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actors come from all over the bay area. Some have been with GibsonHouse
for over seven years now! Each actor offers a unique quality to
the team. Here is a partial list of our performers (in alphabetical
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Lindsay Benner - Lindsay moved to Los Angeles from the San Francisco Bay Area where she most recently performed at Theatreworks in The Sisters Ronsenweig (Tess), Marin Theatre Company in Bus Stop (Elma), with Aurora Theatre Company in Emma (Elizabeth), and with California Shakespeare Theatre in Henry IV parts one and two (Lady Mortimer). Lindsay has also worked extensively with Connecticut Repertory Theatre and was an apprentice at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 2002. She also has a one woman juggling show that she performs at festivals around the world including San Francisco's Pier 39 and The World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Levi Damione - Levi has been performing with and representing Gibsonhouse since 2000. He is currently the Los Angeles Regional Director. He can be seen in an upcoming National commercial for DirecTV about their childrens educational programming. You may also be able to catch him in the upcoming SciFi Channel movie Dead & Deader which stars Dean Cain, Guy Torry and Peter Greene among others. His most recent main stage performance was in the production of Louis Sachar's Holes at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. Levi has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from San Francisco State University. Levi is particularly honored to have received a Dean Goodman Choice Award "For Outstanding Performance in a Principle Role" for A Man of No importance at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre. You can visit Levi's website at www.LeviDamione.com. |
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Greg Davis - A master of improvisation, Greg has been working with GibsonHouse for over eight and a half years and is a favorite of the Murder Mystery clientele. Greg originally started in the field of acting doing voiceovers and commercials and has also preformed in the production of “Fantastics” in Walnut Creek. Greg was introduced to John Gibson of GibsonHouse Mystery Performers in 1996 and has been performing Murder Mysteries ever since. Being a very versatile actor, he has performed such roles and Slim Downe, Sam Shovel, Frankie Marzetti, Ambrose Herringbone, Warren Peeze, Bud Inski, Captain Giovanni, Dr. Beabore, Professor Turnbull, Ari Gant, Marshall Matt Dilling, George Pappinoppolapola, Juan Arnold Tom Ben Harvey Ricardo Jack Tiger Tyme, and many more. Besides being an accomplished actor for GibsonHouse, Greg has also written THREE scripts for the murder mystery noir and has received acclaim for his writing. |
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Michelle
Davis
– With her love of acting,
Michelle
joined GibsonHouse in 2002. To support her acting habit,
Michelle
has worked in the relocation industry for over 14 years and is currently employed by Old Republic National Title Company. Her many credits include Miss Kitten, Prudy Frudee, Tillie Gillespie, Barrie Patch, Ginger Snapp, Princess Dorado, Patti Gree, Eli Gant, and Jewel Restorre.
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Janet M. Duhe - Janet is a seasoned theatre buff and has performed on numerous stages in the Bay Area with community and professional theatre companies as an both an actress and singer. Among her favorite roles was Maude in the recent British farce in Napa, "Not Now Darling", Trudy in "Social Security", Mrs. Pearce in "My Fair Lady", Monica in "The Bad Seed", Norah in "Auntie Mame", Mrs. Applebee in "Nightwatch" for which she earned an Arty Award for best supporting actress. She has also enjoyed performing fun character roles from ballet productions of the "Nutcracker" to opera chorus roles in La Boheme, Carmen and La Traviata. Her favorite area of role playing is comedy and improv and loves "live" audiences, so being a member of GibsonHouse Murder Mystery Theatre is a perfect place to have fun and show her talent for making people smile and laugh! |
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Jim Donnelly - Jim has also been involved with dinner theatre performing for quite some time. Some of Jim's roles include Slim Downe, Special Agent Farmer, and more. |
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John Gibson - Not only is he the Producer & Director of GibsonHouse, John is a participating actor as well. His roles include, Al Gillespie, Hyram Loftt, Les Fulle, Captain Mac, & Old Doc. Also, he's a recent Shellie Award Best Actor nominee for his role as Shelly Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Dean Lesher Center of Performing Arts in Walnut Creek. |
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Marcy Goldman - Marcy's Los Angeles theatre appearances include Looking for Normal with Theatre Neo, Sacrificial Dance at the Court Theatre, Transitory Tales at Actors Workout, and performing as a singer/comedienne at various LA area clubs. Favorite roles include Sabina in Skin of Our Teeth, Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Cleo in Most Happy Fella (for which she was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award; Chicago's version of a Tony Award!). Film and TV appearances include Airplane, Kentucky Fried Movie, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Star Trek: Generations, My Name is Earl, West Wing, Boston Legal, Will & Grace, and Arrested Development. |
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Joe "Flambo" Guistino - He has acted in two dozen theatrical productions since arriving in the bay area in 1989. His memorable roles include Pseudolous in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", Schmendiman in "Picasso at the Lapine Agile", Jake in "Jake's Women" and Ernie in "Rumors" for which he won a Best Supporting Actor "Artie". He is also a master harmonica player and can be seen playing with a number of bands in the area. He is a motorcycle and car mechanic by virtue of his penchant for old Harleys and early model sports cars, poet, poker degenerate, lover of his beautiful wife, father, water quality guru for a local water utility and event planner for the annual Benicia Mardi Gras Celebration each spring. He has been performing with GibsonHouse since Fall 2002. Despite rumors to the contrary, he has never been a stand-in for Fabio. |
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Cherish Hamutoff - Cherish’s first regular acting gig after college was 2 years and 200 performances with the murder mystery dinner theatre, The Gourmet Detective. Since then she’s been in several commercials (Cellular South, First Bank of Tennessee, DSW Shoes, etc), TV Shows (Lifetime’s What Should You Do?, E!’s Diary of an Affair, History Channel’s The Color of War) and films, including Bloodline distributed by Lion's Gate Entertainment.
