STATERA MENTORSHIP | LOS ANGELES CHAPTER

Statera Mentorship: Los Angeles was created in early 2019. It was founded by Siobhan Doherty, who also serves as one of the Regional Coordinators. The Los Angeles Chapter is not currently accepting applications. To receive information about the next cohort, please sign up for the Statera Newsletter. If you have any questions, please contact our National Co-Directors at [email protected].

 
 

Meet Your Los Angeles Regional CoordinatorS

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Siobhan Doherty (she/her) is a Los Angeles based actor, producer, and teacher. Recent acting credits include Marian in The Music Man, Ophelia in The Hamlet Project with Loose Canon Collective, and the new indie thriller The Perfect Host, on Amazon Prime. Siobhan has worked regionally in theater and musical theater with Utah Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, PCPA, Utah Festival Opera, and Berkeley Repertory Theater. She also writes, directs, and performs with the digital sketch team DAME Sketch Comedy. As a producer, Siobhan has worked on commercials and industrials, with companies trusted by Universal, Toyota, Spotify, Nintendo, and MTV. She also produces web series, including Super(fluous) and the award-winning series Pairings. As a teacher, Siobhan coaches accents and dialects through her company, Speaking of Accents. She is the resident accents and dialects instructor at the Actor’s Studio of Orange County, and serves on faculty at Studio School Los Angeles and Art of Acting, the Stella Adler studio in LA. She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. She is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and holds an M.F.A. from UC Irvine, a B.A. from UC Berkeley, and a certificate in acting from PCPA.

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Dani Woodson (she/her) is an actor/writer from Philadelphia. She fell in love with the performing arts early in life while attending Philadelphia’s renowned Freedom Theater and soon afterwards Philadelphia’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She brought her passion to NYC where she was introduced to the art of storytelling through her involvement with The Moth and her frequent attendance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Now in Los Angeles, Dani is pursuing a career in acting and has appeared in several independent films, a Toyota commercial, and most recently the FX show Snowfall. She’s signed with Almond Talent Agency and Omnium Entertainment. She’s written and produced her own sketch comedy and is currently working to produce a short film and an animated series. Dani is very excited to work with StateraArts. She recognizes the need for female mentors in the entertainment industry. She wants to do her part to create a world where all people no matter their gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation are given the opportunity to succeed in life. And she knows having a mentor can make all of the difference in the world.

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Jodie Grundin (she/her) is a Los Angeles based Producer, Talent Manager and Actor. A Denver native, she earned her BA in Theatre with an Acting Emphasis at University of Northern Colorado before heading west to the enjoy the sunshine of Southern California. While in LA, Jodie has been busy acting, performing sketch comedy, coaching, producing and most recently working for a talent management company. In addition to representing artists who inspire her, she finds joy in coaching young actors. Each spring she coordinates her Alma Mater's senior showcase. Jodie also guest teaches at AMDA in LA and Chapman University in Orange. Bringing equity to the arts is a mission that fuels her, and she is thrilled to be working with Statera to help create new relationships and pathways in the industry!

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Jessica Hanna (she/her) is a Los Angeles based Director & Producer and Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts. She is a member of The Kilroys, an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theatre. Her focus has been on new work development. Recent directing credits include: Lisa Dring's DEATH PLAY at Circle X Theatre, NO HOMO, at Hollywood Fringe (Winner Best Director, Ensemble Theater, World Premiere and Golden Playwright), New York Fringe and Atwater Village Theatres, FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN by John Ross Bowie, I CARRY YOUR HEART by Georgette Kelly, THE WILLOWS by Kerri-Ann McCalla, all at Bootleg Theater. PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, the musical, at Celebration Theatre (Winner 2019 Ovation Award Best Production of a Musical). Co-Founder and Managing & Producing Director of Bootleg Theater 2006-2018. Guest director at CalState University Long Beach of Lauren Gunderson's THE REVOLUTIONISTS and will direct THE WOLVES there spring 2020. Taught ensemble techniques & directed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for Make Trouble in Wilmington, NC, produced two plays by Kirsten Vangsness at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Most recently co-directed Justin Sayre’s RAVENSWOOD MANOR at Celebration Theater. JessQueen.com for contact & more info.

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Jessy Holtermann (she/her) is an LA based actor, writer, producer and teacher. She has written, produced and starred in two short films that went on to film festivals and is currently in preproduction for her third. Jessy has acted in indie films, commercials, and shows on Syfy, TLC and Investigation Discovery. She has also performed in off-off Broadway plays in New York City. Jessy has worked as a children's acting teacher and is currently the performance coach at Birth A Book as well as the weekend manager at The BGB Studio. She holds a B.A. from The New School.


Los Angeles Social Media Coordinator

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Cora Vander Broek (she/her) is a Los Angeles based actor.  She was recently seen as “Jules” in Tracy Letts' Linda Vista on Broadway after originating the role at Steppenwolf Theatre.  Selected regional credits:  Linda Vista (Mark Taper, Center Theatre Group); Chicago premiere of Rebecca Gillman’s Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 (Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls); All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre, Kimberly Senior); The Mousetrap (Northlight Theatre); In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (Actors Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Repertory); Doubt and A Christmas Carol (Indiana Repertory). She was recently nominated for an Ovation Award for her performance of “Jules” in Linda Vista.  For her work in Chicago she was named an Actor to Watch by the Chicago Tribune, received a Jeff Award Nomination for Actress in a Supporting Role and an After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance. Recent television and film credits: Grace And Frankie; Law & Order: SVU; Chicago Fire; Where We Started; Of Minor Prophets and Blur Circle. 


Past Los Angeles Team Members

Amber Friendly

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Anatasha Blakely

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*A NOTE ON INCLUSION AT STATERA

Women: Statera recognizes the limiting nature of the binary use of woman. We serve and welcome anyone on the gender spectrum who identifies either always or some of the time as a woman. We also serve and welcome those who are non-binary, while recognizing that not all non-binary people identify with aspects of femininity.

Intersectionality: StateraArts works through an intersectional lens for gender parity. We understand and acknowledge that systems of oppression and discrimination are interdependent and span all social categorizations such as race, class, gender, ability, religion, parental status, size, age, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or group. Addressing one spoke of systematic discrimination or disadvantage means holistically addressing them all.