
Meet the Artists!
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Andre Amarotico
Andre received his BA in Theatre at Stanford University. He is a collective member and board president at the Tony Award winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. He was recently featured as Pecker the roostor in Presidio Theatre's Peter Pan. He also appeared as Liam in the world premier of Under Ben Bulben by Kate Hawley at Jewel Theatre Co. Andre was additionally featured in Neighborhood Stories, in a short untitled play by Pulitzer nominated playwright Amy Freed. He was nominated for a TBA for his role in Ross Valley Players’ The 39 Steps, and a BATCC Award for his portrayal of John Wilkes Booth in Hillbarn’s Assassins. Other favorite roles include Anthony in Sweeney Todd, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and the titular characters in Hamlet and Macbeth. He has also performed at The Mountain Play, 6th Street Playhouse, The Cutting Ball Theater, Word for Word, and Stanford Repertory Theater.
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Robin Bradford
Robin Bradford is a Writer and Producer hailing from San Francisco with a rich background as a corporate CEO. Transitioning from her business career, she embraced her passion for writing, and has enjoyed successes along her journey in the entertainment industry.
A prolific writer, Bradford boasts an impressive portfolio of completed scripts as well as produced stage plays. Notable highlights include her optioned screenplay, “The Undignified Demise of the Spinster Fiona Murphy,” to be filmed in Ireland, the screenplay “La Bella Diva,” optioned by Robert Altman’s production company, the writing of a trilogy of seafaring screenplays based on the young adult novels of a best-selling author, five write-for-hire scripts, and her Pulitzer Prize-nominated stage play "Low Hanging Fruit,” which achieved professional productions across the country. She has received numerous awards for screenwriting and playwriting.
Bradford has written and produced several theatrically-released films and shorts, including features “Frank,” and “Graduation.” Her current projects include producing Lee Sankowich’s musical “For Honor” (for which she wrote the lyrics). She is also the co-founder of Ignite the Spark Retreats, which will hold its first retreats this year in New York and Scotland.
Throughout her career, Bradford has been an active member of various Non-Profit boards, contributing her expertise to organizations like the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bay Area Musicals, San Francisco State University Graduate School of Business, and San Francisco Zen Center’s Everyday Board, among others. She has served as a volunteer for socially-important non-profits San Francisco Suicide Prevention and Audubon Canyon Ranch.
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Ellen Brooks
Bio forthcoming
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Emilie Talbot Brooks
Emilie Talbot (she/they) is a San Francisco based actor, director, teacher, and voice artist. Recently she worked with the Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic and has appeared at numerous theatres across the United States including Huntington Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Magic, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others. Film and Television appearances include 13 Reasons Why, Sonder, A Wake, Starting Over, and the recently completed Little Mother Lies, as well as whole slew of commercials, voiceovers, and video games including the new podcast series BLUE LIFE.
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Nancy Carlin
Nancy Carlin has directed and performed extensively in regional theater including the American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Aurora Theatre, Shotgun Players, Jewel Theatre, Marin Theatre, Marin Shakes, Center Rep, Cal Shakes, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A former company member of A.C.T. and associate artist with California Shakespeare Theater, Carlin is also a writer, producer, dialect coach, script doctor, and acting teacher. A theater arts lecturer with SJSU and UC Berkeley, she holds a BA in comparative literature from Brown University, an MFA in acting from the A.C.T. Nancy is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and SDC. goes here
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Lizzie Colagero
Lizzie Calogero (she/her) is an English-American actor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Tehran, she grew up in Bedfordshire UK, and studied at Warwick University. Since moving to the US she has worked extensively with companies around the Bay Area, including SF Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, San Jose Repertory, Center Rep, San Francisco Shakespeare Co, Woman’s Will, and many seasons with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe, where she is a former Collective Member. Known for her comedic work, Lizzie is drawn to theatre that creates community, stimulates empathy, and gives audiences a visceral experience of lives that are otherwise inaccessible to them. Find out more, or get in touch at her website.
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Maxon Davis
Maxon Davis' credits include New York and regional theaters, studio and independent films, network television, web-series, and commercials. In addition to Rainbow Zebra, his Bay Area theater credits include work with The Magic, ACT, Berkeley Rep., San Francisco Playhouse, CalShakes, and many more. In NYC, he was the Assoc. Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Forum and an Ambassador for the Shakespeare Society / Public Theater. In another life, he worked for a senator on Capitol Hill.
