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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.

Dave Dyson
Called “hilarious”, “effective”, and “a tv-fed, anal-retentive moron” by members of the press, Dave got bit by the improv bug (Theatraea Improvicus) in 1996. Since then he’s performed and taught improv with East Bay Improv, was a founding member of improv troupe The Fibbs, performed as a Sunday Player at BATS Improv, appeared in scripted plays with Impact Theatre and elsewhere, tv web and radio commercials, and in indie films such as the future cult classic Unflinching Triumph. Want him for a gig? Contact the Look Talent Agency.

Mandy Khoshnevisan
Mandy Khoshnevisan is an improvisor, actor, teacher, singer, and all-around Working Artist. Her main vocation is, basically, bringing art to the children—teaching improv, acting, storytelling, playwriting, music, and dance, helping to make people's lives more fun. Her last "real job" was being the publicist and graphic designer for the Stanford Drama Department; now she does the same job for Un-Scripted. September 2006 marked her ten-year improv anniversary! Over the past ten years, 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.

Tara McDonough
Tara McDonough has been improvising for more than fifteen years, and has trained in London, Maine, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco. An administrator as well as an artist, she has worked at theatres all over the country, including Marin Theatre Company, BATS Improv, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and New Repertory Theatre. She was co-founder of Printer's Devil Theater at Seattle, local improv group The Fibbs, and of course The Un-Scripted Theater Company. In her spare time, Tara makes stuff; check out her website (www.taramadethis.com, coming soon) to see what she's up to now.

Part Time Un-Scripted Theater Company Staff

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 works for a small toy company.

Jennifer Kah
Jennifer Kah is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater, the Jean Shelton Acting Lab, Stanislavski Acting Group, The Method Warehouse, and BATS Improv. She is queen of the student film and princess of the 15-minute short film. She also has the distinction of playing Maggie the Cat in three different productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She performed for 3 years with Cast Off Theater Production Group, doing plays all over California. Finally improvisational theater became her focus and she has spent the past seven years performing in different improv groups, such as: Hey You Theater, Chickimprov, The Dips, Almost Live, The Libertines, Casablanca Blondes and The Un-scripted Theater Company. She currently teaches acting and improv privately as well as with the Academy of Art College.

Mark Duncanson
He was better suited for theater and playing the clarinet.

After trying his hand at baseball, basketball, and soccer, at the age of eight Mark (and his parents) realized he was better suited for theater and playing the clarinet. Mark has been performing improv in the Bay Area since 1995 when he landed a spot in the improvised soap opera, Liquid Soap, where he developed a love affair with long-form improv. Over the years, Mark has had the pleasure of performing with BATS as a Sunday Player, the StartUps, Night Cap Theater, and playing drums for Bay Area pop rock legends Apple Slap. When Mark isn’t performing on stage, he enjoys “playing-for-real” as a civic youth worker.

Susan Snyder
Susan Snyder is in her second decade of improvising. Susan specializes in teaching practical applications of improv including presentation skills, teamwork, improving interpersonal skills and saying "yes" to life. In addition to teaching improv, Susan makes up her career by working as a drama therapist with seniors and also, as a production associate for Illuminata Films. She is proud to be a founding member of The Un-Scripted Theater Company and part of Maya Sedgewick's MusicCircus. Susan has previously been seen making things up with BATS Improv, id figures, The Fibbs and East Bay Improv. Prior to becoming an improvisor, Susan was a playwright and experienced the most enjoyable performance of one her plays in a parking lot in Cork, Ireland.

Our Esteemed Alumni

Amber Price
A lifelong performer, Amber began improvising in 1999. In addition to Un-Scripted, she is currently the lead teaching artist for The Super Dupers and a puppeteer with Omax Pi Puppetry. With a friend, she recently began writing and publishing Creative Byproducts of Magical Meat Machines, a free zine in which they jointly explore various philosophical questions.

Brian McBride
Brian’s passion in life is creating entertainment. Studying film and theater in Ashland, Oregon, he was part of countless plays with both the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Southern Oregon University. He also directed, produced and acted in a handful of various independent film projects, such as “El Pato” and “Birdseed or Blood.” In 1998 Brian relocated to the bay area to work as a computer film effects artist. Not leaving his theater background behind, Brian joined BATS Improv where he performed improvisational theater for many years before co-founding The Un-Scripted Theater Company. Brian currently resides in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Alex, where he runs Tour Anything, the leader in building customized rich-media product tours.

