“Fortunate Son: A Faust Myth” Cast Info

Alex Demers is an actor and theater maker originally from the Boston area. He is cofounder of the New York City-based company, The Circle Theater of NY and founder and director of the Los Angeles-based performance ensemble, Things From Before. He is also a frequent performer and collaborator with The Speakeasy Society, creators of some of LA’s most exciting Immersive theater experiences.

Demers is a graduate of the MFA Acting program at CalArts and holds a BS from Skidmore College. He has studied and trained abroad, including time at the Moscow Art Theater School (Moscow, Russia) and under master theater practitioner Tadashi Suzuki and his Company (Toga-Mura, Japan.)

Many thanks and congratulations to Coin & Ghost and the CalArts Mafia.

Dan is overjoyed to be joining Coin and Ghost to help tell this beautiful story.

Dan moved to LA three years ago to begin his Master’s training in Acting from UCLA, training he completed this year.

Since leaving UCLA, Dan has been enjoying the haphazard life of a periodically working commercial performer, while also taking every opportunity to collaborate with companies like Coin and Ghost.

Later this year, Dan will be appearing on the LATC stage with his UCLA colleagues in the Southland Company’s ‘Queen of Califas’ for LATC’s Encuentro festival.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Dan worked with such companies as The American Shakespeare Festival, The Texas Shakespeare Festival, The Nebraska Theater Caravan, and Dollywood!

Love and gratitude to Jonathan and Amani Stevens for insisting I audition for the school play because “it might help you make friends.”

A multifaceted professional and visionary, Alexander’s works have been exploring what it is to be a well rounded performer and producer. Remembered most as Young Simba in the The Lion King, his other musical appearances include Aida, Parade and most American Idiot. Originating a handful of roles in world premiere’s, one of note, being “The Denver Project” by Universes Theater Company, a globally recognized, innovative and electrifying theater ensemble. He’s shared the stage and worked with artists such as Jennifer Hudson, Kristin Chenoweth, Janet Jackson, and Neil Patrick Harris. Television Credits including FOX’s Mobbed, Kimora Lee Simmons: Life in the Fab Lane, ABC’s Modern Family, and last but not least producing and being a professional dancer for Flash Mob America. Alexander had the privilege of working with the one and only Prince, on one of his last music videos, “Breakfast Can Wait” as a model and producers asst. In March of 2017, he did his debut with Not Man Apart Physical Theater Ensemble (NMA) in Paradise Lost, noted as the leading physical theater ensemble on the west coast. His most recent success consists of 2 multi-award winning short films “Shattered Pitch” and “22 Years”   we’re he’s credited as a producer for the first and producer, production designer and makes a cameo in the latter film along side Dawn Noel. He is newly the PR and Marketing director of B. Dunn Movement, A dance performance art collective under the supervision of founder, Brigette Dunn-Korpela.

Ashley Angione, a scrappy blonde, is elated to be doing what she loves in a theater company made up of her talented friends.  Although she enjoys living the LA dream—auditioning for commercials, TV and Film—theater will always have her heart. Since graduating from California Institute of the Arts (BFA Acting ’15), Ashley has performed on stage with Colonials Shakespeare Company as Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Celia (As You Like It) and Rosencrantz (Hamlet); and with Shakespeare Santa Monica as Lady Abbesse/Dr. Pinch (Comedy of Errors).

During her four glorious years of training at CalArts, Ashley’s favorite roles have been Paula Strasberg (Nobody Dies on a Friday), Cassius (Julius Caesar), and Marcia (The Misanthrope). Since graduating, Ms. Angione has taken classes within Los Angeles since moving to the “big city”. These include Killian’s Commercial Workshop, Groundlings (Basic, Intermediate), and classes at Annie Grindlay’s Studio: The Audition Experience. When Ashley isn’t acting her face off in plays she enjoys belly laughing, traveling the world, studying people and writing (in that order). One of her current works is a film about the men in her life. “One day it will be a feature,” she says. Her dream roles include King Richard III, Violet Weston (August: Osage County), and Medea.

Adam Lebowitz-Lockard (The Drifter) has loved New Orleans and the blues since before he could talk, and he’s thrilled and grateful to be able to play with this wonderful team at Coin & Ghost. Los Angeles/Regional credits include: EST LA, Chance Theater, LATC, The Troubies, Thin Air Shakespeare in beautiful Jackson, WY, McCarter Theater, A.R.T., Montgomery Theater, PA, and WTF. NYC credits include: Whitney Museum, Primary Stages, The Flea Theater, Jimmy’s No. 43, The Brick, NY Fringe Festival, Soho Playhouse, Smith St. Stage, The PIT, and UCB. MFA: USC.

Zachary Reeve Davidson is an actor, director, writer, and teacher, known for his bold characterizations and dangerous, imaginative original works. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Coin & Ghost, with whom he creates preposterous things. Other favorite theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet and What the Thunder Said (Rebel Mars Co.), Ajax in Iraq and Paradise Lost: Reclaiming Destiny (Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble), Hamlet (Miles Memorial Playhouse), The Johnny Cycle (Speakeasy Society), Green Grow the Lilacs (Theatricum Botanicum), and two full repertory seasons with Shakespeare Santa Monica. Film credits include the Ron Perlman/Amazon series Hand of God, the mini-series I Don’t, and the short film Jeffrey, in which Zach played a young Jeffrey Dahmer. His first original digital work, Gramlet, was met with critical acclaim and large-scale bewilderment.

In his “spare time,” Zach is a company member with Not Man Apart, Salty Shakespeare, and Theatricum Botanicum. He is also a sought-after Arts Marketing expert, consulting and creating with non-profit organizations all over Los Angeles. Zach produced over 125 projects as a curator for the CalArts New Works Festival, was a Young Playwright’s National Finalist for his play Amsterdam; or Loving George, and served as Shakespeare Santa Monica’s youngest-ever Associate Artistic Director. He was born and raised in Denver, CO, and is a proud graduate of the CalArts BFA Acting program.

Hannah Athena Lawton (Costume Designer) is a force of nature who designs costumes for fun, for sport, and for profit. She is a gentleman and a scholar. A graduate of CalArts with a BFA in Costume Design, she is best known for her work on American Career College commercials, music videos you’ve never seen, three movies that haven’t come out yet, and indie theater productions that usually involve gender-bending. Some of her work can been seen at www.athenalawton.com

Kendall grew up in Chicago, where he first fell in love with acting. He started out as a junior in college performing in small productions and that love grew as he attended USC Master’s of Fine Arts for Acting. Completing that program and doing a three play rotation repertory is one of his greatest accomplishments.

Since graduating from USC, he has worked with Black & Sexy TV on their webseries Sexless, performed in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dunsinane, done two shows with the Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble, and performed The Tempest at Off Square Theatre in Jackson, WY.