CLIFTON GUTERMAN

Originally from tiny Iron City, GA (population 350), where he grew up expressing himself in community theatre, church programs, and school chorus and drama, Clifton is a multi-hyphenate Atlanta entertainment veteran who has performed, directed, produced, and cast projects for stage and screen professionally since 2001. 

From 2021 to 2023, Clifton led the film and television division of Atlanta’s Big Picture Casting, where he cast film, television, animation, and web projects. Prior, Clifton was Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director from 2012-2020 at Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta’s second oldest professional theatre company. He was Producer in Residence at Actor’s Express for the 2015-2016 season and.the Alliance Theatre’s Artistic and Casting Assistant from 2001-2005. Clifton has cast over 150 professional plays, musicals, films, and shows over two decades.

Clifton has directed locally for Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Theatrical Outfit, and Jennie T. Anderson Theatre. As a former actor, Clifton appeared Off-Broadway and at top regional theatres, including Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Barrington Stage, San Jose Rep, The O’Neill Theatre Center, and more. Locally, he has performed with Alliance Theatre, Actor’s Express, Theatrical Outfit, Synchronicity Theatre, and Dad’s Garage Theatre. He can be seen in several Atlanta-filmed movies (The Good Lie, Trouble with the Curve, The Internship, Scary Movie 5 ), television shows (Being Mary Jane, One Tree Hill, Hindsight), and commercials.

Clifton holds a BA in Drama from UGA and an MFA in Performing Arts from SCAD. He and his husband, Chad, and their son, Griffin, live in Cabbagetown.

KATHRINE BARNES

Kathrine is an actor and former dancer best known for playing Arina in the first season of “Average Joe” and for her various unhinged stage roles with Vernal & Sere Theatre, a company she co-founded in 2016. Other TV: “Queer as Folk”; “Candy.” Recent film: Faceless After Dark; Walden; Adult Swim Yule Log; Moonshot; The Glorias. Kathrine specializes in movement & physicality both on camera and onstage, is obsessed with cannoli and her dog Elton, and hopes to die onstage at age 125.

LAURA BOSTON EDWARDS

Laura Boston Edwards is an Atlanta-based artist and educator, originally born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a scientist-turned-actor with degrees in Molecular Biology, Human Development and Psychology, and Education from Yale and Harvard, and is currently on faculty at Emory. She began performing on stages in and around Boston, MA before landing in Atlanta, where she has trained extensively in Meisner technique and movement methods (Suzuki, Laban, Viewpoints). She brings this combination of approaches to bear on both stage and screen work; favorite recent credits include The Resident (FOX), Lear (Vernal & Sere Theatre), The Exterminating Angel (Vernal & Sere Theatre), as well as several independent films, series, TV and radio commercials.

AMELIA FISCHER

Amelia Fischer is an Atlanta based director, Fight and Intimacy choreographer who has worked for theatres from Washington DC to Washington state and is deeply happy to be joining the Hive.  Amelia's favorite directing projects include Cyrano de Bergerac (Tennessee Shakespeare Company), Much Ado About Nothing  (Houston Shakespeare Festival), and Silent Sky (Lamar University). As an Intimacy and Fight Choreographer, Amelia has also worked with The Alliance Theatre, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Actor’s Express, Theatrical Outfit, Horizon Theatre, and Synchronicity Theatre.  Voiceover acting: No Game No Life (Jibril),  Magical Warfare (Nanami Hyoudou), Beyond the Boundary (Shizuku Ninomiya) and others.  Amelia is proud to have received her MFA from the University of Houston’s PATP, her BA from Coastal Carolina University, and trained with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance. www.AmeliaFischer.org.

TERENCE LEE

Terence Lee is a classically trained Atlanta based actor with an MFA in Acting. He has been active in the film/tv industry in the Southeast both as an actor and an instructor. During his graduate tenure, he published a dissertation titled "Mindful Acting" - A contemporary approach to actor training centered around principles of mindfulness, meditation, and the self. Additionally, Terence has also served as a teaching artist at The Alliance Theatre, Orlando Shakes, The Orlando Repertory Theatre, a guest instructor at Oglethorpe University for film/tv auditions and scene study, and a coach & instructor at Catapult Acting Studios. He also serves as a private coach to actors in film/tv, theatre, and college & drama school auditions.