Eric Pfeffinger (Playwright) is a playwright in Ohio who grew up in Indiana and likes to work in Chicago. He enjoys a robust Midwestern humility. Eric’s work has been produced by Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Denver Theatre Center, the Geva Theater Center, the Phoenix Theatre, and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. His plays include Accidental Rapture, Hunting High, Some Other Kind of Person, Barrenness, Assholes and Aureoles, Malignance, and the plays for young audiences Lost and Foundling and The Day John Henry Came to School. He’s written new plays on commissions from the InterAct, Imagination Stage and the Signature and developed scripts through workshops and readings at PlayPenn, the Lark, Page 73 Productions, the Colorado New Play Summit, the Rattlestick, the New Jersey Rep and available light. He’s collaborated on pieces with the Internationalists and the New York Neo-Futurists. His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing and Dramatics magazine, and he’s written articles for American Theatre magazine. He’s co-author of the novel The High-Impact Infidelity Diet, available on finer remainder tables everywhere.

Joshua Bitton (Director) is a director and actor. He last directed Luka’s Room at Rogue Machine (aviation nom. best director of a comedy), The Stranger (Theatre/Theater) and The Stake. As an actor he has appeared Off-Broadway in The Crumple Zone (Rattlestick), Romeo & Juliet (Lincoln Center Inst.). In Los Angeles he is a member of Rogue Machine Theatre Co: Dirty, Filthy Love Story (best actor nom. Stage Raw & Playbill), Lost Girls, Bull (Best in Fringe). For A Noise Within: Much Ado…(LADCC nom Best Actor) Loot, and Misalliance. Other LA Theatre:, Of Mice & Men (Pasadena Playhouse) Rules Of Seconds (LATC), Backseats & Bathroom Stalls (Coast Playhouse). He has worked regionally at The Rep Theatre of St. Louis, The Pioneer, The Centennial, STW, Capital Rep, & The Studio Arena. He has appeared on over 50 television shows including roles on HBO's The Pacific (winner of 8 Emmy's), HBO's hit The Night Of..., as well as recurring roles on Castle, The Mentalist, and the soon to be released series The Penguin for HBO. Film credits include leads in the independent feature The Tangle, The Diggers, For the Love of Money, as well as roles in films such as National Treasure & Larry Crowne. Joshua is also a well known acting coach in LA, having worked on set with Eminem on the feature 8 Mile. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University.

Guillermo Cienfuegos (Producer and Artistic Director) serves as Artistic Director at Rogue Machine, along with Founding Artistic Director John Perrin Flynn. He directed the Rogue Machine productions of Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Beautiful People, Disposable Necessities, Ready Steady Yeti Go and Dutch Masters, as well as the RMT video productions of Insulted:Belarus(sia) and Voices of the New Belarus. Cienfuegos won both the Ovation and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Director for his production of Shakespeare’s Henry V at Pacific Resident Theatre. He has directed numerous productions at PRT, including Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, Pinter’s The Homecoming and Safe at Home: An Evening with Orson Bean. Other theatre directing credits include Julia, both at PRT and at New York’s 59E59 theatre, Off-Broadway, the World Premiere of Middle of the World at Boise Contemporary Theatre, Christmas Contigo at Oregon Cabaret Theatre, the Los Angeles Premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize winner Between Riverside and Crazy at the Fountain Theatre and most recently Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at A Noise Within. Guillermo Cienfuegos is the directing pseudonym of actor Alex Fernandez, who has appeared at numerous regional theatres, including the American Conservatory Theatre, Alaska Rep and the Old Globe, as well as in dozens of local productions most notably Henry V, The Cherry Orchard and Rhinoceros at PRT, Exiles at the Hayworth and Luka’s Room at Rogue Machine. Fernandez has over 170 film and television credits, most recently recurring on the series American Gigolo, Mayans MC and Good Trouble. Cienfuegos was featured in the ‘People to Watch’ issue of American Theatre magazine and is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre.