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John Flanagan
John Flanagan (Johnny Flan): John was mostly recently seen in WordForWord's WHO'S DEAD McCARTHY. He's also been seen at Marin Theatre Company, the Magic, San Jose Stage, San Jose Rep, Center Rep, Central Works, Campo Santo, Shotgun Players, 3Girls Theatre, the Fifth Floor, and more. Mr. Flanagan can be seen with WordForWord this fall in the RON RASH STORIES, has a principal role in the upcoming indie feature, YOU'LL LOSE A GOOD THING, and a small part in the indie film, BROTHER VERSES BROTHER, which premieres at SXSW in Austin this March 2025. John's a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. Slainte!
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Cindy Goldfield
CINDY GOLDFIELD* has been a fixture in the Bay Area theatre scene for many years. Regional credits include work at A.C.T., (Including 16 seasons of A Christmas Carol and most recently, Fefu and Her Friends), CenterREP, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, Broadway by the Bay, Marin Theatre Company, N.C.T.C., and 42nd Street Moon. New York credits include D’Arcy Drollinger’s Project: Lohan, and Mr. Irresistible, at La MaMa E.T.C. Goldfield also enjoys a thriving cabaret career, collaborating with Scrumbly Koldewyn (Goldfield & Koldewyn) and David Aaron Brown (One Night Stand.) In addition to her performing credits and awards, Goldfield has two Theatre Bay Area awards for Best Direction (Trog! and Once) and continues to direct at various theaters in the Bay Area and beyond. She also works as an event producer for corporate and private events.
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Merrill Grant
Merrill Grant grew up in Atlanta and performed for over ten years in New York city before moving to the Bay Area in 2019. While in New York she originated roles in developmental workshops of over 25 new musicals and performed lead roles in fully staged new musicals for the NYMF and NY Fringe festivals. She made solo debuts at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Her award-winning cabaret act on Shirley Temple had multiple runs in New York and went on to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Favorite projects include originating the title role in two fully-staged biographical musicals, one on the life of Marilyn Miller (1920’s broadway star) and the other on Kay Swift (George Gershwin’s partner and collaborator). In San Francisco, she debuted at the Magic Theatre in Andrea Gordon's “Miriam & Esther visit the Diamond District”, performed in numerous “Panto” productions at The Presidio Theatre as well as with Peninsula Lively Arts, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, The Mountain Play, and Broadway By the Bay.
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Molly Goode
Molly is a longtime Bay Area actress and the Co-founder/Artistic Director of the Emmy Award-winning Life Theatre Services, www.lifetheatre.com. Molly’s work with Life Theatre involves writing, directing, performing, and facilitating programs on a wide range of social issues; she is committed to shedding light on intolerance and discrimination by creating theater that is smart, thought-provoking, and always entertaining.
In addition to her many local theater credits, Molly was a company member of the original Z Collective as well as the Joe Goode Performance Group, performing throughout the US and in Europe. She was featured as Bird in the film ‘Lasso’ on Amazon Prime and Lynda in ‘13 Reasons Why’ on Netflix. A fond memory is of playing Kitty Duval in Andrea’s famed production of ‘The Time of Your Life’, at Spec’s Bar and the Savoy Tivoli. She’s delighted to be working with Andrea and joining Zebra Rainbow!
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Susan Jackson
Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference—Eugene O’Neill Center- monologue (LEAVING, SIMONE) chosen for THE MONOLOGUE PROJECT-Curator, Dominique Morisseau; Staged- read/produced New York, Bay Area, Eugene O’Neill Foundation, William Inge Festival, Sydney, London. DEATH BE NOT LOUD! --Best of Capital Fringe—Washington Post positive review. SF PLAYGROUND SOLO FESTIVAL—Vertigo: But Not the Movie! Published: Smith and Kraus, (2017-2025) Finalist: Creede Repertory Theatre; Henley Rose Competition for Female Playwrights; Fusion Theatre Company; Centre Stage; 3Girls Theatre Co. Alum-PlayGround; Mid-America Theatre Conference; Last Frontier Theatre Conference; Powerstories: Voices of Women Festival. Commissioned: Years Ahead-Oakland; Napa Theatre Companies. Part of the SF Young Playwrights Festival with Lauren Yee and Christopher Chen.
