The Bay Area Actor

Laurie Burke is a San Francisco native and comes from a family of professional actors and musicians (think “The Partridge Family” meets “This is Spinal Tap”). With an adventurous spirit and a genuine joy of all things creative, she decided to also turn her creative passion into a full-time career. For over fifteen years, Laurie has been a professional Actress, Voice Over Artist, Host and Singer.With an un-quenching thirst to learn her craft, Laurie has studied Dramatic Arts in London (Royal A...

Kristen: An independent casting director for over twenty years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and nationally, Kristen specializes in commercials, industrials, short films, print, and music video. She has an extended database of SAG/AFTRA actors and non-union actors as well as a comprehensive selection of real people.Gregg: Gregg Cohen has been casting in San Francisco for 25 years. She casts for commercials and industrials and the occasional short film and music video. Gregg is also co-owner o...

Elaine A. Clark has spent over 35 years immersed in the voice-over business as an actor, author, app creator, director, coach, audio engineer, producer, casting director. She is the owner of Voice One and Voice One Productions and the Founder of the first full-time voice-over training academy, Voice One in San Francisco. Her best-selling book, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is, is used as a text book in colleges and universities and with individuals around the world. The two apps she cr...

Hailing from Boston, Stephen began pursuing his acting career during his college years in Atlanta. Completing small films, he moved to California enrolling in Academy of Art University. From there he enrolled in The Meisner Technique Studio completing the 2 year program and business class in 2012. Since then, Stephen has made a completed numerous short films and stage plays. In 2015, Stephen signed with and has since been represented by NYLO Model & Talent

Amy Huckabay is a writer, director, comedian, and trained dramatic actress who realized she was funny. Her feature screenplay, Sam Dean Can't Die, won the Screenplay Contest at the Napa Valley Film Festival and was a top ten finalist in Screencraft's Comedy Contest.She wrote, produced, and starred in her award-winning webseries, Managed, screened in competition at the 2018 ITV Fest. You can catch her around town on various stages attempting to make strangers laugh.When she's not writing her o...

D.J. is the founder of Hub Strategy & Communication, an integrated advertising, design and production company based in San Francisco. At Hub, D.J. oversees the brand and creative development efforts for all clients as well as directing much of the television work. DJ and Hub work with and have worked with Dropcam, The Oakland A’s, The San Francisco 49ers, Slingbox, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Oculus from Facebook, Levi’s, the University of San Francisco, Monterey Bay Aqaurium, Blue Shield of...

Lisa Steindler (Executive Artistic Director, Z Space) joined Z Space in 2007 and has been at the helm since 2008. Under her leadership, Z Space has become a multifaceted venue that supports risky new work by local and international artists. In 2009, Lisa engineered a long-term lease on Z Space’s first venue, the 244-seat warehouse space known as Theater Artaud, and guided the expansion in 2014 to encompass Z Below, an 85-seat blackbox theater. Lisa has commissioned and developed notable new w...

Santiago Rosas was born and raised in the state of Arizona to immigrant parents from Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico. Santiago, a graduate of the Meisner Technique Studio in San Francisco, has called the Bay Area home for seven years. He’s been in such roles as Jeremy from the theatrical production of Home Front. Benny from the “The North Pole Show”, Raymundo from “Driving while Undocumented” and starred, co-wrote, and produced the short, Indulto where he won the Best Actor award in th...

Kevin Rasted is the Director for the On Camera and Voice Over divisions at MDT Agency in San Francisco, CA. He has been an agent for the last 7 years in San Francisco and has represented talent in a variety of major motion picture, network television and national commercial projects.

*Catch Fred in his solo show, The California Missions and Race Tour, directed by ShawnJ West August 17 and 24 at PianoFight*Fred Pitts has been performing in the Bay Area for 20 years. He is a company member of African-American Shakespeare Company and Custom Made Theatre Company and has worked with numerous theatres throughout the Bay. Regional credits include All The Way, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jitney, Julius Caesar, Clybourne Park, Middletown, The Heidi Chronicles, Eurydice (Bay Area The...

