Company of Artists | From the Couch Theatre

Meet our Company of Artists

Toree Alexandre

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
Originally hailing from Yonkers, NY, Torée is a graduate of Point Park University with a B.F.A. in Acting and a minor in Musical Theatre. She is a plant-based poet sending love, light, and lift to all! Torée was last seen with Brave New World Rep in the Hamlet miniseries. She’s also had the honor of being a part of Fairview and Yellow Card, Red Card in NYC. You can catch her on Netflix in Marvel’s Luke Cage and Vampires vs the Bronx by Oz Rodriguez, or perhaps you’ll see her riding her bicycle throughout the boroughs!

JJ Bozeman

Actor - He/ Him/ His
Raised in Augusta, GA, JJ found his way to NYC in 2015. Acting is his primary interest and outlet, but look out for written work, photographs, and occasionally music from this creative. His favorite stage credit is Victor in “FREE FREE FREE FREE” at the Exponential Festival. His favorite screen acting credits are lead roles Ethan in feature film “Snowflake” (Necessary Outlet), Lee in short film “Anxiety” (Means of Productions). A transplant from the south that is grateful to have his young adulthood in the city, a biracial man coming from a traditional southern military family and an immigrant from the Philippines, a member of the LGBTQ community that grew up in a traditional community, JJ is the product of crossroads. For JJ, being an artist is about exploring perspective and communion. @JJBozeman

Emily Dalton

Co-Creator of From the Couch Theatre, Actor, Director, Writer, Producer - She/ Her/ Hers
Emily is a Virginia native, VCU grad, and semi-official New Yorker with 9 years of professional acting under her belt. Her producer/ director endeavors were awakened in her teens when she began an independent study class at Monticello High School which focused on Student-Run theatre - to this day, the class is still being offered for Seniors! After receiving her BFA in Theatre Performance at VCU, she began improv training with the Bent Theatre in Charlottesville as an active player of the touring troupe. Since being transplanted into the NYC theatre scene, Emily has written and performed 2 comedic solo shows with thePIT NYC, along with studying improv and sketch writing. She's been writing short plays ever since the first season of the New Short Play Festival - with that festival, she performed and directed numerous new plays, and she's written 6 original one-acts (all of which have been nominated for Best New Play). She trained with Shakespeare & Company in their month-long intensive in Lenox, MA, performing as Lady Percy in Henry IV, pt 1.
During quarantine, Emily has performed in three online performances: Shelby, Steel Magnolias (Broadway Virtual); Lisa/ Jet, the wolf you feed (Theatre Prometheus/ the Actors Center DC); Betty Gram, War of the Roses: Battle for Tennessee (World Letter Productions). She proudly supports Black Lives Matter, wearing a mask, and giving people space. 
daltonej@gmail.com,
@theemilydalton

Andy Davis

Actor, Director - He/ Him/ His
Andy has been teaching, directing, producing, and performing improv comedy with Bent Theatre (Charlottesville, VA) since 2005. He has also appeared with various local theater productions including Waiting For Godot (Play On!), A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Lion In Winter (Four County Players), The Book of Will (Live Arts), Polaroid Stories (Gorilla Theatre Productions), Coronado (Capital Fringe Festival), and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (PVCC). He has also appeared in and co-directed The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) with multiple companies and was an Artistic Associate and Education Coordinator with Gorilla Theatre. He has been riding out the pandemic by home-bartending and hiking the mountains with his partner AG and dog Oz
IG: @hoopoemania

Sarah B. Denison

Co-Creator of From the Couch Theatre, Actor, Director, Writer, Producer - She/ Her/ Hers
Originally from the Spokane Indian Reservation; BA in theatre from Eastern Washington University. She has been acting and directing in NYC for 7 years. Prior to NYC, she was a resident artist with InterPlayers Theatre in Spokane, WA where she received numerous awards including Best Actress (Spokane Critics Awards) for her work in The Miracle Worker, directed by Patty Duke; nomination for Best Actress (Spokie Awards) for the same; along with others. She has studied Linklater for voice with the NYC Linklater Center; performed and directed with the New Short Play Festival (NSPF); performed sketch at The Producers Club NYC; performed and directed with LoveCreek Productions NYC; has performed in productions at Theatre For The New City; studied sketch writing with UCB (NYC); and is trained in Shakespeare and Chekhov. In addition to theatre, she has trained in film/ TV, recently appearing in the feature Snowflake, and Discovery ID's Grave Mysteries. She's a 200hr certified yoga instructor and loves doing voice and body work intermingling Linklater, Feldenkris, and yoga movement. She is a fierce animals rights advocate (Go Vegan!) and really, really, really loves goats and dogs and pigs.