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Donald E. Lacy, Jr.
Donald E. Lacy, Jr. is a writer, director, actor, comedian, radio talk show host, and activist. In 2018 The Studio City Film Festival created the Donald E. Lacy, Jr. Social Justice Award, to be awarded to filmmakers whose films address social issues.
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Brian Lohmannn
Brian is an actor, writer and musician who started doing improv is nightclubs in the late 1970s with the Committee offshoot, San Francisco Times. He is a company member, director and teacher for BATS Improv, which he co-founded. While a member of the SOMA comedy group, Faultline, Brian created his lounge singer alter ego, Johnny Lonely, an act he has now inhabited for 39 years.
His holiday Dickens adaptation, A Pickwick Christmas, was part of The Magic Theater’s Rainbow Zebra reading series last December. Film and TV includes, He Was a Quiet Man, Jack, Thanks, Lifegame, Speechless and American Body Shop.
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Howard Swain
Howard Swain moved to the Bay Area in 1976. Over the years he’s worked with A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, the Magic, Eureka, Word For Word, TheatreWorks, Aurora, The Jewel, SF Playhouse, and Marin Theatre, as well as the Oregon, Santa Cruz, California, and Marin Shakespeare Festivals. He appeared with New York Theater Workshop, and performed with the National Tours of Steve Martin’s Picasso At The Lapin Agile and Love, Janis. Television appearances include Nash Bridges and Hill St. Blues, and in such films as Cherry 2000, Miracle Mile, Teknolust, in Horizon, Night Of The Scarecrow, and Valley Of The Heart’s Delight.
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Megan Wicks
Megan Wicks is excited to be a part of this special endeavor. She has lived and performed in both San Francisco and New York City, and currently resides in Sacramento.
A few special credits include: GEORGIANA & KITTY, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING & THE ARSONISTS (Capital Stage), CHRISTMAS CAROL, FRANKENSTEIN, STOP KISS (B Street Theatre Intern), THE SPEAKEASY (Boxcar Theatre SF), WHERE THE BOYS ARE (A.C.T. Strand), #BROS (Faultline Theatre) and SOUTHERN LIGHTS (3 Girls Theatre).
Wicks is a voiceover actor and has been featured in a dozen commercials and several video games, including VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE. Megan recently appeared in an episode of WHAT WOULD YOU DO? (ABC). She is an audiobook narrator with 30 books available on Audible.
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Eiko Yamamoto
Eiko Moon-Yamamoto (she/they) is a multi-hyphenate performer and visual artist, born in Tokyo and raised in Seoul, Hawaii and Central California. Reaching a zenith in another career, Eiko returned to their artistic roots in 2019. Overcoming a pandemic canceled season which included a cancellation of their debut in ROMEO AND JULIET at Marin Shakespeare Company, she has since blazed forward. Selected credits: Afong Moy, THE CHINESE LADY (The Pear Theatre), M’Lynn Eatenton, STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Sierra Repertory Theatre), FOLLIES, CLUE, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (San Francisco Playhouse), CYMBELINE (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), DOWNTOWN CROSSING, world premiere (Company One), EUREKA DAY (Spreckels Theatre), NAN (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), SLEEPING BEAUTY PANTO (The Presidio Theatre), INTO THE WOODS (Mountain Play), WORKING, FLOWER DRUM SONG (Palo Alto Players), The 1940’s RADIO HOUR (Hillbarn Theatre), A NOH CHRISTMAS CAROL (Theatre of Yugen). They are committed to championing historically excluded voices in the American theatre canon and have developed new works with Playwrights Foundation, Crowded Fire, PlayOn Shakespeare, Magic Theatre, The Ground Floor at BerkeleyRep, AlterLab, FaultLine Theater, Z Space. Film credit: THE TRUER HISTORY OF THE CHAN FAMILY, 2025. Upcoming: PACIFIC OVERTURES (Kunoichi Productions/Theatre of Yugen), Graduate of UCLA and California College of Arts. SAG-AFTRA/AEA eligible.
