The August Company

STEVE ANGEL

Steve Angel is a local actor and graduate of Hampshire College who has worked extensively with Enchanted Circle Theater in Holyoke and The Hampshire Shakespeare Company in Hadley. He most recently played Fred in the highly successful 2008 Old Deerfield Productions performance of A Christmas Carol.

SCOTT BRAIDMAN

Scott Braidman is a teacher, director, and actor.  At The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Scott discovered improvisation, and since then he has studied and performed in Chicago, New York, and Boston with The IO Theater, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, ImprovBoston, and Improv Asylum.

After living in New York and Boston since graduating in 2006, he is excited to be back in the Valley.

RACHEL BRAIDMAN

Rachel Marie Braidman is an actor and a writer.

She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Theater Department where she performed in: Proof, Curse of the Starving Class, Arms & the Man, Alls Well That Ends Well, and Gum.  She is thrilled to be back in the Pioneer Valley after three years living in New York City and Boston, paying her dues and her bills.

Currently, she writes a blog called i found a puddle and i fell in it.

LIESEL DE BOOR

Liesel de Boor is an honored graduate of the MFA Film Program at Columbia University.  Her films have screened on big and small screens all over the world, and have received awards from The National Board of Review, Eastman Kodak, The Milos Forman Fund, New Line Cinema, and Polo Ralph Lauren, and her feature film scripts have won an award from Nickelodeon, and been selected for the IFP Market.  She makes a living as a photographer, filmmaker and educator for Whole Foods Market.

KELSEY FLYNN

SHEILA SIRAGUSA

Sheila Siragusa teaches courses in acting and theater.  Formerly on the faculty at NYU’s Stella Adler Conservatory, SUNY Oneonta, Sheila now teaches at Central Connecticut State University. This past season, she wrote and produced a new play entitled WATER, about privatization of natural resources.  She was a founding member of the KO Festival of Performance, at which she acted, directed, wrote and composed over a number of seasons.  Directed THE DIRTY GIRLS, which ran at Manhattan Class Company, The Village Gate, the Raw Space and the Philadelphia Womens’ Theater Festival. Recent directing credits include new works FAITH AND CLOVER, BECOMING, THE ISLAND AGAIN and MATTER. Staged readings of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED at Eastworks and THE CATONSVILLE 9 in conjunction with a lecture by Professor Howard Zinn.  At UMass, directed OTHELLO, SOME ASIANS, REINCARNATION OF JAMIE BROWN, and TRUE WEST. Directing credits at Hampshire Shakespeare Festival include MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and KING LEAR.  In the last couple of seasons her work has been seen in MERCY OF A STORM and BLACKBIRD at the Chester Theatre Company.  Sheila has performed at various regional venues, including the George St. Playhouse, the Theater at Monmouth, and at St. Peter’s at the Citicorp Center and Moonworks at the 29th St. Repertory.