DIRECTORS
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Rachel Berney Needleman is a director and dramaturg for new plays and classical work. As a director: Playground-LA (2021-22 Season), Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op), Cabaret Noel with Gigi Bermingham (Antaeus Theatre Co. and Skylight Theatre), Five Second Chances by Mattie Brickman (PRT Co-op), Cowgirls by Mildred Lewis (EST-LA), The Space Between (The Braid). Rachel has directed new play readings and workshops at The Blank, EST-LA, Skylight and Theatricum Botanicum. Her dramaturg credits include Antaeus (Diana of Dobson’s, Cloud 9, Henry IV) and Arizona Theatre Company (At Wit’s End). She is also a co-author of the LA Anti-Racist Theatre Standards.
Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based Director & Producer. Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts. Member of The Kilroys, an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theatre. Her focus has been on new work development. Directing credits include: Lisa Dring's Death Play at Circle X Theatre, No Homo, at Hollywood Fringe, New York Fringe and Atwater Village Theatres. World premieres of Four Chords and a Gun by John Ross BowIe, I Carry Your Heart by Georgette Kelly, The Willows by Kerri-Ann McCalla and Blue Gold & Butterflies by Stephanie Batiste, all at Bootleg Theater. Priscilla Queen of the Desert at Celebration Theatre (Winner 2019 Ovation Award Best Production of a Musical, 7 Nominations including Best Director). Guest director at CalState University Long Beach, Occidental College, CalArts and CalPoly Pomona. This past summer she taught ensemble techniques & directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Make Trouble in Wilmington, NC, produced two plays by Kirsten Vangsness at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and directed Michelle Kholos Brooks’ Hostage at Adobe Rose Theatre in Santa Fe, NM. Most recently co-directed Justin Sayre’s Ravenswood Manor at Celebration Theater.
Bruce Lemon is a storyteller born and raised in Watts, CA. As a child, his father made him write stories and read them aloud in the hallway as punishment for lies and mischief. He’s still in trouble. Host of 89.3 KPCC In-Person’s UnheardLA. Associate Artistic Director/Ensemble with Cornerstone Theater Company. Artistic Director of Watts Village. Company member of Illyrian Players and Collaborative Artists Bloc . Actor, writer, director, producer, creative collaborator. Hobbies include: Holding a mirror up to America, rabble rousing, chasing dreams, working for the reimagining of his community, and listening to the kids. Recent Credits: Director: THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (2Rythms) A LIVE MIXTAPE (CALREP) Actor: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (Cornerstone / La Jolla Playhouse), Assistant Director: ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE (CTG/ Kirk Douglas), Creative Producer: A JORDAN DOWNS ILLUMINATION (Cornerstone/Nancy Keystone), Writer/Performer: RELATIVES (Inner-City Arts/Rosenthal) Producer: GUNSHOT MEDLEY (Collaborative Artists Bloc / Rogue Machine)
Awards: 2016 Princess Grace. 2014 BroadwayWorld LA. 2018 Sherwood Award Finalist. B.A.- Hampton University, P.AP. - The Juilliard School, M.F.A - New School for Drama .
Amanda McRaven directs and produces collaborative, feminist, socially-conscious theater and performance. Director: 16 Winters or The Bear’s Tale (American Shakespeare Center), Penelope (California Repertory Theater), The Pliant Girls, Macbeth, Antigone (Fugitive Kind), Much Ado About Nothing (Manawatu Summer Shakespeare, NZ), Famine Plays (Theatre of Note), The Wolves, The Seagull (University of Virginia), She Kills Monsters, Blind Mouth Singing (Cal State Long Beach), Arcadia (Cal State Northridge). Assistant Director, The Clean House (Lincoln Center Theater), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Hamlet (South Coast Repertory), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Room Service (Utah Shakespearean Festival), Red Noses (The Actors’ Gang). Drama League Fellow, Fulbright Fellow (Community-based Theater, New Zealand), LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award (The Pliant Girls), SDC Associate Member, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, MFA UC Irvine
Nathan Singh is a LA-based director whose work includes theatre and opera. He has directed at theaters around LA including: Son of Semele, Playwrights’ Arena, East West Players, and Center Theatre Group. Last summer, he staged the opera Cynosemma at Overtone Industries/By the Souls of Our Feet. He worked as an assistant director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (two seasons), The Court Theatre, and The Theatre at Boston Court. Nathan is a recipient of the 2016 SDCF Sir John Gielgud Fellowship in Directing and a graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts and DePaul University.