Cort Worthington
Cort Worthington was born in the charming little village of Enumclaw, Washington. He never really looked for a full time job after high school, spending 14 (sheesh!) summers as a forest fire fighter, the final four as a parachuting US Smokejumper. That was neat. During the 80’s Cort lived for stints in Israel, Japan, & Nicaragua, picking up Spanish after much toil. By the early 90’s he’d found a little direction and attended film school at Stanford and UCLA. In 1996 Cort co-founded the toy company Primordial, makers of the building toy ZOOB. In 1997 he launched Illuminata Films, which produces documentaries and comedic corporate films in San Francisco (what a city!) Cort’s two great loves are Susan his wonderful wife (also of Un-Scripted Theater Company fame), and, well, life.

Glenn Etter
Glenn Etter has always enjoyed making up stories and pretending to be other people. This habit has served him well in improv, but has had mixed results in his jobs and personal relationships. A founding member of The Un-Scripted Theater Company and The Fibbs, Glenn has been performing with a variety of improv troupes since 1997.

Un-Scripted Guest Performers

Three - 2008

Bryce Byerley
Bryce Byerley performed in his first harold in 1984 at age 16. Studying during High School and College with Cindy Kamler, the former trainer for SF's The Committee, Bryce comes from a pre-"Yes And" philosophy of Improv. Bryce has graduated from actor-training programs at SCT, ACT, and a bunch of other alphabet soup theatre companies. He also has taken Master Classes (along with everyone else who had 100 bucks) with Keith Johnstone, Charna Halpern, and Mick Napier. Bryce has been working in theatre for over 23 years, where he was a founding member of the infamous San Francisco Improv Co-Op and is currently one half of the legendary SF duo The Babcocks.

Three words to describe Bryce: omnipotent, omniscient, and a big fat liar.

Alex Curtis
Alex Curtis proudly makes his Un-Scripted Theater debut in Three. A long-time student of improv, Alex has trained with Un-Scripted, BATS, and ComedySportz, LA. He teaches improv at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently earning degrees in Theater and Business Administration. Alex most recently appeared in Impact Theater's A Very Special Money and Run Winter Season Holiday Special as the one-eyed outlaw Jimmy Jake McAllister, i.e. "Run."

Three words to describe Alex: gregarious, incorrigible, and scrumtrulescent.

Rebecca Poretsky
Rebecca Poretsky has been improvising since college, where she was a proud SIKO (Smith Improv Komedy Organization of Smith). Since 2004, she's been a member of Big City Improv in San Francisco. In between, she's performed with the Bread and Puppet Theater and taught with The San Francisco Mime Troupe's Youth Theater Project. Rebecca also teaches improv classes and is an award-winning cat writer (not a joke). She is excited to work on different improv skills and explore the long-form realm with the lovely Un-Scripted folk.

Three words to describe Rebecca: creative, indecisive (in life, not in improv), and passionate.

Let It Snow! - 2007

Dave Amiott
Dave Amiott (Paineville, OH) completed the Second City Conservatory program in Cleveland in 2004, and he spent two years as a member of Something Dada, Cleveland's longest-running improv troupe. Locally, he has performed with Big City Improv and How We First Met, and he will soon be seen as a regular on the syndicated series Improv Slam TV. As a writer, he is a frequent contributor to the comedy website www.thephatphree.com.

Dave's outdoor college graduation ceremony was interrupted during the President's Address by a snowstorm. In May.

Bryce Byerley
Bryce Byerley (Fairfield, CA) lives in San Francisco. he has done a lot of shows, taken a lot of classes and worked with a lot of people. Bryce used to work as an actor, but now he just works.

When Bryce was growing up in Fairfield, it snowed twice. He was sick both times with chicken pox and mumps respectively and had to stay indoors. Bryce hates snow and childhood diseases equally.

Derek Cochran
For the last 30 years, Derek Cochran (Green Mountain Falls, CO) has had the fortune to appear in numerous stage plays, musicals, and films. In the last 10 years, he has found a true love in improv theatre, exploring and playing with such groups as BATS the Belfry, Ad Nauseum, Id Figures, The War Show and The @sshole Monologues.

Growing up in Wyoming, Derek enjoyed the towering ten-foot snow drifts, losing all of his Star Wars people in the winter, and triumphantly finding them again in the spring. The force was with him.

Karen L. Hirst
Karen L. Hirst (Towanda, IL) got her start in Improv in the 70s as a member of The Second City Touring Company in Chicago under the direction of Del Close. In San Francisco, Karen has been in productions of Chutzpah the Musical, Into The Woods, Promises, Promises and last year in a new musical entitled Absolutely San Francisco. Karen was a member of Lucky Dog Improvisational Theater Company under the direction of Joya Cory. She teaches improvisation and acting fulltime. She is delighted to be appearing in Let It Snow!

