Bios
MARK LANDON SMITH
As actor Mark has principal and leading roles in the films Killers of the Flower Moon, Mindcage, The Tickle Monster, Wasted Time, Life of Crime, Trail Of Vengeance, Wonderland Cave, The Immigrant, Indian Territory, Wildfire, Southern Pride, In A World Full of Loneliness, Jan and Jann, Parker's Anchor, Wildfire, Pure Risk, Sweet Inspirations, Door in the Woods, Paid in Peanuts, The Immigrant, Indian Territory, Glass Cages and others. Stage credits include work with TheatreSquared, Ceramic Cow Productions, The Fourm Theatre, McCoy Repertory (Company member), Tidal Theatre Company, Theatre Memphis, Circuit Playhouse, Boar's Head Players, Kernnoodle Theatre and others. As playwright he has 16 scripts published including three foreign translations, and Off-Broadway production and an AATE Distinguished Play nomination. He is the recipient of the 2020 Arkansas Governor's Arts Award and is the Executive Director of Arts Live Theatre and the owner/founder of Actors Casting Agency and Smith | Fox Casting. He is the former director of the Arkansas Playwrights Workshop for TheatreSquared and the founder and director of the Screenwriters Development Group. He has served as producer and co-producer on the feature films Door in the Woods, The Man in the Trunk and Parker's Achor. He was featured at Southern Storytellers at Crystal Bridges and on Tales of the South and Holiday Traditions on PBS. He is co-founder of Ceramic Cow Productions, creators of the Dupont, Mississippi stage series which ran for ten years and the film Dupont, Mississippi: F5, (featured at the New York International Film Festival in Los Angeles) and co-director of Phunbags Comedy Improv. His short film Love Comes In Many Colors, co-produced by Jules Taylor, was the winner of the 10 for 10 Competition at the Bentonville Film Festival. He also writes and produces the Chit Chat Talk podcast. AEA/DG/SDC/PU marklandonsmith.com
Julie Gabel
Julie has a B.Ed., and an MA in Drama from the University of Arkansas, where she studied elementary education, voice, dance, acting and stage lighting. While living in Los Angeles and San Diego, she performed professionally on stage, earning membership into Actors Equity Association, and in film, as well as singing back-up in the recording studio. Julie toured the United States with Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s first National Tour of, Always, Patsy Cline. She has been featured in such independent films as Gordon Family Tree, Parker’s Anchor, Roadside Attorney, Grimace, Southern Pride and A Day Between, winner of 2001 Los Angeles Sacramento Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short. She is Co-Founder, Director, and Managing Director of Ceramic Cow Productions, and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Phunbags Comedy Improv.