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Resident Artists

The Resident Artists are a core group of 20+ seasoned actors and creative theatrical professionals, central to A Noise Within’s mission. The RAs are featured in nearly every show at ANW; thus, many of our residents become familiar faces to our attendees. Our RAs provide ANW with a familial grounding, supporting our ability to interpret and perform a wide range of stories that encourage audiences to question entrenched beliefs and encourage continued empathy for different points of view. In doing so, the RAs are able to form bonds amongst each other, and within the greater theatrical community.

Susan Angelo
Actor

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Ken Booth
Lighting Designer

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Angela Balogh Calin
Costume & Scenic Designer

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Apollo Dukakis
Actor

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Mitchell Edmonds
Actor

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Nicole Javier
Actor

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Veralyn Jones
Actor

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Kasey Mahaffy
Actor

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Kenneth R. Merckx, Jr.
Fight Choreographer

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Trisha Miller
Actor

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Alex Morris
Actor

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Cassandra Marie Murphy
Actor

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Frederica Nascimento
Scenic Designer

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Robert Oriol
Composer & Sound Designer

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Carolyn Ratteray
Actor

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Alison Rodriguez
Actor

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Erika Soto
Actor

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Deborah Strang
Actor

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Riley Shanahan
Actor

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Jeff Gardner
Sound Design

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Angela Sonner
Stage Manager

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Tony Valdés
Wigs & Make-up Design

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Rod Bagheri
Music Director

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Amber Liekhus
Actor

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Henri Lubatti
Actor

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Susan Angelo
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2020-2021 Season: White Queen/Mouse/King of Hearts/Ensemble, Alice in Wonderland

Previous Seasons: Constance, The Madwoman of Chaillot; Hannah Jarvis, Arcadia; Actress, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Alice, Dance of Death; Cleopatra, Antony & Cleopatra; Queen Elizabeth, Richard III; Countess, The Rehearsal.

ELSEWHERE: La Jolla Playhouse: Experiment with an Airpump (Ellen/Susannah); Theatricum Botanicum: August Osage County (Barbara); Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice); Heartbreak House (Ariadne); Women of Lockerbee (Madelyn); Hamlet (Gertrude); Julius Caesar (Portia); Merchant of Venice (Portia); King Lear (Goneril); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania); Pittsburgh Public: God of Carnage (Annette); LifeX3 (Inez); Westside Jewish Theatre: Broken Glass (Sylvia); Indiana Repertory & Syracuse Stage: King Lear (Regan); American Players Theatre: Candida (Candida); Tartuffe (Elmire); MacBeth (Lady MacBeth); The Shakespeare Theatre: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess); Workshop Theatre, NY: MacBeth (Lady MacBeth).

As a Director: Orange County Shakespeare Festival: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Kingsmen Shakespeare: Winters Tale, Twelfth Night; Pacific Resident Theatre & Pico Playhouse: I Am Sophie; Theatricum Botanicum: Royal Family, Chalk Garden, Twelfth Night, My Name is Rachel Corrie. Susan teaches Shakespeare in her private studio.

www.SusanAngeloStudio.com

Ken Booth
Resident Artist
With ANW:Since 1998, Ken has worked on at least 80 productions at A Noise Within. Included in these are: One Man, Two Guvnors, A Man of No Importance, Jane Eyre, The Skin of Our Teeth, Misalliance, Sweeney Todd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Will, Much Ado About Nothing, Animal Farm, Metamorphoses, An Iliad, Alice in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, Argonautika, Henry V, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Julius Caesar, The Threepenny Opera, Great Expectations, Man of La Mancha, The Glass Menagerie, King Lear, The Tempest, The Dance of Death, Buried Child, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Noises Off, Ubu Roi, The Tragedy of Richard III, and the holiday annual A Christmas Carol.

Education/Training: He graduated from UCLA in 1982. 

