the echo theater company presents

July 22, 27, 29, 31 / 2025

Atwater Village Theater

3269 Casitas Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90039

Ann Noble / PENNY

playwright / performer

Ann Noble is a veteran Theatre Ghosts/Fringe director & performer, she is also a writer, actor, director, solo performer, acting teacher/coach, arts educator — and a jail chaplain. She was most recently seen in Tom Jacobson’s Crevasse (Son of Semele/Victory Theatre) and Sabina in Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (A Noise Within). She is a proud member of Antaeus Theatre, Rogue Machine, Warriors For Peace, and the Echo Theater, where she originally premiered her previous clown shows, A Bella Incarceration, and Little Parts Hunts A Baby-Daddy (which went on to screen digitally at both Edinburgh and Sydney Fringe Festivals). Her award-winning plays have been produced both nationally and internationally, as have both her new media series. Her directing credits include work with several theaters and production companies in L.A., as well as for the Museum of Tolerance, L.A.’s Holocaust Museum, L.A.’s LGBT Center, the YWCA and Homeboy Industries. She currently teaches for Moving Arts Theatre and AMDA–DTLA Campus. Ann is also the program coordinator for Prism Restorative Justice/CFLC which brings chaplaincy to those incarcerated in the L.A. County jails. IG: @sparksjacks

Jeffrey Johnson / ARCADE

composer / performer

Jeffrey S.S. Johnson has made a career as an actor since the late 90s. Originally from Massachusetts, he has called Los Angeles home now for over two decades.

He started his performing career 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.

Film roles include: Magazine Dreams (*Sundance FF), Helter Skelter, Letters To God, Terminator Genisys, Good Grief (*award winner), Haunting Of Cellblock 11 (*award winner), Worth, The 6th Degree, Stellina Blue, A Coat Of Snow, Down Dog, (*award winner), Scorcher, Over The Shoulder (*award winner), and many more.

Television appearances include Lovecraft Country, Bones, Casting The Net, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Lie To Me, Burn Notice, CSI, Without A Trace, Barbershop, Boomtown, The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, Tremors, Unhitched, and more.

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.