Maia “Vik Floyd” Villa is a fifth generation Chicanx Los Angeleno, most at home between taco trucks and boba tea. They’re a lifelong performer and writer, particularly in love with sketch comedy, ancestral reparation, and rock’n’roll. They graduated from Bennington College in 2015, with a focus on Marginalized Identities in Performance. They have written, directed, and performed with Q Youth Foundation’s Eastside Queer Stories Festival; CASA 0101 Theater (Los Angeles); The Playground Theater (Chicago); The Second City Hollywood; United Citizens Brigade; and Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica). They most recently directed Borracho: Spanish for Drunken Bum by Abe Zapata Jr., which won an award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019. You can catch them at sketch/improv shows in Hollywood and doing rey metalero drag all over the Eastside.
Abigail Boucher is a queer Franco-American director, actor and theatre-maker who recently relocated to LA from Chicago. There, she worked with Lookingglass Theatre, Piven Theatre, Strawdog Theatre (company member), The House Theatre, 20% Theatre Company (which she co-founded), Haven Theatre, Raven Theatre and many more. Recent directing credits include assistant directing The Legend of Georgia McBride at Northlight Theatre, and writing/directing her first short film The Empty Space. Abigail is also in the process of developing a new multi-disciplinarian piece with London-based collaborator Carolyn Defrin on kissing. The project has received grants from two London theatres, with performances scheduled in the fall of 2019. Abigail aims to make work that is inspiring, moving, relevant, and impactful, with a focus on human connection and healing through the magic of storytelling.
Guadalupe Garcia was born and raised in southern California. She is a recent graduate from California State University Fullerton with a BA in theatre and ethnic studies with an emphasis in directing and a concentration in Chicana/o Studies. Her artistic goal is to blend both disciplines through art while accurately representing those who are and continuously oppressed. If she can make administrative change through art, she’s achieved her task. She is grateful to begin her professional directing journey with MeetCute LA. She wants to thank her family and friends for their constant love and support through her artistic journey.
Katie Lindsay is a new play director who works in Los Angeles and New York. Red Emma & the Mad Monk, which she co-created with playwright Alexis Roblan, was a NYTimes Critic's Pick. Other directing credits include Harry & the Thief by Sigrid Gilmer (The Habitat), Keeping Up with the Prozorovs by Lucy Gillespie (Hollywood Fringe, Encore Producers Award), and What Happened at the Dolphin Show by Miranda Rose Hall (Winner, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival). She is currently writing Beneath the Bowtie, a new musical about lesbian drag performers in the 1940s, with composer Alexandra Kalinowski. Katie has directed and developed new plays at IAMA Theatre, The Echo, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, The Flea, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper, and Atlantic Acting School. She was the recipient of a 2016 SDCF Observership and a member of the Williamstown Directing Corps.
Annie McVey is the Associate Artistic Director of The Inkwell Theater, where she co-produces the Inkwell Development LAB. LA credits (partial): Assistance by Leslye Headland (world premiere), Louise Munson’s Luigi, Daniel Shoenman’s The Ohio 4th, Jennie Webb’s Currency, Jami Brandli's Sisters Three, and every installment of Michael Feldman’s critically-acclaimed Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over. Annie’s work has been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Groundlings, The Matrix, IAMA Theater Company, AMMO Theater, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Highways Performance Space, UCB, and ACME Comedy Theater. Her first feature film, “Alistair1918,” is currently available on Amazon Prime. Annie graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama. She was a member of the Directing faculty at Tisch’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Carolyn Michelle Smith’s recent credits include: The Thanksgiving Play at Geffen Playhouse (Assistant Director). Education: Fordham University, and Juilliard. Carolyn is an actress and director and recent transplant to Los Angeles. She is honored to be a part of MeetCute, and to have the opportunity to collaborate with such an amazing team of artists.