Angela Balogh Calin
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2021-2022 Season: Original Costume Design: All’s Well That Ends Well, A Christmas Carol

Previous Seasons: Set Design: The Madwoman of Chaillot; The Imaginary Invalid; Romeo and Juliet; The Dance of Death; Ghosts; The School For Wives; Julius Caesar; The Seagull; The Winter’s Tale; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Cyrano de Bergerac (1995); The Country Wife. Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland; Buried Child; Gem of the Ocean; Noises Off; Othello; A Christmas Carol; Man of La Mancha; Henry V; The Madwoman of Chaillot; A Christmas Carol; Man of La Mancha (2017); King Lear; The Maids; The Imaginary Invalid; You Never Can Tell; Romeo and Juliet; A Flea in Her Ear; Julius Caesar; Figaro; The Threepenny Opera; The Dance of Death; The Tempest; Tartuffe; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Beaux’ Stratagem; A Christmas Carol; Cymbeline; The Bungler; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; The Comedy of Errors; The Chairs; Great Expectations; Waiting for Godot; Loot; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Hollywood Bowl and at ANW among others. Recipient of LADCC, Ovation, Garland, Drama-Logue awards.

OTHER THEATRES: South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, The Old Globe, Laguna Playhouse, West Coast Ensemble, Milwalkee Rep., Georgia Shakespeare, Chautauqua Theatre Co., Ensemble Theatre Co., Antaeus Theatre, The Alliance Theatre, among others.

FILM/TV: 16 productions with I.R.S. Media, PBS, Full Moon Productions, Moviestore Entertainment, Romanian Films

EDUCATION/TRAINING: MFA, Set and Costume Design–The Academy of Fine Arts (Bucharest, Romania). Member of the Costume Designers Guild in the USA and Romania

Apollo Dukakis
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN: 

Previous Seasons: Father Dewis, Buried Child; Selsdon Mowbray, Noises Off; Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Baron, The Madwoman of Chaillot; Canterbury, Sir Erpingham, Burgundy, Ensemble, Henry V; Selsdon Mowbray, Noises Off ’18; Argan, The Imaginary Invalid; Earl of Gloucester, King Lear; Mr. Fergus Crampton, You Never Can Tell; Merriman/Lane, The Importance of Being Earnest; Sir Patrick Cullen, The Doctor’s Dilemma; Boniface, The Beaux’ Stratagem; Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, or What You Will; among others.

OTHER THEATRES: Co-founder, Associate Artistic Director, and Resident Actor at The Whole Theatre, New Jersey (1973-1990); Gonzalo in The Tempest and The Chaplin in Mother Courage at Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.); Mandate Memories (World Premiere) at North Coast Repertory Theatre (Solana Beach); The Kite Runner at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; The Madness of Hercules at The Getty Villa with Not Man Apart Physical Ensemble; Homebody/Kabul at Trinity Repertory Company; Scorched and Hecuba at American Conservatory Theatre; Nine Armenians at Mark Taper Forum; Anna in the Tropics at Pasadena Playhouse and TheaterWorks (Palo Alto); Pera Palas at Theatre @ Boston Court/Antaeus (LA Critics’ Award: Best Ensemble); Glengarry Glen Ross at Dallas Theatre Center; Lear in King Lear at Shakespeare Santa Monica; John in Rhinoceros at Antaeus; Shylock in Merchant of Venice at Pacific Repertory Theatre (Carmel); Old Actor in The Fantasticks at Arizona Theatre Company; Lysistrata Unbound by Eduardo Machado at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

FILM/TV: ER, American Heart, Last Action Hero, Shadow of the Blair Witch, Arrest and Trial, 7th Heaven, Seinfeld, L.A. Law, Life Goes On, Hunter, Dream On, and Beauty and the Beast. London Greek Film Festival, Best Actor, short film, MR. SEGUR.

