| Resident
Training Lab Staff and Instructors:
DAVE FOFI
Dave is the Producing Artistic Director of Elephant Stageworks Theatre
Company and has been working in the Los Angeles Theatre Community
for over a decade as an actor, director, designer and producer.
His plays have received multiple awards and Critic's Pick nominations
in the LA Times, Daily Variety, Backstage West, LA Weekly and many
other publications in Los Angeles.
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PATRICK PANKHURST
After a Harvard graduation, Patrick has had a long career as an
actor, director, writer and producer in LA Theatre, Film, and TV.
As a Commercial Casting Director he has worked on more than 400
commercials. He has been teaching Acting for 15 years and for the
last 8 at the Stella Adler Academy. He is constantly finding innovative
ways to use the camera in Acting classes.
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CHRIS GAME
Chris is a founding member of the Elephant Theatre Company. He
is a Dramalogue Award winning director and has directed over 20
plays in his eleven year tenure with the Elephant. With
his partner Jed Herold he has cast for Commercials, Films and Music
Videos. Most notably The Good Humor Man featuring Kelsey
Grammer, Jorge Garcia (Lost, Becker), James Ransome (The Inside
Man, The Wire), Jason Segel (SLC PUNK, Freaks and Geeks) and Cameron
Richardson (Supercross, Skin), commercials featuring William Shatner
(Price Line), Norm Macdonald, Bob Ueker, Catherine McCord (Miller
Lite), Keith Jackson (Gatorade), Jill Wagner (Mercury) and spots
for the Dodge HEMI campaign and videos for Louis IV (featuring the
Suicide Girls) and BT.
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DEBRA DE LISO
Debra
has been a theatre artist for over twenty years, working as an actor,
director, choreographer, playwright, and teacher. She earned an
MA in Theatre from Cal State Los Angeles and her MFA in Acting from
UCLA where she won The Jack Nicholson Prize for Acting. Debra also
studied at The Royal Acting Academy in London.
Currently, Debra teaches Theatre at USC, The American Academy of
Dramatic Arts, Cal State LA, and now here at The Elephant Theatrical
Training Lab.
Debra has guided the writing and has directed over 180 One-Person
Shows here in the Los Angeles area. For more information on Debra
please visit www.debradeliso.com
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Sarah
Bergman
An LA native, Sarah grew up in a world infused with performance
and yoga. In New York City, Sarah studied yoga at OM Yoga and theater
at the New School University. While in New York she also studied
acting with Elinor Renfield and scene study with Scott Roberts from
the Actor’s Studio. She returned home in 2005 and completed
the Yoga Works Teacher Training at the Center for Yoga and has been
teaching in Los Angeles ever since.
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Greg Mortensen
Mr. Mortensen is a graduate of the Advanced Drama program of The
Juilliard School for the Performing Arts in New York City and holds
a B.A. and a M.F.A. in both Acting & Directing. As an actor,
he has numerous credits in TV and Film and both On and Off Broadway
including Macbeth at The Circle in the Square and How it All Began
(which he co-authored) for Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare
Festival.
Academic teaching credits include, California State University Long
Beach, Long Beach City College, Cerritos College, Los Angeles City
College and OCHSA. Mr. Mortensen is a four time Drama-Logue Award
winner and Outstanding Graduate winning teacher for Theatre Arts
& Communications from the International Communications Association.
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