Produced by Jason Haas, Neil Reynolds, Matt Tucker
Directed by Jason Haas
Production Manager & Stage Manager: Lynn Wilcott
Assistant Stage Managers: Julie Brown, Bob Holt, Catie Howell
Assistant Director: John Perich
Technical Supervisor/FX Master: Doug Applewhite
Musical Director: Sarah McClean
Musicians (contributing): Sarah McClean, Brian Church, Emily Payne, Steve Gilbane, Adam Brooks, Willie Conrad, Matt Tucker & Eric Pope
Contributing Writer: Lynne Doncaster
Costume Designer: Joy Adams
Lead Designer: Neil Reynolds
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Sasha Goldberg Sasha also performs with ImprovBoston's Mainstage and Rondo, the ImprovBoston Harold Team. |
Ryan Petti Ryan has been performing improv and dramatic theater in and around Boston for eight years. During that time, Ryan was a highly active member of The Tribe, performing with such groups as The Sosnys, Uncanny Valley, The Rumble, The World's Best Variety Showdown, Space MIssion 5000, The Woo Crew, and The Tribe Players. He has also participated in several independent shows such as First Kiss, a two person show reenacting the first kisses of volunteer monologists, Townies, a look at several local characters at their 1990 high school reunion, and Passing Through, which follows two Australian brothers on a seemingly destructive quest across America. He currently co-operates and performs at Bastards Inc. |
Jason Haas Jason is unbelievably psyched to see this show come to fruition and to work with such a jaw-droppingly talented cast. In another life, he was a performer with groups like Starship Imagination and Thomas in Wonkyland, but more recently he has been working with innovative video improv group Neutrino Boston. He has a day job in The Education Arcade at MIT. Joss Whedon, if you read this, please drop him a line.
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Eric Pope Eric was a founding member of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's sketch comedy troupe, Kilroy, working as a writer, actor and director. He acted in WPI's production of Arsenic and Old Lace, as well as WPI’s New Voices drama festival. In the summer of 2002, he co-wrote, assistant directed, and starred in Kilroy's feature film, Disc. Along with fellow Wasteland cast member, Calvin Swaim, he put up a production of Sex AKA Wieners and Boobs by Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Joe Lo Truglio. In addition to directing it, he also acted in numerous roles in the play. After college, Eric joined Tribe Boston and was a regular player in Jolly Farm Revue, a longform improv group. He followed this with a role in the Tribe's showcase show, Sea Mission. While in the Tribe, he was part of the two-man improvised debate show, Eric on Eric: DeBattle. More recently he has been writing and performing sketch comedy with Calvin Swaim and Matt Tucker, and appeared in Cappella!, a film by Tom Roy.
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Calvin Swaim Calvin joined the cast of ImprovBoston's TheatreSports in the fall of 2006 after a wonderful experience performing in GoreFest IV as the lovable scamp, Vince Patrulio. Calvin has been performing improv and sketch comedy in and around Boston since 2000. Getting his start in improvisation at WPI, Calvin was a member of Guerilla Improv as well as the co-founder of Kilroy, a sketch comedy group performing live and filmed sketch. After graduating, Calvin co-wrote and directed a feature length film, Disc, a send-up of the 80s sports genre. After moving to Boston, he joined The Tribe as a member of Sister Brother. While at The Tribe, Calvin performed with many groups, including a guest villain spot on Space Mission and eventually being cast in the Tribe's first mainstage cast, The Tribe Players. In 2006, he performed at the Lowell Comedy Festival with The Unnamed WPI Alumni Project. Calvin now spends his time performing improv with TheatreSports and writing and filming videos for The Uncommonwealth, an online sketch comedy group.
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Neil Reynolds Neil hails from New Hampshire, a Boston suburb. His recent improv projects include performing on the mainstage of The Tribe, playing with the ImprovBoston Family Show, Comedy Thursdays, and Harold Team, and now performing with the Mainstage cast of IB. Neil is also one half of the colonial improv comedy Code Duello: Hamilton & Burr, which was featured at the 2006 Providence Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, and Toronto Improv Festival, and the 2007 Chicago Improv Festival. When he isn't improvising, Neil writes, acts, and directs for screen and stage. His more recent ventures include sketch comedy with The Uncommonwealth and internet audio play The Chagoon Conspiracy. He hopes that you find him perfectly charming. |
Sarah McClean Sarah has been a cast member of ImprovBoston's Family Show since the summer of 2005. Her improv experience began when she joined troupe Wrong Kind of Funny during the arctic winter of 2004. A native of New Jersey, Sarah migrated to Boston to attend graduate school at The New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned a Masters in Vocal Performance with a Concentration in Music in Education. Her past performance credits include several operas, musicals, and concerts. Currently, she is a singer and music/voice teacher in the Boston area. Sarah is a graduate of ImprovBoston University.
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Matt Tucker Matt hails from Middleboro, MA, the self-proclaimed "Cranberry Capital of the World". It is here that Matt cut his showbiz teeth, performing predominantly female roles in neighborhood block party sketches and family barbecue variety shows. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he was a founding member of an improv comedy group called Guerilla Improv. At WPI, he also performed in and authored a number of plays. He has performed in a variety of Boston-based improvisational comedy groups including The Tribe Players (The Tribe Theatre), Unnatural Selection (ImprovBoston) and Code Duello, an original two-person improvised comedy about the fatal duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Code Duello has been an official selection of the Chicago Improv Festival, Providence Improv Festival, The Del Close Improv Marathon and the Toronto Improv Festival. Currently, Matt can be seen performing on Thursdays nights with Bastards, Inc, a weekly comedy variety show in Central Square, Cambridge, MA and with Neutrino, a "nearly live" improvised film group.
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Brian Perry Brian began doing sketch comedy while in high school after becoming unhealthily obsessed with the show The State. Soon after this he began improvising, starting in Poughkeepsie New York with Marist College's unfortunately named comedy group The HuMarists. After college Brian moved back to Rhode Island and dove into long form improv as a founding member and occasional artistic director of Unexpected Company. Still a member of the troupe today, he has performed with UC in places as noteworthy as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Del Close Marathon, Toronto Improv Festival and the Miami Improv Festival. He also once performed with the group in a nearly empty parking lot. To learn more about this fine gentleman, please visit BrianPerryComedy.com.
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