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​THE ACTORS
MOVING ARTS PRODUCTION ~ JUNE 2025

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Lea Floden as Lillian
LEA FLODEN
LA: Morphic Resonance at the Matrix & the Eclectic (Dramalogue and LA Weekly Awards), Headless at Ensemble Studio Theatre- LA,Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and The Clean House at Cal Rep,Dorian at LATC, The Great Grandson of Jedediah Kohler at Circle Rep West, True Believer and Star of Hope at Arcade. NY: Babylon Gardens at Circle Repertory Company (with Tim Hutton and Mary Louise Parker, directed by Joe Mantello), where she was an original member of Circle Rep LAB Company. Other Circle Rep productions include David Mamet's The Poet and the Rent, The Diviners (both with Jeff Daniels), The Three Sisters, A.R. Gurney's What I Did Last Summer, Lanford Wilson's Sa-Hurt/Bottle Harp and Harry Houdini's Last Act. Other NY appearances include Short Change at the Beckett, Mummy's Tomb at LA Mama ETC, Nothin Depressin at the WPA, Alan Ball's Cherokee County at the York Theatre Company, Cowboy (opposite Eartha Kitt), Van Gogh Passion at the Women's Project, The Ladder (with Sandra Seacat) at Music Theatre Group/Lenox Arts Center, and Jules Feiffer's A Think Piece at the Hudson Guild. Broadway tour and regional theatre roles include: Cowboy and the
Legend (again opposite Eartha Kitt), Run for Your Wife at the Morris Mechanic, Noises Off (w/Millicent Martin) at the Phoenix, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Rosalind in As You Like It and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, also at the Phoenix, Bing and Walker at the Peterborough Players, another Rosalind in As You Like It at the Asolo, Talley's Folly at Connecticut Stage, Ibsen's Ghosts, Othello, Kitty in The Time of Your Life, Zerbinetta in Scapino and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest, TV & Film credits include Shannon's Deal, Jack's Place, Over My Dead Body, Saturdays, As the World Turns and Search forTomorrow, as well as countless commercial and voiceover contracts. he played Louise in the quirky and award winning indie film How To Be Louise (LA Woman’s Film Festival, Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, released by Sundance on Netflix). Her voice has starred in many animated TV shows and films, including Space Cats, James Bond Jr., Disney's Whispers and The Wish that Changed Christmas. 

​Also a playwright/screenwriter, Lea’s plays have been produced in LAat EST-LA, Playwrights Arena, Friends and Artists Theatre, and Arcade, as well as at Women’s Project NYC, Portland Oregon’s Sowelu Theatre Company and Stark Raving Theatre, and the Asolo in Sarasota, FL. Her screenplay version of Headless was honored at Sundance Writer’s Lab, Star of Hope was awarded Best New Play by the Portland, Oregon Critic’s Association. Lea has coached actors in LA, NYC, London, Glasgow, Dubai, and Hong Kong. She teaches Musical Theatre at LA’s Colburn School. She had a forty year artistic collaboration and marriage with now deceased director Dan Bonnell. She is thrilled to be a part of this ensemble.
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Jacqueline Wright as Francine
Jacqueline Wright, AKA Jax, received their BFA in acting from California Institute of the Arts. Recently Jax was honored to be selected as a member of EST LA’s Ignite Project playwrighting lab, sparking the creation of their new full length plays Emergency Snack. As well as their latest full length, Redwood & The Giant Play. Their short play The Coffee Pot Tree premiered at EST LA in 2023. Driving Wild, directed by Bart Delerenzo, premiered at Theater of Note, Critic’s pick LA WEEKLY. Have You Seen Alice? directed by Adrian A Cruz premiered at Theater of NOTE, Critic’s Pick LA TIMES and LA WEEKLY, nominated for LA Weekly performance and design awards. Eat Me, directed by Chris Fields, nominated for LA Weekly and Ovation awards, Love Water, directed by Dan Bonnell, produced by EST LA with Open Fist, Critic’s Choice LA WEEKLY, Ovation nominations, Jerome Fellowship Finalist and Sherwood Finalist. As a performer she originated the roles of Molly Carlson and Betty in The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters by Marlane Meyer, dir by Lisa Peterson, JonBenét Ramsey in House of Gold, dir by Gates McFadden, Carrie in Backyard by Mickey Birnbaum directed by Larry Biederman, and the title character in The Dope Elf, written & directed by Asher Hartman, The Air Planner in Daniel Sullivan’s Xs Tons Millions directed by Adrian A. Cruz, and The Mother in Caye Castagnetto’s Rhino, Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head. She can be seen in Asher Hartman’s short film It Had All Happened Through This, This…? and as the Chupacabra worshiping villian in the b-movie homage flick Cursed In Baja directed by Jeff Daniel Phillips, and as Tommy in the feature film adaptation of Jacqueline’s critically acclaimed play Eat Me directed by Adrian A. Cruz (Sundance lab finalist, Best Film: Cult Films & Peephole Festival), now streaming on all platforms. JacquelineWrightArts.com

