Meet the Team
Artists experienced in human resources, business operations, and leadership.
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Laura Gouin
Founder
Laura Gouin (she/her) is a director, writer, and actress who got tired of starving and essentially created the company she wishes would have been around when she was starting out. She loves leveraging her experience in theater and film casting to custom match clients with their most ideal support, drawn from the creative arts. These Artful Admins are taken through her systematic training program, founded on principles of teaching learned from her MA in education.
In addition to her creative background, she has worked professionally in team augmentation, sales, business development and operational management. Her unique approach to hiring, training, and team building has served organizations for over two decades by placing hires that stick long-term, and fostering teams that truly thrive.
Damon Royster
TALENT AND CLIENT ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Damon Royster is an actor, writer, and director residing in Los Angeles, CA. Damon got his start in the arts back in Chicago. It was there that Damon stretched out his creative comedy muscles by training, performing, and teaching at the myriad comedy institutions in the midwest; including The Second City, iO, and the Annoyance. He was a staff writer for the tabletop game Cards Against Humanity, as well as, a writer for his award-winning web series AppQueen (2019 Outfest Film Festival web series finalist). Damon has gone on to write, direct, and star in his own rom com short film Surgeons, and he hopes to produce more films in the coming years. Damon is so excited to be on the Satiated Artists team. He feels passionate about finding artists’ work in the admin field because he knows all too well that artists have already been doing this kind of work behind the scenes.
Katherine Bourne Taylor
Employee Development & Communications Specialist
Katherine is an actor, writer and comedian. Upon graduation, she worked in regional theatre and received “Dallas Mastermind” and “Best of Big D” awards for her contributions to independent, self-produced theatre. After training at the School at Steppenwolf, she moved to Chicago where she discovered how to survive a midwest winter and a love of improv and film. She currently lives in Los Angeles. In 2023, her one-woman show, “Grown Up Orphan Annie” premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she received a Playbill Pick of the Fringe. She has been seen on your TV in numerous commercials, Lovecraft Country, and The Ms. Pat Show. She co-hosts the monthly comedy show OBSESSED! at Baby Battista, and is a stakeholder with The Back Room Shakespeare Project LA- performing Shakespeare plays, fully memorized with one rehearsal- in a bar. She is so excited to be working with the Satiated Artists team, and honored to be part of our Artist’s stories.
Amanda Winston
operations Specialist
Amanda Winston (she/her) is the New Project Specialist for Satiated Artists and Lead Project Manager for one of SA’s original clients. Fun fact, she was also the very first to join Satiated Artists! It all started when Amanda worked as an assistant director for Laura, our founder, on a theater production and was on the hunt for a more sustainable day job. Laura saw the potential in artful admins, and thus Satiated Artists was born. At SA, Amanda helps organize and facilitate the completion of internal SA projects, working closely with the team to ensure the full vision is brought to life.
Originally from Carmel, Indiana, Amanda is a Butler University graduate with a BA in Theatre and minor in Digital Media Production. She is a Chicago based actor and creator with various credits in theater, film, television, commercials, and voiceover. She’s also been known to direct on occasion for both camera and stage, dabbles in screenwriting, and hopes to eventually produce films of her own. When she’s not working or performing, Amanda loves going on adventures with her husband and dog and gaming/geeking around with her close group of friends.