She’s thrilled to return to something she loves, live performances and dinner theater! Visit her website at www.iamcherish.com |
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James Koponen - James has been a bay area actor for over fourteen years now. His experience also spans community television hosting, television commercials and occasional movie work. Along with having authored Murder in Space, his acting roles include Captain Al Koholic, Joey Marzetti, John Disse, Billy Club, Doodie Frudee, Horace Cope, and Yves De Paina. His stage roles include Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. Billy in Carousel, Bobby Child in Crazy for You (Stage 1 Theatre), Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz (DLOC), Will Parker in OKLAHOMA! (Hayward Little Theatre), Vinnie in Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Las Positas College), Lt. Cable in South Pacific (Pleasanton Playhouse) and Lamb in The Hothouse (University of London). Aside from performing, James is studying for a Master's in English atCal State Hayward (East Bay). Other hobbies include jogging, piano, French, creative writing and traveling around the globe taking photos of anything that will hold still long enough for a picture. Visit www.heyjames.com for more info. |
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Tina Rene Luisen - Tina has been involved in the theatre for a grand total of sixteen years. She has performed in theatres all over the Bay Area for over 5 years now. Tina has been performing with Gibson House for over 3 years and has enjoyed making audiences happy and glad that they have been a part of the Gibson House Murder Mystery experience. |
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Sky McDougall - Sky is a versatile actor and voiceover artist. His recent television work includes a recurring Guest Star role on the NBC daytime drama series Passions as well as Guest Star roles on shows for FOX, TLC, Animal Planet, A&E, American Public Television, and Canada's Omni Network. His film credits include roles on Who Wants to Marry My Husband?, The Marionette, and a song and dance lead role in the family film The Land of Make Believe, which was distributed in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Sky's many stage appearances include starring roles in regional productions of Barnum, California Suite, The Passion of Dracula, Noises Off!, The Music Man, The Three Sisters, and Murder in The Cathedral. He has been seen (or heard) in multi-media attractions at the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom, Universal Studios Orlando and Space Center Houston. Sky moved to Los Angeles in March of 2005. He lives near Studio City and enjoys hiking, biking and travel. For more information, please visit www.SkyMcDougall.com. |
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Dan Monez - Dan is honored to have been asked to join Gibson House Mystery Performers. He has been in over a dozen stage plays in the North Bay Area, and is the former President of Dreamweavers Theatre in Napa. Dan retired after 33 years in law enforcement, 17 of which were as Police Chief in the city of Napa. He is currently the Executive Director of Napa T.V. a community access cable television station and a frequent fill-in host of KVON radio’s “Afternoon Edition.” Dan and his wife Diana reside in Napa. |
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Gregory North - Gregory began his Broadway career in the original Into the Woods. He was Mandy Patinkin's standby in The Secret Garden" Tony Randall's nephew in A Christmas Carol, and starred as the Baron in Grand Hotel opposite Cyd Charisse. Film credits include In Good Company with Dennis Quaid, Zombie Prom with Ru Paul, and Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown. Television credits include ER, Frasier, The District, It's All Relative, Malcolm In The Middle, Bernie Mac, Ally McBeal, Judging Amy, Law & Order, and Astroboy (animated). Theatre tours include The Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, Footloose, and Les Miserables. Gregory has done over 100 shows coast-to-coast at such theatres as The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Buffalo Studio Arena, Arizona Theatre Co., North Shore Music Theatre, Kansas Starlight, and Sacramento Music Circus. In LA, Hollywood Bowl audiences saw Greg in Amadeus opposite Michael York and Neil Patrick Harris and in The Sound of Music. He holds an MFA from the Unviersity of Washington, Seattle, and is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab West. A proud member of Actors Equity since 1985, he serves on its National Council. |
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Siobhan O'Brien - If you're wondering how the heck to say her name, it's pronounced Sha-von! Joining Gibson House in 2006, she has been performing in Bay Area theater since she was old enough to walk! She has done everything to drama, film, musicals and most recently being a ventriloquist! Also to brag winning 2 Arty Awards for comedy! You can see her in some roles as Faye Slift and Bella Cose and hopefully many more Gibson house episodes to come! Details at 11! |
