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Meet the Company
Christina Anthony
Christina is a Los Angeles-based writer, performer, vocalist and comedian with Midwest roots. With a career spanning over two decades, she specializes in new comedies for the stage and screen. She is a Jeff Award-winning alum of the Second City Chicago where she co-wrote and performed three revues (Brother Can You Spare Some Change, Studs Terkel’s Not Working, and The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life) that now tour the world. Selected credits. Screen - Aunt Denise on ABC’s Mixed-ish, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Black-ish, Key & Peele, Rookie: Feds, Kenan. Stage - 1st National Tour: Clue. Off-Broadway: Found (Atlantic Theatre). Regional: Second City's The People v. Friar Laurence, a Romeo + Juliet Musical (Chicago Shakespeare), The Art of Falling (Hubbard Street + Second City), Radio Golf (Ensemble Theater Cincinnati), Matt & Ben (Jam), The Jackie Wilson Story (Black Ensemble).
Larry Bates
Larry Bates is an award‑winning actor and 2015 Lunt‑Fontanne Fellow, celebrated for acclaimed performances in August Wilson’s Jitney, Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! and many others. He has portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in All the Way and in numerous productions of The Mountaintop. That sustained body of work culminated in a profound honor in 2018, when Pulitzer Prize‑winning playwright Katori Hall requested that his production of The Mountaintop, featuring his portrayal of King, open the MLK50 commemoration in Memphis. The event, organized in partnership with Hattiloo Theatre and the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination and served as a solemn tribute to his enduring legacy. On screen, some notable appearances include Big Little Lies, The Romanoffs and most recently American Born Chinese. He is a graduate of the Theatre School at DePaul University.
LaNisa Renee Frederick
LaNisa Renee Frederick is an actor, writer, podcast host, and voiceover artist based in Los Angeles. She has guest-starred in series including Shifting Gears, NCIS, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and is a series regular on an upcoming Amazon Studios production. Trained in England and Chicago, she has performed on prestigious stages such as Steppenwolf, Second City Chicago. and Woolly Mammoth.
Frederick is also an established presence in commercial work, having appeared in over 50 national campaigns alongside talents such as Kevin Hart, Queen Latifah, and Amy Poehler. Her voiceover portfolio spans animation, television, and video games. She voices characters in Nickelodeon’s Baby Shark, Netflix’s Ada Twist, Scientist, and Apple TV’s Interrupting Chicken. Her video game credits include Outer Worlds 2, The Walking Dead, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
In addition to her work on screen and behind the mic, LaNisa is the co-creator of the viral sketch series Hashtag Booked, which highlights the experiences of actresses of color and has received national recognition. She is also the creator and host of the breakout podcast Black and CULTivated, where she sits down with Black and Brown former cult members, like herself, and chats all things #cultlife.
Timylle Adams
Timylle Adams is an actor who believes in the power of great stories—and loves being a part of telling them. A Dallas, Texas native, Timylle is a film, television, and stage actor currently based in Los Angeles. You may have seen her most recently in Masala Dabba by Wendy Graf at International City Theatre, where she played Tina Byrd. Her on-screen credits include Lifetime’s My Daughter’s Deadly Roommates, Reelz Channel’s The Price of Fame, as well as numerous commercials and independent films. She continues to hone her craft at M.A.D Acting Studio in Valley Village, where she trains in Scene Study and On-Camera/Audition classes each week.
Timylle brings an authentic passion and presence to every role she takes on. When she’s not acting, she enjoys singing, shopping, and reading a good book—or three. Follow her journey at @officialtimylle (Instagram) and @timylle (TikTok).
