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Aaron Saenz Aaron is a wandering thought. He was a founding member of WHJ in Austin, starting the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. Then he was in IGP at Harvard. Then he sort of did physics for a while. Then he was in American Standard in NYC. Then Start-Trekkin NYC, the Star Trek themed improv masterpiece. Now he's in San Francisco interviewing robots...no one is quite sure why. But he does seem happy to be working with such wonderful people.
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Alan Goy Alan Goy is an improvisor, actor, director, and internationally produced, award-winning playwright. He's worked with many theater companies, from the Kokopelli Theater Co. in Anchorage to the Three Wise Monkeys Theater Co. in San Francisco, to Teatro del Navile in Italy. Alan's play, Il Lago, was performed in Bologna, Italy in May 2005. He performed with BATS Improv from June of 2000 to January 2003 and is proud to be a founding member of The Un-Scripted Theater Company. During the day, he no longer works for a small toy company.
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Bryce Byerley Bryce has been working in improv and theatre for 26 years. Bryce has graduated from actor training programs at a lot of three letter theater companies. He's been a full-time working actor, done a lot of shows, worked with a lot of people, trained with some names and done bit parts in some TV shows and films. He also has some hobbies and does stuff outside of the theatre. He would like to thank someone close to him. Without his or her actions and/or support the above may or may not be possible. Whatever.
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Christian Utzman Christian Utzman (a founding member of the Un-Scripted Theater Company) began his career as an improv actor doing street theater at Renaissance Faire in ‘93. In ‘97 Christian got involved in staged improvisational theater at College of Marin studying Johnstonian improv (Keith Johnstone is the author of both Impro and Impro for Storytellers). To hone his craft, Christian joined as many improv troupes as he could. So far his hard work has landed him in a veritable plethora of improv groups including: Cannibals at High Tea; The Tuesday Night Players; Treated and Released; The Fibbs; the BATS Improv Sunday Players and The Belfry; the Un-Scripted Theater Company; and countless other smaller troupes.
When Christian isn't on stage he's teaching, studying, or watching improv, and despite all the time he spends on stage these days, he still finds time to head back to his roots and do street theater once or twice a year. What’s Christian doing right now? Check his website at www.improvactor.com.
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Clay Robeson Clay has been improvising for well over ten years now. Starting out in Boston he studied, then performed and taught with the Improv Asylum, the Improv Foundry and Third Grade Trick. Since returning to the west coast, Clay has worked with the Jesters of Yes, been a producer for the San Francisco Improv Festival (2006 to 2009), and is now a Staff and Ensemble member with Un-Scripted. When not making things up on stage, you can find him doing sketch comedy with MoronLife.com, taking photographs that wind up on Photography.ClayRobeson.net or working on developing a puppet sci-fi web series. You can also see him walking away from the camera in two different scenes (about 7 seconds worth) in High School Musical 3.
In his copious spare time, he publishes the Improv Bay Area newsletter.
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Dave Dyson Dave Dyson (Salinas, CA) is a working actor, improvisor, voiceover artist and writer. Since finding improv in 1996, he’s worked with East Bay Improv, BATS Improv, co-founded The Fibbs, and joined Un-Scripted shortly after it formed in 2003. Check him out in Unflinching Triumph (now available on dvd), and look for a staged “sing” next spring of his zombie-themed parody sequel to Jesus Christ Superstar (www.3dayslater.net)...
Dave was once snowed on in the mountains of India -- in the month of August.
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Greg Shilling
Greg Shilling comes to the Bay Area via New York where he has worked as an actor, a props designer and assistant director. His most constant and abiding passion, however, is for Improv. Greg has studied at BATS and at New York’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade. He was a member of the SF improv troupe Tilted Frame. Most recently, he appeared in (and was also one of the creators of) FutureStyle `79 for Confused Parade Productions.
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Mandy Khoshnevisan Mandy Khoshnevisan is an improvisor, actor, teacher, singer, and all-around Working Artist. She directs productions and teaches acting, music, and dance in schools and throughout the Bay Area. Further, she has composed and performed original music for shows including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Mother Courage." She is also a puppeteer, a graphic designer, and Master Electrician for the SF Playhouse; she designed lights for the SFPH production of "The Sunset Limited." In her fifteen-year improv career, she's been a performing member of Spontaneous Generation (SponGe), the Stanford Improvisors, Scenic Root Longform, and BATS Improv—and The Un-Scripted Theater Company.
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Melissa Holman Melissa is a Bay Area improvisor, elementary school teacher, and proud member of the Un-Scripted ensemble. In San Francisco, she has appeared in such Un-Scripted shows as "Secret Identity Crisis," "A Tale of Two Genres," "In A World...," and "Un-Scripted: unscripted," as well as at the SF Theater Festival, SF Improv Festival, and BATS Cave Match. Previously, she was a cast member, director, and sketch comedy writer at ImprovBoston and the Tribe Theater in Cambridge and Boston, MA. She has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade, ACT, ImprovBoston, BATS, and with Armando Diaz, and has also appeared in more than 20 plays and short films in San Francisco, Boston, and New York.
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Merrill Gruver
Merrill Gruver is a member of the Un-Scripted Ensemble as well as of the improv troupe Shakespeare’s Stepchild. She is an actress and improvisor best known as the voice of Karen Carpenter in Todd Haynes’ Superstar. More recently, she appeared in Erika Chong Shuch’s Love Everywhere and the Hodgearts film Reticulum. Merrill is a graduate of BATS Improv and performed regularly with The Sunday Players. Merrill teaches drama at The Peninsula School.
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Paul Kursky
Paul Kursky is a recent East Coast transplant (first New Jersey, then Boston) who's excited to be performing in the Bay Area. He has been a sketch comedian, improvisor, and humor writer for over 10 years. He trained in improv with ImprovBoston and helped create their Nickelodeon award–winning Family Show, along with performing in numerous other shows at the theater. He wrote and performed sketch with The Ruckus and Boris' Kitchen, and also performed at The Tribe Theater. He's also done occasional standup comedy. But not well, really.
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Susan Snyder Susan Snyder is in her second decade of improvising. She is proud to be a co-founder and continuing ensemble member of the Un-Scripted Theater Company. Susan holds a MA in Psychology/Drama Therapy and specializes in teaching both the joys and practical applications of improv in trainings, workshops and classes. In addition to performing, Susan manages Un-Scripted's Corporate Programs. Susan blogs about improv and parenting at www.improvamama.com.
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Trish Tillman Trish Tillman is the Director of Artistic Learning at California Shakespeare Theater, as well as being an actor and theater arts teacher in the Bay Area. As an improvisor, she has worked with Bay Area Theatersports here and Paul Sills in New York City, has founded two improvisational theater troupes and is very proud to be an Un-Scripted ensemble member. She’s been seen in lots of scripted work as well, including the upcoming The Importance of Being Earnest at The Town Hall Theater in Lafayette.
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