James Morris (Set Design) is a designer and actor born and raised in Virginia. He is a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Design Credits include: Projection Design - A Permanent Image (PRT), Photography - The Bespoke Overcoat (PRT), Graphic Design - The Bespoke Overcoat (PRT). Selected Acting Credits include: Mechanic in Middletown (PRT), Rene in Lydia (UCLA), Edmund in King Lear (UCLA). He is a recipient of the Jack Larson Award at UCLA. www.morris-james.com
(Last updated March, 2024)

Christopher Moscatiello (Sound Design) is a sound designer, composer and music director with LADCC and Stage Raw awards and multiple Ovation nominations. He is currently the resident sound designer for Rogue Machine. Theater highlights: The Kennedy Center, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, A Noise Within, Antaeus, Odyssey Theatre, Rogue Machine, Fountain Theatre, Skylight Theatre, assistant conductor for the national tour of Phantom of the Opera. TV highlights: The Walking Dead, Psych, Eureka, Human Target, The Cape, Caprica, Trauma. He has scored series, specials and promos for NBC, HBO, BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and others, and he wrote a ballet commissioned by the Kirov Ballet Academy that had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.

Christine Cover Ferro (Costume Design) is so excited to be back at Rogue Machine. Previous shows here are Dutch Masters, Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go! Disposable Necessities and Heroes of the Fourth Turning. She has also worked with Guillermo at Pacific Resident Theatre on Rhinoceros, My Girlfriend Is An Alien and The Homecoming, Between Riverside and Crazy at the Fountain Theatre, and Much Ado About Nothing at A Noise Within. Other local credits include Unbound Production’s Wicked Lit series, for which she won an Ovation in 2017. Recent television credits include assistant costume design on Cosmos: Possible Worlds for NatGeo, Encore! for Disney+ and Promised Land for ABC.

Rachel Manheimer (Lighting Design) Having managed everything from original musicals to avant garde happenings, some of Rachel’s favorite credits include Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree, The American Opera Project’s HAGOROMO, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the talented seniors at The Professional Performing Arts High School. You may have seen Rachel running around during the Hollywood Fringe Festival at The Broadwater, where they also ran the acclaimed original production of The Art Couple, by Emmy winner Brendan Hunt. As a Los Angeles native, Rachel is doubly proud to be eight shows in with Rogue Machine in the historic Matrix Theatre. Ask them about the ephemeral power of the sense of wonder!

Ramón Valdez (Stage Manager) is a graduate of USC where he received a BA in Theatre and an MS in Project Management. At Rogue Machine, Ramón has stage managed nearly 30 productions including Three Views of the Same Object, The New Electric Ballroom, A Bright New Boise, Lost Girls, Monkey Adored, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Penelope, A Permanent Image, Dutch Masters, Les Blancs, The Beautiful People and Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Ramón is also on the board of the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company.

Rich Wong (Rehearsal Stage Manager) Rich is a graduate of UCLA where he earned a BA in film and television. His theatre credits include Company of Wayward Saints, Reservations for Two, Gruesome Hotel, Measure For Measure, Come Get Maggie, Blue, The Shadow, Lines in the Dust, Sukkot, H*tler's Tasters, and Psycho Beach Party. When he's not stage managing, you may find him forcing blood from a stone (or what he likes to call writing).

Michelle Hanzelova-Bierbauer (Graphic Design) is a graphics and video projection designer. Most recently she designed projections for Tim Venable’s The Beautiful People and Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London at Rogue Machine (Ovation Nomination). She’s designed poster graphics for Rogue Machine, IAMA, PRT, Theatre of Note, Lobby Theatre, Sacred Fools, International City Theatre and others. In the music video industry her favorite projects include Lizzo’s About Damn Time, 2BeLoved and Special, SZA’s Kill Bill, and working for artists such as Usher, Charlie Puth, U2, Marshmello, Snoop Dog, Tiesto, Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Imagine Dragons, John Legend and others. She likes dark, dusty theatres, her wife Amanda (yes, that Amanda!), most of their seven cats, one of their two dogs and laughing at existential crises. www.MichelleHanzelova.com

Justin Okin (Executive Producer) is a producer, actor and audience development coordinator. With Rogue Machine, he has served as a producer on On The Other Hand We’re Happy, associate producer on Cock and performed in Pocatello, Stop Kiss, and MilkMilkLemonade. With Theatre of Note, he has served on the BOD and performed in Entropy, Eat the Runt, and Hot Cat. With The Road Theatre Company, he has co-produced four seasons of the Summer Playwrights Festival and performed in At the Table. Other acting credits include The Elephant Room (Center Theatre Group) Khmer Amerika (Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab) and Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365Plays/365Days (The Public). He is a UC certified Master Gardener.