Karen remembers one winter when she was a kid it snowed so hard it closed down all of Route 66. The drifts were 6 feet high. People were stranded and some slept in her father's grocery store. She thought it was really cool. Karen now prefers to sing about snow.

Scott Keck
Scott Keck (Crestwood, MO) moved to San Francisco 25 years ago to study improv, and what a trip it's been! 15 years with Flash Family, 5 years at BATS, How We First Met, voices for PlayStation and Nintendo games, and now guesting with Un-Scripted. Scott has a boat for sale, by the way. He is also a Halloween geek, having built three beautiful full-size coffins this year.

Scott's best snow memory is saucer-sledding down a giant hill in Forest Park, in St. Louis, at age 6.

Molly Robertson
Molly Robertson (Maumee, OH) has been doing musical theatre since the tender age of seven. A number of years later, in 2004, she discovered the beauty of improv. Her primary improv training came from the Upright Citizens Brigate Theatre, but San Francisco introduced her to musical improv where she received training from the one and only David Norfleet. She is also a co-founder of the New York City troupe Right This Second.

Molly's fondest winter memories involve sledding down the hills on the farm with her two brothers and numerous cousins.

Trish Tillman
Trish Tillman (Marietta, GA) is an actor, improvisor and theater arts teacher in the Bay Area, and is very happy to return to the Un-Scripted Theater Company. She is currently teaching with California Shakespeare Theater and San Francisco Arts Education Project. As an improvisor, she has founded two improvisational theater troupes and performs regularly with improv companies in the Bay Area. Around town she's been seen in lots of scripted work as well, such as: What the Butler Saw, The Cherry Orchard, Antigone, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All in the Timing, and The Great Sebastians.

Growing up in Georgia, Trish experienced more ice storms than snow. In the morning you could see the branches and pine needles from all the trees broken, blown, scattered and frozen in place. It was like being inside an actual ice crystal itself, and everything glowed when the sun came out.

Shakespeare: Un-Scripted - 2007

Ann Feehan
Ann Feehan fell in love with acting at Jean Shelton Acting School (in this very building!), fell in love with theater as staff for the Eureka Theater, and fell in love with improv at Jim Cranna's weekly workshop. Ann has produced late night shows at BATS Improv (Instant Shakespeare, Screwball Comedy, and Teen Paranormal), was in the full-length improvised film Ever Since the World Ended, founded the improv group Escape Artists and is a coach for Laughingstock at BATS Improv.

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments."
Sonnet 116

Maggie Ferrill
Shakespeare: Un-Scripted is Maggie Ferrill's second guest appearance with the Un-Scripted Theater Company, first appearing in The Impossible Film Project last summer. Maggie is relatively new to the improv stage, but has been involved in theater for many years doing everything from acting, singing, and dancing, to lighting, sound, and costume design. She is in her senior year of college and is soon to graduate with the intention of teaching theater.

"Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."
The Merry Wives of Windsor, II ii

Scott Keck
Scott Keck moved to San Francisco 25 years ago to study improv, performed with Flash Family for 15 years, sold out the Great American Music Hall, and loves bagpipes. He's done voices for numerous PlayStation Games (Mitsurugi, anyone?) and can skipper 50' sailboats anywhere in the world. He has been a competitive swordsman, sailboat racer, and is allergic to cats. His wife Elaine is the best, and his Irish terrier Finnegan is the greatest dog in the universe. This is his second run with Un‑Scripted.

"The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope."
Measure for Measure, III i

Amy Keyishian
Amy Keyishian forsook New York for San Francisco just over a year ago. She was trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, has performed in myriad professional troupes, performs sketch comedy with standup comic Randy Hauser as one-half of The Algonquin Card Table, and was recently spotted as a guest performer in Un-Scripted's The Great Puppet Musical. She also works as a marketing writer, a freelance magazine journalist, and a young-adult novelist. See her ramblings at madfoot.blogspot.com.

"Methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise."
Much Ado About Nothing, I i

Trish Tillman
Trish Tillman is an actor, improvisor and theater arts teacher in the Bay Area, and is very happy to be working for the first time with the Un-Scripted Theater Company. She has taught acting technique, improvisation, and Shakespeare in New York and San Francisco over the last 14 years, and is currently teaching with California Shakespeare Theater and San Francisco Arts Education Project. As an improvisor, she has founded two improvisational theater troupes and performs regularly with improv companies in the Bay Area. As an actor she has been seen most recently in Hardly Breathing at the Exit Theater and the successful extended run of What the Butler Saw at Theater Rhinoceros. She has also performed leading roles in the Bay Area in The Cherry Orchard, Antigone, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All in the Timing, and The Great Sebastians.

