Actors
- Michael Cooke
- Lailani Dana
- Kate Mura
- Helen Richman
- Fayra Teeters
- Pilar Walsh
Michael Cooke
Author, Actor, Jazz Pianist
Toilet Paper Sandwiches Again, Dad? Cooke Studios, Hollywood
King Henry II Atonal Torment: Cooke Studios, Hollywood
Author unknown, September 25th, 2020. Cooke Studios, Hollywood
Doing ‘Arthur’ with Dudley Moore: Cooke Studios, Hollywood
BuBu: Cooke Studios, Hollywood
Lailani Dana
Actress
Lailani Dana
Kate Mura
Actress
Suburban Tribe: Unmasked. Year: 2018
Kate Mura
Actress’ Website: katemura.com
Bio: Kate Mura is a performance artist based in Portland, OR; and current Artistic Director of Fuse Theatre Ensemble. She wrote, produced, and created the masks for Suburban Tribe in 2013 and has performed it internationally as a theatrical “thank you” to the New Jersey community who rallied around her family after a freak accident involving her father, who still views the world from the seat of a Steven Hawking-like wheelchair. Her amazing performance includes physical storytelling, mime, and improvisation.
Helen Richman
Actress
Helen Richman
Actress’ Website: Helen Richman
Bio: HELEN RICHMAN is a theatre arts graduate of Ithaca College, New York. She studied acting with Herbert Berghof, Morris Carnovsky and extensively with Lee Strasberg. She was in the Broadway and National Company of HATFUL OF RAIN, and played Desdemona in OTHELLO at the Cherry Lane Theatre off-Broadway. She also played opposite many notable stars in over fifty plays on the summer circuit including Bela Lugosi! Helen co-starred in the short film THE KISS which was nominated for an Academy Award. On television she was seen as Sterling Hayden’s wife in “THE LAST MAN,” an episode of PLAYHOUSE 90. After a long hiatus of raising five children, she jumped into a memorable performance of Blanche in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Her portrayal of Anna in a staged reading of Shaw’s DON JUAN IN HELL, was warmly received at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre in San Diego. The Richard Basehart Playhouse was proud to present her in Tennessee Williams, THE LADY OF LARKSPUR LOTION, and it was there that she directed the first staged reading of “LAUGHTER AND THE EARLY THIRTIES” by Joseph Stefano, screenwriter of PSYCHO. Her success as a director impressed her husband, Peter Mark Richman, who then asked her to direct his one-man stage play, “4 Faces.” At Pierce Performing Arts Center, Helen played Big Mama in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” That was followed by her portrayal of Mama Jo Moss, the lead in “Unbroken Circles” at The Odyssey Theatre. Her latest film, now available on DVD, was “After the Wizard” in which she played the leading role of Mrs. Murphy. She can also be seen in the web series “Old Souls.” Helen Richman has also worked under the names, “Theodora Landess” and “Teddi Landess.”
Learn more about Helen Richman on her IMDB page.
To view Helen Richman’s full resume, please click here.
Helen Richman (clip) from Bela Lugosi – Hollywood’s Dracula Documentary
Helen Richman in After the Wizard
OLD SOULS – EP 2 – “Assisted Identity Theft”
Fayra Teeters
Actress; Director of Masque Alfresco
Website
Looking Glass Alice in Wonderland
Masque Alfresco offers a new innovative adaptation of Looking Glass Alice in Wonderland, a merging of both of Lewis Carroll’s children’s books, interspersed with British folk songs and current popular music. Year: 2022
Fayra Teeters
Bio: Fayra Teeters (SICA-USABoard Member since August 14, 2022.) I was opened in Subud on April 16, 1969 in Berkeley, CA – I was 21 at the time & going through a crisis brought on by the San Francisco State University student strike. Risa Toor was an arts-classmate and my best friend. Both the latihan and Risa pulled me through my crisis so I could graduate with a BA in Theatre. I started acting at the age of 9 years and for me it was the same as praying – a potent devotional path to connect with God, whenever I was “in the zone”. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was a latihan experience. I’ve been affiliated with Subud groups in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Carmel Valley, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Seattle, and Albuquerque. I have always sought deeper answers afforded from Testing as to which roles or projects to pursue, fellow-artists to align with, insights as to solving problems that crop up during any project. I devised a series of theatre exercises based on my receivings during my own testing on how to harness the power of an archetype, leading with different parts of the body, how to channel inner images into physical wisdom expressed in performance – and liberally shared these exercises with everyone in my Masque Alfresco company. I founded Masque Alfresco in 2002 as a purveyor of commedia dell’arte theatre technique, with Benedict Herrman as a founding member – playing lead roles. After getting our feet on solid ground, Masque Alfresco set out to become a fund-raiser for all things Subud, raising $1250 (?) for SICA, and $1500 for Subud Portland (over the years). Also, over the years, we’ve applied for and received $500 SICA grants to mount theatre projects that otherwise would NOT have been possible.