Mitchell Edmonds
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2016-17 Season: Jellaby, Arcadia

Previous Seasons: Baptiste, A Flea in Her Ear; Ed Anderson/Mailman, Come Back, Little Sheba; Nagg, Endgame; Marley/Fezziwig, A Christmas Carol; Pandolfe, The Bungler; Captain/Priest, Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Reverend Winemiller, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale; Mr. Pumblechook/Sarah Pocket/Bentley Drummle, Great Expectations; Escalus, Measure for Measure; Verges, Much Ado About Nothing; William/Lord Hastings/Sheriff, Richard III; Pedant, The Taming of the Shrew; Damiens, The Rehearsal; H.C., The Rainmaker; among others

OTHER THEATRES: Mark Taper Forum: George Tenet, Stuff Happens; Chorus, The Body of Bourne. The Geffen: Goltschall (standby), God’s Man in Texas. Old Globe Theatre in San Diego: Old Max, How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Thor, Mornings at Seven; Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dr. Gibbs, Our Town; also at San Diego Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company Alaska Repertory, ACT (Seattle), and two
appearances in New York City at the Cort Theatre among others

FILM/TV: Modern Family, Weeds, Monk, Back to You, True Blood, NUMB3RS, The West Wing, Threshold, HBO movie 61* directed by Billy Crystal, and Torchwood

Nicole Javier
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2022-2023 Season: Alice Heminges/Susannah Shakespeare, The Book of Will; Fred’s Wife/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol; Mollie, Animal Farm

Previous Season: Iris and others, Metamorphoses; Diana; Helen u/s, All’s Well That Ends Well

ELSEWHERE: Diana the Musical (La Jolla Playhouse), In Every Generation* (San Diego Repertory), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (South Coast Repertory), Flor (Cornerstone Theatre Company), Words We Believe*, tokyo fish story, Through the Wilderness to the Stars* (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Forever Poppy (Provincetown Playhouse), Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Orange County), Rapture, Blister, Burn, WTF* (Aurora Theatre Company), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Crowded Fire Theatre), and Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors (audio play) Silicon Valley Shakespeare Company, Dis/Connected (New Conservatory Theatre). UCSD: Taming of the Shrew(d), Though It May Shift, (w)holeness, What of the Night?, Othello, Mothers, A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes. *denotes New Works staged readings.

TV/FILM: Bosch: Legacy, We’re All Gonna Die.

EDUCATION: BFA—Chapman University, MFA—UC San Diego.

More at www.nicolejavier.com.

Veralyn Jones
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26 Season: Duchess of York, Veralyn Jones; Bertha, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.

Previous Seasons: Ruby, King Hedley II; Louise, Seven Guitars; Ensemble, Sonnets for an Old Century (Noise Now audio play); Aunt Ester Tyler, Gem of the Ocean. Hera/Woman of Lemnos, Argonautika. Dr. Jadine/Mme. Josephine, The Madwoman of Chaillot.

ELSEWHERE: A Christmas Carol: South Coast Rep; Zip Code plays, Wedding Band: Antaeus; Immediate Family, u/s: Mark Taper Forum; A Selfish Scarifice: Denver Center. Ben & The Magic Paint Brush and My Wandering Boy: SCR. Hamlet: Odyssey Theater. Merchant of Venice, Richard III, A Midsummer  Night’s Dream (LA Weekly award): Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. The Old Settler: International City Theater. Othello: Boston Court. A Perfect Wedding: Kirk Douglas. Slide Glide The Slippery Slope: Taper, Too. Three Sisters After Chekhov: Lower Depth Theatre. Neva’s Tale: LATC (LA Weekly award). The Father, La Scala Theater, Sweden.

FILM/TV: Nana, S.W.A.T, Parenthood, The Unit, Southland, Threat Matrix, City Of Angeles, Brooklyn South, Strong Medicine, Locked Away, The Young and the Restless, Seinfeld, and more.

Artistic Associate at Lower Depth Theatre and Member of Antaeus. Love to K&D.