Carly D. Weckstein (she/her/hers) is director, sex educator and intimacy choreographer living and creating in Los Angeles. She is the Artistic Director & Founder of The Illyrian Players (est. 2011), a nurturing and empowering home for theatre artists. Carly is inspired to explore the intersections of theatre, community, healing, sexuality, and art as activation. She regularly teaches sex ed and theatre classes, including Healing Through Performance (for actors & non-actors) and Sexual Empowerment 101. Carly is a passionate advocate for artists and actors, championing communication and consent as an essential part of the creative process.
Lee Hannah Conrads is a LA-based theater director born, raised, and trained in the Midwest. Previous directing credits include Roots, an evening of one-acts (Theater of Note), Vinegar Tom, Three Sisters, and The Burial at Thebes (Northwestern University), If We Were Birds and The Naked I: Insides Out (20% Theatre Company Twin Cities), Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Carleton College), No Exit, Medea and Winter House (The Amber Bastards). She has assistant directed in Chicago at Steppenwolf and Northlight, in Minneapolis at Ten Thousand Things, Mixed Blood, and the Playwright’s Center, and in New York at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has a BA from Carleton College and is one thesis away from an MFA from Northwestern University. @OfInfiniteSpace
Sophie Goldstein is a Mexican-American Jew, Los Angeles native who received her B.A. in Theatre Arts and Dance from Cal State LA and an MFA in Physical Theatre from the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo Italy. While in Europe she was fortunate to study physical theatre from companies all over Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic. Since graduating, she has choreographed and directed with Cal State LA, 2Cents Theatre, Son of Semele, Vaulting Ambition, Crescenta Valley High School and Vagrancy Company. She also taught Acting, Viewpoints and Commedia Dell’Arte at Cal State LA and A Noise Within theatre.
Sophie Goldstein
Lauren Ludwig is a writer/director who specializes in immersive theater, comedy, and creating communities for artists. She co-founded the award-winning LA theater company Capital W which creates immersive experiences for small audiences. Her work with Capital W won Best Overall Immersive Work at Hollywood Fringe 2017 and the Game Design Award at the 2016 IndieCade Festival. Hamlet-Mobile, her adaptation of Shakespeare's play staged in a cargo van, was published in the anthology Best Plays from American Theater Festivals 2015. Lauren also works in TV and film comedy; her newest half-hour pilot is premiering at the 2020 SXSW Festival. When not making her own work, Lauren loves helping other artists birth theirs; she was the Director of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women and is the co-founder of Wayward, a retreat in the Canadian wilderness for artists of marginalized genders.
JONATHAN MUÑOZ-PROULX is an Ovation Award nominated director and serves as Director of Cultural Programming at A Noise Within Theatre. He has worked as adjunct MFA faculty at the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts. Muñoz-Proulx has served on the California Arts Council and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission grant review panels. He is on the Latinx Theatre Commons National Advisory Committee and held the position of Vice Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights for five years. Muñoz-Proulx is a National Directors Fellowship Finalist and a script nominator for the Kilroy List. He has worked with Center Theatre Group, East West Players, Boston Court Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, 24th Street Theatre, Playwrights' Arena, Pacific Resident Theatre, Chalk Rep, EST/LA, Bootleg Theater, After Hours Theatre Company, Company of Angeles and Watts Village Theatre Company
Miranda Stewart is a film and theater director. Her directing credits include Pick Your Battles (Fierce Backbone), The Chocolate Affair (Scribe Stages), Raise Your Hand (Acting Out INK Fest), Vital Records (GLO), Eleemosynary (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Catalyst (Loft Ensemble), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Archway Theatre), A Part and Funeral Party (Hollywood Fringe Festival), Old Times (Occidental College), The Ash Girl, Little Shop of Horrors, and Metamorphoses (all at Caltech). She has also directed a feature film, Fishbowl, and several short films.
