The Cast and Crew of
The Effie Effect
Leigh Wulff as Sylvia Sargent
Leigh has been performing and living in Los Angeles since 2007. With a background in musical theater, she’s been seen in original award-winning shows, like Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet, Exorcistic: The Rock Musical Parody, Doomsday Cabaret, and others. Leigh has been a champion of original works since getting into this crazy profession. She’s excited to work with writer Eva Schegulla and this amazing cast, and thrilled to be working Jamie Robledo again!
Pat Towne as Donald Light
Pat is an award-winning actor, director, and producer based in Los Angeles. Theatre credits include A Transparent Musical, Mark Taper Forum; Rock of Ages, Hollywood at the Bourbon Room; Stoneface and Kiss Me Kate at the Pasadena Playhouse; Charles Busch’s DIE, MOMMIE, DIE at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Laughter on the 23rd Floor at The Garry Marshall. Television credits include: Transparent, I Love Dick, Mad Men, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, Las Vegas, and Gilmore Girls, among others.
Sean Faye as Thomas Pine
Sean's recent credits include All’s Well That Ends Well with the Porters of Hellsgate; Three Can Keep A Secret - 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival (Nominee - Fringe Award for Comedy, Top of the Fringe Award); Playground Games - 2024 Hollywood Short & Sweet Festival (Audience Choice Best Play); and Medea Comes To Our Town with Lightning Productions. Sean is a Resident Artist with The Porters of Hellsgate. Whole lotta love to Kate Faye!
Rebecca Larsen as Maribel Green & Doris
Rebecca Larsen is an actress, writer, and director (why choose?) living in Los Angeles. She was a pre-med student and improv junkie before transferring into the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. Afterward, she made the long drive down I15, and never looked back. Los Angeles Theatre credits include: Bat Boy (Open Fist 2025); Three Guys, One Groupon (Sacred Fools @HFF); Different Words for the Same Thing (CTG at the Kirk Douglas Theater); Pocatello (Rogue Machine Theatre); Skullduggery, Occupation, Watson, La Bete, and Forbidden Zone (Sacred Fools); Wreck of the Unfathomable and A Mulholland Christmas Carol (Theatre of NOTE).
Jaime Robledo: Director & Newsboy
Jaime Robledo is a Bronx-born, L.A.-based writer and director. His first play, Watson, won a Saturn Award for best stage production. Directorial credits include the West Coast Premieres of Neighborhood 3 and Clown Bar, and the World Premieres of Stoneface and Hearts Like Fists. His consulting work with Disney helped open their Shanghai Disneyland park. Jaime has also written for American History Tellers and Whose Amazing Life? with the Wondery podcast network. Visit: jrobledo.com for more info.
Eva Schegulla: Playwright
Eva is a full-time writer, publishing under multiple names in fiction and nonfiction, and an internationally-produced playwright and radio writer. She spent years of her career working backstage in theatre and television production, including as a Broadway dresser. She was a member of Toronto’s Nightwood Theatre Creatryx Unit and of the Northern Berkshire Artists Capacity Building Program. In 2024, readings of her plays were staged at the Fenimore Art Museum and at La Mama Galleria in NYC. https://pagesonstages.fearlessink.com.
Dean Jackson: Sound Designer
Dean is a freelance sound designer.
Ryan Thomas Johnson: Composer
Ryan is a Los Angeles-based composer. Cutting his teeth as a rock keyboardist, he has toured internationally, made numerous recordings, and played in countless venues, primarily as the leader of progressive rock band Überband. His choral setting of the Wessobrunner Gebet was performed by the Munich Orpheus Choir as part of 2016’s Diabelli Competition. Recent years have shown him working as a composer for theatrical productions including Stoneface (Pasadena Playhouse), Watson, and Neverwhere (Sacred Fools Theater). He composed music for the stage musical Deadly with book writer Vanessa Claire Stewart, now published through Broadway Licensing.