Alexis Peters was your typical high school choir geek, who went on to study theater at the University of Southern California. She has recently appeared in a student film musical titled How to Deal with FAMe as well as the independent production Elemental as a precocious, young warrior. But her proudest role will always be the elf she played in the 2nd grade Christmas play. In her free time, you might find Alexis hiking or practicing her axe throwing.

Jared Anthony has participated in chorus, musical theater, and a cappella groups since he was a child. He graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, where he earned a BA in Journalism with a Focus in Advertising and a Minor in Music. He was signed on as an Actor/Model with BMG-Atlanta in 2018 and transitioned to their New York branch in 2020. He has trained for Acting on Camera with Paul Paliyenko, Method Acting with Robert Russell, Commercial Acting with Donna Marrazzo and Voiceover with Paul Liberti. His hobbies include acoustic guitar, disc golf, drawing, film study, hiking, reading, running, skiing and video games.

Jesenia is a NYC-based humorist, actress, writer, producer and singer. She's written/co-written/produced comedy sketches, musical parodies and two web series "Becoming Ricardo" and "The Shlongologues", under her production company Comedy High Productions. She's co-hosted three podcasts "The Fixxx", "Comedy Girls" and "Splitting Upward". She's appeared in Showtime's "The Affair" and TBS' "The Guestbook" and is a two-time winner and the reigning champ of the NBC Diversity Monologue Slam. Currently, Jesenia is in Seasons 2 & 3 of the hit STARZ series "Power Book III: Raising Kanan", in the role of Olga Figueroa.

Spencer Gonzalez is a young actor currently based in NYC. Since graduating in May 2021 from Manhattan School of Music, Spencer has performed in several brand new plays in Off and Off-off Broadway theaters. Some favorites include Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story at the Gene Frankel Theater, and Somewhere I Can Scream at the Players Theatre. Spencer has also been lucky enough to make his film debut this past summer, starring in an Indie Rom Com, UFO Club, set to release in 2022 and the Shakespearean To Be.

Deborah Geffner is an actress, writer, director, filmmaker, animal-lover, and mom. Her early claim to fame is that Bob Fosse literally picked her out of the Broadway production of A Chorus Line and cast her as Victoria in his film All That Jazz. Recent appearances include roles in American Horror Story, The Morning Show, How to Get Away With Murder, Scandal, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, ER, Monk, and Criminal Minds, among others.  Her many films include Living Out Loud, Infestation, and Exterminator 2.  She’s an award-winning film and theater director, as well as writing and producing her own projects.  She’s been voicing mothers-on-the-phone (Andrew Garfield’s in Under The Silver Lake, and President Obama’s grandmother in the Sundance pick Southside With You) as well as cult leaders, mayors and crazed fairies. http://www.imdb.me/DeborahGeffner https://vimeo.com/deborahgeffner

John L. Shortt is an actor and singer based in NYC. He has traveled North America & Europe as a leading dramatic tenor playing leads in Pagliacci, Otello, Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Fidelio, Die Walkure, Aida, Il Trovatore and Turandot. He has appeared onstage extensively throughout the US with many companies including The Metropolitan Opera Club & Guild, the New York City Opera Guild, and The Carnegie Hall "Artists in Concert" series. Theatrical performances include Death of a Salesman, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss Me Kate, Man of La Mancha, Carousel and many others. In the world of voice-over, he has contributed to podcasts and video games including Transient, Wordtastic, Clash of Cousins and March.

Dylan Toms is an actor and singer from Northern Virginia and is so excited to be involved in this recording of ‘The Unseen World’! Credits include The Addams Family (Virginia Children’s Theatre), Cabaret (Showtimers Theatre), She Sings Me Home (The Kennedy Center), It’s Just Zoom, The Last Supper (The Masked Collective), Jekyll & Hyde (Free Range Humans), Assassins (Signature Theatre), The Full Monty (Workhouse Arts Center), and The Sound of Music (Bethesda Summer Music Festival). He earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a Minor in Theater from George Mason University.

Singer and songwriter Yunoka Berry hails from Chicago, but moved to the Bay Area in 2016. She's performed and toured with singer Angelo Moore (Fishbone) and is currently working with producer Jim Greer (Foster the People, Macy Gray, Galactic) on the pop/R&B project Cardboard People. Yunoka brings her black female perspective to whatever she creates, along with an open mind towards pop music and a powerful voice and stage presence.

