PLAYBILL
Short Form Play Festival
CAST
Faith Partee Taylor
"Night of the Living Dead: The First Reports" (Dr. Grimes)
Faith Taylor: Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Faith has performed in plays and musicals in Utah, West Virginia and Texas. Recent roles include Rose Brice in FUNNY GIRL (Art Factory), Mrs. Huggins in THE STRANGER (Company Onstage), Basia in RIGHT ANGLES (Apprentice Productions), Grandma Ginzova in WHILE CHILDHOOD SLEPT and Ensemble/ Sarah Jane Moore Understudy in ASSASSINS ( The Garden Theatre). Faith holds a BA in Theater Studies from the University of Utah and an MFA in Theatre from the University of Houston.
Koomah
"April 27, 2011" (Mallory) | "Debate" (Republican) | "Index" (Lynette)
Koomah is a versatile character and voice actor with numerous film, TV, music video, and theater credits. Known for playing all ages and genders, they have performed an array of memorable characters from a singing gay leather bear to a sassy anthropomorphic can of peaches. Koomah is a featured performer in Tromalesque!, a Troma themed burlesque movie (available on the TromaNow streaming service), the voice of intersex puppet hero Roro in the movie Spectra Force Vive: Infinite Pie Delivery Service, and writer/director of the autobiographical stage play History of a Happy Hermaphrodite.
Cynthia M. Leal
"April 27, 2011" (Sally) | "Debate" (Democrate) | "Index" (Penny)
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Roger E. Palomino
"April 27, 2011" (Daddy) | "Debate" (Moderator) | "Index" (Chet)
Roger is delighted to be making his debut with Beguiled Theater Company. Recent/Favorite credits include The Comedy of Errors with The Shakespeare Festival, Moon Over Buffalo with Upstage Theater, and The Last Chance Inn, Calamity Gulch with The Huntsville Community Theater. He recently was Casting Director for the SAG-AFTRA micro budget agreement proof of concept short, ReveR. He has a degree in International Business and Economics from Sam Houston State University. With over 20 years of acting experience in theater, film and television, he currently is Outreach Director at Houston Media Source Public Access Television. He has been the emcee/host for the Houston Latino Film Festival and the 48 Hour Film Project.
John Faust
"Index" (Gaylord) | "Night of the Living Dead: The First Reports" (New Anchor/ Chief McClelland)
John is Beguiled Theatre Company’s artistic director and writer of Debate and Night of the Living Dead: The First Reports. John has previously been seen in Weird City Theatre’s Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, Curse of the House of Usher and Sherlock Holmes. John is a voice over artist having worked with Michael Bell (GI Joe), Pat Fraley (Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles) and Dave Fennoy (The Walking Dead: The Game); is a play and screenwriter – (see below); has trained with The Groundlings, has a BFA in theatre directing from Texas State University and will soon graduate with an MFA in Screenwriting. John has portrayed horror host Danvers on the nationally syndicated Demented Features since 2012.
CREW
Mel Petersen
Director "Index" and Technical Director of Short Form Play Festival
Mel is a passionate Visual Artist and Filmmaker with a diverse background that spans TV and digital video production, editing, photography, and theater tech. With a strong foundation in film festival technical direction and production management, Mel thrives on bringing creative projects to life from behind the scenes. Currently, Mel serves as the Productions Manager and Staff Producer at Houston Media Source, where they help make local media accessible and impactful. Whether it’s coordinating production teams or fine-tuning the final cut, Mel’s dedication to the craft shines through every project they touch.
PLAYWRIGHTS
John Faust
Director and Writer "Debate" & "Night of the Living Dead: The First Reports." Director "April 27, 2011"
John, in addition to writng Debate, and NOTLD: The First Reports, John has written My Father’s Funeral, Night of the Living Dead, Curse of the House of Usher, Opposites, and Alvida and the Airship Pirates. John is currently working on a Galveston, Texas ghost story and premiere’s his new podcast Monster Kid Playground this March.
John served as artistic director of Weird City Theatre from 2008 – 2019, and is founding artistic director of Beguiled Theatre Company.
Will Roane
Writer "April 27, 2011"
Will Roane is a writer and director from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lives in New York
Zach Rouse
Writer "Index"
Zack Rouse is a playwright, actor and musician. He has been in the performing arts dimension his whole life, and he will in all likelihood die on stage, or in the booth, or in the dark moldy recesses of a small home studio in the redwoods of Northern California while obsessively molding a four second piece of footage. We keep making the work. We don’t do it for fame, or for money, or for adoration. Ego is a phantom. The work is the muscle of a redwood tree. We are the tree as it watches itself grow. Our human job is to entertain, educate, make the community think new thoughts, and open deeper channels of love and communication. That is all. The tree keeps growing. Also, scary things are fun and funny things are funny. –ZR