EDUCATION: BS, Dance–Brooklyn College

Kasey Mahaffy
Resident Artist
With A Noise Within: Mr. Cratchit, A Christmas Carol; Francis Henshall, One Man, Two Guvnors; Alfie Byrne, A Man of No Importance; Stage Manager, The Skin of Our Teeth; Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pirelli, Sweeney Todd; Ralph Crane, The Book of Will; Phaeton and others, Metamorphoses; Bob Cratchit, A Christmas Carol; March Hare/Tweedle Dum, Alice in Wonderland; Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein; Garry Lejeune, Noises Off; Jim O’Connor, The Glass Menagerie; Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (LA Drama Critics Circle Award); Sancho Panza, Man of La Mancha; Dauphin, Henry V; Fool, King Lear; Dr. Valentine, You Never Can Tell; Trinculo, The Tempest.

Other Theatres: The Inheritance, Geffen Playhouse; The Heart of Robin Hood, The Wallis/Hong Kong Cultural Centre; Peter and the Starcatcher, Crimes of the Heart, You Nero, Taking Steps, South Coast Rep; The Miracle Worker, Assassins, Berkshire Theatre Festival.

Film/TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, Grace & Frankie, Truth Be Told, NCIS, 9-1-1, AHS, CSI.

Kenneth R. Merckx, JR
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2024-25 Season: Fight Choreographer, The Piano Lesson

Previous Seasons: Fight Choreographer, Anna in the Tropics, Seven Guitars, Metamorphoses, The Winter’s Tale, Frankenstein, Argonautika, Othello, Man of La Mancha, King Hedley II, Misalliance; Fight Consultant, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

ELSEWHERE: Ken Merckx has choreographed fights for film, television, theater and universities all across the country. He has taught stage combat for AMDA (LA), Cal State Fullerton & Long Beach, PCPA, Cal Arts and UC, Santa Barbara.  Ken has been the resident fight choreographer for the Idaho and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals, A Noise Within (Los Angeles) and Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland).

He is proud to have staged violence for the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Pasadena Playhouse), Jeffery Hatcher’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (San Jose Repertory) and The Suicide Club (Arizona Theatre Company), Octavio Solis’ Cloudlands (South Coast Repertory), Jane Martin’s Somebody/Nobody directed by Jon Jory (Arizona Theatre Company) and the theatrical adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (San Jose Repertory).

Mr. Merckx received Ovation Awards in 2013 & 18 for his fight work at A Noise Within and his MFA, in acting, from the University of Illinois and his BA, in theatre studies, from the University of Washington.

Trisha Miller
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26 Season: Queen Margaret, Richard III; Ghost of Christmas Past, A Christmas Carol; Dolly, One Man, Two Guvnors

Previous Seasons: Blanche/Bessie/Grace Poole, Jane Eyre; Mrs. Antrobus, The Skin of Our Teeth; Lina Szczepanowska, Misalliance; Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Elizabeth/Emilia, The Book of Will; Squealer, Animal Farm (LA Drama Critics Circle Award); Alcyone and others, Metamorphoses; Hermione, The Winter’s Tale; Christmas Past, A Christmas Carol; Athena, Argonautika; Goneril, King Lear.

Other Theatres: Artistic Associate of Trinity Shakespeare Festival (6 seasons-Dallas/Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum Award); Associate Artist of Kentucky Repertory Theatre (4 seasons); Nebraska Rep; Northern Stage; Artists Repertory Theatre; Southwest Shakespeare Company; Las Vegas Shakespeare; and many others .

Film/TV: Little Rituals, Masters of Doom, Witch-Hunt.

Videogames: BioShock, Gears of War, Battlefield, and Tales from the Borderlands franchises.

Education/ Training: MFA Acting, Wayne State University’s Hilberry Rep.

Other: @heyitstrishamiller

Cassandra Marie Murphy
Resident Artist
With ANW: Belle, A Christmas Carol; Pauline Clench, One Man, Two Guvnors; Fortune Teller, The Skin of Our Teeth; Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd; First Fairy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Moses/Minimus, Animal Farm; Lucina and others, Metamorphoses; Aphrodite/Atalanta/Meleager’s Mother/Woman of Lemnos, Argonautika; Queen Isabel, Henry V; Aldonza, Man of La Mancha.

