SIENA STREIBER

Writer

     Siena Streiber is a comedy writer based in Los Angeles, CA. She wrote episode 8 of the third season of Only Murders In the Building, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. She has served as the writer’s assistant on Only Murders In The Building and B.J. Novak’s The Premise, and has worked on the shows Liza On Demand, American Crime Story, and Scandal. Her original pilot “SCREWED” won Stanford In Entertainment’s All Write Now screenwriting competition in 2021 and was a quarterfinalist in the WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab in 2023. Siena is Coverfly endorsed and appeared on Coverfly's 2023 The Next List. She is a contributor for the Belladonna.

SUZANNE SMITH

Director

     Suzanne Smith is an Emmy & Artios Award winning Casting Director with over 30 years experience. Her mentor, Rose Tobias Shaw, was a tough, funny and smart American Casting Doyenne who helped Suzanne sharpen her skills into the Casting Director she is today. Not one to let her dyslexia be an obstacle, Suzanne began her career casting musicals including Tommy, Carousel and Crazy for You. She segued into film and television where she continues to make her mark to this day.

​     In her downtime, Suzanne enjoys walks with her beautiful dog Annabella and taking kickboxing classes where she's been told she smiles whilst boxing. She also has an unusual talent for not needing a watch or alarm - she can wake up at any time thanks to her own internal clock.

Joanna Lipari (Angela)

Actor 

     Joanna Lipari is an American actor, writer, and psychologist. Joanna graduated from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, where she studied under famed acting teacher Sanford Meisner.

     Young actors often have many jobs while waiting for acting gigs, and Joanna certainly had her share, including waiting tables, bartending, working in an eye clinic, and writing non-fiction magazine articles, for such notable publications as FILM COMMENT, UNITED AIRLINES MAGAZINE and Conde Nast’s SELF Magazine.

     In parallel to her acting ambitions, Joanna earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  Additionally, she was an adjunct professor in psychology at both Pepperdine and UCLA. 

     In recent years, Joanna wrote and performed a solo multimedia show titled “Activities of Daily Living” which blends storytelling, poetry and animation to reflect on life, aging, the experience of women, and identity. ​