Who We Are
Elizabeth Guarnieri Powers
Co-Founder, CEO
Actor with 30+ years of experience, including Stage, Screen, Musical Theatre, Television Production, Choreography, Improv, Communications, Directing, Dance
Elizabeth Guarnieri Powers, a Pittston, PA native, is an international performer whose professional acting career in both theatre and film has taken her all over the East Coast, including NYC, Baltimore, Shawnee on the Delaware, Maine, Virginia Beach, Boston, the Finger Lakes and Scotland. Elizabeth received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Regent University.
She has performed in over 40 independent short films and TV spots. Some of her favorite stage roles include Medea (Medea), The Servant of Two Masters (Beatrice), She Loves Me (Ms. Ritter) Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Rhinoceros (Botard), The Seagull (Masha), Dracula (Margaret), and Hamlet (Ophelia).
Internationally, she was one of the leads (Beatrice) in the production ofThe Servant of Two Masters at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
Locally, she was thelead of the PATAsphere production of Just a Pennyat the 2018 Scranton Fringe Festival, and the F.M. Kirby Center's 80th Anniversary on December 9th 2018. Then in 2019, she has performed with several Northeastern PA theatres, including: Gaslight Theatre (Playroom: Home for the Holidays), Act Out Theatre (Of Mice and Men), and Intrepidus Theatre Lab (Medea)
In addition to acting, Elizabeth's career has included educational theatre opportunities.She was an Actor/Educator at The Rev Youth Theatre 2018 Season(formerly Merry Go Round Youth Theatre), which toured to hundreds of elementary and middle schools across the Central New York Area. The performances blended school curriculum topics with the creative and imaginative power of theatre. The past two summers, she was the Choreographer for Rich Theatre's 2018 and 2019 and 2023 Summer plays: Shrek Jr. Suessical Jr, and Beauty and the Beast Jr.
Since January 2020, she has been an Adjunct Professor of Theatre at King’s College serving as the resident Mainstage Choreographer, Intimacy Coordinator, and Fight Coordinator. In the classroom, she teaches a range of specialized courses, including Stage Combat and Acting for the Camera.
As a trained SAFD Actor Combatant, she has served as a Fight Coordinator for several productions, including Act Out's theatre of Mice and Men, and Romeo and Juliet.
Jahmeel Powers
Co-Founder, COO
Actor with 20+ years of experience, including Directing, Comedy, Education, Event Hosting, Workshop Facilitating, and the creation of Artistic Organizations
Jahmeel is an actor who began his performance journey as Sandy the Candy Vendor in Brigadoon as a high school freshman in the small village of Dundee, MI in 2004. After graduating in 2008, he discovered that there was need for an arts-based community in the Dundee community, so he created Projekt Blu-Print; a group dedicated to creating workshops exploring the different art forms.
Since then, he's been determined to become the "Best version of himself", receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Theatre at Eastern Michigan University in 2013, where he experimented with many different types of performing arts, but he ultimately fell in love with Improv! He even created his own Comedy troupe, Laugh-a-Minute Enterprises, the only student organization on Eastern's campus dedicated to all forms of Comedy! He also served as Sketch Comedy Head-writer, Director, and Event co-host during that year.
He took a brief hiatus in his studies to learn other aspects of performance, including a 4-month internship working with Walt Disney World Entertainment as a character attendant. which was one of the most magical experiences of his life!
He also took a 3-month internship with the Performance Network Theatre, learning the behind-the-scenes trade through the Marketing, Development, and Box Office Departments. He also served as a House Manager and Assistant Stage Manager.
While working at Performance Network, he joined the Comedysportz Detroitroster in 2014, an internationally recognized short-form Improv show with over 28 established location across the U.S. and abroad!
He continued his studies in 2015, pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Acting with a concentration in Directing from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, graduating in April 2018! There he received extensive theatrical training, which led to taking multiple professional acting contracts during his schooling in Maine, Michigan, and Virginia Beach.
Internationally, he was one of the leads in the production of The Servant of Two Masters at the 2018Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
He then moved to Northeastern Pennsylvania with Elizabeth, and he was part of the cast of the PATAsphere production of Just a Penny at the 2018 Scranton Fringe Festival, and the F.M. Kirby Center's80th Anniversary on December 9th 2018. Since 2019, He has performed with several local theatres including: Gaslight Theatre (Playroom: Home for the Holidays), Act Out Theatre(Of Mice and Men), and Intrepidus Theatre Lab (Medea)
In addition to theatrical training, he also received intensive screen acting training by appearing in dozens of fully produced short films. The most recent was Sterilized, which won him 3 "Best Actor" Awards at the 2019 Seven Cities Film Showcase, VPA Filmmakers Showcase, and the 2018 Regent Film Showcase.
In the past few years, his career has included educational theatre opportunities. He was an Actor/Educator in the Rev Youth Theatre 2018 Season, (formally the Merry-Go Round Youth Theatre), which toured to hundreds of elementary and middle schools across the Central New York Area. The performances blended school curriculum topics with the creative and imaginative power of theatre.
He also served in multiple positions at Rich Theatre in Virginia Beach, VA: Acting Instructor 2019 Suessical Jr (2019), and Show Director (Beauty and the Beast Jr, 2023)
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Head of the Acting department at King’s College, where he works with Elizabeth! In addition to teaching the majority of the Non Major and Theatre Major acting courses, he also serves as a resident Show Director for the Mainstage season, KC Theatre Marketing team Manager, and on several on-campus faculty committees.