Andria Kozica is a native of Chicago and graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Recent theatre credits include Jamie (u/s) in American Hero (IAMA Theatre Company), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival), Roxanne in The Understudy (Bull & Bearer Theatre), Gabriella in Boeing Boeing (Little Fish Theatre), Queen in Cymbeline (Shakespeare by the Sea), and Actor #3 in Lebensraum (HCLAB, Ovation Nomination). Andria is also the founder of The Spare Change Series, a pay-what-you-can play reading series that benefits various organizations and charities. Film/TV credits at andriakozica.com.
Anna LaMadrid
Anna LaMadrid is an award-winning actor/writer born in Caracas, Venezuela. She completed a 2-Year Conservatory Meisner Training with Maggie Flanigan in New York and received her MFA from the University of Washington. She is an alumna of the Disney Discovers Showcase. She is the owner of Put Me On Self-Tape - an audition/self-tape coaching studio based in LA. In 2021, she founded The New Triple Threat--the first online actor training membership program. Her solo show, The Oxy Complex, was produced by IAMA Theatre in 2021. LA Theatre: West Coast Premiere of Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (Theatre @ Boston Court), As You Like It (Antaeus Theatre), World Premiere of Boni Alvarez’s Fixed (Echo Theatre), and American Hero (IAMA) TV Credits: Vida, Grey's Anatomy, Bless This Mess, Call Your Mother and more. For more info: anna-lamadrid.com
John Lavelle
Originally from New York, John Lavelle spent much of his career appearing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regionally, and at The Royal Shakespeare Company. He is the author of several plays including Inhalation (Max Lerner Award, O’Neill Finalist), Sinner’s Laundry (Ovation recommended), Would Coulda Shoulda (IAMA Reunion), Forever Brentwood (23 Hour Playfest), Love in the time of Robots (One Day Plays) and his work has appeared in the ABC Discovers Talent Showcase. John received a Drama Desk Award for his performance in The Royale at The Lincoln Center Theatre. He has appeared on TV and Film in numerous roles, most notably portraying Roy Reed in Ava DuVernay’s Academy Award nominated film Selma. As a voice artist, John has worked for Disney, Netflix, Dreamworks and is voice of the beloved children’s book series Nate the Great which gives him major street credit with his children. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and he performs regularly with his Improv team Some Kinda Monster at The Upright Citizens Brigade. John is grateful to have worked as an Assistant Stage Manager, Props Master, Technical Director, Assistant Director, Actor, Playwright, and Director for IAMA.
Sharon Lawrence
You may know Sharon Lawrence from multiple nominated and SAG Award winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in NYPD Blue, as a stay-at-home prostitute in Desperate Housewives and a murderous realtor on Monk, as a serial killer on Law and Order:SVU, coming to terms with her long lost daughter on Rizzoli & Isles, bantering with Alfred Molina on Ladies Man or beating up Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sharon grew up in Charlotte and Raleigh North Carolina, graduated form UNC-CH with a degree in Journalism and spent her college summers doing musicals in summer stock. She became an Actors Equity Member in 1984 and a SAG-AFTRA member in 1987. Recent work includes Blunt Talk opposite Sir Patrick Stewart and an arc on NBC's upcoming series Game Of Silence. Recent film includes Solace opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins, Of Music and Mind with Joaquim De Almeda and Aunjanue Ellis and award winning The Bridge Partner with Beth Grant. An accomplished stage actress, Sharon played twenty different women in the Coward cabaret Love, Noel at the Wallis. At the Pasadena Playhouse she starred in Noel Coward's final play, A Song at Twilight and as Vivian Leigh in Orson's Shadow -(Ovation nomination, winner LA Drama Critics Circle Award). At the Taper she created the role of Maureen in the premier of Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior and was featured Carl Reiner's gala Enter Laughing. Broadway credits include Cabaret, Fiddler On The Roof and as Velma Kelly in Chicago. Former Chair of Women In Film Foundation; serves on the Board of Directors of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, WeForShe.org, HealTheBay.org and UNC-Chapel Hill General Alumni Association Twitter-@sharonlawrence
Colleen Labella
Colleen Labella is a Los Angeles based director and producer. Directing credits include: a journey through minimalism at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the LA Philharmonic, Lincoln 2020 for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Toyer at the Hudson Theatre, and an LGBT retelling of Almost, Maine. Associate director credits: Canyon and Cult of Love (IAMA Theatre), The Cake (Geffen Playhouse), His Girl Friday (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). Training: University of Connecticut (BFA), the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU Tisch, Shakespeare's Globe. Colleen is the creative director for Leslye Headland's production company, Shoot to Midnight.
Laura Mann
LAURA MANN – Theatre: Currently performing in the national tour of Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, IAMAFEST 2015, IN THE NEXT ROOM… (Theatre Union), MACBETH (Tennessee Shakespeare Company). Film: 1982 (tiff), Neil LaBute’s SOME GIRL(S) (sxsw). TV: FRINGE, TRUE JACKSON, AS THE WORLD TURNS. Commercials: Honda, Lowes, Sony, Dove, Corona, Apple, and others… Shakespeare: Shakespeare & Company, Advanced Shakespeare Workshop w/ Kristin Linklater. Scene Study: Lesly Kahn, Warner Loughlin. Voice: Elisabeth Howard. BFA- Syracuse University. Summer Semesters- NYU Tisch. Proud member of Actor’s Equity.