Other Theatres: International Theatre: Ellen, Miss Saigon in Macau, China’s International Music Festival; Francesca, regional premiere, The Bridges Of Madison County; Esmeralda, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, 5 Star Theatricals; Eva Peron, Evita (Eddon Award Best Lead Performance); Fantine, Les Misérables (LA Premier, Ovation Nomination for Best Musical); Ellen, Miss Saigon (Ovation Nomination Best Musical, Broadway World Nomination Best Actress); Cathy Hyatt, Last Five Years.

Film/TV: ABC’s The Voice Finale, Unusual Suspects.

Voiceovers/Recordings: Choir, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One; Voice of Mulan, Disney’s: Mickey and The Magical Map.

@cassandram3

Love to John and Nora.

Frederica Nascimento
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

With ANW: (Resident Artist) Designed many productions including: Jane Eyre, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Will, Alice in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, Argonautika, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Threepenny Opera, The Tempest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Other Theatres: Works in theatre, film, and multidisciplinary design in the US and internationally. Being an architect informs her work with a focus on materiality, storytelling, and conceptual thinking, creating spaces and environments that are alive and empowered by collaboration. Next design: Amerika, directed by Dietrich Smith.

Education/ Training: MFA in Scenic and Production Design for Film at NYU/TSOA; Scholar with Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD; Member of the Portuguese Architects Association; Usual Suspect at NY Theatre Workshop; USA 829/IATSE. Faculty at LAPC. Frederica is a recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle Award in Scenic Design. www.fredericanascimento.com IG: @fredericanascimentodesign

www.fredericanascimento.com

IG:@fredericanascimentodesign

Robert Oriol
Resident Artist
With ANW: Original Music Composition/Sound Design: One Man, Two Guvnors, A Man of No Importance, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Will, Metamorphoses, A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, Argonautika, Henry V, A Tale of Two Cities, King Lear, Arcadia, Six Characters in Search of an Author, All My Sons, A Flea in Her Ear, Julius Caesar, Figaro, The Dance of Death, Tartuffe, As You Like It, The Imaginary Invalid, Pericles, Prince of Tyre.  Sound Design: Kiss of the Spider Woman. Musical Direction/Sound Design: The Grapes of Wrath.

Other Theatres: Music Composition/Sound Design for various venues including Boston Court, Odyssey, Open Fist, and Theatre of Note. 2020 Ovation Awards Honors Recipient in Music Composition for a Play (Frankenstein). 2019 LADCC Special Award Recipient for Distinguished Achievement in Theatrical Design.

Carolyn Ratteray
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2019-2020 Season: Black Mary Wilkes, Gem of the Ocean

Previous Seasons: Béline, The Imaginary Invalid; Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest; Elmire, Tartuffe.

OTHER THEATRES: New York (Off Broadway) Pearl Theatre Company: Hecuba. Jean Cocteau Repertory: The Bourgeois Gentleman; Lysistrata. Classical Theatre of Harlem: The Cherry Orchard. Regional Theatres: Mark Taper Forum: Father Comes Home from the Wars. Pasadena Playhouse: Pygmalion. The Old Globe: Measure for Measure; Merry Wives of Windsor; All’s Well That Ends Well. The Theatre @ Boston Court: How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Theatre 150: The Winter’s Tale. American Shakespeare Center: Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It.

FILM/TV: Castle, NCIS, All My Children, Chemistry, The Young and the Restless, Law and Order: Criminal Intent

EDUCATION/TRAINING: MFA in Acting, The Old Globe–University of San Diego; BFA in Acting–New York University. Clown with Christopher Bayes, Phillipe Gaulier, Angela De Castro, David Bridel. Carolyn teaches acting at Pomona College.

