Selena Anguiano - Managing Director
 Selena Anguiano is an independent manager, producer, and consultant in the performing and cultural arts. She holds an MA in Cultural Policy & Management (Arts Administration) from City University London as well as a BA in Theatre from the University of Dallas, and was schooled in Italy and various parts of Europe. Selena has worked with and for numerous organizations in the United States including the Dallas Children's Theatre, the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Opera America, and Holden Arts Associates. In Washington, DC, she has worked with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Atlas Performing Arts Center, DancePlace, Horizons, Venus Theatre, Solas Nua, the Embassy of the Czech Republic, SIG Productions, and the Washington Girls Chorus. Selena serves as development consultant and grant-writer for The Maine Studios, a newly-instituted film production company in Portland, ME, and she is working to bring both the Jeden Svet (One World) International Human Rights Film Festival and Lahore Children's Film Festival to the Portland area. A member of AEA, Selena is an accomplished stage manager and performer, drama and dance instructor, arts education administrator, and opera enthusiast. She was born and raised in Dallas, TX.
Laura J. Scott - Artistic Producer
 Laura J. Scott has trained as a dancer and studied Acting at Adelphi University and the Shakespeare Theatre Company. A native Italian speaker, she holds a BA in Foreign Languages, as well as an MS in Early Childhood Education and an MS in Communicative Disorders, and she is a Certified Speech Language Pathologist. In addition to serving as Artistic Producer for Faction of Fools, she has also produced and directed for Leesburg Theatre Company. Recent stage credits include Four Dogs and a Bone, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night. Her screen credits include the films Sinergy, Lives and Deaths of the Poets, and President's Day, as well as the MSNBC docudrama Will You Kill for Me? Laura can also be seen in a variety of industrial films (including hosting Fairfax Government TV's Foreclosures 101), so keep your eyes peeled! She studies Flamenco whenever life allows and lives in the suburban sprawl of Northern VA with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
Vanessa Buono - Director of Education
 Vanessa Buono is the Director of Education for Faction of Fools and the School Programs Manager at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She teaches a variety of classes in the DC metro area, including Acting for Business Professionals. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Purdue University, where she taught Intro to Acting and Voice for the Actor, as well as a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She also studied Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Prior to working in DC, Vanessa lived in Los Angeles, where she appeared on American Dreams, ER, and All of US and was a member of the improv troupe The Berubians.
Barbara Charlene Seifert - Director of Development
 Barbara Charlene Seifert has spent three years as a non-profit fundraiser for various grassroots organizations, and she is delighted to connect her love of fundraising and her love of theatre. She is freelance actor, fight director, actor-combatant, and stuntwoman who has worked in New York City, Washington, DC, Singapore, and Italy. She holds a BA in Theatre from Virginia Tech and is a graduate of Antonio Fava's International School of Comic Acting and of David Boushey's International Stunt School. She is recognized as a Recommended Advanced Actor-Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and has taught at New York University, Shenandoah University, and currently within the Fairfax County Public Schools system. Theatrical credits include Hamlet, Riddley Walker, Far Away, The Dentist, and Schadenfreude!. Film credits include Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Taking of Pelham 123. Fight Direction credits include The Accidental Patriot (for which she was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Movement/Choreography), Spring Awakening (with J. David Brimmer), and Crimes of the Heart directed by Kathleen Turner at the Roundabout Theatre. She is a proud member of SAG and an eligible to join AEA...as soon as she raises enough funds for the membership fee.
Sarah Bartlett Wilson - Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Bartlett Wilson is the former Public Programs Assistant at the Folger Shakespeare Library where her production and administrative responsibilities spanned the theatre, early music, poetry, and literary readings programs. Her New York City management credits include productions at John Houseman Theatre Center, Theatre-Studio, Inc., Red Room, Producer's Club, and American Theatre of Actors. She has managed several international tours of The Great One-Man Commedia Epic and is a frequent guest at Antonio Fava's Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell'Arte. She is pursuing her doctorate in English Language and Literature at The Catholic University of America and holds an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University, an MAT in Secondary English Education from Brooklyn College, and a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She has been a high school teacher in the New York City Public School System and an Adjunct Professor at multiple colleges. She currently teaches writing courses at The Catholic University of America and Georgetown University.
Paul Reisman - Chief Information Officer
 Paul Reisman is the Chief Information Officer for Faction of Fools as well as the designer of the new Factionoffools.org. He is currently completing his MFA at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. Recent acting credits include a national tour with the American Shakespeare Center of The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V in repertory; Richard III and Pride & Prejudice with the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ; Proof with TheatreFest; A Midsummer Night's Dream with the American Globe Theatre; and the film Cult of Sincerity, recently broadcast on PBS. He has also taught workshops and classes in Classical Text, Acting Shakespeare, and Clown at several venues including the Broadway Theatre Workshop, Knox College, and The Center for Baroque & Renaissance Studies’ summer program. Proud member of AEA! BFA, Montclair State University. Visit Paul online!
Rachel Spicknall - Media Producer
 Rachel is an actor and improv teacher, and the program assistant at Traveling Players Ensemble in Great Falls, VA. She holds a BA in Theater from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also studied at the National Theater Institute, the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy, Washington Improv Theatre, the Staniewski Centre for Theatre Practices “Gardzienice” in Poland, and with the improvisers of Chicago’s iO Theater, Annoyance Theatre, and Second City. In the DC area, Rachel has taught acting and improvisation at Traveling Players Ensemble, the Holton-Arms School, and Melvin Berman Hebrew Academy. Acting credits include Wiley and the Hairy Man and The Trojan Women at the University of Maryland, and A Country Club Crime, Foodstuff (Cohen New Works Festival 2009), and Big Head House, in Austin, TX.
Toby Mulford - Teaching Artist
 Toby Mulford is an educator, actor and playwright specializing in ensemble-created physical theater. He is the Associate Artistic Director of the Traveling Players Ensemble, where he started a five-week Commedia dell’Arte summer program for teenagers. He holds an MFA in ensemble-based physical theater from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater, where he co-created over a dozen original works. He has also studied with Antonia Fava, and with faculty from the Moscow Art Theatre School. Originally from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, he has performed with BigHeadHouse, the Vagabond Acting Troupe, the International Opera Company, and Tribe of Fools. His plays have been produced at the Dell’Arte Company (California), the Brick Playhouse (Philadelphia), and at the Festival of Animated Objects (Calgary, Canada).
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Matthew R. Wilson is a freelance actor, director, fight director, and Commedia dell'Arte specialist. He has worked throughout Europe and the United States and holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 
