MITCHELL THOMAS (Actor, The Rink at the End of the World | he/him) is an award-winning actor, director, and professor of theatre based in Santa Barbara, CA.  He is the sole editor of an anthology of short plays, The Future is Short, published by Methuen Drama in Fall 2026.  Recent international work as an actor includes performances in Armenia, Macedonia, Romania, Poland, Italy, and China. Mitchell also produced and performed Wallace Shawn’s solo show The Fever in London, England and the Will Eno Pulitzer-nominated play, Thom Pain (based on nothing), at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as part of their contemporary collections programming. In Los Angeles, Mitchell has worked with South Coast Repertory Theatre, A Noise Within, the Pasadena Playhouse, Circle X, and the Blank Theatre Company, and locally at the Ensemble Theatre in Creditors and The Memory of Water. Mitchell last worked with director Risa Brainin in Staging the Daffy Dame by Anne García-Romero, and is thrilled to be returning to another LAUNCH PAD production. MFA, University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program.