Rebecca Wear’s previous credits include The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh (Artists at Play/Greenway Court; Ovation Recommended); Samsara by Lauren Yee (Coeurage Theatre); If the Saints by Eric Conner Marlin (Metro Baptist); Obedient Steel by Chloe Brown (HERE arts); and I Run with You by Anna/Kate (Women’s Center Stage). She associate directed the world premiere of Lynn Nottage’s Sweat (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage) and has assisted Kate Whoriskey and Diane Rodriguez. Rebecca has trained with SITI Company, worked with The Public Theater and Clubbed Thumb, and is a previous associate artist at The Orchard Project. She is currently a resident director with HERO Theatre, PhD candidate through a Chancellor’s Fellowship at UCSB, and a 2019 National Directing Fellow (Eugene O'Neill/NNPN/Kennedy Center/SDC). Upcoming: Velina Hasu-Houston’s TEA with HERO Theatre.
SUSAN DALIAN recently directed the world premiere of The Narcissist Next Door by Ellen Buckley at Hollywood Fringe 2019 (Better Lemons Audience Award, Fringe Encore Award). Some other directing credits include: Just Die Already (staged reading, Occidental Student Playwright Festival), Macbeth, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A (Mammoth) Midsummer Night’s Dream, Outside Mullingar, and The Real Housewives of Tusktown (Sierra Classic Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest and Art Dog (Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theatre), Lie After Lie After Lie (staged reading, Mach 33: Caltech Festival of New Science Driven Plays co-produced with Pasadena Playhouse). She co-wrote Ambrosia (LA and 2005 New York Fringe Festival). She co-directed/wrote the short film Bite Me (Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2019, Angaelica Festival with Catalyst, Oct. 2019). Susan has a BFA from Boston University and is a proud graduate of Baltimore School for the Arts.
Brian Hashimoto is an Los Angeles-based director and photographer seeking to stir the innermost chambers of the soul with raw reflections of our fragile, terrifying, and paradoxically awe-inspiring humanity, inciting us to better ourselves both individually and collectively through live performances, films, and installations. He is currently developing a devised theatrical adaptation of Chekhov’s short story, In the Ravine, and is in production on several ongoing short film and music video projects. Brian was a co-founder and Managing Director of FullStop Collective in New York, where he directed and produced entirely new work with emerging artists. He has also had the honor to work with Lincoln Center Theater, Shen Wei Dance Arts, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Ithaca College and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. www.brianhashimoto.com
Sara Lyons is a Los Angeles-based director. Working frequently in adaptation, social practice, and new media, their work has been presented nationally and internationally by Los Angeles Performance Practice, OUTsider, SFX Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, LaMaMa, Edinburgh Fringe, and more. Current projects include I’m Very Into You, an original adaptation of the published 1995 email correspondence by feminist literary legend Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark. Called “worth keeping an eye out for” by American Theatre Magazine. Sara holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is an alum of the Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC program for artists working at the intersection of performance and politics at NYU. In addition to their creative practice, Sara is on the faculty at UCLA and California School for the Arts-San Gabriel Valley, and is a features writer with ContemporaryPerformance.com.
Vicki Pearlman is an LA based Director, Actor, and Producer. She is a graduate of USC School of Dramatic Arts and has since been working on some awesome projects with Skylight Theatre Company, The Echo Theatre Company, Pacific Resident Theatre, Crosstown Players, and New Opera West. Vicki is very excited to be collaborating with new artists here at Meet Cute LA. Visit www.VickiPearlman.com to keep up with Vicki’s next projects or check her out on instagram @artist.vicki.p.
Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender director, playwright, filmmaker, and producer, and the co-founder of Secretly Famous Productions, along with Lowell Blank. Their first feature film ADDICT NAMED HAL played at festivals including Austin Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Dances with Films, and Big Bear Film Summit, where it won Best US Narrative Feature. Their short film UNTIE played at Outfest, Toronto Short Film Festival, aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival, and more. Their plays have been produced and developed by 19 theaters in 8 states and Australia, including The Barter Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater, and Island City Stage. They have been a commissioned artist and/or fellow with Lambda Literary, Ground Floor Theatre, Art with Impact, and coLAB Arts. They completed their MFA in Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, please visit www.lanemichaelstanley.com and www.secretlyfamousprod.com.