Olivia Castanho
Olivia Castanho is delighted to be starting off the new year in FAIRVIEW. She’s been a proud member of Interact for a number of years, having starred in their Los Angeles premiere of LIFE SUCKS in 2023 and their award-winning short film FAULTLESS in 2021. Recent staged reading credits include AN IDEAL HUSBAND at UCLA and RABBIT HOLE at The Studio City Branch Library. Over the summer, she originated the role of Truus Oversteegan in Elin Hampton’s ORDINARY GIRLS in New York City while simultaneously recording the lead English dub in the Paramount+ series FIREFLIES. Olivia has a thriving dubbing career and is currently reprising her lead role in the second season of Netflix’s FURIES. Her recent film credits include the star of the indie thriller SUICIDE DISCO, which she filmed in Norway and Belgium in the Fall of 2024, and she is in development of her first short film and first feature film as a writer/actor, both in her favorite genre, horror.
Michael Manuel
Michael Manuel is happy to be back at Interact Theatre Company, where he was a proud member from 1999-2010. Michael appeared in many readings and productions, including Manage Moliere, The Rivals, Guys and Dolls, Urinetown and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, among others.
Regionally Michael has worked at The Alley Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC, the Group Theatre, Empty Space, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, and Theatre for a New Audience, among others. In Los Angeles, he has worked at Pasadena Playhouse (Sunday in the Park with George and The Father with Alfred Molina (LADCC), A Noise Within (Tilden in Buried Child, The Creature in
Frankenstein (LADCC, Ovation, Stage Scene LA Performance of the Year, LA Theatre Bites Best Actor), and Iago in Othello (LADCC), Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen, Shakespeare Festival Los Angeles (6 Seasons), Parson’s Nose, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Pacific Playwrights Project, Cornerstone, Playwright’s Arena, and Impro Theatre where he is a
company member.
Michael has appeared in numerous TV shows and films, including the upcoming Doug Out by Lije Sarki and Redux Redux directed by the McManus Brothers which premiered at SXSW in March.
As an acting coach, Michael has worked with Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winners, most recently serving as coach and creative consultant to John Legend, (An Evening with John Legend) as well as writing the script for A John Legend Christmas that toured the US in 2024.
Michael is a 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Jack David Sharpe
Jack David Sharpe is delighted to be working with the Interact Theatre Company! He has recently performed in Starmites, Blood at the Root, and Amerika at the Open Fist Theatre Company, and frequently performs in the improv duo Sibling Ribaldry with his extremely talented sister Molly.
Emily Yetter
Emily has been a proud ITC member since 2023 having performed in many readings including the recent ITC benefit reading of Life, Death and Other Opportunities at The Odyssey Theater. Emily has been an equity actor since 2012, some of her most notable credits are Theatre Threesixty’s National Tour of Peter Pan as Tinker Bell, Regan in The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse, Mittie in Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage), Bolero: Ravel’s Dance for Orchestra (Walt Disney Concert Hall), The Night Fairy (SCR), OZ 2.5 (SCR), The Odyssey’s LEAR REDUX as Cordelia and Ariel in TEMPEST REDUX, along with many new play readings and workshops including that of Broadway darling John Proctor is the Villain (SCR). On television, you may have seen her in Southwest, Best Buy, or Dunkin’ ads, as a German girl in Grimm, or (once again) being possessed in Spooked. Emily has also had a strong hand in the emerging Immersive Theater scene in LA, most recently playing Wren in a site-specific version of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Other immersive credits include: Why I Want to F*** Ronald Regan, Agnosia, Crimson Cabaret, Alita Experience, The Hunters Experience, Strangers Experience and more. She attended UCLA’s school of Theater, Film and Television as well as the British American Drama Academy summer conservatory at Oxford. She is also a physical performer and runs a custom cookie business on the side from her kitchen. Check out her cookie art @lilemscookies.
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915, Really, and Social Creatures. Jackie’s plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Matrix Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Available Light, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others. Her work has been developed at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, PRELUDE.11&14, The Civilians, The Bushwick Starr, The LARK, The Magic Theatre, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival and The MacDowell Colony. Jackie was a dramaturg for Futurity by Cesar Alvarez and The Lisps, Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre Company & Toshiki Okada and The Garden by Nichole Canuso Dance Company. She received a 2015 Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, a 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, and was the inaugural recipient of the 2012-2014 Jerome Fellowship at The LARK. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a 2015 United States Artists Gracie Fellow.