Alison Rodriguez
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2016-17 Season: Belle/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol

Previous Productions: The Stepdaughter, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Antoinette, A Flea in Her Ear; Calpurnia/Plebian, Julius Caesar; Dolly, The Threepenny Opera; Miranda, The Tempest; Mariane, Tartuffe; Cherry, The Beaux’ Stratagem; Belle/Laundress, A Christmas Carol; Curio, Twelfth Night, or What You Will; Edith, Blithe Spirit; Perdita, The Winter’s Tale; and also appeared in A Doll’s House; Skin of Our Teeth; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Man of La Mancha; O’Pioneers; The Threepenny Opera; Oedipus; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Hollywood Bowl

OTHER THEATRES: The Illyrian Players: Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night. The Lyric Hyperion Theater: The Vagina Monologues. IO West: Two Girls One Bard

EDUCATION/TRAINING: B.A. Theater–UCLA; Masters, Theater Education—University of Northern Colorado (2018)

Erika Soto
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26 Season: Lady Anne, Richard III

Previous Seasons: Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hypatia Tarleton, Misalliance; Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing; Eurydice and others, Metamorphoses; Marela u/s, Anna in the Tropics; Helen, All’s Well That Ends Well; Ensemble, Sonnets for an Old Century (Noise Now audio play); Alice, Alice in Wonderland; Elizabeth/Female Creature, Frankenstein; Poppy Norton-Taylor, Noises Off ’18-‘19; Laura Wingfield, The Glass Menagerie; Katherine/Boy, Henry V; Vivie Warren, Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Cordelia, King Lear; Thomasina Coverly, Arcadia; Dolly Clandon, You Never Can Tell.

ELSEWHERE: Boston Court Pasadena: Jessica, Everything That Never Happened. Independent Shakespeare Co.: Julia, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Miranda, The Tempest; Juliet, Romeo and Juliet; Bianca, The Taming of the Shrew; Constance Neville, She Stoops to Conquer; Mopsa, The Winter’s Tale; Mary Moore, Red Barn (Premiere); Ingenue, Strange Eventful History (Premiere).

TV: Vida (STARZ), Side Hustle (Nickelodeon), Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion (Disney).

EDUCATION: University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts, B.A. British American Drama Academy, London, UK.

Deborah Strang
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2023-2024 Season: Mrs. Tarleton, Misalliance

Previous Seasons: Rebecca Heminges/Anne Hathaway, The Book of Will; Christmas Past, A Christmas Carol; Clover, Animal Farm; Countess, All’s Well, The Poet, An Iliad; Winter’s Tale; Buried Child; Noises Off; Glass Menagerie; Picture of Dorian Gray; Henry V; Madwoman of Chaillot; Ah, Wilderness!; Imaginary Invalid; You Never Can Tell; All My Sons; Julius Caesar; Threepenny Opera;Tempest; Tartuffe; Come Back, Little Sheba; Pericles; Beaux’ Stratagem; Grapes of Wrath; The Illusion; Twelfth Night; The Chairs; Great Expectations; Awake and Sing!; Richard III, Noises Off, Ghosts, Hamlet, Night of the Iguana; Romeo and Juliet, Touch of the Poet, Ubu Roi, Picnic, Mourning Becomes Electra, Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hollywood Bowl, Matchmaker, The Price, O Pioneers!, Cherry Orchard, Bus Stop, Skin of Our Teeth, Misanthrope; Taming of the Shrew, Heartbreak House, Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest.

FILM/TV: NCIS; C’mon C’mon with Joaquin Phoenix; Stumptown; 9-1-1; Young Justice; General Hospital; Scorpion; The Newsroom; Grey’s Anatomy; Castle, Eagle Eye; Spectacular Spider-Man; Numb3rs; Kiss the Girls; Things to Do in Denver; X-Files; Deep Space 9

Riley Shanahan
Resident Artist
With ANW: Marley/Old Joe, A Christmas Carol; Richard Mason /St. John Rivers / John Reed, Jane Eyre; Johnny Tarleton, Misalliance; Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Other Theatres: Boston Court: Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon in Night of the Iguana; Utah Shakespeare Festival: Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Juliet, et al in Long Lost…(abridged); Book-It Repertory Theatre: Hemingway in A Moveable Feast; Café Nordo; Cape Rep Theatre; PCPA; Theater of War; ArtsWest Playhouse; Intiman Theater; Seattle Shakespeare Company.

