoenix Film Institute, and various commercial and scene study workshops throughout LA.

The show biz bug first caught Winters in 3rd grade when she was cast as Marta Von Trapp in a local community theatre’s production of The Sound of Music. From then on it was acting classes, dance classes, music lessons, and Audrey Hepburn films!

Lisa Alvillar has set her eyes on the big screen from a young age, and as she has grown her heart has filled with purpose being an actor. She is an actor working in the greater Los Angeles area, originally from Ontario, California. Most recently Lisa has appeared in two  Autozone commercials, a Six Flags Holiday in the Park commercial and has starred in a short film called “Pobre Inocente” as Lucia. She is currently training at UCB Comedy and has previously trained at The Second City Hollywood, and TVI actors studio. Lisa keeps strong from hiking, and training martial arts. Although she can easily be sweet and bubbly, a dream role for her would consist of being outlandishly horrifying,and crazy. In her eyes to be able to create a real presence that is not originally our own is an art. Lisa strongly believes in family, never giving up, and that anything a person puts their mind too is possible!

Catalina is an actress, model , former Miss Universe Canada delegate and a singer and songwriter who has partnered up with United Nations (UNHCR) on her debut album. Catalina has appeared on international television channels, feature films, commercials, magazines, billboards, international newspapers and many other media outlets. Coming from a unique mixed Chinese-Japanese background, she has been dubbed as the first Canadian-Chinese pop singer to go mainstream. With a strong passion for working with people and for learning different languages, speaking English, French, Spanish, Cantonese and a little bit of German and Japanese, doors eventually opened up for her into the modeling and acting industry. She has travelled across the world throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Catalina has worked with some of top names in both the music/film and fashion industries.

Born in the heart of downtown Toronto, Catalina grew up in North York and attended the University of Waterloo, majoring in Political Science in the Arts and Business Program. She began her music career, singing at the age of 3 in school and church choirs. She later took on private vocal lessons which lead into songwriting. Along with her musical abilities, Catalina has a strong background in martial arts, dance and gymnastics, which she also started at the age of 3. She has an advanced blue belt in karate, is trained with handling weapons such as swords, bow and arrow and her background in dance includes: street jazz, jazz, modern, tap, ballet and belly-dancing and even baton twirling. She brings both her dance and martial arts background along with her talent in flairs to create a unique and exciting type of experience to her performances.

Catalina album can be found in selected HMV stores across Canada, FYE Stores in US and Asia. Her music videos have played on multiple channels nation wide and her songs are readably downloadable on iTunes, Rhapsody and many others. The theme of her music is self-empowerment and love. Her album also sends out the message of believing in ourselves, pursuing our dreams while doing good by helping others. For each album purchased, a portion of the proceeds goes towards UNHCR to help protect the children and families who are refugees and victims of war. In more than five decades, UNHCR has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Her genre of the music is a mix of pop/hip hop/R&B/ballads/latin. A little something for everyone. Eternally is her first full-length solo album.