Our Actors
Levi Damione – (Owner/Director) Levi has performed in theater in and around the Bay Area for many years. The most recently being the World Premiere of Holes at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. He also won a Dean Goodman Choice Award for the role of Robbie in A Man of No Importance at the New Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He received a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a US Navy veteran. Along with his theatre work, Levi has been featured in several films and TV shows including daytime dramas Days of Our Lives and All My Children, Syfy Channel comedies Dead & Deader and Big Ass Spider, NipponTV’s World’s Astonishing News, the History Channel movie The Rescue, and was the voice of the character Jett in the Sony Playstation video game AntiGrav.
James Koponen – James’ experience spans community television hosting, television commercials, and occasional movie work. Along with having authored A Very Victorian Murder, Murder in Vegas,Murder in Space and Murder at the KO Corral, his acting roles include Captain Al Koholic, Joey Marzetti, John Disse, Billy Club, Doodie Frudee, Horace Cope, and Black Eyed Pete. His stage roles include Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. Billy in Carousel, Bobby Child in Crazy for You (Stage 1 Theatre), Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz (DLOC), Will Parker in OKLAHOMA! (Hayward Little Theatre), Vinnie in Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Las Positas College), Lt. Cable in South Pacific (Pleasanton Playhouse) and Lamb in The Hothouse (University of London). He holds an MA in English from Cal State Hayward (East Bay).
Divine Celiane – Divine has appeared in various films and stage productions. She has been featured in seven well-received movies, including two award-winning feature length films. Divine’s work as a composer and singer has also been featured in films. Some of her favorite stage productions include the role of Eviline in The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors‘ Audrey II for Drunk Drag Broadway, and The Queen in People of Ammon which was also adapted into a film with Divine reprising her role.
Tenaya Conklin – Tenaya and director/producer John Bisceglie have been collaborators and friends since San Francisco Follies in 2009. Tenaya’s many theatrical credits include May in Once in a Lifetime, Molly in The Mousetrap, Trudy in Betty’s Summer Vacation, and Tenaya Rocks; a Sexy Geological Cabaret. She is also part of the country band The Saddle Sores with her dad and mom.
Dawn Day – Dawn has appeared in several Mystery House productions since 2019. Her Bay Area stage work had her twice nominated for Shellie Awards; once for the role of Anfisa in Anton Chekov’s Cherry Orchard of the Living Dead and again for the role of Jane in Bloody Murder.
Benjamin Garcia – Benjamin has performed in musicals, plays, improvised theatre, immersive theatre, and sketch comedy all over the Bay Area including being a member of the Killing My Lobster sketch comedy troupe. Favorite credits include the title role in “Hamlet” and “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead” (CCCT), Billy Flynn in “Chicago” (Plethos), Mozart in “Amadeus” (TOOTCo), Benny in “Every Christmas Story Ever Told” (Town Hall), and Berger in “Hair” (Landmark). Benjamin is also a singer-songwriter and script writer.
Tiffani Lisieux – Tiffani is a Bay Area actor who has been a part of many productions in the Bay Area, El Paso, and Kansas City. She received her Bachelors of Arts: Theatre Performance from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Some credits include Robin Goodfellow in A “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Shelby Eaton in “Steel Magnolias,” King Alonso in The “Tempest,” C in “Three Tall Women.” She is also a performer with the San Francisco sketch comedy group Killing my Lobster.
Tina Luisen – Tina’s many accolades include Shellie award nominations for the role of Clea in “Black Comedy” and an Arty Award for her performance as Maggie in “Lend Me a Tenor.” She was also nominated for a Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance award (Elly) for her work in “Jake’s Women.” Notable theatre companies with which Tina has performed include Woman’s Will Shakespeare, CCCT, Benicia Old Town Theatre, Napa Valley Players, Stockton Civic Theatre and East/West Players of Los Angeles.
Jerry Motta – Jerry has been acting and directing in the Bay Area for 50 years. An honors graduate in Theatre Arts from Sacramento State University, he has received 9 Shellie Awards and a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Award for outstanding performance. He is a veteran in improv, street theater and club work. Some of Jerry’s featured roles include Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman,” Colonel Jessup in “A Few Good Men,” Fagin in “Oliver,” and title roles in “Billy Bishop Goes to War,” “Barnum,” and “Groucho – A Life in Review.” Jerry has also written and voiced a series of radio commercials.
Ron Sacchi – Ron has been cast in a variety of Mystery House roles over the past two decades. Previous stage credits have included: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, God’s Favorite, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He received a Shellie award for his role as Captain Hook in a long running favorite, Peter Pan. Recently, he has rekindled his love of improvisational theatre performing with the Danville Diablos.
Tony Santucci – Prior to his many years as a mystery dinner theatre performer, first for Katie Hassett’s Mystery by Design and then John Gibson’s GibsonHouse — the precursor to MysteryHouse Performers — Tony performed in stage productions across the South Bay. Some of his favorite roles include Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Bela Zangler in Crazy for You, Judd Frye in OKLAHOMA!, Bill Sykes in Oliver, Noah Bascom in Carousel, Manolo Costazuela in the female version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, and Smee in Captain Hook