Cast Memebers

Jillian burgos

Co-founder of Dainty Dames. Jillian knew she wanted to be an actress at the tender age of four while hosting her own shows in her living room. Jillian has been on the stage ​or screen ever since. Jillian was a resident actress for Phoenix Theatre Circle for Children for five years. She has starred in several indie films and web-series. Jillian has also been in commercials for Subway, Progressive, and Safe Auto. ​

RENEE DORIAN

Co-founder of Dainty Dames! Renee is an Actor/Writer/Baker whose TV appearance include: BLACKish, Scandal,  and 90210, as well as commercial campaigns for: Wendy's, 
Samsung, McDonald's, Time Warner Cable, and a plethora of Voice Over, including ​two pilots for Nickelodeon. She's also appeared in the feature films: Awaken, The Mangler Reborn, 
Stupid Teenagers Must Die, and she and her husband, Ben Begley, co-wrote The Funhouse Massacre which was just released in AMC Theaters nationwide. 

Check out more of her work here: 
www.renee-dorian.com

ben Begley

Actor/writer/comedian/ nerd  whose TV appearances include over 30 commercials and various TV shows: Supergirl, The Crazy Ones, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Mentalist, Happy Endings, and Raising Hope. And roles in feature films; ranging from a doctor who really loves bagels, Ed Helms' doppleganger in the spoof film The Hungover Games, and Deputy Doyle
​in The Funhouse Massacre. Which he and his wife, Renee Dorian, wrote as a love letter to their favorite slasher films ​of the 80's and 90's.

Terence leclere

Born in Paris, France, and grew up in NY, and is now an LA based actor and entertainer. He studied at the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory, Oberlin College and is a graduate of both William Esper studios and The Second City Conservatory in Los Angeles. He performs live regularly at various music, cabaret and comedy shows, and his works can be seen and heard on TV, on film and online. Select credits include "The Newsroom", "Baskets", ​"Land of the Lost", "Mortified", "New Girl", and the Los Angeles Poetry Brothel.  

Follow him on Twitter @terenceleclere
and check him out 
www.terenceleclere.com for more info.

RUThie Holmes

Ruthie Holmes is a Dainty Dame and couldn’t be more delighted to be a part of this company. Graduate of The Second City Conservatory & Long form program as well as the iO west improv training program.  You can also see Ruthie perform in various sketch shows and in the House Ensembles at Second City. In Saratoga Springs, NY she took to the stage first as a ballerina. ​Her nickname is "legs".

​More info visit ruthieholmes.com.

Christopher Manning

Christopher Manning is innocent. When not being accused of a dinnertime murder, he is an actor and writer residing in Los Angeles. This New Jersey native currently serves as the host and creator of QuaranTeam and can be found hosting shows for King Trivia throughout the city. Not only does he spend his summers as the director of the drama program for a sleepaway camp – but he plays one on TV (Kent, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel). IG: Chri5Manning
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Evan Michael

Evan Michael is an Emmy-winning host, actor, writer and performer originally from The Berkshires who now calls Los Angeles his home. Some fun previous credits include voicing, puppeteering and touring as “Daddy Pig” in the musical theatre production of Peppa Pig Live!; playing the football announcer “Buck Edwards” on HBO’s Euphoria; and starring as “Charles” the telenovela lover in the award-winning short
“The Happy Side.” He’s a proud UCB alum & improv/sketch performer who also enjoy wine tasting, golf and making friends & family laugh through his antics and escapades!
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Tory n. thompson (tnt)

An alumnus of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), graduating from the Theater department, while also specializing in the TV/Film subdivision. TNT has gone on to perform stand up comedy, train at UCB and The Groundlings, and act in several great projects. Tory recently starred in the Sony feature film The Final Girls. Some of his other previous credits include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Nick Cannon's Incredible Crew, General Hospital, Better With You, and 1,000 Ways To Die, and numerous commercials. 
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​www.ToryNThompson.com

Karlie Blair

Karlie Blair is an immersive actress, LA native, and graduate of two different UCB’s: UC Berkeley and Upright Citizens Brigade. Immersive performance has taken her from LA to all over the world: San Diego Comic Con, SF Sketchfest, Electric Forest, NYC Poetry Fest, Edinburgh Fringe, and an Immersive Design Challenge in Paris. She is a producer with immersive companies Whisperlodge, #metaforyou, and DR3AMLOGiKK.

