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Anna Steers
Performance
Anna is an arts educator and actor.  This marks her fifth year teaching multiple subjects in the Theatre Department at CSULB.  She has developed and directed a variety of Summer Youth Conservatories at Mount Holyoke College, Long Beach Playhouse and Shakespeare Santa Barbara.  Her interest in community-inspired theatre for social change led her teaching service projects in Cambodia, as well as developing original performance art with at-risk youth at Brava Theatre in San Francisco.  Currently teaches acting technique at Orange County High School for Performing Arts. Los Angeles appearances include Coldplay the movie, American Body Shop (Comedy Central), Las Vegas (NBC), Bill Nye.  San Francisco theatre credits include Angels in America, Blue Room, and Blind Spot. Trained at John Ruskin School of Acting, with Anne Bogart’s Siti Company and at the Actor’s Center in NYC. She holds a Shakespeare intensive certificate from Oxford University, BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice from University of San Francisco and MFA in Acting from California State University Long Beach.
Craig Anton
Performance

CRAIG ANTON received his MFA in acting from CSULB last May and is thrilled to remain a member of The Cal Rep Company. In the past two seasons, Craig appeared as Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dr. Royer-Collard in Quills, J. Robert Oppenheimer in The Love Song For J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ray in The Hyacinth Macaw, Viggo Schiewe in Night of The Tribades, and Joe in Waiting For Lefty: Seeing Red. Roles in other original productions include, Dead Bride Running,The Idiots, The Temporary, Girly Magazine Party and as Whistles the Clown inClowntown City Limits at The Steve Allen Theater (Los Angeles). He has also appeared as Marty in Bob’s Holiday Office Party for the past several seasons.

Craig’s television & film work includes WeedsThe OfficeEntourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Everybody Loves Raymond, MAD tvDragon Wars, Bob’s Burgers, Workaholics, Phil of The FutureKing Of Queens, Boston Legal, Ally McBeal,Careless, Deliver Us From Eva, The Sarah Silverman Program, CSI Miami, Santa Buddies and Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time, just to name a few.

Diane Robinson
Voice and Speech
562.985.2663

Diane Robinson is an actor, director, producer and educator.  Recent acting credits include, in the Midwest, ShawChicago, First Stage Milwaukee, Madison Repertory Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens, American Theater Company and Women's Theatre Alliance.  Also in Chicago Diane directed for Madison Repertory Theatre, the International Theatre Company, the WTA, and the Bailiwick, and produced a play-reading series for the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.  Other acting and directing credits include the Delaware Theatre Company, Seattle’s Hugo House, the Marin Theatre Company, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, New Music Theatre, the Eureka, the Magic, Cornerstone Theater Company, the Mark Taper Forum, the Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Fabulous Monsters, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, and Theatre of NOTE.  Diane has had two short plays produced by Cornerstone Theater Company.   Diane has taught voice, speech, dialects, acting, movement, Shakespeare and playwriting at the University of Texas at El Paso, Second City, DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, U.C. Irvine, San Francisco State University, San Diego State University, United States International University, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.  She got her MFA in Acting from U.C. Irvine and is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher and a member of Actors Equity Association and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

Gayle Baizer
Makeup Design
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Costume Designer for Stage Film, and Television.  Gayle received her B.F.A. from Chouinard Art School and M.F.A., with Creative Honors, from CSULB. She is a Member of United Scenic Artists, The Costume Designer’s Guild, and the Academys of Television and Film Arts and Science’s. Awards include Mademoiselle Guest Editor, Monsanto-Chemstrand Design Award, 2 Tommy Awards for Swimwear, and a Dramalogue Award for Costume Design.  

Costume Design stage credits: All Maureen McGovern Tour Costumes, Dangling Conversations, Carry It On, The Magic of Ai and Yuki, On the Verge, The Magic of Lawrence and Priscilla, A Christmas Carol, Swimming in the Shallow’s, Dreams of a Sunday Afternoon, Panama, Vinegar Tom, Pride and Prejudice, The Magician Broadway Workshop, Pinocchio, Johnny Johnson, Gaitê Parisienne, and The Orphans.  Film and Television credits include Twice Upon A Christmas, Once Upon A Christmas, Follow Your Heart, Misery Bros, Storybook, Amorê, Mad About You, Miami Hustle, Make My Day-The Pointer Sisters, 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies-Pointer Sisters, Help Wanted: Kids, and numerous national commercials.

Jody Berger
Theatre Studies

Jody received her MFA in Theatre Management from CSULB. Credits include Kids Stuff Expo (co-founder, executive producer); Opera Pacific (associate director of development); Pacific Symphony Orchestra (market ing manager); Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach (Cultural Arts Director); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (stage manager). Jody received her BA from California State University, Fullerton.

Sarah Underwood
Performance
Simon Brooke
Performance

Simon Brooke is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, studying under Sanford Meisner and Richard Pinter. TV Credits include: THE SHIELD, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, CSI, NYPD BLUE, FRASIER, JAG, MELROSE PLACE, CHARMED, FIREFLY, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and more. Simon has had films at Cannes and the Sundance Film Festival and has worked extensively on the stage in New York, Los Angeles and in Long Beach at Cal Rep.
Simon is currently on staff teaching at both CSULB and The New York Film Academy (Los Angeles).