Tamela Aldridge

Tamela joined OMB in 2008 and is thrilled to be a part of the Only Make Believe crew! She also works as a Teaching Artist with The New Victory Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ars Nova Theater, WNYC-FM Radio and The American Place Theater. As an actor, Tamela has performed at Off-Broadway theaters as well as various Regional theaters across the country. She has performed in independent films as well as TV programs such as Law & Order: SVU.

Anthony Bannister

Anthony started acting with OMB in 2006.  He has performed in shelters, adolescent correctional facilities, Off and Off-Off Broadway houses. Past roles are Jacques Roux in Castillo Theatre's production of Marat Sade and the title role of Othello in William Shakespeare's Othello at Studio 4A. He has also danced with companies that perform in schools throughout the Tri-State area, as well as, performing in Symphony Space, Joyce Soho and Jacobs Pillow. Additionally, Anthony has directed plays for National Theater for Arts & Education that toured middle schools throughout the United States.

Andrew Dolan

Andrew joined the OMB Acting Company in 2006.  He is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and Bowdoin College. He has performed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, the Vineyard, the New York Summer Play Festival, New York Stage & Film and in countless off and off-off Broadway productions. Regional credits include 5 seasons with ACT, Encore Theater (Artistic Director 3 seasons), Arizona Theater Company, Magic Theater, and Spoleto Arts Festival. In the UK he has worked at the National Theater and English Touring Theater.

Dan Domingues

Dan has been an OMB company member since 2007 and he is primarily a theater actor.  He’s worked Off and Off-Off Broadway,as well as, regionally from Portland, Maine to Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan also performs other outreach work that includes programs with Urban Stages, Playwrights Theater of NJ, BardAvon, and George Street Playhouse. He’s made appearances on the TV shows Hope and Faith, Third Watch, and As The World Turns. Dan has an MFA from the ART/IATT program at Harvard and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY. 

Steve Elm

Steve Elm has been acting with OMB since 2001.  He trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London. Among his stage credits are Siblings , Fourplay (London); In the Spirit , White (New York). Television: Capital City , Absolute Hell (with Judy Dench). Film: Memphis Belle, Project Shadowchaser . His one-man show Stagestuck has been seen in NYC & Miami. He has directed plays at Manchester University, American Indian Youth Theater Project and Chuka Lokoli Native Theater Ensemble. He is an actor with Creative Arts Team and a Master Artist with the Wolf Trap Foundation.

Mark Emerson

Mark Emerson is extremely proud to be part of Only Make Believe since 2008. He is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. Acting program at UCSD, where he performed in The Wiz and Zhivago at La Jolla Playhouse (both directed by Des McAnuff). He was last seen as Prior in Angels in America at the Lyric Hammersmith in London and as Tim Allgood in Noises Off at the Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and an artistic associate of About Face Theatre in Chicago.  

Christian Felix

Christian joined the Only Make Believe acting company in 2005. Shortly thereafter, he began serving as a team leader and helping out around the office in various capacities.  For the past year, Christian has been a Program Coordinator and he recently stepped in to his current role as Program Director.  Originally from Chicago, Christian is happy to be working with the talented folks at Only Make Believe. Past theatre credits include: Take Me Out (Barebones, Pittsburgh), Romeo and Juliet, (Shakespeare in the Park), Titus Andronicus (Defiant, Chicago), Women and Water (Eclipse, Chicago), and Our Country's Good (Strawdog, Chicago). TV credits: The Bedford Diaries (WB) and What About Joan (ABC). Christian received a Bachelor of Arts (Drama and English) from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

Vivia Font

Vivia started acting with OMB in 2002 and is thrilled return to OMB in 2010 after receiving her MFA in Acting at the Old Globe/USD.  Credits include Six Degrees of Separation, All’s Well that Ends Well (Old Globe), The Collected Stories of Billy the Kid (Columbia Stages), La Tempestad (Ohio Theater),  and coming up, Mariela in the Desert (Denver Center). She has also appeared on television and film nationally. Vivia has worked as a teaching artist at the Globe, CAT, Opening Act, George Street Playhouse, and McCarter Theater. She holds a BFA from NYU-Tisch. www.viviafont.us 

Mark Friedlander

Mark joined the OMB Acting company in 2010 and feels blessed to be a part of Only Make Believe. He received his B.A. in Theatre from the University of Southern Maine and spent four seasons touring the U.S. with National Theater for Arts and Education. He has performed off-off Broadway and regionally, including Portland Stage Company and three seasons with Connecticut Free Shakespeare. He also works with Finding Words/Child First and the DOJ training professionals to interview and protect children from abuse.

Sheri Graubert

Sheri has been an OMB company member since 2001.  She is an actress and playwright. As an actress she has worked with: Cheek by Jowl; Royal National Theater; English Shakespeare Company; York Theater Royal; Theater Royal, Stratford East; Chichester Festival Theater; Target Margin; Clubbed Thumb, amongst many others. She has also acted in TV, film, and voice-overs. She recently recorded a Hooked on English series for children learning to read. As a playwright, Sheri has been produced or had readings in New York, Chicago, London and Alaska.

Jacqueline Gregg

Jacq has been acting with OMB since 2002.  A graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Jacqueline has performed with theater companies around New York, including Target Margin Theater, The Queen's Company, and Westside Repertory Theater. Favorite roles include Mariana in Measure for Measure , Phoebe in As You Like It, Maria in Twelfth Night , Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi, and a hip-hopping, soul-singing Gerti-D in The Trage-D of The Fresh Prince Hammy-T . Jacqueline also works extensively with various educational theater organizations around New York City.

Diego Prieto

Diego started with OMB in 2010 and he is a native of DC, recently returned to The Kennedy Center for the world premiere of Barrio Grrrl! Other shows there include Brand New Kid and Willy Wonka. Favorite roles include Sancho in the Washington Savoyards production of Man of La Mancha, Booth in Assassins, Riff Raff in Rocky Horror and Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman all at Kensington Arts Theatre. He appeared in The Witches of Eastwick and Saving Aimee, both at Signature Theatre.  His credits at Arena Stage include Cabaret, Damn Yankees and Señor Discretion, Himself. Diego is honored to be a part of the Only Make Believe family! Proud member of Actor’s Equity.

Ashley Denise Robinson

Ashley has been an OMB actor since 2008.  She moved to New York City after completing an acting apprenticeship at Actors Theater of Louisville (07-08). There, she performed in This Beautiful City with The Civilians and Game On, both in the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Past performances include Hansel and Gretel Eat Crabs (Active Cultures Theatre), Macbeth (Washington Shakespeare Co.), and Nutshell (Capital Fringe Festival 07). She holds a BA in  Theater from The University of Maryland at College Park.

David Shih

Dave joined OMB as an actor in 2007.  Theater: Sake with the Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage/Perry Street Theater); 365 Plays/365 Days (The Public Theater/SALT Theater); The American Clock (HB Playwrights Foundation); Ping Pong Diplomacy (59E59 Theaters); Stockholm Brooklyn (Cherry Lane Theatre); Rounding Third (Millbrook Playhouse). Film/TV: Saving Face (Sony Picture Classics), All My Children (ABC), Interpol Investigates (National Geographic Channel). Dave directed The Cranberries: Doors and Windows CD-rom and can be heard in the video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andrea and The Warriors (Rockstar Games). He sings in The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall.