SkeDJes Actors
Gloria Tsai is a Taiwanese-Texan SAG-e actor/voice actor based in Los Angeles. She spent most of her adult life in Austin and held a corporate career in commercial real estate up until 2015. It was then that Gloria gave up the corporate world to pursue her childhood dream of acting. She moved to Los Angeles in the Fall of 2018 to further her acting career. Within 4 months of landing in LA, a fellow actor brought her to Deadline Junkies, where the crew calls her "Glow" (as there's also another talented actor named Gloria in the group). In 2020, she co-starred on an episode of MacGyver, was a part of 2 virtual play productions, and narrated 2 audiobooks. She is currently studying improv at UCB, acting at Lesly Kahn & Co, and voice acting with Blumvox Studios. You can check out her credits on IMDB or learn more about "Glow" by visiting www.GloriaTsai.com.
Leena Kurishingal hails from Chicago where she got a degree in filmmaking (Columbia College), hula danced for her dollar, and also acted for over a decade on stage, screen, and soundwaves. (Credits include NBC's Chicago Fire/PD/Med, EPIX's Get Shorty, FOX's APB, and AMAZON's The Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy, playing a nutcracker that arrests Jason Sudeikis.) She's taken that show on the road to LA where she embraced their fantastic comedy scene, earning a scholarship at The Upright Citizens Brigade and training in improv, characters, and sketch writing. She has performed with the character-sketch group Soul Sista Comedy and guest performed on the UCB Mainstage, Comedy Central Stage, Tao Comedy, Pack, and more. Leena has also had her comedic writings selected for the LA Female Playwrights Initiative as well as for the live lit series, Tartle At The Duke. Explore away at www.leenakurishingal.com
Rachel is a SAG-AFTRA and AEA actor who grew up in a military family which moved every two years until age 16, so is from nowhere and everywhere. She has lived in England and the Philippines in addition to the US. She accepts that the constant in life is change. Rachel has a bachelors of science in computer science and along with her passion for science fiction/fantasy is able to use her analytical and creative sides of her brain in her craft.
Rachel has been seen on various network and cable series as well as a variety of roles in feature and independent films. She has also been in many corporate videos and radio plays. She brings professionalism and elegance to every role she portrays.
You can see more at http://imdb.me/racheldpate.
Jake McKenzie is a writer and performer hailing from the red dirt of Oklahoma. Jake studied screenwriting and on-camera acting at Oklahoma City University before relocating to Chicago to write and perform comedy.
In Chicago, Jake quickly became a regular performer at The Laugh Factory, Chicago Underground Comedy, Comedians You Should Know, and many more. His stand-up was favorably reviewed by The Chicago Tribune who described him as having “perfect comedic timing.” He also served as head writer for Talk Hard – Chicago’s Live and Uncensored Talk Show which was voted “Best Sketch Show” by The Chicago Reader in 2013.
After relocating to Los Angeles, Jake has focused on acting, crafting feature-length horror-comedy screenplays, and making outrageous home-spun animated shorts.
In Chicago, Jake quickly became a regular performer at The Laugh Factory, Chicago Underground Comedy, Comedians You Should Know, and many more. His stand-up was favorably reviewed by The Chicago Tribune who described him as having “perfect comedic timing.” He also served as head writer for Talk Hard – Chicago’s Live and Uncensored Talk Show which was voted “Best Sketch Show” by The Chicago Reader in 2013.
After relocating to Los Angeles, Jake has focused on acting, crafting feature-length horror-comedy screenplays, and making outrageous home-spun animated shorts.
Kerstin Porter is a writer and actor from a small town where there are more cows than people. Coincidentally, one of her first roles was a cow trying to save a vegan from starving in a UCSC play. After that she went on to become obsessed with comedy and created shows like Pet Prov, a sketch and improv show with real live pets (unfortunately there weren't any cows.) Recently she finished her second web series, Adult Buddy Finder, that she co-created with Kristen Lucas based on their challenges of making friends after college. Before that she created, wrote, and acted in Round Valley: A Small Town Conspiracy based on and filmed in her cow populated town. Kerstin continues to explore comedy with sketches, stand up, and films. Find out what she's up to next and what animals she's incorporated into her comedy at http://www.kerstinporter.com/
Growing up North of New York City in the 1960's, Bill Kates immersed himself in acting, sound and music at an early age, taking on tape recording as a hobby before he was five, and studying classical and jazz music- piano, trombone, harmonica, sousaphone, and singing- shortly after entering kindergarten. His first professional recording was at age 6 with electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack. An early interest in acting and art led to his lifelong study of film and animation, which he continued during his 30+ years in radio broadcasting, producing for major market radio at WBCN, Boston, K-Rock in New York City, and XM Radio (later Sirius/XM) in New York City, where he specialized in unique, musical and comedic radio production.
Bill now resides in Hollywood, where he creates sound design for film, television, games and apps, creates and performs comedy, studies acting, and creates original music. Bill is represented theatrically, for voiceover, and commercially by Aperture Talent Agency.
Ian Longway has done stuff his whole life. Some of the stuff includes acting, such as playing the character of Lil' Hoopz in the ongoing award winning pop concert show for children, Twinkle Time, as well as performing in other shows, plays, musicals and wed series. Some other stuff includes writing many of the creative content for Twinkle Time, as well as a writer for the Young Entertainers Awards, web series, and his own pilot, film and spec scripts. And the rest of the stuff? Mind your own business. But Ian is very happy and honored to be working along side the other writers and actors of SkeDJes, who are always pushing each other to make some laugh-out-loud content!