Michael A. Shepperd
Michael A. Shepperd is pleased to be once again collaborating with Interact especially on this amazing piece. Work with Interact includes directing Fences and performing as Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy.
Other directing and performance credits include Blood at the Root at Open Fist Theatre Company, for which he received a Stage Scene LA “Scenie” award for Best Direction of a Play, as well as a Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle nomination for Best Director; Twelve O’Clock Tales with Ava Gardner at the Whitefire Theatre (Stage Raw Top Ten); The Boy From Oz (Ovation Award, LADCC Award, Best Director); Rotterdam at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (LADCC Award Best Production, Stage Raw award for Best Production and nomination for Best Director; West Addams at the Skylight Theatre (LA Times Critics Choice); Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Garry Marshall Theatre (Scenie Award for Director of the Year, Broadway World nomination for Best Director); The View Upstairs (Broadway World Award, Best Director); Sucker Punch at Couerage Theatre; Too Heavy for Your Pocket at Sacred Fools (LA Times Critics Choice); and productions of The Next Fairy Tale, [title of show], and Rent.
Los Angeles acting roles include Matilda (Miss Trunchbull), The Producers (Roger DeBris; Ovation Award nominee), Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC nominations), BootyCandy (LADCC nomination, Ovation, Stage Raw Win), The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation award), Steel (Ovation Award), Master Harold and the Boys (NAACP theatre award nomination), The Producers (Ovation Award nomination), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Theatre Award), Choir Boy (NAACP nomination); and Shout Sister Shout. As an actor, he recently appeared as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Open Fist, and in Athol Fugard’s Valley Song at International City Theatre. Broadway/Regional credits include: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan; The Seafarer; Little Shop of Horrors; Caroline, or Change; Whipping Man, and most recently, Two Trains Running (The Acting Company).
TV: NCIS: Origins, Bosch, Why Women Kill, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland, Wizards of Waverly Place, Monk, Criminal Minds, NCIS.
Barry Heins
Most recently, Heins produced and directed the critically acclaimed Los Angeles premiere of Aaron Posner's "Life Sucks" at the Broadwater Main Stage. The production earned a coveted spot on L.A. Times theater critic Charles McNulty’s Top 9 List of 2023 and received seven nominations from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, including wins for Best Ensemble and Best Writing–Adaptation.
A graduate of The Juilliard School and an alumnus of The Acting Company, Heins has performed on Broadway and Off-Broadway, at leading regional theaters across the U.S., and in both film and television. His notable Los Angeles stage credits include "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Ford Theatre (Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Performance), ITC's celebrated production of "Counsellor-At-Law" with John Rubinstein (Ovation Award for Best Ensemble), the 2018 ITC revival of Jerry Sterner's "Other People's Money," and the West Coast premiere of Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins' "Nice Fish."
Heins is also an accomplished voice-over artist, lending his talents to everything from film trailers to political ads, and has served as a dialect consultant on Broadway productions and for PBS. He has taught at several professional actor training conservatories, including NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Playwrights Horizons Theater School and SUNY Purchase College.
During the summers, Heins serves as executive producer of the company’s summer theater camp for underserved youth, INTERPLAY, which was integrated into the L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs’ five-week Summer Performing Arts Camp (SPAC) in 2023. Heins curates the ITC Play Lab for established local playwrights and has spearheaded four annual staged readings series in partnership with the Los Angeles Public Library’s LA Made cultural enrichment program, where he directed "You Can’t Take It With You," "The Great White Hope," and "Driving Miss Daisy," and performed in "Art." He also produced and directed two impactful short films written by Catherine Butterfield for ITC: "Faultless" and "Just Another Birthday in Bedlam." Both films garnered international recognition, winning multiple awards at prestigious film festivals, including a 2021 Bronze and 2022 Gold Telly Award. These films are available on ITC's official YouTube channel, @InteractTheatreCompanyLosAngeles.