Paul has been a professional actor in San Francisco for 35 years, performing in films, theater, television, radio, commercials, internet, industrials, trade shows, voiceovers and full performance (voice and body) motion capture.He's worked with film directors Spike Lee (Livin Da Dream), Peter Weir (Fearless), Carl Franklin (High Crimes), and Jonathan Parker (The Californians). Paul has been paired up with Noah Wylie, Jeff Bridges, Dennis Franz, Ashley Judd, John Rubenstein, Jack Warden, Cheec...

LeonardWhile performing work-for-hire rewrites on many indie and studio feature films, Leonard became known for his rare ability to devise both tight story structures and compelling visual narratives – and then synthesize them into singular storyworlds.He has performed work-for-hire screenwriting for Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger (produced; Madonna, Rupert Everett, Paul Giamatti) and Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom (produced; Julia Roberts, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands). He...

Jim currently teaches the advanced acting class at The Margie Haber Studio and former staff member at Playhouse West School and Repertory Theater where he taught the Meisner technique as well as founding the first comedy program there for 8 years. Jim got his start doing comedy improvisation, theater and stand up comedy in high school. Currently living and working in Los Angeles, when not teaching acting, Jim has had some wonderful opportunities to act on stage, in film, on television an...

Terrance Smith has lived in the Bay Area for his entire life and couldn’t have asked for a better hub to start his acting career. He began his studies at the Academy of Art in San Francisco where he earned his B.F.A. in acting. It was there that he was exposed to various methods of acting and training, including, but not limited to: Stanislavski, The Sanford Meisner Technique, Stella Adler, The Alexander Technique, Kristin Linklater, Shakespeare, improvisation, musical theatre, stage combat a...

As owner of Lisa Keating photography, Lisa has helped artists & actors chase their dreams & businesses create a higher profile in their industry. Her passion is to bring out each person's "potential" and share their potential and their passion about what they do.Lisa has photographed 10,000+ people over the last 25 years. She has taken over 1,500,000 images and captured each person’s individual personality while helping them reach a higher level of success in their chosen field.L...

Andrew Juncker is a director, writer, and producer in the Bay Area and is co-founder and Executive Creative Director at French Press Films in Oakland, CA. He is an alumni of the Meisner Technique Studio, which he attended with the aim of becoming a better director for his actors. He has produced and worked on feature films, documentaries, shorts and music videos. Andrew firmly believes that the Bay Area is full of creativity and talent, and hopes to be a part of seeing it get the recogni...

Tina D’Elia is a Bay Area award-winning solo performer, actor, producer, co-screenwriter, and casting director.Tina also coaches actors and public speakers and teaches acting on-camera. Tina’s west coast premiere of Overlooked Latinas at the Brava Theater received a successful audience response of multiple standing ovations and sold-out houses. Her show is featured as a Rising Star show Wednesday June 5th as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Directed by Mary Guzman and Dramaturgy by D...

CURT BRANOM, singer and actor, is a leading cast member in San Francisco’s popular long-running hit show, Beach Blanket Babylon at Club Fugazi. Among many roles he plays in the show, his principle and personal favorite is the flamboyant King Louis XIV. But thanks to an eventful few years, he also now plays Vladimir Putin, Kellyanne Conway, Buster Posey, Jeff Sessions, Bernie Sanders, Baron Trump, The Pope, and the notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg! New York credits include Hurlyburly, A Lie of th...

Nancy Hayes has been casting films, commercials and voice overs in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984. She has worked on over 100 films (Day Players & Extras) and thousands of commercials. Commercials include just about anything you can eat, drink or drive.A few of the films are The Boat Builder, Tenderloin, Twisted, Teknolust, Haiku Tunnel in addition the Bay Area portion of the following films, Beautiful Boy, Terminator Genisys, Need for Speed, Hereafter, Memoirs of a Gei...

Joan began her entertainment career in the production offices of Romper Room School and Dialing for Dollars, and then moved to radio at legendary underground rock stations KSAN SF and KMET LA. She served in the creative and production offices of Foote, Cone & Belding for six years which led her to open the first casting office in San Francisco. Shortly thereafter, the opportunity to head up the talent division at the world class Grimme Agency presented itself and Joan spent the next ...