Who We Are
It all started when our founder, Damion Rallis, broke free from the shackles of corporate America. He was and has always been a creative at heart, however he found himself working a very corporate job within the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) industry for over a decade. Fortunately, he found a way out.
While frolicking around a farm in France, he had the brilliant idea of creating a media company intended to cover business news, with a specific focus on ESG headlines. Creating content for a daily news show, Business Pants, scratched his creativity itch for a while. But, being married to an actress and involved in Portland, Maine’s theater scene for quite some time, another idea began brewing.
What if he got a theater troupe together to up the ante and satirize the most shocking or ridiculous headlines he came across while prepping for Business Pants? He found a couple of local actors, tried it out and they haven’t looked back since. In 2023, they performed their first live sketch as a part of PortFringe. They loved it so much they’re already planning more!
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Courtney Cook
Courtney is Maine-based actress and writer. She recently appeared as Phyllis in Portland Theater Festival’s 2022 production of Body Awareness and at PortFringe 2023 as CEO Steve in The Boring Boring Company.
Courtney is a regular writer/performer on the Business Pants podcast (Free Float Media) which features sketch comedy segments satirizing business and financial news. Favorite credits include How I Learned To Drive, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hedda Gabler, as well as performing Huis Clos and L’Ecole des Femmes in French at the Théâtre Lucernaire in Paris.
Courtney has a BA in acting and French from Bennington College and an MA in theater history from the University of Illinois. She is currently creating a multimedia/theater solo project.
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Mark Magee
Mark is an artist, actor and movie/theater buff who lives in Portland, Maine.
He currently writes and does voice-work for Free Float Media’s Business Pants podcast. Since 2013, Mark has regularly participated in Portland’s fringe festival, PortFringe and from 2014 to 2020, he co-hosted a goofy WMPG FM radio show called The Portland Files. Mark led a weekly art group at the Preble Street Teen Center in Portland for 5 years and prior to that volunteered at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center.
Mark firmly believes in the Stages mission and is excited to help young people discover how rewarding artistic expression can be.
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Molly McGill
Actor and storyteller since birth, Molly McGill has always been a sucker for the limelight. Her theater experience began in second grade when she was cast in the coveted role of donkey in the Bremen Town Musicians. Having been bitten by the theater bug, as they say, she continued on and hasn't looked back since.
Molly can be found revving up the audience and cajoling the judges as host of Maine's Got Talent, as part of the cast of Sleuths Mystery Entertainment and Mystery for Hire, and onstage doing improv as a member of The Chamber of Comedy, You Should Smile More and Mainely Improv.
Besides all that stuff, she’s a wife, mother of two precocious pixies, daytime copywriter, and lover of life, laughter and music.