Hannah Wolf is a newly based in LA director, dramaturg and creative producer originally from Juneau Alaska. She makes “subversively shiny” work for the stage that experiments with form, content and the role of the audience. Hannah collaborates with playwrights, musicians, magicians, craft brewers, dancers, puppeteers and many others to develop new plays and to subvert old ones. Recent work includes: Franklin by Samantha Noble (Perseverance Theatre), TITLE LOADING (Fusebox Festival), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spigel (UT Austin), ENRON by Lucy Prebble (UT Austin), and The Sky Game by Kimberly Belflower (Peppercorn Theatre). She’s directed and developed new plays with Perseverance Theatre, Superhero Clubhouse, The Civilians, Colt Coeur and TerraNOVA Collective. She also founded and curates the blog Ask A Director. SDC Associate, 2018/19 National Directors Fellow, 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, 2014/15 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and 2013/2014 Fulbright Research Fellow (Bucharest Romania) MFA: UT Austin. hannahjwolf.com
Ruth Du is a director and producer who gravitates towards relationship-based stories with a genre twist. Du received a B.F.A. at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and subsequently worked multiple production positions in New York City. Her extensive experience ultimately led her to produce feature film The Archer which premiered at SXSW 2017. Her directorial credits include feature films Your Baby Is Mine (Lifetime 2018) and The Deadliest Lie (Tubi 2021) Du was the Executive Director of the AT&T Hello Lab Mentorship Program, working closely with Lena Waithe to produce five festival selected short films. She is a 2020 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow with her her short film Yugen, starring Christine Ko (Tigertail, Dave). Theatre credits include w.e.a.r.h.o.r.s.e, an original play written by John Hendel that was showcased at Hollywood Fringe 2014. She currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys singing and dance competition shows in her spare time.
Colleen Labella is a Los Angeles based director (and occasional actor). Recent directing credits include: a journey through minimalism at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Philharmonic, Toyer at the Hudson Theatre for the Polymath Theatre Company, and an LGBT retelling of Almost, Maine with her theatre company, Four Walls and a Stage. Associate/assistant director credits include Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company and Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Colleen holds her BFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut and trained at the Experimental Theatre Wing at Tisch/NYU. Next up: the world premiere of Holiday Kinard’s Lincoln 2020 as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. @colleenlabella
Scarlett Kim is a Korean theatre director and artist who casts versions of herself and others to rehearse life in physical and mediated spacetimes. Scarlett uses performance as survival ritual, intimate exchange, and act of revolution. Recent projects include THE END, THE END, THE END… (Edinburgh Festival), AGUANTE PICHIDANGUI (National Council of Culture & the Arts, Chile), SURPLUS NOVEL (La MaMa Umbria Next Generation Residency), KASPAR KASPAR (Pasadena Museum of California Art). Upcoming projects include: READY! SET! (Prague Quadrennial), NO MOUSE FOUND (Refest), and a new play with Rogue Artists Ensemble. She is the Artistic Director of The Mortuary, a performance lab for unclassifiable experiences, unusual collaborations, and underserved voices; a member of Dead Practice, a transnational and transmedia performance collective; and oversees artistic programming at CultureHub LA. MFA, Directing @CalArts + BA, Visual Art & Theatre and Performance Studies @The University of Chicago. scarlettjkim.com
Shaina Rosenthal is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre LA and an artistic leader at The Skylight Theatre Company. Recent directing credits include the City of West Hollywood’s production of The Vagina Monologues, Florida (Raze the Space), The Skateboard Play (EST/LA), My Jesus Year (EST/LA), and Part in the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, as well as several developmental readings and workshops. Other favorite experiences include productions at The Blank Theatre, Antaeus, The Colony, Moving Arts, Bootleg, Open Fist, and the Lounge Theatre. By day, she produces reality television, and her work has been seen on networks ranging from HGTV to MTV.
Margaret is an LA-based director and UCLA TFT alum who is passionate about building community and asking tough questions through rehearsal and performance. Recent directing projects include the world premiere musical We Three Sisters by Frankel & Bloom and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure with Method & Madness Theater Co., a classical theater company she co-founded in 2017. Margaret has also assistant directed throughout the LA area at Pasadena Playhouse, LA Theatre Works, Boston Court Pasadena, A Noise Within, and The Odyssey.
