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Calaine is excited to join Dream Maker Talent management!


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Last year almost 50 artists came together to create this little parody of La La Land directed by the one and only Laura Archer. I was lucky enough to be part of it - Ladies & Gents, Another Day of School.


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Yet again BE producers Calaine Schafer & Laura Archer are BEing interviewed! This time they join BRIC's roundtable exploration of comedy.

Brought to you by Brooklyn Free Speech TV. Brooklyn Free Speech TV featured BE SEASON 1 on their channel January 2018.


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Calaine joins a talented trio of women to work on Jeton Neziraj The Internationals (translated by Alexandra Channer). A satirical political comedy where Bill Clinton dances with Mother Theresa, Madeleine Albright gets personal about NATO bombings & Carla Del Ponta hunts tirelessly for illegal organ traffickers but still makes time for Starbucks. A Between the Seas Production, directed by Aktina Stathaki


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BE Bettina & Elaine is a finalist in TWO categories, B Hilarious & B Artistic, at the BRIC Brooklyn Free Speech BFree Awards! Brooklyn Free Speech TV featured BE SEASON 1 on their channel January 2018.


Calaine is excited to be working theatrically with Marlene Hartje at the Marlene Agency!


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Catch Calaine in the short film the Soothing System.The Soothing System is written by Sarah Cronk and Mari Meyer. The film is inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Directed by Erik Spink.


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BE producers Calaine Schafer & Laura Archer are BEing interviewed for BRIC MEDIA TALKS: Developing a Web Series on the good, the bad, and the BEautiful that go into making a webseries! Brought to you by Brooklyn Free Speech TV.

Brooklyn Free Speech TV featured BE SEASON 1 on their channel January 2018.


PHOTO CREDIT: MALLOREE DELAYNE HILL / MDH PHOTOGRAPHY

Calaine is Alexis in Company of Fool’s production of Plucker by Alena Smith. Ever since Alexis moved in with her boyfriend, her pet parrot has developed a problem. What’s worse, the girl she’s been illicitly flirting with just showed up uninvited to their dinner party with bedbugs and a secret past…. Playing at the Access Theatre


Calaine is in Popup Theatric's project Liar. PopUP will take over public spaces with brief spontaneous performance events called mini popUPs.  These Mini’s are the next step in Popup's performance research of Truth and Lies, that they are developing in partnership with The Women's Project.


BE SEASON 2 has been selected by Miami Web Fest to be included in their 2017 Online-Screenings.


Photo Credit: Angie Speranza

BE Season 2 IS HERE!

The Second Season of the award-winning BE Bettina and Elaine--two friends, two phones, two minutes--is LAUNCHED. BE is an original web series  Calaine co-created, wrote, produced, and starred in  with Kristina Mueller. Co-Produced with Laura Archer, in association with March Forth Productions. Check out a new episode every week HERE!  


The Learning Project

Calaine has started workshop rehearsals with the Stella Adler Studio Outreach Division OutsideIn Theatre Company in their inaugural production  The Learning Project.  An unique  theatre company brings together an incredible diverse group of people from current Adler faculty and students to Alum to students who have participated in Stella Adler Programs at Rikers Island and the Phoenix House. Touring dates coming soon.


Photo Credit: Isaiah Tanenbaum

Patronage, a fairytale by Kati Frazier

December 2015 - Calaine played a Countess that would not be wooed without a rhyme scheme or at the very least alliteration in Kati Frazier's new play Patronage, directed by Corinne Woods, produced by Random Access Theatre Company in association with Not Without Rage. With Jamie Boswell and Ivanna Cullinan.


The Pit

November 2015 - Calaine played the lead in a short student film directed by Laura Archer for the masters program at Brooklyn College. Shot on location in upper state New York on the shores of Lake Ontario and in Brooklyn.