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Toni Owen - Toni plays murderesses and victims with equal glee – it’s up to the audience to figure out which! She’s acted in Canada where her flu commercial still airs and with GibsonHouse since 2001. Her favorite role is the one she’s performing at the time, they include Verrie Fulle in Weddings Are Murder, Dimanda Tenshunn in Par 4 for Murder, Nina Fiver in Murder on the High Seas, Renta Loft in Football Is Murder, Ambassador Ruth Less in Murder in Space, Helen Gone in Sounds Like Murder, Mrs. Wont in Murder in the Old Wild West, Verrie Klear in Shadow of a Murder, Madame Zodiak in Murder Among the Stars and Faye Slift in Murder in the ** Hotel. She passed her acting gene onto her son Jade Carter, last seen on NCIS. |
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Lisa Pickup - Lisa joined the Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre team in 2005 and has now portrayed several roles including: Annie Takers in Murder in Space, Crystal Kleare in Shadow of a Murder and Rose Tattoo in Murder on the High Seas. Her acting background spans community theatre along with commercial, print and industrial work. By day, Lisa is a massage therapist and licensed esthetician. |
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Krisi Pilkington - A glorious character actress. Her many credits include Polly Astor, Rose Tattoo, Dr. Judy Frudee, Gina, Gemini, Miss Maude, Princess Dorado, Granny, Ginger, and more! |
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Ron Sacchi - Has been performing in the bay area for 25 years. After working for 20+ years in high tech, Ron has retired and one of the things on his list was to work his way back into performing. Besides his work at Gibson House, he has just published an entrepreneurial primer called Design-Build Your Business drawn from his experiences of working with business owners and running a business incubator for Intel. In his spare time he serves as First Vice President for the San Francisco Chapter of the Football Hall of Fame. He enjoys travel, meeting new people, studying ancient cultures, playing board games and occasionally swings out and does karaoke |
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Carolyn Sweeney - She has performed with GibsonHouse for five years now, and appears in over seven of our Mysteries. During the day Carolyn is a Staffing Manager with OfficeTeam and places highly qualified Administrative Staff. Carolyn hails from Portland, OR and currently lives in the bay area. She has appeared in Alabama Rain, Into the Woods, and Iphigenia and Other Daughters at her alma mater St. Mary's College, as well as at the Chanticleer's Theater in Butterflies are Free. |
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Alex Torres - A former award-winning Toast Master and Motivational Speaker since 1995, Alex joined GibsonHouse Mystery Performers in 1999 to play opposite his wife, Serena Gibson Torres. Without an acting background, he ended up commanding the audiences attention with his natural talent and hasn't stopped ever since. His many roles include: Joey Carmine, Taurus, Yves de Paina, Joey Marzetti, Curt Tail, Robert Wright, Rudy Frudee, Deet Tail, Billy Clubb, John Disse, Juan Tyme/Bill O'Faire, and more! Alex's first passion is Home Theater Systems. In 2004, Alex took a risk and started his own Home Theater Design and Install Company, TNT Audio and Video. His clientele range from all over the East Bay, including: Orinda, Oakland Hills, San Raphel and San Francisco. As an actor and entrepreneur, he is 100% passionate and dedicated. |
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Serena Gibson Torres - Serena has been performing on stage since 1984. Her favorite stage roles include Martha Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, The Scarecrow in The Wiz, and Pauline in A Kind of Alaska. She has been involved in all aspects of theater including lights, make-up, costumes, sound, stage managing, and directing. She graduated in 1993 from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. Moving from Florida to California in 1993, she has been involved with Murder Mystery ever since. Her credits include: Gemini, Gina, Patti Gree, Polly Astor, Ginger, Sue Veneer, Miss Kitten, Miss Faith Fulle, Granny Goodhart, Jewel Restorre, Marion, and Trudy Prudee. For fun, she is currently wrapping up her second Murder Mystery script. Serena is not only fortunate enough to pursue her passion, but she shares it with her fellow actors and favorite men in her life: Her father, John Gibson, and her loving husband, Alex Torres. |
Note for current GibsonHouse performers:
Perhaps you won an Oscar and we mindlessly missed listing that
little fact. Bottom line is that you need to send us your
acting information for us to post it up there. It's not hard —just
fire off an email. If your bio is not present, if you would like
a change made, or if there is any problem with your bio, please
contact John Gibson. We'll do our best to get it corrected.
Note for actors interested in joining the team:
We are always interested in adding new players. Stage or standup
comic experience is a plus, but not always mandatory. Email or
fax resume and photo to the attention of John Gibson
(info@gibsonhouse.com)
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