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Santiago Rosas was born and raised in the state of Arizona to immigrant parents from Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico.  Santiago, a graduate of the Meisner Technique Studio in San Francisco, has called the Bay Area home for seven years.  He’s been in such roles as Jeremy from the theatrical production of Home Front. Benny from the “The North Pole Show”, Raymundo from “Driving while Undocumented” and starred, co-wrote, and produced the short, Indulto where he won the Best Actor award in the 2017 Sanford Meisner Film Festival. In his leisure time, he is actively involved in his communities in Phoenix and SF/Oakland and loves to play and listen to music.

Paul has been a professional actor in San Francisco for 35 years, performing in films, theater, television, radio, commercials, internet, industrials, trade shows, voiceovers and full performance (voice and body) motion capture.

He's worked with film directors Spike Lee (Livin Da Dream), Peter Weir (Fearless), Carl Franklin (High Crimes), and Jonathan Parker (The Californians). Paul has been paired up with Noah Wylie, Jeff Bridges, Dennis Franz, Ashley Judd, John Rubenstein, Jack Warden, Cheech Marin and Don Johnson. He had a co-starring role on NBC's Trauma, filmed in San Francisco, as well as a lead role in the award winning, full length independent feature 'Crashing Eden', and appeared in Rob Lowe's  'Knife Fight' .  Nationally, Paul hosted HGTV's Landscape Smart for 13 seasons (170 shows!)  and locally for Best Of The Bay on KRON TV. He's also worked in San Francisco as a radio dj, production director and television producer. Select national commercial clients include Princess Cruises, Homelight, Credit Karma, Foot Joy, Alamo, Toyota, Lexus, Walgreens, Sara Lee, Gateway and One Touch Ultrasmart. Recent regional  spots include CBIZ,  and Bay Alarm.  .

For the last 26 years Paul has worked as a Session Director for Beau Bonneau Casting,  as well as CD’s Kristen Beck, Greg Cohen and Nancy Hayes.  He has also been an instructor at The San Francisco Acting Academy for 18 years and manager since 2012.  He has seen thousands of actors do their thing in the audition environment.

Joan began her entertainment career in the production offices of Romper Room School and Dialing for Dollars, and then moved to radio at legendary underground rock stations KSAN SF and KMET LA. She served in the creative and production offices of Foote, Cone & Belding for six years which led her to open the first casting office in San Francisco. 

Shortly thereafter, the opportunity to head up the talent division at the world class Grimme Agency presented itself and Joan spent the next six years there, working with San Francisco's infamous modeling agent, Jimmy Grimme. In 1986 Joan was recruited to develop her own talent division at Look Agency and has enjoyed tremendous success and rewards in building Look. 

She has taught voice-over acting and business for actors in England at the Drama Studio London and at UCDavis, at San Francisco and Sacramento State Colleges, the American Conservatory Theater, The Voice Factory and VoiceTrax. Joan also serves as President of the Board of Encore Theatre Company.