Pedro (he/him) graduated from California Lutheran University with degrees in Communication and Theatre. He began working professionally as a stage manager in 2018 and has gotten the opportunity to work with Broadway artists: Susan Egan, Adam Pascal, Brad Ellis, Peggy Hickey, & Patrick Cassidy. He has also been a part of the local crew for National Tours: Finding Neverland, Anastasia, & Cats. He is very passionate about making arts accessible and is delighted to be a part of a Company with a demonstrated commitment of accessibility to the community. He is excited to see how he can help propel the Company to and further the reach and engagement of the community!

Ellie (she/her) is a SoCal local and a proud first-generation Mexican American. Professionally she has performed with companies such as The ABC Network, Casa 0101 Theatre, Comcast Xfinity, PopSugar Inc, and Disney Cruise Lines. Always remembering that art is revolutionary, she continuously works on projects that celebrate BIQPOC communities and volunteers her skills with local organizations. Through various mediums, Ellie truly hopes to empower others to tell their story.

Zach (he/him) studied theatre at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, and has performed with Studio Stage, Son of Semele, Backroom Shakespeare Co., Tiny Rhino, Drive Theatre , MAB Town Hall, Finite-films, and has held company Membership with Theatricum Botanicum, Sacred Fools, and the Illyrian Players. Zach has also performed in world of immersive theatre with JFI, and e3w Productions. Zach is also an accomplished visual artist and painter and has done set design, scenic painting, and master carpenter work for Theatre of Note, Sacred fools, the Vagrancy, Illyrian Players, Escape room LA, and Encore Entertainers and rentals In Redondo. To see his work you can visit ZachBArt.com, or follow him on instagram @art_on_my_sleeve

Co-Artistic Director. Joe (he/him) was an actor in Chicago for several years before moving west. With Coeurage he directed The Secret in the Wings (Stage Raw Nominated), The Sparrow (Ovation Nominated) The Yellow Boat and The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (Ovation Nominated). Joe has created award winning sound designs for numerous Coeurage shows beginning with the second season, and has been featured as an actor in Failure: a Love Story and The Pitchfork Disney, among others.

June (she/her) grew up Denver and studied Political Science and English Literature at Brown University. Favorite roles include Gerty in Coeurage Theatre Company’s Failure: A Love Story; the Nurse in A Noise Within’s Romeo & Juliet, and Hecuba in City Garage’s The Trojan Women. Her plays include The Good Minister from Harare (2017 Saroyan/Paul Playwriting Prize for Human Rights); La Bête - A One Act (Spirit of the Fringe Award, 2014; and Blowfly (Fresh Produced LA.)

Provvidenza Catalano (they/them) is a fat, queer, genderful multidisciplinary artist and organizer living in Los Angeles. Provvidenza's work centers on the intersections of queerness, gender, fat bodies, chronic illness and the search for emotional fullness. On stage, they were most recently seen in Coeurage’s Vendetta Chrome, and as the host of RuPaul’s DragCon in LA, NYC and the UK.

Tiffany (she/her) is thrilled to be joining Coeurage Ensemble! After a three year adventure in New York where she made her Broadway debut in Escape to Margaritaville as a swing, pit singer, and principal understudy, she is now happily back in her home state of California. Her recent credits include Paradise Square directed by Moises Kaufman, (Berkeley Rep), Dreamgirls, (TUTS), and Rock of Ages Las Vegas as a swing, assistant dance captain, and principal understudy. She received her BA in Theater Arts from California State University, Fullerton in 2010.

Cristina’s (she/her) Coeurage acting credits include, Failure: A Love Story and Urinetown. Coeurage producing credits include, The NOMAD Project. Cristina graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from UCLA's Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program. A Music Center Spotlight Awards semifinalist and three-time Ovation-nominated actress, she has worked at regional theaters such as South Coast Repertory, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, Independent Shakespeare Company, Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within and has performed at New York’s Beacon Theatre, Catalina’s Avalon Ballroom, and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. She is currently a Schubert Fellow receiving her MFA in Theatre Management & Producing at Columbia University in New York.

Dean (he/him) was born and raised in Hawaii. He studied with MacArthur Fellow Ran Blake at the New England Conservatory. Collaborating with Grammy winner Oswaldo Golijov set his path toward the compositional life. In Los Angeles, his music has underscored film, broadcast television and theater.

In parallel he operated a series of ventures in post-production, hospitality, retail and real estate spaces.

Dean's career reflects a lifelong interest in modes of conversive, narrative and figurative work. His process reconciles his loves: collaboration and solitude, structure and nonlinear thinking, technology and the human touch.