"This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long."
Sonnet 74

The Great Puppet Musical - 2007

Tim Bauer
Tim Bauer started his improv career in Austin, where he performed with groups like Theatersports, ComedySportz, Blah Blah Train, and Monks' Night Out. Since moving to San Francisco, he's concentrated on playwriting, receiving two PlayGround Emerging Playwright Awards and a brand new commission to develop a full-length play for the Magic Theater. He'd like to thank the puppets for tempting him back onstage and Un-Scripted for welcoming him.

As a child, Tim would improvise his own version of Cookie Monster's "C is for Cookie" song. He was particularly proud of "G is for Goldfish,: created in honor of his two fish, Bert and Ernie.

Amy Keyishian
Amy Keyishian is a New York native who came to the Bay Area last summer with a dollar in her pocked and eyes full of dreams. She was trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, has performed in myriad professional troupes (most recently in the SPF7 offshoot Rocket Science), and performs sketch comedy with standup comic Randy Hauser as one half of The Algonquin Card Table. She also works as a freelance magazine journalist and young-adult novelist. See her ramblings at madfoot.blogspot.com.

When Amy was fresh out of college, she worked at Children's Television Workshop and had the inside line on when the big muppeteers would be filming. That's how she got to meet Grover, Elmo, and Big Bird/Oscar. You. Are jealous. Admit it.

Clay Robeson
At age three, at Foster's Clam Bake in Wells Beach, Maine, Clay Robeson sang "You Are My Sunshine" to a very appreciative audience. Ever since, he has looked for new ways to get into the spotlight. The last eight years have been spent performing and teaching Improv, in Boston (and the rest of New England), Atlanta, San Jose, and here in San Francisco. Sans-puppet, Clay produces an internet sketch comedy show called Moron Life, is an aspiring photographer, and will be making his San Francisco Improv directing debut with "B-Movie Night" next January. You can check out his work at www.MoronLife.com and photography.ClayRobeson.net, if you need to kill some time.

This is Clay's first time working with puppets. He thinks that it's funny that people stare at you less when you're talking to yourself while there's a puppet on your hand.

Andy Sarouhan
This is Andy Sarouhan's third guest appearance with the wonderful folks of Un-Scripted, after delighting in two runs of The Impossible Film Project. Improv and puberty made their ways into Andy's life around the same time. One made people laugh, the other helped his dating life - you decide which was which. Andy is a performer with Flash Family, San Francisco's oldest improvisation troupe. He also has the distinct pleasure of teaching improv to high school students around the Bay Area, most specifically the amazing young performers at Hillsdale and Aragon High Schools. Big up!

At the age of 10, Andy took a cruise with his family to Ensenada, Mexico, where he bought a Mexican marionette, complete with stereotypical sombrero, Pancho Villa moustache, and six-shooter. Andy promptly gave the puppet the traditional Mexican name of Luigi . . . feel free to postulate on the depressing socio-political messages inherent in such an event.

Zack Stern
Zack Stern (www.sternwords.net) is a freelance writer, video producer, actor, and improvisor, in the order of how he pays bills. He's excited to return to Un-Scripted after performing in the troupe's inaugural run of The Impossible Film Project. Zack has been a founding member of San Francisco improv groups including Submergency and Electric Candyland, and he's also performed with The Wharf Rats, Beatnik Syndicate, and others. Listen to on-mic, improvised shows and script readings with his current project, Radiostar, at www.radiostarnetwork.com, or through iTunes.

When they were younger, Zack and his sister Alison entertained the grownups with annual, Fourth of July popsicle-stick puppet horse races.

You Bet Your Improvisor! - 2007

Mike Della Penna
A former Boston comic, Mike Della Penna is delighted to have been invited to guest once again with the Un-Scripted Theater Company! Last year he fell in love with Un-Scriped's Love at First Sight, a stage experience that made him feel more attractive than he actually is. His other improv credits include Wesleyan's Desperate Measures, ImprovBoston's TheatreSports, and San Francisco's Beatnik Syndicate. He is presently concluding a nine-month guest program with BATS Improv. He also teaches kindergarten.

Mike once sat through seven tapings of the game show Scrabble. If he ever sees Chuck Woolery, he will punch him in the face.

Chris Sams
Game show fanatic Chris Sams is the Director of Corporate Programs and Interim Managing Director for BATS Improv, in addition to being a frequent Un-Scripted guest. Chris is an aspiring improv guru and author, and has taught more than a dozen corporate improv workshops as a trainer in the workplace.

A feat difficult to imagine, Chris has hosted more than 40 game show spoofs for entertainment and/or training over the past 13 years!

