Charity Schubert is based in New York but spent her formative years learning her craft in Shreveport. Most recently she has been seen onstage in Shreveport at Stage Center as Jean, the White House Press Secretary in POTUS, directed by Lyn Cramer. Last Minute, a comedic short film Charity produced and starred in won the 2025 Louisiana Film Prize, had its NYC premiere at the Tribeca Festival in June of 2026, and is currently enjoying a successful run on the film festival circuit. In 2024 she produced and starred in Napoleonic Code, a short film which was awarded Top Five at the Louisiana Film Prize and is currently available to watch on Crafty on YouTube. 2023 saw Charity direct hit productions of Kate Hamill’s Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy and Erica Schmidt’s MAC BETH at her alma mater, Centenary College of Louisiana. 

@charityschubert

Weaver starred in the feature films CUT TO THE CHASE and 6 MONTH RULE. He has appeared in numerous projects including WOLF PACK, CUPID FOR CHRISTMAS, AMERICAN PIE PRESENTS: GIRLS’ RULES, MANIC opposite Don Cheadle, and THE GOOD OLD BOYS opposite Tommy Lee Jones. He also provided the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated feature RETURN TO NEVERLAND. On the stage, Weaver has starred as Paul in MISERY, Kaffee in A FEW GOOD MEN, and Black Stache in PETER AND THE STAR CATCHER for Stage Center, George in OF MICE AND MEN for Shreveport Little Theatre; Bernard in BOEING, BOEING and Serge in ART for River City Rep; and as Trip in the Los Angeles premiere of ANON by Kate Robin for Echo Theater Company.

@blayneweaver

Cara Johnston is a playwright and actor originally from Dallas, Texas. Her plays, The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends, and The Madwoman, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, earning five-star reviews, an OffFest nomination, and an official selection for Frame of Mind, airing on PBS. Her new play, Great White Throne, was a Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Finalist and is premiering at Renaissance Theatreworks this fall. Cara lives in Milwaukee with her husband and pet bunny.

Originally hailing from Monroe, Louisiana; this performer has been entertaining since she was very young and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon!

Singing in church is where she got her start, then eventually doing so in school and in the community as well. Not long after she worked her way into acting when an audition opportunity meant for one of her sisters turned favorable for herself.

Since then she’s been participating in various short films, operas and local plays, her most notorious thus far portraying the title role of Cinderella in BPCC’s rendition of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

Whilst on her acting journey she has even been fortunate enough to work her way into SAG-AFTRA after obtaining a speaking role in a feature length film.

As Charleszette continues in her growing career she only hopes to always involve herself in works she considers “worth it,” and this is certainly one of them. 
 

She is more than excited to narrate such a masterpiece and looks forward to helping bring such art to life. 

@unforzetteable

Emma Greer is a graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana’s theatre department. Her most recent production work was directing Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse. She was last seen on stage as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Centenary Theatre Program. 

Susan Kirton is the host of the weekday, lifestyle television show “Loving Living Local,” on KTAL NBC 6 and KMSS Fox 33. A community theater presence for decades, she is an award-winning actress, screenwriter, director, and producer who has appeared on local and national television, feature films and national radio. Susan Kirton and her family of industry professionals—actor Patrick, artist Haley, and actor Eric—are the creative force behind 1034 Productions., Together they have produced three standout shorts that have transitioned from Louisiana Film Prize to the national festival circuit.

Kimberly Talley was last seen on stage in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Caddo Common Pavilion. Other local theatre credits include Jersey Boys, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She's also appeared in several short films for Louisiana Film Prize, and was nominated for Best Performance for her role in the 2022 Top 20 short The Cut.

Chris Alan Evans is a Shreveport-area based actor and filmmaker. You can see him now in the feature films Peeping Todd and The Twin, both of which he was a producer and co-writer. As a writer/director his short films Hivemind Deluxe, Toots., and Caught On Tape have all won festival awards and garnered international film festival acclaim as well as played Oscar-qualifying festivals in the U.S. On stage, Chris most recently played Captain Taylor in A Soldier's Play, Stan in Sweat, and Valene in The Lonesome West. He is also a graduate of Haughton High School and Northwestern State University. 

@christopevans

@velvetysatin

Ariel Roberson is a professional filmmaker. She has lead two features and one short. She is

skilled in music, photography and the method. Her studies with human psychology have helped

with story and developing character. Dissecting scripts is a favorite.

Ariel has had an extremely colorful life learning psychology at a young age from having a strong

religious background to dissecting the minds of serial killers on her favorite suspense shows.

She has utilized these gifts with her friends growing up and to keep herself safe. It has helped

her through school, a New York lifestyle inside and outside of her favorites: hospitality and a

walk about city life.

During Ariel’s time in New York City she delved deeper into hospitality, which helped her to learn

how to engage with people and further her theatrical sensibility that she helped nurture with

acting classes in New York, Louisiana, and through her agency Wilhelmina Rocky Mountains.

Ariel picked up a camera at a young age, as well as singing, and putting on mini plays for her

friends and writing scripts-

which guided her through talking to boys on the phone. Her first on

stage performance was in pre school and with acting was sprinkled throughout the rest of her

life with Arsenic and Old Lace, The Time of Your Life, Monster Plans, Queen of the Night, The

Box, and her film performances. She started learning set production in 2016, though had

touched on this experientially starting in 2014. She is a professional photographer as well as

actor and is currently rehearsing for Les Liasions Dangereuse to be performed on stage at the

Scottish Rite Cathedral in Shreveport, Louisiana.

@arielroberson212

Josh Talley is a Shreveport Native who loves to create theatre and film, with a long history in Shreveport. Onstage or backstage Josh always strives to elevate the artistic quality and spectacle of any production he is involved with, so its natural he is moving to production roles. Josh would like to thank everyone who supported this production with their time, talent, donation, or other support.

Heather Peak Hooper trained at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and has a B.A. in Theatre and a Masters in Arts Teaching in Theatre, English, and Speech. She has acted and directed professionally from San Francisco, California to London, England and toured internationally with the American Shakespeare Center.  Some of her favorite plays in which she performed locally are Cover of Life, Waverly Gallery, August: Osage County, and Misery.  Heather is proud to teach theatre at Captain Shreve High School and coach Shreve’s Theatre Performance Team.