Diana Wyenn is a Los Angeles-based director, choreographer, dramaturg, and curator of contemporary performance, who—whether working on large spectaculars or more intimate performances—consistently challenges and inspires audiences to see beyond the usual. As a director and choreographer, Diana has collaborated on projects with The Walt Disney Company, Lincoln Center, the LA Philharmonic, Center Theater Group, REDCAT, SummerStage, Grand Performances, Ford Theatres, Chalk Repertory Theatre, and Ghost Road Ensemble, among others. Diana is also a Climate Reality Leader and serves on the Producing Steering Committee for Directors Lab West and as Artistic Director of TIOH Arts & Culture. In 2017, she co-founded Plain Wood Productions with her husband LABAN. Recently, Diana jumped back on stage to create and perform Blood/Sugar, an autobiographical solo performance illuminating and embodying the global diabetes epidemic. She received her BFA in Drama from New York University and is a proud Associate Member of SDC.https://www.dianawyenn.com/
Gabe Figueroa is a director and producer working in film, television and theatre. He is the Associate Artistic Director of Hero Theatre, where he will be directing the 2nd Annual Hero Song Cycle Cabaret this spring. Gabe has directed readings and productions of new work at Son of Semele, EST/LA, and the Urban Theatre Movement. Gabe’s film work includes Cold Winter’s Night, which was awarded the 2nd Place prize for ‘Best Children’s Programming’ by the Television Academy among other accolades. He currently works as a creative lead at Shots Studios – creating music videos and YouTube sketches for Lele Pons. In 2019, he and his team completed work on over 55 short form projects totaling over 150 million views. Gabe studied at Chapman University graduating with degrees in Film Production and Theatre. He trained with Cirque du Soleil, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and South Coast Repertory.
Jer Adrianne Lelliott is the founding artistic director of Coeurage Theatre Company, where she led the company for 10 years, overseeing nearly 40 productions. Directing highlights include the world premiere of Carla Ching’s The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play, Ovation Recommended), Blackbird (Ovation Recommended), as well as Vieux Carré, The Woodsman, Andronicus, and Romeo & Juliet for Coeurage. Event direction includes The 29th Annual Ovation Awards (hosted by The Kilroys) and The 2018 StageRaw Awards. Ms. Lelliott has appeared onstage at Pasadena Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, MainStreet Theatre Company, Chance Theatre, and Disney on Broadway.
Charrell Mack an east coast native and recent graduate from USC, where she received an MFA in Acting, is excited to direct her first play with Meet Cute LA. She is currently an understudy at The Mark Taper Forum for the play Blues for an Alabama Sky (dir. Phylicia Rashad). In addition, she’s recently starred in the LA premiere of Apartment Living by Boni B. Alvarez (dir. Jon Rivera) at Skylight Theatre. She played Rebel in Ascension by D.G Watson (dir. Ahmed Best) at The Echo Theatre Company. Other credits include Desdemona in William Shakespeare’s Othello, (dir. Kate Burton) and Nya in Pipeline (dir. Larry Powell). She’s looking forward to this amazing new opportunity and sends love to her family back home in Pennsylvania.
Jenna Rossman (she/her) is a theatre and film director based in NYC and LA. Jenna has worked at The Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and more. She is a member of the Williamstown Directing Corp, SDC Observership, Roundabout Directors Group, and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. Jenna's debut short film, The Age You Start Losing Friends, which stars Catherine Cohen, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Krystina Alabado, was filmed in Summer 2021. Jenna is an MFA candidate at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Film and Television Production. She received her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Jenna is also the creative associate and coordinator for It Doesn’t Suck productions, which recently produced the critically acclaimed film Shiva Baby and 2021 Tribeca Film Festival selection Dating and New York.
Tyler Samples is a fresh transplant from Chicago, who is loving the weather and the chance to be part of MeetCute. He has worked as a director for Second City and other sketch comedy theaters in Chicago, performed and taught improv for over ten years, and most importantly, loves his wife Erin and their dog Potato.
Tyler Samples