Film/TV: Robotman/Cliff Steele in Doom Patrol, Titans, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow; Chicago PD; Breakdown; I Am Easy to Find; Gender Card Flip, Twenty Pounds to Happiness; Parallel Lines; Nice Guy. Voiceover: Doom Patrol; Microsoft; Serta; Fluor.

Education/Training: BFA, Cornish College of the  Arts. As a director: The Tempest with The Liminal Space Players; As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra with ANW’s Summer with Shakespeare.

Jeff Gardner
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26 Season: Sound Design, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, One Man Two Guvnors.

Previous Seasons: Sound Design, A Man of No Importance, The Bluest Eye, Sweeney Todd, King Hedley II; Sound Designer: Radio Golf, Anna In The Tropics, Seven Guitars, The Winter’s Tale, Buried Child, Noises Off, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Raisin in the Sun, The Madwoman of Chaillot; Ensemble in The Tempest ‘93.

ELSEWHERE: Cry It Out for Echo Theater Company (Ovation Award—Best Production, 2018); Trevor for Circle X Theatre (Ovation Award—Best Production, 2015); and The Recommendation for IAMA Theatre (Ovation Award—Best Production, 2014). He has designed and performed throughout the country including Williamstown Theatre Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre, DC, The Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Antaeus Theatre Company, as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Angela Sonner
Resident Artist
With ANW:Production Stage Manager: A Christmas Carol, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Man of No Importance, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sweeney Todd, Misalliance.

Other Theatres: The Sound of Music, Oliver!, The Louise K. Taylor Performing Arts Center; Afterglow, Midnight Theatricals; Enter Stage Right, 24th St Theatre; Adobe Punk, Evangeline: The Queen of Make-Believe, They Shoot Mexicans Don’t They?, About…Productions; Dream Hou$e, Arizona Theatre Company; Lydia, Medea, UCLA – Little Theatre; Toyer, Dodgers, We Are The Tigers, The Hudson Theatres; Sylvia, Cat’s Cradle, Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Story of Carlos Bulosan, East West Players. Angela has also been the Theatre Director for Performing Arts Workshops, West LA for the past nine years.

Education/Training: BA Theatre, UNR. 

Tony Valdés
Resident Artist
AT A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26: Wigs & Make-up Design: Richard III; A Christmas Carol; One Man, Two Guvnors.

Previous Seasons: Wigs & Make-up Design, A Man of No Importance, Jane Eyre, Macbeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sweeney Todd, Misalliance, Much Ado About Nothing, Animal Farm, Metamorphoses

Graduate from the University of Puerto Rico where he earned a B.A. in Fine Arts on Theater, Tony worked for fifteen years as a hair and makeup artist on professional theatrical productions and Television. Since he moved to Los Angeles, Tony has worked as professional HMU artist at CNN Spanish Edition, stage, fashion, music videos and Independent Films. Tony taught classes from Beauty Makeup to Special FX along his position as Co-Director and Dean of Academics at EI School of Professional Makeup in Hollywood for 20 years. As the owner of Tombola Stage Hair & Makeup, he offers wig styling classes and wig styling services.

Rod Bagheri
Resident Artist
With ANW: Music Director, A Christmas Carol, One Man, Two Guvnors, A Man of No Importance, The Skin of Our Teeth, Animal Farm, A Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd.

