Current Cast

BRUCE A. YOUNG (Creator)

Bruce created DUNGEON MASTER while at the Organic Theatre Company, in 1981. Film and television audiences will recognize him from such projects as; THE SENTINEL, JURASSIC PARK 3, RISKY BUSINESS, PHENOMENON, HOTSHOTS, HIGHLANDER, TRESPASS, AN INNOCENT MAN and NAKED GUN 33 1/3. This west coast premiere of DUNGEON MASTER is dedicated to his sons, Nathan and Myles, who insure that Daddy can always shop for awesome toys and eat frosted breakfast cereals.

Favorite Characters: Sandrider, Walker, Random of the Glendar Rangers, Ticket Troll

 

ELIZABETH DEWET (Writer / Director)

Liz is so thrilled to have been a part of Dungeon Master all of these eight years. She lives in a house in NoHo with her amazing husband and two Jungle Kitties. Favorite past roles include "Kate" in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, "Allison" and several other parts in TRAINSPOTTING, "Dorothy" in the world premiere of FARTHER ALONG, and "Mary" in THE ROOSTER'S CHARM. Film credits include THE LOVE DRUG and THE DARK WOOD.

Favorite Characters: Sinestra, Proculous

 

MICHAEL T. COLEMAN (Writer / Director)

Michael's dark past includes two decades of professional improvisational comedy throughout New England and Los Angeles (with a three-year hiatus living in Japan and traveling various continents), a slew of sketch comedy and theatre in Los Angeles and Boston, and studying under members of RADA and the Royal Shakespeare Company at Oxford...as well as film and television work of varying degrees (his Untold Stories of the ER episodes pop up on TLC late at night). Michael can be seen hosting the Special Effects Stages at Universal Studios, lending his voice to the 1920's pulp radio serial "Tales of the Extraordinary" and in neverending repeats of BLIND DATE. He's the one with the mermaid.

FAVORITE CHARACTERS: Prager, Bhaab, Henri, Luthor the Mage, One Knight of Love.

SAMWISE AARON (Ensemble)

Samwise Aaron originally hails from NJ but has dwelled in Southern California since the early 90's which makes him an official LA Native(AKA: Weirdo!) After many regional shows, such as Sancho in "Man of La Mancha", Feste in "Twelfth Night," Marcus Lycus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum", he made his move to CA to pursue Film and Television. Sam has toured with the AIDA Showcase, performing in LA, SF and NY and is happy to be grounded back in LA. He's a graduate of the Joanne Baron/DW Brown Meisner Conservatory and The Second City Training Program and has studied with the Groundlings. For years he has been in an ongoing long form improvisation workshop with Marsha Meyers of "War Babies" fame. He is a composer (Piano and Ukulele), Fire Spinner and avid Blogger/Facecrack/Twitiot. And Samwise spends most of his unclaimed time exploring the known (and unknown) Universe with his fellow "Burning Man" peeps! Dungeon Master is allowing him to use the improv skills he honed for many years as a stage, street and Haunt performer and is excited to play with such a creative, talented and quick witted cast. He looks forward to having many smart and astute performance connoisseurs leave this performance remembering him like one leaves a good musical, fondly humming his tune.

Favorite Characters: Dwarven Prince Borbir, Captain of the Guard

SPENSER COATES (Ensemble)

Spenser arrived on the planet in a past decade. For the first several years of her life she had NO IDEA of what was going on. Ahhh, childhood. Then she went to college. Had a GREAT time. The colleges have yet to recover. For an eon or so after college, Spenser worked for various government agencies. Yet again, she had NO IDEA of what was going on. Ahhh, working for government agencies. Spenser finally came to her senses; woke up and smelled the coffee; caught the clue bus; and quit the government agencies and became an actor. She feels that she has been extremely successful in her endeavors despite several setbacks: She has never appeared in a dinner theatre production of a Wagner opera. She was never been cast, not even once, in a mini-series. She has never been a stand in for Julia Roberts. No one in the business has told her to start writing her Academy Award speech. She has been told that she looks like Tom Cruise. One of her most cherished successful endeavors was the fact that she was asked to be a part of the DungeonMaster family.

Favorite Characters: All of 'em!

Forest "Nui" Cobalt

Forest is a recovering dance addict. She trained with Boston Ballet, performed at The Kennedy Center, The Hollywood Avalon and tore up a few go-go boxes in subversive places, in between. She is a member of the multimedia, live performance group, Moodorgan Project. She has since placed greater focus on her career in the Esoteric Sciences and has been featured most recently on Biography's "My Ghost Story" and Seth Green's "Control TV," performing a past life regression on a previously skeptical subject. She also writes monthly astrology columns for Lip Service Webzine and Black Phoenix Gazette. Forest is very pleased and humbled to be included in such a strong comedic cast as the one that brings Dungeonmaster to life.

