AWP at SEA!

Bree Shannon is an alumnae of the Atlanta Workshop Players and the amazing, life-changing, impactful AWP Tour Company.

With over 20 years of entertainment experience, she recently retired from Carnival Cruise Lines where she traveled all over the world and performed as a featured vocalist and dancer in their main stage production shows.

She is currently a vocal teacher and works with local bands and productions in the city. She has recently been appointed as the founding drama teacher for a new charter school called Atlanta SMART Academy, where they focus on math, science and the arts. Bree has several commercial, voice-over, on-camera acting and theatre credits and is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. You can see her in WILL TRENT, BMF, SHE HULK....

​

Bree loves sharing what she has learned and experienced. Even as a professional she is continually training to improve her own skills and abilities, and working to maintain knowledge of all the different
acting techniques. She is so happy to be back AWP!

Jason is an experienced Talent Agent from Los Angeles who relocated to the Southeast where he is the President of Atlanta Models and Talent and the head of TV & Film. He is an award-winning Writer/Director.

​

Jason is a #1 best selling author for his book ASK AN AGENT and is an 'Expert Contributor', writing for Backstage Magazine.

​

Jason finds it most rewarding to help others pursue their dreams.

Rhavynn is an award-winning producer, director, and casting director who has always had a love for actors and great performances. She began her career in casting at Tyler Perry Studios in 2007 after graduating from the University of Virginia. She's had the honor of casting over fifteen television series, eighteen feature films, and seven touring plays with the studio. She has also worked on numerous independent projects with Nickelodeon, Starz, Nike, and YouTube Red. 

​

Her first web series, Good Girls, which she wrote, directed, and produced, went on to win best web series at the Bronzelens Film Festival and the Black Women Film and TV Festival. In 2017 she had the privilege of co-creating and directing Brooklyn.Blue.Sky, which became the first acquired web series for BET Networks after winning the Xfinity Best Web Series Award at The American Black Film Festival. 

​

She recently added professor to her many job titles. She is an adjunct professor in the theatre and communication studies department at Clark Atlanta University. 

Bryana is one of the core four leads of Netflix's comedy series FREERIDGE. She played the title role of Kaylie Konrad on the Netflix Series TEAM KAYLIE. She was a series regular on FOX's URBAN COWBOY, Played 'Daisy' on Disney's BEST FRIENDS WHENEVER, and was recurring on Netflix's MALIBU RESCUE before appearing in the series film. 

​

Bryana earned a THREE chair turnaround on THE VOICE and was selected to work alongside Gwen Stefani. 

​

While stage managing many of the mainstage productions at the University of Florida, Kimberly became fascinated with the process of an actor attaining a role. She sat in every audition alongside the director - hearing his thoughts and reactions to the talent at hand. After junior year of college, Kimberly spent the summer in NYC interning for renowned Broadway casting director Tara Rubin.

​

Post-graduation, she moved back to NYC to intern for casting powerhouse Bernard Telsey. Later there, as the commercial casting apprentice, she ran sessions for such companies as Apple, Macy's, and Target.

​

When city life kept her too far from family and loved ones, Kimberly decided to make the move back to her hometown of Atlanta to take part in the television and film industry boom in the Southeast. Since joining southeastern casting legends Fincannon & Associates in 2013, she's been credited in over 50 television and film projects with three Artios nominations for excellence in casting.

​

She's honored to have been part of the casting director team for such projects as Netflix's "Outer Banks," HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones," Amazon's "The Summer I Turned Pretty," AMC's "The Walking Dead", and many more! 

Sydney starred as Caitlin Park-Lewis in the highly-anticipated Freeform spin-off series Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Her performance was highlighted as "the standout of the young cast" by Variety magazine. 

Sydney starred in season 3 of the hit Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet, opposite Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant on the film side, Sydney starred in 2017 horror film Wish Upon alongside Joey King and Shannon Purser.

Sydney got her start at the age of 6 doing stand-up comedy at the Hollywood Improv. At the age of 8, she competed on reality competition show America's Got Talent as "Syd the Kid," the youngest stand-up comic to compete. She went on to guest star on hit Disney Channel series That's So Raven and Hannah Montana, in addition to HBO's Entourage, Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program and CBS' CSI: NY. Continuing her versatile work, Sydney starred in Nick at Nite's Instant Mom, opposite Tia Mowry and in AMC's acclaimed series, The Walking Dead. Sydney also lent her vocal talent to Netflix animated series, Spirit Riding Free...