The Bay Area Actor

Laurie Burke is a San Francisco native and comes from a family of professional actors and musicians (think “The Partridge Family” meets “This is Spinal Tap”). With an adventurous spirit and a genuine joy of all things creative, she decided to also turn her creative passion into a full-time career. For over fifteen years, Laurie has been a professional Actress, Voice Over Artist, Host and Singer.

With an un-quenching thirst to learn her craft, Laurie has studied Dramatic Arts in London (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Paris, Berlin, Los Angles and San Francisco (American Conservatory Theater).

Her many TV Credits include playing lawyer Alice Kaye opposite Hugh Laurie in Chance, staring roles in Wives with Knives and I (Almost Got Away With It) and numerous commercials for major companies including Blackberry, Volkswagen, Raley’s, Walmart, Metro PCS, Nokia and Wells Fargo. Currently she is playing Sheriff Laura Stevens in the Rosario Dawson based web series The North Pole.

Her many Film credits include “Mr. Invincible”, “The Mendoza Line”, “Redwoods”, and numerous award winning Short Films including voicing the main role of “Hisayo” in Roadside Assistance. Recently she worked opposite Adam Devine in the feature film “Jexi” - providing the “on-set” (behind the scenes) voice of Jexi.

Known as the “Original Voice of Google Voice”, Laurie has lent her voice to such varied productions ranging from The Emmys to countless radio and T.V. commercials including Channel 36(L.A.), Cisco, LinkedIn, Kaiser Permanente, 24 Hour Fitness, Symantec, First Republic Bank, Wells Fargo, TV.com, and voiced for all Raley’s/Nob Hill commercials.

Theater credits include the role of "Amy" in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company", "Gal" in the touring production of "Just for Laughs", and starred in countless Sold-Out performances as “Claudia Roe” in Lucy Prebble’s “Enron”.

For over eight years, Laurie has been an On-Air TV and web Host for Common Sense Media, a company she is very proud to represent. She’s also their go-to for Voice Over and Award shows.

As a professional singer, Laurie has fronted many different bands of different genres as well as performed in many musicals, films, jingles and Voice Over projects.

Laurie always feels extremely happy and grateful for every opportunity she has been given and believes sharing her creative passion and helping others is her true purpose in life.

Hailing from Boston, Stephen began pursuing his acting career during his college years in Atlanta. Completing small films, he moved to California enrolling in Academy of Art University. From there he enrolled in The Meisner Technique Studio completing the 2 year program and business class in 2012. Since then, Stephen has made a completed numerous short films and stage plays. In 2015, Stephen signed with and has since been represented by NYLO Model & Talent

*Catch Fred in his solo show, The California Missions and Race Tour, directed by ShawnJ West August 17 and 24 at PianoFight*

Fred Pitts has been performing in the Bay Area for 20 years. He is a company member of African-American Shakespeare Company and Custom Made Theatre Company and has worked with numerous theatres throughout the Bay. Regional credits include All The Way, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jitney, Julius Caesar, Clybourne Park, Middletown, The Heidi Chronicles, Eurydice (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominee for Best Supporting Actor). He can be seen in upcoming productions of One Man, Two Guvnors (Palo Alto Players-June 2019), Sweat (The Pear Theatre-October 2019) and Never The Sinner (Exit/Black Ice Theatres-March 2020). He also has numerous film and commercial credits. He is a member of SAG and is represented by JE Talent.

Fred’s first solo show, The California Missions and Race Tour, dramaturgy by David Ford, had its debut at PlayGround Solo Performance Festival this past winter. It was featured as part of The Marsh’s program Marsh Rising in May 2019 and will be presented at Dragon Theatre’s Solo Festival and at PianoFight in August 2019.

Fred is in recovery from 20 years as an Emergency Medicine physician. He now runs an Occupational Medicine clinic in San Francisco and has regained some of his sanity. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kelly Rinehart, who is speech language pathologist and also an actor. Remarkably, they have been in 10 shows together.

