Meet The Cast Of Hold My Beer: Lydia Pearl Pentz

This week, I'd like you to meet another cast member of Hold My Beer: Lydia Pearl Pentz!

Lydia is playing Shannon, a twenty-three-year-old commercial banker who knows a thing or two about Vancouver, WA's local brewpub industry and whose clients include a homebrewing supply store that our lead characters Val and Doug visit.

Fun facts: Lydia was referred to the project by Cindy Yamamura, owner of Seize the Bagel, after we had lined up Seize the Bagel as a location and, just on a whim, I asked Cindy if she knew any local actors ("As a matter of fact...") Also, Lydia and Andrew York (who plays Val) acted together in a middle school play, a fact that we discovered during this moment.

Lydia has already compiled an impressive acting resume, as you can see from her bio:

Lydia Pearl Pentz is an actress from Vancouver, Washington. She had her start in Oregon's Children's Theater when she was only five years old. Since then, she's done local theater for over a decade. Her first on-set experience was as a body double on NBC's Grimm (2016), after which she fell in love with on-screen acting. Her first feature film will be Trapped (coming January 2025), in which she plays the lead role, and she'll also appear in numerous other projects, including Hazel (2025), A Simple Machine (2025), The Death of Snow White (2025), Ever After (2025), The Wilde Girls (2025), and, of course, Hold My Beer.

You can check out her IMDB page here.

Thanks for being part of our cast, Lydia!

P.S. If you're in the Vancouver, WA area, there will be a Pre-Release Party-slash-Fundraiser for Autism Empowerment this Saturday, November 16, at Loowit Brewing's downtown location! It'll be from 4pm-9pm, and there will be live music by Flying Whammy, Nowhere Fast, Monty Vega & The Sittin' Shivas, and Second Player Score. There will also be a special "Hold My Beer Vancouver Hazy IPA" for sale in limited-edition cans. Hope to see you there!