Kate Wing
Kate Wing has been improvising since 1991, when her college improv troupe stole her from the debate team. Since then she has studied and performed in Seattle, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where she helped revive the mighty WIT. Locally, she has appeared onstage with BATS, the ImprovSlam singing contests, and twice before with Un-Scripted. Her biggest audience was speaking to a crowd of 500 people at the Herbst Theatre as part of her day job with NRDC.

If Kate were on Jeopardy she would take "Things Fish Do" and "Baked Goods" for $1000. She would lose her money on "Math" and "Name that Year."

Supertrain - 2006

Kurt Bodden
Kurt Bodden was his high school's ping-pong champion. He has lived in Paris, Glasgow, Boston, Atlanta, and small-town Ohio. And he's just moved back from Los Angeles, where he completed the improv/sketch program at Groundlings and worked as a standup comic and MC. He has improvised on film (in the feature Suckerfish and on stage with Scratch Theatre and the BATS Company. A Harvard grad, he likes water parks and has fired machine guns.

Tom Waits's "Train Song" always chokes Kurt up.

Derek Cochran
A biographical haiku:

Long years on the stage
Learning life from the spotlight
Somethings about trains.

He would like to thank his unaattained future wife and imaginary children for all of their forthcoming love and support, without whom, he would be exactly where he is today.

Also, a big thank you to his fellow defenders of liberty and shampoo pirates, without whom he would have no rent.

Ana Elizondo
Ana Elizondo is a native of Oakland, CA, where she was raised within the local theater community. She has performed in many plays and has done a number of extra, main, and supporting roles in both indie and feature films. Ana currently busies herself working with the SFIC and can be heard on the podcast radio show, "Radiostar." Ana is always looking to perform and knows the perfect part is out there.

She once got busy in a British train bathroom... OK, only made out.

Linda Rosenfield
Ready with "funny" in her carry on luggage, (if she can get it past airport security) Linda Rosenfield has worked for 22 years as an improvisor. Improv got under Linda's skin like scabies since the Groundlings. Ithcy! Thanks to her love, Joe and her son, Aaron. He's cute and single. Anyone?

Once, Linda took a train in Hungary from Lake Balaatan in the wrong direction, arriving in the small town of Révfülöp where she ended up renting a room from a descendant of Attila the Hun! Great homemade wine!

Darlene Sorensen
Darlene Sorensen, once famous for poking the Pillsbury Doughboy on television, is now famous as Mama to her three-year-old daughter. Darlene has been an improvisor and actor for years (upon years, upon years). She also sings, periodically exercises and loves to daydream about having a little country farm in the city. She is currently learning more about playing than she ever has from her beloved daughter.

"...[M]emory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away..." -Tom Waits

The Impossible Film Project - 2006

Lindy Ackman
Lindy Ackman (actor) has been acting since the tender age of nine. Her performance work has included scripted plays, children’s theater, some stunning student film projects, and a bit of improv (all of the short form/game variety). Thanks to her experiences with Un-Scripted, she has fallen in love with long form. Excited to be performing in her fourth Un-Scripted run, Lindy embarks on The Impossible Film Project simply bubbling over with un-bridled excitement and passion.

Kurt Bodden
Kurt Bodden (actor) was his high school’s ping-pong champion. He has lived in Paris, Glasgow, Boston, Atlanta, and small-town Ohio. And he’s just moved back from Los Angeles, where he completed the improv/sketch program at Groundlings and worked as a standup comic and MC. He has improvised on film before (in the feature Suckerfish) and on stage with Scratch Theatre and the BATS Company. A Harvard grad, he likes water parks and has fired machine guns.

Rachael Caselli
Rachael Caselli (Technical Director / Video Mixer) used to be just a fan of The Un-Scripted Theater Company. Now she is a fan and a techie. Rachael was a member of the Dublin Theatre Company for over 5 years, where in addition to acting, dancing, and directing, she also did technical work, including everything from lighting to sound design to slide operation. She hopes to continue performing in any way she can, technical or otherwise.

Christy Daly
Christy Daly (actor) graduated from UCSB in 2004 with a degree in theatre. She is a founding member of Revolving Madness, an improv company currently taking San Francisco by storm. They have produced shows in Santa Barbara, Point Reyes, Los Angeles, Toronto, and are attacking NYC in October! Christy is a waitress and nanny and hopes that one day, she won’t write that in her bio.

Jenn Dorn
Jenn Dorn (director) is an East Coast girl who relocated to San Francisco in 2004. A Filmmaker/ Editor/Producer, she has a degree in fi lm and was the Associate Producer and Assistant Editor for the documentary Girls Rock! (www. girlsrockmovie.com). She thinks that every aspiring director/ filmmaker should try directing for IFP—it’s an entirely different filmmaking experience with a whole new set of fun challenges!