IG: @sarahbdenison.actor; YouTube: SarahBDenison

Brandon Grimes

Actor - He/ Him/ His
Brandon Grimes is thrilled to join the From the Couch family! Favorite roles include Bobby (Company), Sweeney Todd, Laertes (Hamlet), and Jud (Oklahoma!). Credits include the national tour of Jekyll and Hyde, Cape Playhouse, Ordway Center, Theatre Latté Da, Colonial Theatre and Greenbrier Valley Theatre. Brandon is also very proud of his voice students. When he's not performing Brandon enjoys board games, socially distanced hangouts, and being a big Disney geek! Graduate of University of Houston and University of Michigan.
@singerbrand

Elly Han

Actor/ Director - She/ Her/ Hers
Elly Han is an Asian American actress. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea, moved to New York city a decade ago to follow the bigger path. She holds a Bachelor in Theater, and has many years of professional experience in Musicals in Korea. After she moved to New York City, she focused on screen acting. She got nominated for the best actress for the film Cooking with Connie, and featured in many tv shows including Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt(Netflix), The Deuce(HBO) and upcoming HBO series The flight attendant. Also she was cast in the upcoming film ‘Supercool’ with Damon Wayans Jr premiering in 2021. She is very excited to share her cultures she grew up with and stories with you through Couch Theater Company. @ellypie0623

Jamal James

Actor - He/ Him/ His
Jamal James is a New York-Based Actor and performer! Hailing from Virginia with a BFA from Emory & Henry College and a Proud Member of AEA and SAG respectively, Jamal recently starred in The Royale at the Kitchen Theatre Company/Geva Theatre. BWW and other reviews labeled his lead performance “brilliant”, “a towering force onstage”, “charming as he is awe-inspiring” and “the right man in the right place.” He has worked all over the country doing plays and musicals! He's also been a Jedi for Walt Disney World. You may have also seen him on Gotham (FOX) and the most recent national tour of The Color Purple. Jamal is super excited to be a part of these zoom readings and hopes you will be too!
thejamaljames.com

Allisyn Just

Actor, Director - She/ Her/ Hers

Allisyn Just (she/her/hers) is a performer and director from Akron, Ohio. She attended the University of Akron where she majored in Vocal Performance. She has worked extensively in Amish country as an actor with Blue Gate Musicals and was an original cast member of Cedar Point’s Forbidden Frontier on Adventure Island in 2019, where she met her favorite playwright and love of her life, Daniel. In her free time, Allisyn loves baking, buying houseplants, and playing with her nephews.
allisynjust.com

David Juarez

Actor - He/ Him/ His
David is an American Film, TV and Stage actor, singer, voice-over artist. He graduated from Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. He's performed in Manhattan in houses such as Classic Stage Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Producer's Club, Actor's Playhouse, Abingdon Theater, Players Loft, National Comedy Theater. He has proudly participated in NYC Fringe and Strawberry Theater Festival, The Shortened Attention Span Musical Theater Festival and has done cabaret acts at The Duplex Cabaret and Bar in Greenwich Village.
He is also a painter and draws in many mediums as well making use of his BFA in Painting/Drawing. A spinto musical theater tenor, he leans toward the challenging uptempos.
David speaks English Spanish and German.
@DavidJuarezActor

Nick Lehotsky

Actor - He/Him/His
Nick is a Brooklyn-based actor.

Arabelle Luke/ Airloom Beats

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
Arabelle Luke, aka Airloom Beats, is a Brooklyn based beatboxer and educator featured in publications such as Elle and BET. When Arabelle isn't teaching beatboxing to under-privileged communities, she's collaborating with New York’s theatre, improv and hip hop communities. Arabelle incorporates her melody-driven beatbox style into original music for plays, media content, beatbox battles and improvised performances. Currently, Arabelle is building her educational beatbox business, Beatbox Express. She is also the one-woman houseband for MAAAD Late!: The Improvised Late Night Show every month at Magnet Theater in NYC.
@airloombeats

Mackenzie Menter

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
a graduate of Oklahoma City University and a Houston native. Recent credits include: Miranda from Stormville (Miranda/ Random Access Theatre); Dracula: The Tale of Flesh and Blood (Mina Murray) and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Moose Hall/ Inwood Shakespeare Festival); Hudson Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet (Juliet).