Director of Development. Mark (he/him) is an actor, improviser, and voiceover talent. For Coeurage, Mark has appeared in Andronicus, A Bright Room Called Day, Translations, Assassins, and Is He Dead?. Other credits include Oval House (London), Phoenix Theatre, Kingsmen Shakespeare, Rogue Artists Ensemble, A Noise Within, LA Opera, Rogue Machine, The Road, Theatricum Botanicum, Playground-LA, Celebration Theatre, and Santa Monica Playhouse. Mark has appeared in viral videos that have garnered over 22 million views. He has fostered partnerships with Stone Brewing, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Blick Art Supplies, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California, and dozens of Silver Lake area businesses.

Head of Casting. Margaret (she/her) got super lucky when she fell in with Coeurage, playing Nelly in Failure: A Love Story (which had been a dream role for several years) and a whole bunch of characters in The Secret in the Wings. Some of her other all-time favorite roles include Natasha in Three Sisters, Suzanne in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Lili in The American Plan. She’s the co-creator of ctrl alt delete, a short form comedy set in an abortion clinic that was nominated for three Emmy Awards. Lately you can catch her screenwriting, eating, and waiting for live theater to return someday.

Associate Artistic Director, DEA Coordinator. Nardeep (he/him) graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Film Production, earning international acclaim along the way. He studied directing at the FAMU institute in Prague, Czech Republic, and acting at both the Atlantic Theater Company, UCB, and with Stephen Book in Los Angeles. His work has screened around the world. Nardeep currently resides in Los Angeles where he produces content ranging from branded videos, web videos, commercials, music videos, sketch comedy, shorts, and fashion films. He also acts whenever he can. He is currently writing a feature length dramedy set in India which he plans to direct and star in. www.nardeepkhurmi.com

Director of Video Media. John (he/him) is a founding member of Coeurage, where he’s appeared in The Woodsman, Measure for Measure, Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Hats Nudes & Immortality, and bash: latterday plays. Regional credits include productions in New York, Orange County, and Los Angeles. LA credits include performances at Antaeus and Come Back Little Sheba at A Noise Within. He can be seen in several Netflix productions, and served as producer for a Steven King-based short that has screened at film festivals around the globe. John earned a BFA in acting from California State University, Fullerton. He has loved every moment of this journey with Coeurage.

Graham (he/him) was walking on Venice Beach during his first day in LA when he received an audition notice for a production of The Rocky Horror Show with the then-fledgling Coeurage Theatre Company. Since then, he has had the privilege of working on numerous Coeurage productions in addition to The Wizard of Oz ("Scarecrow") with 3D Theatricals and Jesus Christ Superstar ("Simon Zealotes") with DOMA Theatre Company. He also popped up on Glee, Still the King, and as "John Darling" in The New Adventures of Peter & Wendy. SAG-AFTRA/AEA

Jay (he/him) works in theatre, film, and TV around Los Angeles. He teaches and has directed at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. Recent collaborations and notable credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Pixel Playhouse), Holy Ghosts (USC), Three Days in the Country (Antaeus), The Madwoman of Chaillot (A Noise Within), Vieux Carre (Coeurage), Looking for Alaska (Hulu), American Vandal (Netflix), and the 2018 CBS Diversity Sketch Showcase.

Founding Artistic Director. Jer (she/her) led the company for 10 years, overseeing nearly 40 productions, including Under Milk Wood (Ovation Recommended), Sucker Punch (Ovation Recommended), The Secret in the Wings (Ovation Nominated), Urinetown (Ovation Nominated), Failure: A Love Story (Ovation Winner), The Sparrow (Ovation Nominated), Cannibal! The Musical (Ovation Recommended), The Yellow Boat, Translations (Ovation Recommended), The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (Ovation Nominated), Assassins, The Trouble With Words (Ovation Winner), and The Rocky Horror Show.

John is a Los Angeles-based actor and writer. He received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama. John’s primary focus is immersive theatre, a medium in which he has worked across the world. Recent shows include Oráculos with Teatro de los Sentidos in Barcelona, Chien de Moi and Diablo with In the Basement in NYC, Cities and the Dead with 406Arts in Los Angeles, and Andronicus with Coeurage Theatre Company. John lives in East Los Angeles and has a dog named Buttercup.

