MEET THE PRODUCING TEAM

Tracey A. Leigh, Artistic Director

Tracey A. Leigh With an extensive career in theatre making and new work development, Tracey is an Obie Award and NAACP Theatre Award-winning actor and the Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA. Director of the multiple-award winning production of David Johann Kim's TWO STOP, she has also appeared on stages throughout the U.S. and internationally, including a Broadway National Tour, Off-Broadway performances, and productions at The English Theatre of Frankfurt, American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, the Guthrie, The Denver Center, Indiana Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, The Wallis, Boston Court Pasadena, Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara, and Shakespeare Center LA, among many others. TV and film appearances include “The Rookie: Feds,” “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Criminal Minds,” “Strong Medicine,” and “Law and Order.” Tracey is currently appearing in the national tour of UnRavelled, an award-winning play based on the lives of Anne Adams, a brilliant scientist turned painter, and Maurice Ravel, composer of the iconic Boléro.

Don Cummings

DON CUMMINGS is a playwright, author, essayist, actor and musician. His produced plays: The Fat of the Land was a semifinalist for the Kaufman & Hart Award for New American Comedy and was published in The Coachella Review. A Good Smoke was a semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, had a reading at The Public Theater, directed by Pam MacKinnon, with Meryl Streep, Henry Wolfe, Grace Gummer and Debra Monk, and was optioned for Broadway. Piss Play was produced as part of The New York Cringe Festival where it received the Golden Pineapple Award for best play. The Winner was a finalist for The Heideman Award at the Actors Theater of Louisville and was published in Post Road Magazine. The Water Tribe was co-produced by ESTLA with VS. Theatre Company and was published by Original Works. Other produced plays: American Air, What Do Men Live By?, Stark Raving Mad, Feed the Children! and Loose Joints. His essays and short stories have been published in Epiphany, Rain Taxi and Cagibi. His love-sex-and-health memoir, Bent But not Broken, is published by Heliotrope Books. His debut novel, Pacific Time, launches in February 2027. He has been an actor in most of our fifty states, Canada, France, and on old timey sitcoms. His short film, Box, was an official selection in film festivals and received distribution, with Mink Stole and Lou Liberatore. He has a husband and a poodle.
Published Literary: "Bent But not Broken" (Heliotrope Books).

Short stories: Rain Taxi, Cagibi, and Epiphany.

Kate Prendergast

Kate Prendergast has been working with EST since the early 90’s and has acted in and produced numerous works with the company. Primarily an actress, she is writing as well and doing the odd stand up. If she looks slightly familiar it could be from the over 35 national commercials or Black-ish. She is proud to play the wife of her old friend (and fellow member), James DuMont, in That Guy.

Christopher Reiling

Christopher Reiling has called EST/LA his theatre home since 2015 where he’s had the gift of working and growing as an actor, producer, sound designer, musician, and director, and served as EST/LA’s Producing Director from 2018-2020. As an actor, Christopher appeared in the award-winning indie film How to Make Movies at Home, the web series Vacationlanders, EST/LA’s own multi-award-winning series In Search of A P.I.G. (which also featured his original music), and a few shorts along the way. Regional theatre credits include Larry in Burn This, Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Charlie (and others) in Stones in His Pockets, Solomon in Speech and Debate, and Chris in Killer Joe. LA theatre credits include Pigs and Chickens (EST/LA), Charlotte Stay Close (EST/LA), The Water Tribe (EST/LA and VS. Theatre Company), and 2026’s Slava Ukraini! or Waiting for Elon (AFT Theater Co).

Ashley Denise Robinson

Ashley Denise Robinson is a Jamaican-American actress, writer, and educator. She holds a Bachelor’s in theatre from University of Maryland, College Park and a Master’s in Classical Acting from LAMDA. Selected theatre: Primary Stages, Washington Shakespeare Company, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Selected film: BET+’s KEMBA, Lifetime’s Give Me Back My Daughter, JETHICA, Docket 32357, and A Fantastic Relationship. She’s a company member of EST/LA and a teaching artist at the Geffen Playhouse.