Karen Herr has been performing and teaching improv for the past 15 years, both nationally and abroad. Trained in New York City by the original UCB and Burn Manhattan, she is well versed in both short and longform styles. She is a founding member of goga – the first nationally syndicated all-girl improv group, and produced and directed Teen Movie High, an improvised teen movie still performing in Manhattan, as well as many one-person shows and plays developed through improv. Karen also teaches both corporate improv training workshops and improv for performance through her company, Improve at www.improveyourimprov.com.

Thom Zelenka.com

Anne does improv at Mission Improvable, and has performed at Improv Olympic and Upright Citizen’s Brigade. She choreographs for theater and directs silly stuff like Monkey Madness and Beau Fib with LA Theater Ensemble, and performs with The Actors’ Gang. She got a BA in Drama at UC Irvine, and she just taught a bunch of strangers how to do a spontaneous hip hop dance mob.

Anne Brashier.com

Jeremy Shuback is thrilled to be working with such an amazing group of actors, writers, dancers, and comedians. He comes from a visual art background, working by day doing background paintings, movie posters, and title sequences. While he’s been in and out of theater his whole life, when he was 22 he took his first step into improv, and has thought of little else since. He’s in shows biweekly, previously in Jonny Whiteboard and now in BRUCE, and compliments that with a smattering of one off groups. He graduated Mi Westside’s program, and is currently continuing his improv education at iO West.

Jeremy Shuback.com

Ed on IMDB

Michelle Miracle has been performing improv and sketch comedy for 16 years. She has appeared at festivals across the country, including the Chicago Improv Fest, Chicago Sketch fest, Boston Comedy Festival, LA Comedy Fest, and Denver Improv Fest. Michelle recently worked on a Cruise Ship performing with The Second City, and is currently studying at the Groundlings Theater. She loves donuts, but no longer eats them because they are filled with evil.

Michelle on youtube

Representation: (CO) – O’Neill Talent, 818-566-7717

Vanessa is a writer, comic, and actor living in Los Angeles. Check out her videos at www.smalldreams.tv, her podcast at www.popmyculturepodcast.com, and her picture, RIGHT HERE! Vanessa loves you unconditionally.

VanessaRagland.com

Representation: (CO) – IAA, 310-550-5000, (MGR) & Odenkirk Talent Rep. 323-960-4777

Cole Stratton is currently “paying his dues” in Los Angeles, where he enjoys losing parts to minorly more successful actors such as Barry Levinson’s nephew. Due to planet alignment, he has appeared on TV’s Nash Bridges, re-enacted on America’s Most Wanted, played with puppies and Betty White on the Animal Planet original The Retrievers, thrown-down like the sarcastic white boy he is on Wilmer Valderrama’s Yo Momma, and was a cast member on NBC’s competitive comedy show Comedy Coliseum. He’s a lead in the indie comedy Callback opposite Kevin Farley, has also appeared in the films Around the Fire and Dead Man on Campus, and will be seen soon as office gossip Ed in the horror/comedy The Selling. He’s also hawked wares in national commercials for Verizon, Popeye’s Chicken, a Wilco-scored VW spot, and a five-spot campaign for Group Health. Along with Janet Varney, he has written and performed downloadable comedic commentary to the films Dirty Dancing, Ghost and Footloose for RiffTrax.com, an online venture helmed by Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Michael J. Nelson. He is co-founder and co-director of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, which has brought some of the greatest comedic minds to the Bay Area, including Gene Wilder, The State, The Kids in the Hall, Dana Carvey, Paul Reubens, Bud Cort, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and hundreds more. He co-founded the sketch collective Totally False People (who performed at the 2004 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado), and LA’s improvising Pretty, Pretty Pony and Mosey. He performs regularly with MI’s Westside Comedy Theater’s house improv team, Bruce, and just launched a bi-weekly podcast with Bruce teammate Vanessa Ragland called Pop My Culture (www.popmyculturepodcast.com). Be sure to check out his humorous ramblings on weird album covers, cinematic gems, fake celeb gossip and other randomness on his blog at riverbottomnightmareblog.blogspot.com.

Representation: (CO) – O’Neill Talent Group, 818.766.7717