BRILLIANT TRACES by Cindy Lou Johnson
Run Time: 80 minutes
Location: Zephyr Theatre in West Hollywood, CA
Dates: August 15-17 and 22-24 at 8pm
Instagram: @brillianttraces2024
Please find a link to learn more about our show and our fundraising campaign HERE – we are still accepting donations at @brillianttraces2024.
KIRSTEN HANSEN (Executive Producer, Actor)
Kirsten is thrilled to be making her LA professional theatre debut in Brilliant Traces. She received her MFA from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and currently studies with Marjorie Ballentine. She has acted and directed in theaters across the country, including the McCarter Theatre and Morgan-Wixson. She has also worked for Zero Gravity Management and Lionsgate Entertainment and will shortly go into production on two short films: Safe Walk and Do Not Disturb.
JENNA ROSSMAN (Director)
Jenna is a theatre and film director based in NYC and LA. She has worked at The Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and more. Jenna is a member of the Williamstown Directing Corp, SDC Observership, Roundabout Directors Group, and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She received her BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. On the film side, Jenna's debut short film The Age You Start Losing Friends, which stars Catherine Cohen, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Krystina Alabado premiered in 2021. Jenna is a recent graduate of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and her thesis film, Start Them Young, will have its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival this summer. Her most recent short, Iris, 31, stars Maria Russell of Amazon's Jury Duty. Jenna also worked in development at game1, Olive Bridge entertainment, and It Doesn’t Suck Productions.
WESTON BARNWELL (Actor)
Weston Barnwell is an actor and cowboy from Houston, Texas. His career has taken him all over the country from stage to screen, most recently as Phineas McKillen in the CW’s “Gotham Knights.” Recent theatre credits include: “A Chorus Line” as Zack, “The Three Musketeers” as Buckingham, and “Romeo and Juliet” as Mercutio. Weston is thrilled at the prospect of bringing “Brilliant Traces” to Los Angeles. A play about loneliness and isolation in rural Alaska put on in a metropolis full of loneliness and isolation seems about as fitting as can be.
JANE HAMOR (Scenic & Costume Design)
Jane Hamor is originally from Los Angeles and recently received an MFA in Scenic Design with a concentration in Integrated Media from CalArts. As a trained dancer, Jane brings her knowledge of choreography and movement into her designs to create kinetic spaces that fuse the audience, performer, and architecture into an amalgamated experience. Jane enjoys designing for various performance mediums; including theater, film, dance, and site-specific installation. Select credits include: State Street Ballet, UCSB School of Dance, CalArts Dance, Theater, and Music schools, The Loft Ensemble, Heidi Duckler Dance Festival, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Paris Summer Academy, Greenway Court Theater, Kulaks Woodshed, Human Resources and USC School of Cinematic Arts.
SEAN HAMILTON (Sound Design)
Sean Hamilton has done sound design and post production sound for over ten years for film, commercials, documentaries, and podcasts and is excited that Brilliant Traces is his first play as a sound designer. He is also a production sound mixer for film, TV, commercial and documentaries; and used to be a sound engineer in Philadelphia for several theater companies including 1812 Productions, Arden and Fringe Arts. He graduated from Temple University in 2008 and relocated to LA from Philly in 2022.