Paul has been a professional actor in San Francisco for 35 years, performing in films, theater, television, radio, commercials, internet, industrials, trade shows, voiceovers and full performance (voice and body) motion capture.

He's worked with film directors Spike Lee (Livin Da Dream), Peter Weir (Fearless), Carl Franklin (High Crimes), and Jonathan Parker (The Californians). Paul has been paired up with Noah Wylie, Jeff Bridges, Dennis Franz, Ashley Judd, John Rubenstein, Jack Warden, Cheech Marin and Don Johnson. He had a co-starring role on NBC's Trauma, filmed in San Francisco, as well as a lead role in the award winning, full length independent feature 'Crashing Eden', and appeared in Rob Lowe's 'Knife Fight' . Nationally, Paul hosted HGTV's Landscape Smart for 13 seasons (170 shows!) and locally for Best Of The Bay on KRON TV. He's also worked in San Francisco as a radio dj, production director and television producer. Select national commercial clients include Princess Cruises, Homelight, Credit Karma, Foot Joy, Alamo, Toyota, Lexus, Walgreens, Sara Lee, Gateway and One Touch Ultrasmart. Recent regional spots include CBIZ, and Bay Alarm. .

For the last 26 years Paul has worked as a Session Director for Beau Bonneau Casting, as well as CD’s Kristen Beck, Greg Cohen and Nancy Hayes. He has also been an instructor at The San Francisco Acting Academy for 18 years and manager since 2012. He has seen thousands of actors do their thing in the audition environment.

Tina D’Elia is a Bay Area award-winning solo performer, actor, producer, co-screenwriter, and casting director.Tina also coaches actors and public speakers and teaches acting on-camera. Tina’s west coast premiere of Overlooked Latinas at the Brava Theater received a successful audience response of multiple standing ovations and sold-out houses. Her show is featured as a Rising Star show Wednesday June 5th as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Directed by Mary Guzman and Dramaturgy by David Ford.

Tina’s solo show: The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, also directed by Mary Guzmán, won Best of Fringe (2015) and won Best of Sold Out Shows at the San Francisco Fringe Festival (2015). Tina has presented her solo show work for a variety of venues including: The New Theater, The Theater Offensive, The Marsh Rising Star, Case Western University, Stage Werx, Women on the Way Festival/Shotwell Studios (2002), The National Queer Arts Festival, Best of LezWrites/3Girls Theatre Company.

Tina recently received a producer award from the Equality International Film Festival April 13that the Black Berkeley Theater. Tina is the San Francisco Casting Director for Lissette Feliciano SAG MLB film Women is Losers, shot in San Francisco this past February-March 2019.

Tina cast and is a principal actor the ground breaking short film SAG film series Transfinite by Neelu Bhuman playing around the country including in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival playing at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco 6/25 6:30pm and 9pm at the Landmark Theater in Piedmont, CA 6/27.

Tina’s SAG feature film credits include: The Pursuit of Happyness, Knife Fight, GuitarMan, Junkie, and television/webseries credits: Trauma (NBC) Sense8 (Netflix),and Dyke Central (Amazon). She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Comedy with the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival (2010). Tina is honored to be part of the leading national lesbian magazine’s CURVE Power list of 2017 . Tina received the Best Actress Award from the Equality International Film Festival (Emeryville, CA, 2017) and received the Diversity Casting Award (2017) and the Trail Blazer Award and Executive Producer Award from the Equality International Film Festival (Sacramento,2015). Tina and director Maria Breaux won the Frameline43 Film Festival Audience Award for her co-screenwriting in the short film Lucha, (2009).

Tina teaches acting classes in the Bay Area including with the San Francisco Acting Academy run by the beloved Paul Ghiringhelli at Das Studios. Tina is proud to be the Program Director for 3Girls Theatre for the LezWrites BTQ playwrights/solo performance program.