Creative Artists:
Allen Corben host/producer
Allen is a founding member of The Fuller Company (Pasadena), where he’s appeared in Anonimous, Twelve Angry Jurors (Juror 3), The Value Of Names, and Rabbit Hole. He’s appeared in Man of La Mancha, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Godspell at Glendale Pres, and was ¼ of the quartet in The Music Man (Stepping Stone Players). Allen has played wolves and bears at Burbank Family Theatre in Nick Tickle: Fairytale Detective, Once Upon a Wolf, and Goldilocks on Trial; once, he even played a king—in The Prince Who Wouldn’t Talk. Allen has been seen in Return To Forbidden Planet, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the world premier of Esther in LaCanada. Allen is married to writer/director Suse Sternkopf, whose work has been produced in NYC and LA; their daughter, Mallory, is a production stage manager. Apparently, it is genetic.
Cara Newman-Ruyle
host/producer
Cara has been finding and nurturing art in motherhood, acting, teaching pilates, and writing in recent years. A Chicago actor, most recently seen in Iron Skirts inaugural show, True West (VS. Theatre), Is He Dead? (Glendale Centre Theatre), The Boy from Oz (Celebration) and at PlayGround L.A. Film & TV credits include The Cybill Show, Nick Cannon Show, and numerous voiceover work. Stage: Into The Woods, Sight Unseen, Three Tall Women, On The Verge, Quilters, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, and Agnes of God . Look for Cara at the baseball field watching sons Brody and TJ or her Dodgers. Or telling stories of Harry Carey, singing for ther Chicago Cubbies, or eating in the White Sox team dining room before singing for them. She tells that story too much. Immensely grateful for the home team: Richard is a saint, our 4 kids (from College to kindergarten) and our fur babies.
Bianca Martucci Rickheim
stage manager
Bianca Martucci Rickheim is a graduate of LMU with a MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and is now pursuing her passion for theater. She has been Pacific Resident Theatre’s production manager for 3 years and has stage managed over 15 productions at theatre during that time. Outside of PRT, Bianca can be seen stage managing regularly at The Broadwater and the Echo Theatre Company. Some of her favorites credits include A Permanent Image, Shakespeare Inc, Nightingale, and One Jewish Boy. Thank you to this amazing creative team for this opportunity, my friends and family for all their support both close and far!
Michael Franco
lighting design & operator
Michael is a playwright, producer, director, designer and
actor. His award winning work has been performed all over
the world from Moscow to Busan, Kiev, Prague, Vienna,
Dublin, Edinburgh to name a few. Favorite credits of his
include The Hostage, Nosferatu Angel of the Final Hour,
The Master and Margarita, Pathe X’ and Heart of a Dog for
Zoo District. Gorey Stories and The Swine Show for Sacred
Fools. The Time of your Life, How to Explain the History of
Communism to Mental Patients, Autobahn, The Room, The
Good Person of Setzuan, The Dead and Joe’s Garage for The
Open Fist. Michael’s work for PRT has been as a designer
thus far but he has recently become a full company member
and is looking forward to his continuing association with the
ensemble. As to Johnny Clark when he calls you answer,
show up and do the work because the work will be good and
Johnny Clark is a class act. So thank you Johnny. Thanks to
Dalia for sheparding this through the PRT world and Anna,
Bianca and the rest of the PRT staff or letting me play.
Finally thanks to my wife Satomi and my two children Maria
and Liam for being the best thing about me.
Dalia Volysius PRT liason
Johnny Clark
Artistic Director of VS. Theatre
actor / director/ producer
mentor / (overall great guy)
Johnny Clark founded and is the Artistic Director of Vs. Theatre Company (voted “Best Of The Decade” by LA Weekly), a Los Angeles non-profit theatre devoted to producing the best contemporary plays in America on an intimate stage. He’s the founder and Artistic Director of The Vs. Studio whose mission is to help artists find and manifest their passion projects. And to do so with excellence and generosity for themselves, their fellow artists and the audience they seek to serve.
He’s also an actor, having performed in over fifty productions. He has done several commercials and independent films including Lousy with the Spirit (Cannes Film Festival) and Liars Club, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in. The feature film received critical acclaim as well as a theatrical release.
Johnny is married to Amy Clark, and has two sons, Callum and Truman (far and away his greatest accomplishment to date).
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