Co-Artistic Director. Amanda works on collaborative, socially-conscious theater and performance that uncovers the creative voice, explores the physical, and re-discovers liveness. She’s a proud Drama League Fellow, SDC Associate, Ovation winner for her direction of The Pliant Girls, member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and Fulbright Award recipient to New Zealand, where she worked in community-based theater. She is a professor of performance studies at Cal State Northridge; an Arts in Corrections instructor at Lancaster and Chino state prisons; founder/producer of Los Angeles Lady Arm Wrestlers; and co-founder/co-artistic director of Make Trouble. Amanda also creates work with her company, Fugitive Kind. amandamcraven.com

Tasheena Medina (she/her) moved to Los Angeles in 2011 from Arizona to attend AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Since graduating in 2013 with her BFA in Dance Theatre, Tasheena has choreographed for numerous projects on the stage and the screen including Nickelodeon's AwesomenessTV, as well as assisting choreographers such as Nicole Berger on FOX TV's Brooklyn Nine-Nine and NBC’s Parks and Rec. She choreographed Couerage’s The Sparrow for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award. Tasheena has worked with companies such as Diavolo Dance Theatre and Academy of Villains. www.tasheenamedina.com

Executive Director, Board Treasurer

Nicole (she/her) is a founding member of Coeurage Theatre Company. Some of her favorite CTC performances include Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, Rachel in The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide, Haley in The Pitchfork Disney and Little Sally in Urinetown. Nicole graduated from MiraCosta College in San Diego before joining the theatre department of California State University, Fullerton where she received her degree in theatre arts and met her future Coeurageous partners!

Music Director, Resident Composer. Gregory’s (he/him) musical direction credits include The Color Purple, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Falsettos, Rent, The Wild Party, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, and The Full Monty. The Color Purple earned him the 2012 Ovation Award, the LA Drama Critic's Circle Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the NAACP Award, all for Best Musical Direction. His song cycle, The Trouble With Words, was awarded an Ovation Award for Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, as well as Best Musical in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His music has been performed in venues all across the nation. ASCAP featured an evening of Greg’s work at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. www.gregorynabours.com

CoLab Director. Katie (she/her) spent her childhood days in the semi-gardened part of the Garden State, dreaming of being an animator or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After discovering Shakespeare through McCarter Theatre in Princeton, she swapped those aspirations for theatrical ambitions (much to the vampires’ delight). After high school, she migrated west and graduated from Santa Clara University with a BA in theatre arts. Since then she has worked in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. She is proud to be part of the Coeurage Theatre Company family and hopes to one day grow up to be Miss Piggy or Katharine Hepburn.

Christopher (he/him) has appeared in Andronicus and The Woodsman with Coeurage. Other LA credits include: Ameryka with Critical Mass Performance Group; The Importance of Being Earnest at A Noise Within; Our Lady of 121st Street at the Victory Theater; The Misanthrope with the Classic Theater Lab; Romeo and Juliet at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Mr. Salazar has worked with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Barnstormers Theatre, The Barter Theatre, The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and the American Shakespeare Center. NYC credits include Thieves at The Public Theater; and Hamlet with Gorilla Rep.

Event Coordinator. Sammi Smith (she/her) graduated with a BA in acting from Cal State Fullerton in her native Orange County and studied with Shakespeare & Company in their Summer Training Intensive. In 2009, she satisfied her curiosity about Eastern Europe by studying at university in Prague for four months where she learned how to endure winter weather and walk on cobblestones. When Sammi is not acting, you might find her cooking vegetarian dishes in her kitchen or reading books about primatology. Sammi lives with her wife (Jer Adrianne Lelliott) and their cat in Pasadena. Sammi is a proud to call herself a founding member of Coeurage Theatre Company.

William (he/him) is an Ohio native & graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Arts Academy (AMDA) in NYC. His film & TV credits include Marvel Studios' The Avengers and Showtime's The Affair. He has voiced characters in various video games such as Jax in Mortal Kombat 11 and Rude in Final Fantasy VII: The Remake. William continues his creative relationship with Coeurage having 1st appeared in their stage production of Sucker Punch and later in their collaboration with East West Player's dramatic reading of After The War. http://www.imdb.me/WillCMe

Community Empowerment Coordinator. Eddie (he/him) attended the Stella Adler Studio at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts where he received his BFA in Drama. In New York, he got to perform at Radio City Music Hall and work with Elizabeth Swados and Robert Moss. Eddie has appeared in numerous productions in Los Angeles including Little Man by Bekah Brunstetter, 50 Shades of Shakespeare by Jessica Shoemaker and Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam (LA New Court Theatre), An Invasion of Decency (fancyplayground), In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar (Artists at Play), and The Secret in the Wings and Under Milk Wood (Coeurage Theatre Company). He has also appeared in Center Theatre Group's improv offshoot Chisme y Queso. www.eddievona.com