Dorian Lockett is an Oakland-based stage, screen, and voice actor. He’s best known for Pixar’s Soul (2020), AMC’s The Walking Dead: Season Two (2013) and as Parnell in the video game Evolve (2015). He’s excited to be a part of The Unseen World.

Dorian Spencer is a NYC based actor and musician. Known for TV roles on Law & Order and Ellen, film appearances in Father of the Bride II and The Perfect One as well as numerous theatrical performances, Dorian is also an accomplished singer and songwriter who has performed at Madison Square Garden, and released numerous records.

Jhene Canody is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and actor. As a musician, she’s known for her haunting voice and the singular (often dark) flavor of her songwriting. As an actor, she recently starred in a Berkeley staging of the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story The Yellow Wallpaper.

Joe Christiano, based in Berkeley, CA, is a singer, songwriter, actor and director. His stage productions include dramatic readings from Nabakov and Whitman, the Lou Reed-flavored "Andy Warhol's Christmas", and many more. As a songwriter, he tells stories gleaned from history and literature. He also leads a musical community called Hoot, where folks of all stripes take part in themed musical events.

Wendy is a mother to 2 sons and lives in Oakland Ca. When she's not playing the role of a burned out psych nurse, she's helping others resolve their conflicts through mediation, playing guitar, hanging out with friends and generally being a human.

Barbara McDonald is a graphic designer living in Emeryville, CA and owns the design firm “Sign Me Up”.  A champion of community, she has hosted a vegan dinner party for friends old and new every month for over twenty years running.  She is delighted to have contributed several syllables of dialogue to The Unseen World.

Mark Lemaire is a highly-respected Bay Area musician and more. As a recording engineer and producer, he’s worked with clients ranging from the San Francisco Symphony to Rolling Stones' producer Jimmy Miller. As a guitarist, Mark’s unique style incorporates fingerpicking, slap-and-tap harmonics, hand percussion, and sensitive dynamics. When not recording orchestras or acoustic ensembles or touring the world as a composer and vocalist, Mark happily lends his speaking voice to a friend creating an excellent radio drama.

Vanessa Lowe is a radio/podcast producer, musician, and dormant psychologist. She produces and hosts the long running podcast, Nocturne , an intimate, atmospheric exploration of night and darkness. Her work has been featured on public radio stations both in the U.S. and internationally, including Radio New Zealand and CBC Radio Canada, as well as numerous other podcasts e.g. 99% Invisible, The Organist, and HowSound.

Potus Marlowe (2007-2022) was an inspiration to everyone who knew him, and the emotional support dog whose unfailing love kept The Unseen World podcast musical alive — through false starts and re-writes, technical snafus, cut songs and added songs, casting and re-casting. As intelligent as he was handsome, as decent as he was soulful, his small but mighty spirit lives on forever. Shine on, little hero.

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Ira Marlowe is a prolific songwriter, singer, performer and multi-instrumentalist. He won the International Songs Inspired by Literature contest, and has taught songwriting at UC Berkeley. His first and only stage play was produced in New York (“The Bad Author”), and a comic one-man show (“How to Write a Song”) played in San Francisco . He's written educational songs for The Learning Company (now Riverdeep) including the theme for Reader Rabbit – their signature character.  He’s also authored several jingles for the Diner Dash video game series and created his own Brainy Tunes label offering “smarter songs for smarter kids”. Between 2014-2018 he served as composer/lyricist for the Tony-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe, a Commedia Del'arte political theater ensemble that is anything but silent. A resident of Berkeley, CA, he is the proprietor of The Monkey House, a small performance space that caters to the music and theater community. Ira is eternally grateful to the amazing cast that poured their hearts into “The Unseen World”.  He looks forward to meeting them in person one day!

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Alison Auth is a singer, songwriter and actor in Richmond, Virginia. She sang lead vocals and played keyboards for Burma Jam, a “punk rock reggae” band of the early 90s. Recent theater performances include “Bev” in Chaos of Spirit at The Gottwald Theater and “Amanda” in Surviving LIfe with River City Community Players. She once roamed the docks in Belize as a nun in Nic Roeg’s Heart of Darkness, and sang the theme song for David Powers’ Speedbump the Roadkill Possum on MTV’s Liquid Television. Alison is currently playing the role of “Dr. Argo” in Better Men Elsewhere - an audio fiction podcast set for release in 2023. She would like to thank with all of her heart the absolutely phenomenal cast of The Unseen World and their ongoing support of this journey.