Becoming Apparent at The Actors Company - The Other Theater

Directed Arthur Miller's The Price, currently running at Pacific Resident Theatre, The Fantasticks at The Ruskin Group Theatre. World Premieres: Painted Ponies by Ian McRae, Hostage by Michelle Kohlos Brooks, Family Riots by Gideon Jeph Wabvuta, In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez, Nice Things by Vince Melocchi, Dirty Filthy Love Story by Rob Mersola, Razorback by John Pollono, Church & State by Jason Odell Williams. American Premiere Daytona by Oliver Cotton. LA Premieres; Smart Love by Brian Letscher, Bhutan by Daisy Foote, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Falling by Deanna Jent, New Jerusalem by David Ives, Albee’s A Delicate Balance and Mamet’s Speed the Plow. PRT, Odyssey, WCJT: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams, Miller’s All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, & Broken Glass, Odets’ Rocket to the Moon, Awake & Sing!, & Williams’, Orpheus Descending -LADCC Direction. For the Chance Theater Seminar by Teresa Rebeck, Sweat by Lynn Nottage & Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler. For Ophelia’s Jump, Measure for Measure & Helvetica by Katie Coleman. Elina is the first female recipient of the LADCC Career Achievement in Directing Award and is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Rogue Machine (2008-2024). As a Producer: POCATELLO (Sam D Hunter) LA Premiere, DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY (Rob Mersola) World Premiere, DYING CITY (Christopher Shinn) LA Premiere, Ovation Award for Best Production (2013), THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM (Enda Walsh) LA Premiere, VIVIEN (Rick Foster).

An award-winning sound designer, composer, music editor and music director for theater, TV and film, and he is the Resident Sound Designer at Rogue Machine Theatre. TV highlights include The Walking Dead, Eureka, Psych, Human Target, Caprica, The Cape and Trauma. He has scored series and specials for National Geographic and The Discovery Channel, as well as specials and promos for HBO, BBC, Animal Planet, MSNBC, ZDF Germany and The History Channel. Theater highlights include The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institution, A Noise Within, The Shakespeare Theatre, Signature Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, Antaeus Theatre, Skylight Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Odyssey Theater, The Road Theatre, Pacific Resident Theater, and he served as assistant conductor for the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera. An East Coast native, Chris was Associate Artistic Director and Conductor of the Boston Chamber Ensemble and wrote a ballet commissioned by the Kirov Ballet Academy that had its world premiere in Washington, DC.

A Black Indigenous ambassador for street dance; choreographer, director, and movement composer based in Los Angeles. Shaped by dollar theaters, Saturday morning cartoons, and raised by community. Friidom channels that foundation into Epiic: a movement language fusing Krump, street styles, and Movement Futurism into a force for self-discovery within the "Inner Space." His work collapses the wall between audience and artist, bridging the street and the stars. He has collaborated with NASA-JPL, Disney, WACO Theater, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and others, with original works presented nationally and internationally. He holds a BA from UT Dallas and an MFA in Choreography from CalArts. His creed: "Live Frii, Be Epiic."