ALANNA UBACH

Ubach, who is Latina, and from Downey California, was described as "an actress to keep your eye on" by the NY Times and "one to watch," by USA Today. "Legally Blonde II", in which she reprises her role as Serena, best friend and sorority sister to Reese Witherspoon, premiered in July, 2003. "A Mi Amor Dulce", a short film in which she stars in with Guillermo Diaz and Devon Odessa, which she also wrote and directed, premiered at LA’s Outfest in July 2003. She will also appear in two upcoming independent films, "Add Me To The Party" (with Stuart Townshend), and "Philadelphia Freedom" (with Molly Shannon and George Wendt). Past film credits include the title role in "Denise Calls Up" (a sequel is in pre-production) which won a special mention at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, "Graduation Day" starring with Sean Patrick Thomas, Jack Noseworthy, Devon Odessa and Nicholle Tom, and "Nobody Knows Anything" with cameos by Mike Meyers, Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofolo. On the New York stage Alanna, who was described by Village Voice as "a marvelously affecting and unaffected young actress," received critical acclaim for her performance in Kindertransport at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Club Soda at the WPA Theater. Last summer, at Stages Theatre and The Hudson Theatre, she did her critically acclaimed one woman show.

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DEVON ODESSA

With The Wall Street Journal dubbing her "a master hand at projecting pain in the grand manner", it seems only fitting that Devon Odessa, best known as Sharon Cherski on "My So-Called Life" has recently returned from Oxford, England where she studied with The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and The Royal Shakespeare Academy. After winning the Monologue competition over 1400 entrants (as did Kevin Spacey) in Michael York’s celebrated High School Drama Teachers Association of Southern California (DTASC) award, she went on to star with him in "The Omega Code". Starring in several Official Sundance Selections, she has worked for David Schwimmer in "Shoot The Moon", Babyface in "Punks", and with Sally Kirkland in "Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta". She has worked with such stellar talents as Sid Caesar, Charlie Callas and Billy Barty to hone her comedic skills, and continued her relationship with MSCL creators by appearing in Extreme Close-Up, the L Word, and Once and Again. Additionally she has starred in countless episodic’s, m.o.w.’s, short films and independent features, She has produced an award winning children’s short, written two feature films, and is currently putting the finishing touches on a pilot script.

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NICHOLLE TOM - SPECIAL GUEST TEACHER

Nicholle Tom is a familiar face to all after starring for 8 years as Maggie Sheffield in Fran Drescher’s hit television series, The Nanny. Nicholle also starred in two hugely successful feature films, “Beethoven” and “Beethoven’s 2nd.” Even Nicholle’s voice is famous! Nicholle was the voice of Super Girl in the Super Man cartoon series. Hollywood Kids are very lucky to have such a talented, successful, and FUN Special Guest Teacher!

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FRIENDS

Alanna Ubach, Devon Odessa, and Nicholle Tom met 5 years ago while co-starring together in the film, “The Sterling Chase.” The friendship and creative partnership that was forged while filming on location in New York City and Philadelphia is still growing strong. Besides teaching together, they were reunited onscreen co-starring together in Alanna’s writing and directorial debut film, “Mi Amor, Mi Dulce.”