Goose Duarte
Goose Duarte (director) studied film production in San Francisco City College and a couple of private institutions in San Francisco. Although he has been involved in several student films, this is his first experience directing. Goose is also an experienced improviser. A graduate of ImprovWorks and BATS Improv, he performs with Flash Family and has also been part of popular long-form improv productions like Liquid Soap, Emotional Hospital, and Underdog.

Chris Faber
Chris Faber (director) is a screenwriter who’s had a dozen jobs in the industry— screenplays bought or optioned, works for hire, and a credit on the film See Spot Run (2001). His most recent project is Right Side of Zero, a true story about a young man in the late 1970s who falls in with the first team of professional blackjack players ever to hit Las Vegas. Like many writers, he wonders why personal bios are written in the third person.

Maggie Ferrill
Maggie Ferrill (actor) enjoys Chinese food, long walks on the beach, romance novels, and... Wait! Wrong bio... After performing in numerous scripted roles (Sugar in Some Like It Hot; Eve in Children of Eden; Cinderella in Twinderella), Maggie makes her debut on the improv stage. She is very excited to be performing with Un-Scripted and working with such an amazing cast and crew! She would like to thank her friends and family for the wonderful support.

Scott Keck
Scott Keck moved to SF 25 years ago to study Improv, and has been improvising ever since. 15 years with Flash Family; 5 years at BATS Improv; 5 years of How We First Met; plus Those Improv Guys, Desperate Improvisers, Into the Cave, and others. Scott did lots of voices for video games & web toons during the dot com boom, and still does voice acting/ production. He’s thrilled to be in his first
Un-Scripted show!

Shaun Landry
Shaun Landry (actor) is Artistic Director of Oui Be Negroes, Founder of The San Francisco Improv Alliance, producer of The San Francisco Improv Festival and Artistic Associate of The Chicago Improv Festival. She was part of the Second City Chicago’s Touring Company and does a lot of scripted and film work too. She really thinks The Impossible Film Project is cool, and asks for you to scream out her battle cry: MORE KISSING!

Sara Lovelady
Sara Lovelady (actor) began her acting career at the tender age of 11, when she landed the lead role of P.T. Barnum in her fifth grade play, which, to this day, no else has heard of. That was the last scripted gig she did. Improvising for a decade, Sara co-founded two improv troupes—ScripTease and Freefall—both in Santa Cruz. She’s tickled pink to be performing in “The City” for the fi rst time.

Kimberly Maclean
Kimberly Maclean (actor) began acting, directing, producing, and singing as a fetus. She’s one of those beautiful people you are always hearing about. Kimberly teaches all over the place with her flashy BA in Theatre Arts. As founder and director of The Super Dupers, a BATS main-stage company player, sketch writer/performer with The Last Laugh SF, and more, it’s amazing that she has found time for TV pilots, cool films, good friends, and a rock-n-roll lifestyle.

Kathy Mello
Kathy Mello (actor) has always loved to perform. In her youth she danced, did pantomimes, acted in plays, and performed on a weekly radio show. She fell in love with improvisational theatre 10 years ago and has appeared in Double Feature with Rafe Chase, Tim Orr, and Gerri Lawlor. She has been a Sunday Player with BATS Improv since 2001. Kathy had her first solo performance in July. This is her second year with The Impossible Film Project.

Michael Michalske
A native San Franciscan, Michael Michalske (actor) performed his first play at the Magic Theatre when he was 9. He received his BFA from UC Santa Barbara where he studied acting, movement, modern dance, and contact improvisation. Michael currently resides in San Francisco where he teaches yoga and performs with the truly excellent improv company Revolving Madness.

Joel Micucci
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts with a Theater Arts degree, Joel Micucci (actor) studied with Second City in Los Angeles and ImprovWorks and BATS Improv in San Francisco. He has performed with LifeScape Theater, Emotional Hospital, and Underdog. When he’s not improvising on stage, Joel is improvising his life as a builder; he has appeared as a co-host on HGTV’s Curb Appeal and Landscape Smart.

Andy Sarouhan
This is Andy Sarouhan’s (actor) second year rockin’ out in The Impossible Film Project, and he’s honored to be a part of it again (hell ya!). Andy has been improvising for 14 years and is currently a performer with Flash Family (hell ya!). When he’s offstage, Andy feeds himself by teaching improv to America’s youth (hell ya!) and substitute teaching (uh … ya. . .that’s cool, too).

Ian Slattery
Ian Slattery (director) started fooling around with improv with a video camera during his freshman year of college. Fooling around led to more serious fooling around. He performed with the Stanford Improvisers for three years and wrote, directed, and produced three short films — including the improvised mocumentary Ushers. Before returning to the Bay Area last fall, Ian performed with Jackie and Washington Improv Theater in Washington DC. Ian is a fool.