Autumn Mirassou

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
a California native who moved to New York to pursue a dream of acting in 2013. She has worked extensively in theater with The Seeing Place Theater at The Culture Project, Dixon Place, Wednesday Repertory Company and American Theater of Actors. Autumn is currently working on a series of sci fi radio plays called The Stories of Aphelion and Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. She is grateful to be making stuff again and hopes you enjoy the work.

Liza Poor

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
Liza is an actress, singer, and panda admirer whose love for the musical Hamilton knows no bounds. She graduated from Penn State University (We Are!) with a BA in Theatre, longer ago than she would care to admit. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, she moved back east and has been living and working in the NYC area ever since. In her spare time, you'll find her chasing her nut-ball daughters around, producing a couple of podcasts, and keeping her "singer who moves" skills sharp by learning dumb TikTok dances.
@lizapoor

Daniel Prillaman

Actor, Playwright - He/ Him/ His
- "How to Talk to Your Child About Satan" 10/30/2020;
- "Black, White, and Red All Over" - 12/11/2020
Director:
- "Food for Thought" 2/5/2021

Daniel (he/him/his) is an actor/writer/ginger Virginian based out of Washington, DC. While he has a special fondness for absurdism, folklore, and horror, he ultimately loves creating plays about honest people (or talking animals) in situations he hasn't seen before. When not gleefully slaving away his "soul" to artistic endeavors and projects, he legitimately enjoys long walks on the beach, a video game with a glass of wine, and biscuits. His one-act play for young audiences, A PIRATE CAROL, was a winner of Moonlit Wings Productions' 2017 Playwriting Contest, and has been produced in camp workshops and schools across the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and you can find more of his work on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/10769/daniel-prillaman

Neil Redfield

Actor, Director - He/ Him/ His
an actor, writer and (now) director based in NYC (whenever it exists again). Performance highlights include: A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein (Dallas Theatre Center), The Nomad (The Flea; world premiere by Liz Swados), The Threepenny Opera, Hamlet (Resident Ensemble Players), and Pinocchio (Berkshire Theatre Group). Most recently, he performed and devised in WHO’S THERE, a collaboration with Singaporean and Malaysian artists responding to BLM worldwide, performed as part of the New Ohio Ice Factory. He trains in and teaches the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. Outside of theatre, Neil tutoring mathematics and test prep, tries to learn Mandarin, and enjoys running marathons. Oh – also, he can’t wait until our industry works in person again, especially since he just graduated with his MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University in May (let’s hear it for the COVID class!).
@neilredfield

Joseph Sexton

Actor, Director, Playwright - He/ Him/ His
Joseph is a NYC based writer, director and actor with a background in fine arts. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and a graduate degree from Long Island University. His full length play Storytime and other Tales of Love and Deception was developed during his Laboratorium residency with Rising Sun Performance Company on Governors Island during the summer of 2019. More of his short plays have been produced by Love Creek Productions, The Secret Theater and The Player’s Theatre in NYC.
jsphsexton@gmail.com

Brad Sumner

Actor - He/ Him/ His
Brad Sumner is an actor who has been performing in New York and across the country for almost 20 years. Favorite performances include roles in: Mass Appeal, The Struggle is Real, Arsenic & Old Lace, The Fox on the Fairway, God of Carnage, I Do Wonder, Where’s My Money?, Hamlet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet, Henry VIII, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, The Future is in Eggs, and Sicilian Limes.
@bradley_j_sumner

Leya Topodas

Actor - She/ Her/ Hers
She is so excited to be a guest artist for From The Couch Theatre. Leya worked with the founders of FTC in the New Short Play Festival Season 3, 4 & 7. She holds a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Special thanks to Paul J. Michael. Love to KB, AJW, and Papa.

Alejandro Vera

Actor - He/Him/His
Alejandro is a Stage actor, singer, and dancer currently residing in New York, Originally from Los Angeles Alejandro is currently finishing up his last semester at Marymount Manhattan College where he plans to obtain a B.A. in Theater. He is excited to be a part of the from the couch family and be able to spread theater in these difficult times. Some of Alejandro's favorite roles would be Georg in 'Spring Awakening', and Chuck in 'She Kills Monsters' and Victor Frankenstein in 'Young Frankenstein'.