Kristen Egermeier
Kristen is thrilled to continue her work with ITC as the new Managing Director. While she is a trained Actor first, Kristen has served as operational support for theatres across the county for the past 15 years. She has also produced, written, and managed multiple productions on stage and film. As a graduate of Cal State University, Northridge with a BA in Theatre Arts and a minor in Chemistry, her well-rounded education has combined her love of theatre with her organizational business skills.
After working and studying with multiple theatre companies back east, she returned to Los Angeles to dive further into her roles as an actor and operational consultant, with an emphasis on nonprofit organizations. Kristen has aided in administratively supporting and developing multiple theatre and community programs.
Her 20 years of experience in management and hands-on roles in accounting, data analytics, editorial writing, and operations management have created her specialty in working with small businesses and nonprofit organizations to develop business practices and streamline financials. A background in industries outside of the theatre world includes environmental research and services, federal and state government services, manufacturing, and GIS data services.
David Schaller
DAVID SCHALLER
Described by Disney management as “a creative powerhouse,” and “a Bellagio Fountain of creative ideas,” David’s work is distinguished by a unique mix of marketing and entertainment experience, and work that’s known for both its strategic insight and brilliant creative execution.
David began his career as a theater director, working on Broadway for the multi-Tony Winning director Hal Prince, and in the UK for Academy Award winner David Puttnam. He then moved into marketing as a creative director at the great British design and marketing company Imagination, where he was a pioneer in the development of brand
experience, and created events, exhibits and live shows for Ford, Lloyd’s of London, British Airways, and the British Government.
Some of the spectacular and powerful projects he led included flying a geodesic dome into the air to reveal an exhibit for Ford, touring Sleeping Beauty’s Castle to the capital cities of Europe for Disney and staging a British Prime Minister’s live appearances in a landslide election win.
He went on to establish Imagination’s New York office, winning a range of global clients, including Apple, Nike, Disney, Ford, Lincoln Mercury, and AT&T, for whom he created numerous shows and exhibits.
David then joined Ammirati Puris Lintas, where he founded the first brand experience group at a global ad agency, doing brand strategy, retail design and major live events for Burger King, Four Seasons Hotels, Ameritech, Iridium, Wachovia Bank, Rover Cars, and MasterCard.
He went on to start Brandnew, his own marketing consultancy, where he built a client list that included Disney, Ford, Apple, Cole Haan and match.com, offering a wide range of communications services from research and strategy to design development and implementation.
Brandnew evolved into Garden Of Eden Entertainment, as many established entertainment companies were turning towards more highly interactive and immersive experiences.
Since then, David has been the creative force behind an enormously adventurous range of immersive experiences. For Disney, he developed an array of innovative rides, parades, shows and attractions, including the original concepts for Star Wars: Gravity’s Edge, interactive entertainment for Avatar’s Pandora, and a full-length immersive and interactive version of Tim Burton’s Wonderland.
David helped develop the master plan and the retail, restaurant and entertainment options for The Linq, the youth-oriented resort on the Las Vegas Strip, and designed proposals for the expansion of Elvis Presley’s Graceland. He created the hotel, retail, dining and entertainment offerings for a yet-to-be-realized Dubai theme park, based entirely on Arab legends, and has contributed concepts for various developments in
Jeddah, and Makkah. His work has won numerous accolades. David’s script for Beyond All Boundaries, the central attraction at the National World War Two Museum, won multiple international awards. His work on Disney’s Gravity’s Edge won the Themed Entertainment Association’s Thea Award for Best Attraction. He wrote the opening ceremony for
Diryah, the UNESCO World Heritage site in Saudi Arabia, which won the World’s Best Event Award at Cannes. He has also won major awards for graphic, exhibit, and trade show design, and was Artist-In-Residence at Walt Disney Imagineering. Recently, he contributed ideas for the launch of the Saudi Red Sea Project, and for the development of an immersive museum and light show at the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.
He also oversaw the creation of Walmart’s exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show, where Walmart bested major tech companies to win the Most Innovative Award. He is currently completing the prototype for a series of revolutionary learning apps that combine the qualities of an inspiring teacher with the excitement of a hugely involving video game.