Dune Thomas
Dune Thomas (director w/ cameos) has been steeped
in writing, acting, directing, improvising, and otherwise screwing up his passage into adulthood via creative mayhem since he first encountered the threat of maturity at the age of 12. This is no exception.

You Bet Your Improvisor - 2006

Steven Anacker
"Steven Anacker, come on down! You're the next guest contestant on You Bet Your Improvisor!" Steven has performed improv for the past 13 years in New York City and San Francisco with Short Order Theatre, BATS Sunday Players, Lila Theater and others. Steven is thrilled to test his luck again with the talented folks of Un-Scripted.

As a Swiss kid new to America, Steven's favorite game show segment was Cliffhanger on The Price is Right. Will the mountain climber sporting lederhosen fall off the alpine cliff?! Prizes! Yodeling! Potential Death! What more could you ask for?

Lisa Rowland
Lisa Rowland is so excited to be guesting with Un-Scripted for a second time. She started improvising in high school; her love for improv blossomed in college, where she was a member of the Stanford Improvisors in addition to pursuing scripted acting. She's been fortunate to continue performing since moving to San Francisco, where she's worked with Beatnik Syndicate, No Nude Men Productions, and BATS Improv, and is currently a guest with the BATS mainstage company.

Lisa has a friend who actually won the showcase showdown on The Price Is Right. She won a grandfather clock, a jungle gym, AND got to take a lucky someone on a safari in Africa. Lisa was not that lucky someone, but still feels honored to have known such a winner.

Chris Sams
Game show fanatic Chris Sams is the BATS Improv Director of Corporate Programs and a coach for BATS Improv School, in addition to being a frequent Un-Scripted guest. Chris is an aspiring improv guru and author, and has taught a dozen corporate improv workshops as a trainer in the workplace.

A feat difficult to imagine, Chris has hosted more than 40 game show spoofs for entertainment and/or training over the past 13 years!

Love at First Sight - 2006

Steven Anacker
After nearly four decades of starring in Romantic Tragedies, Steven is excited to be improvising Romantic Comedies with the lovely Un-Scripted Theater, whose eyes remind him of sapphire skies/emerald isles/brown dirt. Steven fell in love with improv thirteen years ago, with such troupes as Short Order Theatre, BATS Sunday Players, Lila Theater, and in various guest performances. Obviously, Steven has a problem with commitment.

Steven once ate macaroni and cheese while breaking up with his distraught girlfriend. He still feels horrible about this, but in fairness, Steven was extremely hungry.

Mike Della Penna
A former Boston comic, Mike Della Penna is very happy to be performing for the first time with the wonderful and talented folks at Unscripted. Since moving to the Bay Area a year ago (for a girl), he has continued an improv flirtation that started in college with Wesleyan's Desparate Measures, continuing in Boston as a core member of ImprovBoston's TheatreSports, and finally landing him in on the stage in front of you. He is especially happy these days because the the whole girl thing worked out and he will be getting married this August!

He would thank his lovely bride-to-be, Joanna for being cool with him kissing other girls on stage.

Let It Snow! an improvised holiday musical - 2005

Bryce Byerley
Bryce Byerley lives in San Francisco. Bryce works as an actor. Bryce thinks pronouns are for the weak.

Bryce grew up in the (then) small town of Fairfield, CA, where he accidentally started a fire that nearly burned down the town's fire station. The 6-year-old Bryce picked up a cigarette that a fireman had thrown on the ground and helpfully put litter in its place—wastebasket in the office, full of papers, strategically located next to a flag stand holding a very flammable Californian flag.

Ken Robertson
Ken Robertson is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory and has worked with the Denver Center Theatre Company, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and The On-Edge stunt team. He is a published author, and has been a featured speaker/instructor at companies such as Electronic Arts, Pixar, and Lucas Learning. He has studied with The Second City in Chicago, and performed in improv shows with Bay Area Theatresports (BATS), BATS Longform Intensive Program (BLIP), KnowNothing Improv, and currently performs with the BATS Sunday Players.

While having grown up mostly in suburban areas, Ken is only one generation away from small town life. He spent a lot of his childhood in the homes of his grandparents—Shelbyville, TN (home of the annual Tennessee Walking Horse show, and Pencil City, USA), and Winchester, TN, the birth place of Dinah Shore.

