Story :: About Us

Daniel Halden
Dan hails from the (great) state of New Jersey, and grew up about an hour and a half outside of New York City, depending on traffic. He enjoys baseball, history, and H&M, and has shared (on separate occasions) airplane rides with Al Gore and Anderson Cooper. While on the ground, his focus is and has always been on the performing arts, in front of and behind the scenes, on stage and screen (and now web - thank you 21st century!). His undergraduate theatre education at New York University allowed him to meet his wonderful friends whom he is now thrilled to also call his (gasp!) co-workers. Daniel has assistant directed and co-produced NYU productions of The Lonesome West, Play It Again, Sam and Art. He has also been privileged to perform a variety of great roles in his life, including Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Will Jackson in Red Elevator's inaugural short film In Bed, the Baron DeVarville in Camille, Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, V. Kirk in Logan Burdick's The Fall of the King and Grandma Tzeitel (seriously) in Fiddler on the Roof. His birthday is July 3, making him a Cancer. Other water signs, inquire within. Go Phillies.

Rachel Walker
Rachel has been producing in New York since 2005 when she co-produced and assistant directed NYU's GAP production of Of Mice and Men. Since then she has produced both Hamlet at Atlantic Stage Two (3 IT Award Nominations) and a sold-out run of The Lonesome West at 440 Studios, assistant directed by Red L Engineer of Artistic Exposure, Daniel Halden. It was during this production that Rachel and Daniel decided to form Red Elevator and continue working together post-graduation. Rachel trained at NYU with the Atlantic Theatre Company for three years and with Stonestreet Studios for one. Some of her favorite theatre roles tackled during college include Maria in Twelfth Night and Duckling in Our Country's Good. Since Stonestreet, most of Rachel's efforts have been film-focused. She most recently wrapped Gasoline (dir. Andrew Hulse) and the indie features Redemption Falls (dir. Brenden M. Leonard) and The Graduates (dir. Ryan Gielen). When she isn't acting or producing Rachel enjoys seeing movies (and becoming really obsessive about them during Oscar season), watching way too much TV, playing guitar hero, knitting scarves for her friends that take years to finish-literally, reading books & comics, attending the San Diego Comic Book Convention, trying to be good at the actual guitar (and occasionally succeeding), taking pictures of her friends and posting them all over the internet, text messaging, and insisting that even if you don't like cats, you'll love hers.

Laura Ramadei
Laura Ramadei likes to spread herself thin: acting on stage and film, directing, producing, filming, interning, singing, dancing, teaching, violin/viola-ing, eating...occasionally sleeping. Ramadei is a graduate of and now guest artist/teacher at Denver School of the Arts as well an alum of New York University (BFA Drama honors), where she studied at Stella Adler. She is a founding member of the Nola Project in New Orleans. She is a former marketing and development intern at the Public Theater, and a current intern/PA/writer's assistant/almost-actress with the LAByrinth Theatre Company. Laura also participated in the Public's Student Ambassador Program, uniquely designed to bring discounted tickets to students in the city. After leading ticket sales for two years (since the program's inception), Laura now facilitates the program, and is in the process of developing its re-launch. Laura has acted on stage and film, for free and for money, and has also won some awards, honors, scholarships and way-to-gos for her academic and artistic work. For some reason, her favorite acting performances include (almost exclusively) the roles in which she played either virgins or prostitutes: Savage in Savage in Limbo, April in The Hot L Baltimore, Lizzie in The Rainmaker, and most recently as Princeza Marie in the reading of Naughty Whores and the Legacy of Casanova by Bob Glaudini, with LAByrinth. In her spare time, she works for money at her 5 part-time jobs. Laura is also fond of karaoke, disrobing in laundry rooms, playing a lesbian on the internet, and bocce.

Rob Herring
Rob Herring started acting and singing in middle school, high school, community, and regional theatres in his home state of New Jersey. He has performed multiple times at NJ's state theatre--the Papermill Playhouse. In college, he performed with a 3-part acoustic band, called The Benefit, which played such New York spots as The Bitter End and Sidewalk Cafe. While attending NYU, he acted in many plays, but towards the end of his college training, he shifted his focus towards film acting. He received an NYU Drama Award for Film and TV. Since graduating he has continued to work in theatre, short films, TV, and various web pieces. Rob has performed stand-up comedy, sang at Carnegie Hall, and won the classic prize--a full expense-paid trip to Disney World. Rob loves the New York Rangers, and quality television like Lost and Battlestar Galactica. He also has a strange obsession with Spider-man. Tracing his genealogy, Rob's family has been in America since 1750. Rob's passion lies in promoting natural health alternatives. He looks forward to an America free of hypocrisy and corruption.

Matthew Hadley
Matthew Hadley's humor occurs unintentionally, so this bio will not likely be very entertaining. A founding member of Thirsty Turtle Productions, he is constantly parched and soft-shelled, so be careful not to roll him on his back. Matt is a self-professed comic book nerd, and has been known from time to time to go on tirades about the Claremont-era Dark Phoenix Storyline and its implications on the greater world of fantasy and story-telling (Chris Claremont is a god, and wrote easily the best long-form comic storyline ever, thanks for effing that up Brett Ratner.) Matt, aka Madley, aka Tweak, aka Pledge, loves to travel, and is currently attempting to secure his UK citizenship, so if any of you has any leads on a single lady/lad looking to trade some visas for a little matrimony, let him know. Oh, and he's an actor-- and does it as often as he can.