No Place Like Gandersheim

is a writer, producer, director and actor. Her plays have been produced and read at Skylight Theater, Inkwell, Road Theater Company, The Actors’ Gang, the Eclectic Company Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Missoula Colony, the Lillian and 24th Street.  In 2015 she received the Agnes Ranjo Capps Playwriting Award at the Missoula Colony. Other commendations include Theatre Unleashed’s Tracey Collins Funny Girl Award, The O'Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist and Women In Film's Mentoring Program. Currently, Elizabeth has a feature film in development at Landline Pictures, and is also working on a screenplay about the disco era. She currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

is a director based in Los Angeles. Most recently, she directed The Solid Life of Sugar Water for Deaf West, Friends with Guns Stephanie Walker  and her long-time collaborator John Fleck’s Blacktop Highway at the Odyssey Theatres, as well as all recent versions at RedCat and Dixon Place in NYC. This fall, she will stage a new commissioned play, Loop Group, or Shia La Beouf’s Version at the Luckman, at CalStateLA. Randee directed a run of new works at Berlin’s English Theater in Germany, took her own version of Sophocles’ Electra to an international festival Delphi, Greece and staged a pirate musical on a Disney Cruise Ship. She’s directed many solos works with Obie-winning satiric-puppeteer Paul Zaloom, of Beekman’s World fame. Her work has been seen at regional theaters, (The Mystery of Irma Vep and Hedwig and the Angry Inch) at Actor’s Express, Atlanta and in Santa Fe, and many intimate theaters specializing on new plays with writers like: Doug Cooney, Julie Hebért, Bridget Carpenter, Jessica Goldberg, Jamie Brandli, Elizabeth Dement and Susan Merson. She worked in some big places too, like MOCA’S Geffen Contemporary (Brecht/Weill’s Happy End), California Adventure Themepark (Chance to Shine), Cal Plaza, The Getty (Fleck’s Dirt), the L.A. Opera (Jack and the Magic Songbird) and the Performing Arts Center in Santa Clarita (Lysistrata, Hair) and Redcat in Disney Hall (Blacktop Highway and Zaloom’s Mother of All Enemies & ABCdarium).  Her productions have garnered some prizes, (LA Weekly Award, Valley Theater Award, Garland and Ovation Awards, Finalist Short and Sweet Festival, etc.) and been awarded grants (CAD, Durfee and Flintridge). Randee teaches and directs in the Theatre Department at CSULA. She has worked as a critic for the L.A. Weekly and analyzes writing and screenplays for Disney Animation. https://www.randeetrabitz.com/ 

Lauren’s love affair with performing started in musical theater, but since graduating from USC, she’s been focusing mainly on TV and film. When not acting, she loves baking and playing with her dog, Brazos. She’s incredibly excited to return to the stage in No Place Like Gandersheim. Many thanks to the cast and crew for making this a wonderful and unforgettable experience!

is happy to be back on stage at the Skylight Theatre  after appearing here in Sandra Tsing Loh’s Sugar Plum Fairy opposite Ms. Loh and Tony Abatemarco. Regional theatre work includes South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, Indiana Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, CTG/Mark Taper Forum, Actors’ Theatre of  Louisville, Dixon Place and the Public Theatre in NYC. She has recorded  and performed for LA Theatre Works in national tours of Judgment At Nuremberg, Steel Magnolias, and Seven. Other stages in LA include  Odyssey Theatre, Theatre@Boston Court, LATC, East-West Players, Rogue Machine, Evidence Room, Actors Gang, Matrix, Malibu Playhouse, and Antaeus Theatre Company where she is a member. She has received nominations and awards from Stage Raw, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Broadway World. TV and film credits include Seinfeld, ER and The Marc Pease Experience.

was last seen before the pandemic playing Mrs Lovett in South Coast Rep’s Sweeney Todd. Other credits include Queenie in La Chiusa’s The Wild Party in NYC with B-Side Productions, Mama Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas at Madison Square Garden, the National Tour of Hello Dolly! understudying Sally Struthers in the title role and playing Ernestina Money. Local credits include They’re Playing Our Song at Reprise, It’s the Housewives at Whitefire, and playing Dorothy Wiggin (Dot) in the premiere of The Shaggs-Philosophy of the World at Inside the Ford, again in Chicago at Lookingglass Theater, and in its off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons (cast album available on Spotify). 

is a USC MFA Alumni and is very excited to be back on stage with The Skylight Theater Company! She starred in the LA premiere of Apartment Living by Boni B. Alvarez (dir. Jon Rivera) at Skylight. Her other theater credits include Ascension (Echo Theater), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Mark Taper Forum), Othello , MotherF**ker with the Hat, and Pipeline. She’s also starred in several short films including Clones, Winner of the Cannes World Flim Festival Award and Magna, which will debut this year! Charrell is grateful for all the opportunities that have come her way and she sends love to her family back home in Pennsylvania!