Whatever the media, David’s work displays tremendous insight into what audiences want and what brands need to do, and how to connect the two in a dramatic and satisfying way. Above all, he is a storyteller, who brings a sense of human connection, emotional impact and real meaning to every project he undertakes. He is typically involved throughout the development process from initial research to the creation of the final product. In addition to the skills he brings to any project, he can call
on a world-class team across an exceptional range of disciplines from leisure and retail to digital design, and every aspect of the brand experience.
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Our Ongoing Programs

INTERPLAY at YPAL
Young Performing Artist Lab
Where kids discover and explore their natural creativity!
Now in its 30th year, INTERPLAY brings young people together with trained theatre educators for a full-day, five-week day camp. For the past three years, INTERPLAY has been sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Performing Arts Division at the Lankershim Arts Center.
interactla.org/programs/interplay
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ITC PLAY LAB
Established playwrights and screenwriters present new works for public readings performed by the ITC Ensemble and guest artists. Lab Director Anita Khanzadian moderates audience discussion following the readings. Free and open to the public at the Lankershim Arts Center, no RSVP required.
View the Play Lab schedule at:
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ITC welcomes the submission of new plays written by established writers for consideration. Please submit a .PDF of the work along with playwright's bio and a detailed description of the play (including a breakdown of the characters) to:
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ITC MASTER CLASSES
Join Interact Theatre Company for inspiring acting and improv classes designed for professional actors. Deepen your craft, sharpen your instincts, and elevate your performance skills in a supportive and engaging environment.
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ITC Free Play Readings
At Lankershim Arts Center

Interact began in late 1989 as a weekly play reading group created by Barry Heins consisting of 40 actors from New York City, leading regional theaters, and professional actor training conservatories, who wanted to keep their craft well-honed while seeking work in Los Angeles.
Select Wednesday evenings at 7:30 PM.
Free and open to the public.
5108 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601
Titles of plays are announced in our email blasts.
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ITC Staged Readings for UCLA School of Law
For 26 years, ITC has presented one staged reading each semester for UCLA School of Law.
Sponsored by UCLA Law School, Interact Theatre Company's UCLA Law School Staged Readings Series was created in 1999 by our first Board President, UCLA Law Professor Daniel Lowenstein. The series consists of one staged play reading each semester pertaining to themes
About ITC
"Invigorating...The ensemble is first-rate...."
“Exhilarating...”
"A delectibly versatile ensemble..."
- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times ("Life Sucks.")
"Together they form, in my view, the very best acting ensemble to be seen currently in Los Angeles."
- Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Press
"A company of hard-hitting professionals, with a rare combination of heart and expertise."
-NoHo News
"Since its inception, INTERACT THEATRE COMPANY has become known as one of the most exciting theatrical hamlets in the urban forest."
- F. Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times
HISTORY
In January of 1989, actor and director Barry Heins invited fifteen friends – all experienced stage actors homesick for the New York theatrical community – to a weekly play reading group held in a vacant apartment in Sherman Oaks. Before long, a pool of forty actors was involved in readings that consisted of everything from classic plays to new plays and screenplays. The quality of the work attracted other theatre professionals eager to collaborate. Directors came to hear plays, as well as playwrights and screenwriters who arranged to hear these talented actors breathe life into their new scripts. Ten months later, the group became the exclusive tenants of Theatre Exchange in North Hollywood, and Interact was born. On May 1, 1992, the company formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit theater.
Interact’s loyal and supportive audience has followed the company to various stages and venues in the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, and Downtown LA, enjoying more than forty full-scale productions of plays and musicals since its founding. Interact also presents high-quality free or low-cost community programming, such as its lauded summer arts education program for underserved youth, hundreds of workshops, fundraisers and special events, and, to date, over a thousand public play readings.
AWARDS
ITC has received 95 performance and production awards (175 nominations), including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Stage Raw, Garland, LA Weekly, Telly, and NAACP Awards.
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