Lisa Rowland
Lisa Rowland 's love of improv was born in Walnut Creek, CA, on her high school improvisation team and grew to epic proportions during her time with the incomparable Stanford Improvisors. While at Stanford, she was a constant performer and appeared in numerous shows, both scripted and improvised, ranging from Shakespeare and Brecht to obscure Russian plays and contemporary American works. She has loved working on her first show with the Un-Scripted Theater Company and hopes to continue acting in shows, both scripted and otherwise, here in San Francisco. Look for her in ten years—she'll either be on Broadway, or in an Elmo costume at your young child's birthday party.

Lisa’s favorite small town is the tiny town of Doolin, on the West coast of Ireland. No grocery store, three pubs, and the best music there ever was.

The Impossible Film Project - 2005

Lindy Ackman
Lindy Ackman (actor) has been acting since the tender age of nine. Her performance work has included scripted plays, children’s theater, some stunning student film projects, and a bit of improv (all of the short form/game variety). Thanks to her experiences with Un-Scripted, she has fallen in love with long form. Excited to be performing in her third Un-Scripted run, Lindy embarks on The Impossible Film Project simply bubbling over with un-bridled excitement and passion.

Rachael Caselli
Rachael Caselli (Technical Director / Video Mixer) used to be just a fan of The UnScripted Theater Company. Now she is a fan, and a techie. Rachael was a memeber of the Dublin Theatre Company for over 5 years, where in addition to acting, dancing, and directing, she also did technical work including everything from lighting to sound design to slide operation. She hopes to continue performing in any way she can, technical or otherwise.

Mark Duncanson
Mark Duncanson (actor) has enjoyed the privilege of improvising for ten years now, and as a result has been featured in several television commercials and was recently cast as a co-host for an alternative news show. Out of the many impossible films that have been made during his lifetime, Mark’s favorite continues to be Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life.

Elan Freydenson
Elan Freydenson (actor) likes improv. A lot. He loves film even more. In The Impossible Film Project, he gets to do them both. He says it’s like a hot fudge brownie sundae with watermelon chocolate curry strawberries and steamed soymilk with chocolate biscotti and vanilla syrup all combined. Learn more about Elan’s special tastes at www.castelan.info.

Kerry Gudjohnsen
Kerry Gudjohnsen (actor) is an actor/filmmaker with a long history in improv, including membership in Barewitness, a local improv-based film production collective (www.barewitness.com). While with BW, Kerry co-starred in Daniel Gamburg’s all-improvised award-winning feature film, IPO (now available on Netflix!). Her training includes Seydways Studios (Bobby Weinapple), Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Bennett Theatre Lab.

Carla Hardaway
Carla Hardaway (actor) has been improvising 10 years with groups including BATS Improv, The Reactors, Emotional Hospital, Flash Family and as a guest with Un-Scripted and National Theatre of the Deranged. She loves movies, especially old black and white ones.

Mandy Khoshnevisan
Mandy Khoshnevisan (director) was an Un-Scripted guest for Improvised Bawdy
Shakespeare and Let it Snow! She got her start in several improv groups at Stanford; sadly, after a brilliant career appearing in films for high school class projects, none of the student films she appeared in during college ever got finished. Altogether, she’s been improvising for about 9 years, but she’s really always wanted to direct.

Jason LaBatt
Jason LaBatt (director) has been doing the video “thang” since 1988. After graduating at the top of his class in video production at SF State, he went on to produce videos for major corporations and minor individuals. He has taped shows for The Fibbs, East Bay Improv, SF Improv, Platypus Jones, and the Un-Scripted Theater Company. If you want something taped or edited, try jason@labatt.org.

Alexandra McBride
Alexandra McBride (actor) has trained in acting at BATS, SFSU, and A.C.T. She has a B.A. in psychology and voice performance and an M.A. in Drama Therapy. She is back for her second run with Un-Scripted, after her debut in the holiday musical last winter!

Kathy Mello
Kathy Mello (without a W) (actor) has been acting and entertaining all of her life. What began with dance in grammar school, became pantomime in junior high, drama in high school, and culminated with a degree in Dramatic Arts from Cal. Over the years, she has worked with a couple of small theatres, which led to improv around 1997. She has performed as an extra in a few films and is currently in a short independent film not yet completed.

Amber J. Price
The beauty of being broke is, it inspires creative gifts. Amber J. Price (director) is currently working on her own film project, M(30). A birthday gift for a friend, it incorporates interviews, photos, and footage from friends old and new. The whole thing makes THIS seem much less impossible. (Of course, Amber won’t stay broke if you go to www.deltacityimprov.com and hire her!)

Andy Sarouhan
This is Andy Sarouhan’s (actor) first experience guesting with Un-Scripted Theater, and he’s honored to be a part of the project. Andy has been improvising for 13 years (lucky!) and is currently a performer with Flash Family. When he’s offstage, Andy feeds himself by teaching improv to America’s youth (lucky!) and substitute teaching (unlucky!).