Other Theatres: Seen both as a conductor/pianist and as an actor, Rod has been a music director for several local companies including The Candlelight Pavilion (Legally Blonde, Footloose, 9 to 5), The Wayward Artist (Next To Normal) and The Chance Theater (Lysistrata Jones, West Side Story). Recently as an actor: Davey in Newsies (3d Theatricals), Jerry Lee Lewis u/s in Million Dollar Quartet (National Tour), Jesus in Godspell (The Wayward Artist). Former Assistant Conductor for Pageant of the Masters. Has taught voice, piano, and improv for over a decade.

Amber Liekhus
Resident Artist
With ANW: Mrs. Cratchit, A Christmas Carol; Mrs. Curtin, A Man of No Importance; Ensemble, The Skin of Our Teeth; Beggar Woman, Sweeney Todd; u/s Ruby, King Hedley II.

Other Theatres: Amber has enjoyed a thrilling career across theatre, opera, and concert stages in the U.S. and abroad. Her theatre credits include Jelly’s Last Jam (Pasadena Playhouse), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Musical Theatre West, McCoy Rigby), We Can Do It (Wilshire Ebell Theatre), La Cage! (Hollywood Roosevelt), Annie (Hollywood Bowl), Sweet Charity (Reprise 2.0), and Blues in the Night (The Wallis). At A Noise Within, she has appeared as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, Mrs. Curtin in A Man of No Importance, Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, and as a featured singer in The Skin of Our Teeth.

An accomplished operatic soprano, Amber has performed as the Queen of El Dorado in Candide (LA Opera), the title role in Suor Angelica (Opera di Roma), and Lily in Porgy and Bess (San Francisco Opera, LA Opera). She has appeared as a soloist with both the Southeast Symphony and Pacific Symphony. Amber also performs with the Singers of Soul, sings with DC6 Singers Collective in MUSE/IQUE’s Tribute to Etta James, and recently sang backup for Josh Groban at the Hollywood Bowl.

A highly sought-after vocal teacher and coach, Amber is the owner of Amber Liekhus Vocal Studio, where she trains singers of all levels, and serves as conductor of the Landlights Community Choir, inspiring and cultivating a love of music in her community. Her favorite role, however, is being mom to Julien and Jasper, alongside her supportive husband, Justin. Amberliekhusvocalstudio.com

Alex Morris
Resident Artist
WITH A NOISE WITHIN:

2025-26 Season: Seth, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Previous Seasons: Doaker, The Piano Lesson; Eli, Gem of the Ocean; Elder Joseph Barlow, Radio Golf; Ben Jonson/Barman 2/Sir Edward Dering, The Book of Will; Soaphead Church/Daddy, The Bluest Eye; Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

ELSEWHERE: Matrix Theater: Two Trains Running and All My Sons. Other roles: Entire August Wilson canon; Enobarbus, Antony and Cleopatra; T-Bone, T-Bone and Weasel; Lucien P. Smith, Boys Next Door; among many others.

FILM/TV: Baskets, Malcolm in the Middle, Magnum P.I., Wishbone, Powder, Blind Fury, Sunrise in Heaven, and many more. Awards: 4 time NAACP Theater Award winner as an actor, producer, and director. Ovation Award winner. Special thanks to my extraordinary wife and partner of 23 years, Vanessa, and to Kamilah Alex Jr. and Alex III for their love and support. Thanks Gregg!

Henri Lubatti
Resident Artist
With ANW: Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Charlie Clench, One Man, Two Guvnors.

Other Theatres: Otto Gross, The Talking Cure, Mark Taper Forum; Sir Walter Raleigh, The School Of Night, Mark Taper Forum; Rosencrantz, Hamlet, South Coast Repertory Theatre; Dauphin, Henry V, Old Globe San Diego; Father Munoz, The Prince of LA, Old Globe San Diego; Nanjac, An Ideal Husband, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Morrow, An American Daughter, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Oswald, Ghosts, Seattle Intiman Theatre.

Film/TV: Selected credits: Jean-Pierre in T.O.T.S. (Disney); Ilja in Sleeper Cell (Showtime).

Education/Training: BA – University of Washington.