Elizabeth Powers 

Actor with 26+ years experience including  Stage, Screen, Musical Theatre, Television Production, Choreography, Improv, Communications, Directing, Dance 
 Elizabeth Guarnieri Powers, a Pittston 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 in the production of The Servant of Two Masters  at  the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe! 
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Locally, She was the lead of of the PATAsphere production of "Just a Penny" at 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 a number of 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 acting, Elizabeth's career has  included educational theatre opportunities. She was an Actor/Educator in the Merry Go-Round Youth Theatre 2018 Season, 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 past summers she was the Choreographer  for Rich Theatre's 2018 and 2019  Summer plays: Shrek Jr. and Suessical Jr!  And as of January 2020, She is now an Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Kings College. 

After being trained and certified in the SAFD, she has alos been a Fight Coordinator  for a number of productions, most recently being Act Out's Of Mice and Men, and the Upcoming Romeo and Juliet.

Having moved back to the area, Elizabeth is looking forward to building up the arts scene in the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area! 

Jahmeel Powers 

Actor with  15+ years experience including Directing, Comedy, Education, Event Hosting, Workshop Facilitating, 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 Detroit roster in 2014, which is an Internationally known 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 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe!

Locally, 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's 80th Anniversary on December 9th 2018. Since 2019, He has performed with a number of 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 Jahmeel 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 Merry Go-Round Youth Theatre 2018 Season, 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 was last seen this past summer as the Acting Instructor for Rich Theatre's 2019 Summer play: Suessical Jr! As of January 2020, he is now an Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Kings College. 

Jahmeel  has just moved to Pennsylvania and is looking forward to building up the arts scene in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area.

Cirriculum Vitale available HERE