Favorite Characters: Drow Matron Mother, Ivory the Faery Ward

BUDDY DANIELS (Ensemble)

Buddy comes to this production fresh from The First Stage Writers Workshop called "2001 A Stage Oddity." He starred in two of the seven short plays, A SCULPTURED MOMENT and THE MOUSE. He also brings with him extensive film credits, His most recent being the newly released CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LA. Working on TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS with Charles Grodin is still one of his favorite movie making memories to this day. If you think his face looks awfully familiar, you're right! On your cable stations you can see him in DILEMMA, DANGER ZONE, and ROUND TRIP TO HEAVEN doing one of the things he does best: playing Character Bad Guys. Never one to limit his range, he also just co-starred with Snoop Dogg in his new video, EASTSIDAZ. Out of a numerous amount of national commercials, his commercial for Pistachio won several advertising awards. Buddy went straight to several co-starring roles in such acclaimed TV shows as: ALI MC BEAL, STAR TREK, THE NEXT GENERATION, and THE GOLDEN GIRLS. Buddy Daniels Friedman, is a Theatre Major from Temple University and has studied locally with Tracy Roberts, among many other scene study and cold reading classes.

Favorite Characters: Naggleface

MINDY FORTUNE (Ensemble)

The glorious state of Maryland is where the adventure began. Long ago, when she was just a little Mindy, she would spend her days making home movies to show her ever-growing fan base (mostly just her parents). With the glimmer of show biz in her eye, Mindy dreamt of one day living behind the big ‘H’ in Hollywood. “Only dreamers go to that town,” some would say, “You can’t possibly fit in there, you had a normal upbringing,” others would declare. Alas, she made the trek to California after graduating from Towson University, leaving behind her huge fan base (mostly just her parents). Upon arriving, she quickly went to stake out her property behind the big ‘H’ only to find that it’s built on the side of a huge hill and it really didn’t seem to have any room to fit her glorious dream house. Also, seeing all the empty cans lying around, apparently someone else had declared it to be their haven as well. So, turning her frown upside down, she found her home in lovely Burbank. Along with that, she found a new family within the Dungeon Master show. She thoroughly enjoys performing with them and hopes that someday they might all be neighbors by living behind different letters of the Hollywood sign and chasing away whoever keeps painting over her initials.

JONATHAN HARRISON (Ensemble)

Studied theatre at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan. A longtime veteran of show business, he has a myriad of credits from stage (Pilgrim, Evensong, The Trial, The Devil’s Bride and Alvin & The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein), TV (The Tonight Show, Baywatch, Coach and Thirtysomething) and film (Josh Eisenstadt’s Specter's Rock and Red Lightning). He also sings (can be heard on Thomas Kulger’s CD, Lillith, a Rock Opera) and dances. As West Coast Director of The Collinsport Players, he writes, directs, acts and sings in sketches based on Dark Shadows at conventions.

 

COMMODORE JAMES (Ensemble)

Commodore was born at an early age in central Indiana. His formal acting training began at the Australian Institute for Dramatic Arts then shifted to comedy at I.O. West. Currently he can be seen at Universal Studios Hollywood lending his voice and puppetry skills to Donkey from the film 'Shrek' and shocking Halloween audiences at Chucky's Insult Emporium. Commodore is a competitive archer, student pilot, and according to his mother, devastatingly handsome.

Favorite Characters: Hedgerow, Faery Dancer

SAMANTHA MASON (Ensemble)

Samantha began acting at the tender age of five, first appearing as a beanie in a musical version of "Jack and The Beanstalk," warning an overly zealous Jack to "Go away, go away, go away away away..." Since then, she has performed in over 60 productions and is a two time nominee (and one time winner!) of best actor accolades in competition. Favorite past roles include “The Queen of Hearts” in ALICE IN WONDERLAND, and “Inez” in NO EXIT. She is a Florida born actress and writer who resides in Studio City with her two cats, Elpheba and Peanut. She loves the water and has never lived further than 30 minutes away from the ocean. Aside from being an actress, Samantha dreams of someday becoming a wizard. Sam is in the process of producing, co-writing, and staring in an internet web series. Past film roles include MOMENT OF SILENCE and an award winning role in THE ROOM.

Favorite Characters: Cleric Anbere, Kobold

CHRIS RICKABAUGH (Ensemble)

Chris hails from the great white northeast of Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Penn State before studying at Baron and Brown Studios. After shooting a pilot for "Ghosthunters PSI," he decided to make the move to California and its unforgiving heat. Chris can be found on the DVD "The Hall Monitor," as well as the upcoming short film, P.E.T.Z. (where his sword combat experience comes in) and his voice can often be found on the 1920's pulp radio drama "Tales of the Extraordinary" on your podcast dial. He also sings a mean power ballad.

Favorite Characters: Brother Miccah, Pirate Lord Dominick

TATIANNA (Ensemble)

Tatianna was a transplant from chilly Minnesota to the shiny west coast. She has been performing since she was in her mother’s womb and found herself with Dungeon Master due to her passion for role play with Dungeons and Dragons. She has trained in theatrical arts at CSUN and several other workshops in southern California. She is best known for her performance art in the Belly Dance industry working with Desert Sin starring role in “Musée des Femmes” as MataHari and as Medussa in Sita’s Fire. She has also performed for nine years in EEMED (Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance). Currently, she travels worldwide and nationally with Belly Dance Evolution Productions while still performs in small theatres and festivals. She also knows how to role a mean D20.

Favorite Characters: Shaft's Ex-wife, Puppy Killer, Pirate Barmaid