​Instagram: @blairkarlie

Katy Foley

Katy Foley is from Chicago’s Southside. Daughter of two lawyers, acting became critical from a young age. She trained at Second City and NYU Tisch. She ran a marathon and became part of an emmy winning campaign. She booked her first ABC guest star because of a faulty water bottle.

​Recent credits include: Lifetime’s Twisted Nanny.

Lyssa Samuel

Lyssa Samuel is an actor and film maker and the innovator behind "Sketchtember," a film challenge where she writes, films, edits, and posts a brand new sketch everyday in September. The rest of the year she releases a sketch a week. She grew up in the Bay Area and moved to LA to study acting at UCLA's school of Theater, Film, and Television. She's a company member of Story Pirates in LA and you can check out her improv team DAZL every other week at Second City. 

To watch her sketches and see all things Lyssa check out: lyssasamuel.com

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Mark Renaudin

Mark Renaudin is an actor, improvisor and stand up comic, best known for his multiple comedy shows throughout Los Angeles.  His current show “Heist!” Showcases some of LA’s best stand up comedians every first Friday of the month. Mark has also trained the Upright Citizens Brigade, performing at multiple UCB theater locations, as well as in the Del Close marathon.  Mark is originally from New York, spending much of his childhood acting and improvising.  Comedy has always been a love of his and he continues to showcase that passion with the Dainty Dames!

Nathalie Soderqvist

Nathalie Soderqvist is born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. Her first acting role was as Pippi Longstocking in a play at the age of 10, and she has since then performed in numerous plays, TV shows and movies, and also written and produced several very successful and highly acclaimed humor shows. Since 2012 she is based in Los Angeles.
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Nathalie is a huge fan of murder mysteries. She has read all of Agatha Christie's books about Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, and her favorite board game is, of course, Cluedo.

​Learn more about Nathalie's work on her website: www.nathcreative.com
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Rebecca Turner

Actor/Singer/Dancer/Expert Knitter - With an extended family including actresses, actors, a ballerina, and a cinematographer, it was inevitable that Rebecca would end up on stage and in front of a camera. Rebecca studied theatre at the College of William and Mary, alma mater of Glenn Close and Jon Stewart, and performed extensively in regional theatre (favorite role: Lady Macbeth!). Rebecca joined SAG-AFTRA after working on Jeff Nichols' film Loving with Joel Edgerton and Academy Award Nominee Ruth Negga. She can be seen (pandemic permitting) in the 2020 Hollywood Fringe play Glamour.

Spencer FrankeBerger

Spencer Frankeberger is an actor/director and a graduate of iO West, Second City Hollywood, and ComedySportz LA. He is currently a member of the family-friendly improv show The Really Awesome Improv Show at Second City Hollywood. He has an MFA in Film Production from Florida State University and is a board-certified music (MT-BC) and teaches music to Pre-K with Jules Itty Bitty Rockstars and acting and improv to young elementary with John D'Aquino's Young Actors Workshop--and he is currently training to be a tour guide on the World-Famous Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. Recent credits include his award-winning and sold out original musical for Hollywood Fringe 2019, his upcoming 2020 Hollywood Fringe musical Blindish, the Netflix series Magic for Humans, and the Youtube series Nice to Meet You.

www.spencerfrankeberger.com​

Allison Lind

Allison Lind's journey in the arts started at age 6. As the Granddaughter of one of Vaudeville's Lind brothers, some of her earliest memories are of performing with her family. She was a Children's Chorus member and soloist at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and a graduate of Northwestern University's Music Theatre program and The Second City Training Center. Allie has appeared in numerous musicals in Chicago, New York, and LA and is a member of the a cappella music improv team Pitch, Please! Allie made her network TV debut on USA, and while pursuing TV/Film acting, she has also enjoyed being a different part of telling stories by venturing into directing and producing. Her short film Dog Dreams is in post-production. Allie aspires to spend more time on her singer/songwriter-ing, writing, and philanthropic endeavors.

​Insta: @look_its_allie ​