PENNY SHAW

Nurse Johnson (recurring)
Amy Sanders
(recurring episodes 10 - 12)

Penny has lived in the Pacific Northwest for the past seven years with her husband and two daughters. She has lived most of her life in Chicago and still considers herself a Midwesterner. While in Chicago , Penny focused on her business career in technology. She lent her voice to several on-line computer training tutorials. Her husband’s job change took them from Chicago to Southern California . It was there that Penny went back to her childhood passion of acting. Penny is with Actors In Action in Portland . She has performed in a variety of infomercials, commercials, and independent films. The Eye of the Storm is her first on-line soap opera performance.

DAVID CRAWFORD

PARAMEDIC (episode 15)
FIREMAN (episode 16)

David Crawford lives and works in Walla Walla, WA. He did a stint in the dramatic world of Seattle theatre but has moved into teaching the craft. He is excited to be a part of Eye of the Storm and looks forward to working in the voice talent world in the future.

TIFFANY LONGMAN

"Paulette Lewiston"

(episode 15 - recurring)

Tiffany has always loved acting.  She did stage plays in high school but never pursued it professionally.  Recently a local director/producer told her that she should consider looking into voice over work.  So she decided to pursue her passion. She took one-on-one training with veteran voice over coach Veronica Weikel as well as on camera training from seasoned actor/teacher Tony Doupe’.  Tiffany really appreciates the opportunity to be a part of “The Eye Of The Storm”.  She enjoys playing recurring character Paulette.

 
Tiffany resides in Bothell, WA where she lives with her husband and two boys.

BARBARA NORFLEET

"Gina Prescott"
episode 16 to present
recurring

Though not a native of WA, 
Barbara settled in beautiful 
Kirkland nearly 15 years ago. 
Her day job as a left-brained 
computer nerd keeps her 
very busy, however 
Barbara’s creative drive 
leads her to her many other
loves. These include singing, 
working with words 
(mostly editing),
performance acting, 
and now voice-over acting. 
She sings in
two choirs, on her church’s 
Praise Team, and sings solos 
for many types of 
occasions (some invited, 
some spontaneous). Barbara 
shares her free time with 
friends, her dog and her cat.
They are all a tremendous 
source of love and 
entertainment. Having read 
books to tape for many 
years, this is Barbara's
first soap opera role and
she is thouroughly enjoying it.
 

WILLIAM MICHAEL PAUL

"Ranger Jones"
episode 20 - 21

"Carson"
episode 21 (recurring)

DREW BARRIOS

OFFICER (episode 06)
GUARD (episode 07)
Linc Marshall (recurring)

Drew was spawned in the muddy bayou waters of south Louisiana where he fed on crustaceans, reptiles and hapless terrestrials. Soon after learning to walk upright he headed upstream to the nation's capital, Washington D.C. for a formal education in debauchery and reckless abandon. After a decade of indolence he found his way to sunny Portland, Oregon where he acts on stage and in film, and wages an intermittent war against mold and mildew.

BRUCE BRACKEN
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TAXI DRIVER (episode 08)
Max Sanders
(recurring episode 10 - ?)

After relocating from Tennessee to Seattle during the dot-com heyday, Bruce spent 7 years employed as a software developer at Amazon.com and Microsoft. As exciting as staring at computer programming code for ten hours a day might be, he decided to break out of his cubicle and pursue his true passions. Bruce is currently filming documentaries in Seattle, authoring fiction, continuing his still photography business, and voice acting various characters, including those heard on internet radio soap operas.

JEFF SCHWAB

"Dr. Shackner"
(episode 19 - recurring)

Jeff Schwab was born in the small town of Batavia, Illinois and shortly after moved to San Diego, CA. Here, at the age of 10 he began his acting career performing in musicals with the MET. He got his first speaking role at the age of 12 in the production of Peter Pan as one of the lost boys. He didn't decide to pursue acting until high school with a class reading of Romeo and Juliet. Some of his most notable roles include George from Moon Over Buffalo, Hamlet, and King Lear. He is currently a drama major at the University of Washington, has done work with various theatres around Seattle. He hopes to establish himself in the Seattle theatre scene and hopefully star in a great film or two.

RICHARD C. LEWIS
"Hank Bennton"
(episode 24 - recurring)

Born in 1960 in upstate New York, Rick’s family moved around (Ohio, Connecticut, and Maryland) until he was nine years old, at which point they settled in Seattle.  He graduated from Seattle’s Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington, earning a BA in Political Science.

While at UW Rick discovered an interest and aptitude for computers, and subsequently got a series of techie jobs.  All this time dealing with ones and zeros hid a theatrical side.  Though too shy in high school to pursue it, he always had a knack for voices and performing.  In 1988 a friend introduced him to Linda Pressey, who produced and directed Follies, a charity show each year at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre.  Through that Rick also got involved in A Victorian Country Christmas, another of Linda Pressey’s productions, at the Puyallup Fairgrounds.  Work intruded, however, and performing fell by the wayside.

After several life changes, Rick decided to get back into performing in 2007.  He took classes from Kim Brooke and Veronica Weikel and has since been doing voiceover and acting, as well as some writing.  He has recently been working for EffectiveArts doing improvisational acting for training purposes.  In the past several months Rick performed at the Camlann Medieval Village, in an indy movie called The Book of Bob, and in the Seattle showings of Tony & Tina’s Wedding.  He has also been featured in 19 Nocturne Blvd, an internet audio drama.

DAVID EDWARDS

"CARSON"
(episode 17 - recurring)

David grew up in Texas as a ranch kid, departed for New York City at age 12.  Acting was his first profession, and at age 12, was already taking a cut of the gate at an Off-Off Broadway Theater. At 17, he was the youngest member of
the first professional repertory company in the southwest. He then fell into a career in journalism purely by accident. He worked on human rights, war crimes investigations to mention a few of many. However, theater and film, acting have always been essential intervals. Essential in the way that my heart not turn to stone and helpful in furtherance
of those other careers. My home base now in the Methow Valley of Washington State. It really is one of the gems of the planet. I am, however, always glad to
depart to work on the film or theater piece of some 'youngster'

JD WELCH

"Dr. Pascal"
episode 17 recurring

JD has lived in the liquid sunshine capital of the world for most of his life. Growing up in Seattle, JD's natural inclination was to play music, drink coffee, and sit in traffic (quite often simultaneously). JD's musical aspirations led him headfirst across the country, onto the charts, and into the tumultuous business of music. Not much for the hazards of the road and music business, he opened his own music school in south King County where he mentors young musicians. Acting seemed to be the natural progression for someone with such a large ego, and JD began his acting career in the fall of '06. He mostly does film work, but also the occasional TV pilot or short film. Eye of the Storm is JD's first voice acting endeavor.

BETTY GARD

"Arresting Officer"
episode 21

Betty was born in central Illinois . Perhaps her flair for the dramatic got its start in Methodist churches where her Dad preached.  She also developed an early love of films and radio soaps. She met her late husband at the University of Illinois and later lived in Rhode Island , Vermont , and in North Dakota , where she enjoyed a 35 year career as head of an academic library reference department. She began acting in her mid-thirties in the local Community and University Theatres in Grand Forks , N.D.  She performed there in 40 plus plays and musicals and did voice-overs for local TV and radio. She had speaking roles in films there, including, DEAD DOGS, which was named best independent film in the 1998 SIFF Festival. She moved to Seattle in 2006 because her two children live there and just  because she knew she loved the city and it had a good theatre and film scene.  She has been on stage, had several speaking roles in indies,  and appeared in a Microsoft trailer for a videogame.