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Jeffrey Johnson as The Men
​Jeffrey S.S. Johnson has performed with lauded theatre groups such as Critical Mass, The Evidence Room, VS. Theatre, Sons Of Semele, Moving Arts, Bad Puppets, Bootleg Theater, the Odyssey, FAKE Radio Players, the Celebration, and more, also in the Pacific Northwest with the Portland Center Stage. (a few of those with Larry!)
Over the years, he’s become an accomplished voiceover artist in commercials, industrials, narration, video games, and the like. Most notably, Mr. Johnson has been the voice of TMobile since 2012.
“Captain Black”, his debut as a feature film writer/director was featured in 11 film festivals world wide, earning awards for Best Actor, Best Film & Best Direction. 
He has also been dipping his toes into producing film & music.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1378502/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_jeffrey%2520johnson
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Denise Leitner as ​A Fury
Denise has had a long career as a prominent dance teacher and performer. She has had the honor to be a faculty member at, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles High School for the Arts, Edge Performing Arts Center, Santa Monica College, UCLA and most recently as Director of Dance at Mayfield Senior School. Denise has also had the opportunity to travel abroad extensively to choreograph and conduct master classes. 
As well as teaching and choreographing Denise is a photographer specializing in dance and theater photography. 
She has photographed the American Ballet Theater, Lines, Paul Taylor, Heidi Duckler, Oguri-Body Weather Laboratory and the Los Angeles Dance Festival just to name a few. Denise’s love for photography not only lies in photographing live performances, but also in creating fine art dance portraiture.
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Anna Giannotis as A Fury
Anna Giannotis, Actor, Filmmaker, Teaching Artist has performed in
regional theatres throughout the U.S. Favorite stage roles: SERAFINA
DELLE ROSA in "The Rose Tattoo, YIAYIA MIMI in "Women of Zalongo,
and DESPO in "Ilya Darling." Anna has written/directed three award
winning documentaries for the Greek Heritage Society of SCA all narrated
by Olympia Dukakis and is in development with a mini series based on a
real Greek American spy. "KUDOS" to Melissa, Cast & Crew for "SORRY."
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Denise has performed with The Jazz Tap Ensemble under the direction of Lynn Dally. She studied and performed with tap legends Eddie Brown and Sam Weber. 
Denise taught workshops and master classes all over the Pacific Northwest and California and was in the dance faculty at Loyola Marymount University for five years. She taught in New York City for a Tradition in Tap workshop that honored her husband, Robert Scheerer, as well as fap festivals in St. Louis, Detroit, Los Angeles Tap Festivals and at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.
Denise has a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts with honors from St. Mary's College of California, and currently teaches and serves as Tap Chair at The Trudl Zipper Dance Program at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.
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