CasTing Agents, Dramaturgs, and more

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Choctaw

• Casting Agent, Film Producer
• In Chicago, willing to travel.
• IG @Momagerburks
• Eliseburkspffc@yahoo.com

Having more than two decades of experience in the entertainment field, Elise Burks has become a "Jack of All Trades" in every sense of the term. Elise has worked in multiple arenas, from casting to writing to producing, for companies such as CBS/WBBM, FOX, NBC, Food Network and Bunim-Murray Productions. Currently, Elise works under the Operations department for Broadway In Chicago while also independently casting for multiple TV/Film/Commercial/Theatre projects for various agencies. Elise focuses her specific talents on bringing Indigenous, Native and POC talent to the forefront. Managing up and coming talent on breaking into the business is also a passion of Elise's, with the hopes of bringing under-represented talent the knowledge and power they need to be equipped with in order to get into the room. Representation matters.

Chickasaw Nation

• Playwright/dramaturg/  librettist/consultant
• Not local to NYC, Willing to travel
• Member of Writers Guild of America West
• laurashamas.bsky.social (Blue Sky)
• @laurashamas (Post.News)
• www.laurashamas.com
• www.laurashamas.com/contact

Laura Annawyn Shamas was born in Oklahoma, and lives in Los Angeles. She’s an

enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation. She is a 2023 Winner of the Los Angeles

New Play Project Playwriting Award ($20,000) – lanpp.org. FOUR WOMEN IN RED

will be produced at the Victory Theatre Center in 2025. In 2024, she’s part of the

ReproEco theater project with ReproFreedomArts.org.

FOUR WOMEN IN RED was part of the 2022 Festival of New Plays at Native Voices at

the Autry. A monologue from the play was published in the Smith and Kraus

anthology: 2022 – Best Women’s Stage Monologues. In 2021, Shamas was part of the

Indigenous Writers Collaborative at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Laura Shamas’ many plays include: CIRCULAR (published in 2024), PICNIC AT

HANGING ROCK (adaptation), PORTRAIT OF A NUDE, LADY-LIKE, CHASING

HONEY, THE OTHER SHAKESPEARE, TALKING LEAVES (Winner – Garrard Best

Play Award - Five Civilized Tribes Museum), and AMELIA LIVES. Her short play

SEEDS won the Von Marie Atchley Award for Excellence in Playwriting from Native

Voices in 2017. She’s written forty plays.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

• Actor/Singer/Director/Dramaturg/Producer/Writer/SFX artist 
• Based in CO, willing to travel
• Radical Artists Agency (Denver Regional: commercial, theatrical, voiceover)
• Agent contact: Kathleen@radicalartistsagency.com and Kathey@radicalartistsagency.com.
• www.autumnsilvas.com
• Instagram
• https://fighterproductionco.wixsite.com/fighter-productions
• Facebook

An actor, writer, producer, and indie filmmaker (among other categories), Autumn is a wild card. Passionate about Native and biracial representation in authentic and interesting ways, she is the founder of Fighter Productions LLC, an independent film company of the Rockies focused on impactful narratives that challenge the stereotypes and rhetoric of Hollywood in unique ways. A firm believer in tea, vintage clothing, and that art and puns can create positive conversation across divides, she is deeply interested in creating work that impacts people of all backgrounds in a truly human and relatable way. Whether through performing or creating, Autumn believes in learning the whole story, and telling it one artistic leap at a time.