Winnie the Pooh and Lao-Tzu Too
Masque Alfresco offers an innovative adaptation of Winnie the Pooh stories merged with the story of Lao-Tzu creating the Tao-se-Ching, humorous Chinese Taoist Folktales, interspersed with original songs. Year: 2022
Pilar Walsh
Actress, Author, Filmmaker
List of Performances
Pilar Walsh
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Bio
Bio: Pilar Walsh, a SAG-AFTRA actress, singer, dancer, writer, filmmaker, producer and mother of four, has worked for many years in TV, film, and stage. Some highlights in the past few years were playing Liza Minnelli on MAD-TV, performing opposite Ken Page in Man of La Mancha with Broadway Austin, working on the Indie film Dog Barks opposite Michael Costello and dancing and singing in Bernstein’s MASS, Cabaret, Pippin and The Musical of Musicals in Hawaii. She worked with Alec Baldwin and Annette Bening on Running With Scissors and Kathy Najimi on Hope Floats and a half-dozen independent films along the way. She performed her own Cabaret Show in Seattle and Los Angeles, “Mostly Sondheim and a Little Lloyd- Weber” and still dances having worked 3 times on the Howie Mandel TV show Mobbed and most recently as an actor on a short film Sober in Los Angeles. She self-published a book of poetry Essentials: workds, rhymes and a story or two, and has her poems published in two poetry anthologies, Circle Dance and The God’s Eye.
In 2008, she moved to the other side of the camera with a documentary film The Eternal Rhythm – a Global Revelation of Drum, Dance and Song still in progress, and to promote her screenplay, she wrote, produced and co-directed a “showcase reel” of How I Survived the Sixties a hopefully, soon to be feature film. She is a recipient of the Actors Fund Teaching Artist Institute Certification. She lived in New York in 2012, performing at Symphony Space/Bar Thalia her own Cabaret set and at the Women’s Worldwide Initiative Anniversary Event as a guest artist. She moved to Wilmington, NC, and since coming to a place the locals affectionately call Wilmywood, she made a short film, I Was a Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie, was cast in the play ‘Night Mother for the Cape Fear Playhouse, published her book How I Survived the Sixties and completed writing a screenplay, Trolley to Lumina, which she hopes to also produce. She is currently residing in Los Angeles. In 2014, she will be hosting the California Regional Congress Friday Night Film Fest and is working closely with Michael Menduno on the Susila Dharma Production for the World Congress in Puebla along with finishing up her BA for Performing Arts with St. Marys College in Moraga’s LEAP (liberal education for arts professionals) program created exclusively for ex- and current professional dancers. She also attempts to spend as much time with her grown children (when they are in town) and grandchildren with whom she is very proud.
Pilar Walsh is a long time Subud member, a resident of Los Angeles and after working on stage, films and TV shows for most of her life, in 2008, she decided to go to college for the first time and discovered, when having to put together a documentary as a senior project, she fell in love with filmmaking. She is hoping to complete in the next year the doc, The Eternal Rhythm- a Global revelation of Drum, Dance and Song and is working to bring to life 3 screenplays, “How I Survived the Sixties” already a book and 9:13 sizzle reel, “Trolley to Lumina” a feature film with lots of great dancing and music from the 20’s, and “Hannah” a short story written by Pilar adapted to a screenplay. Recently, she has made trailers for these screenplays/films and a short film “I Was A Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie” working with college kids in North Carolina last year.
Creativity Inside and Out
Here is a peek at what’s coming next on “Creativity Inside And Out”. Pilar Walsh talks about her days dancing and performing and her latest projects which are incredibly beautiful books/screenplays that she has written. And, she’ll show us how she makes jewelry. I’m in awe, she is so multi-talented!!!