Actors

• Lailani Dana
• Kate Mura
• Helen Richman
• Fayra Teeters

Lailani Dana

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’ 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

OLD SOULS – EP 2 – “Assisted Identity Theft”

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.