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Adam Mengesha Alli Stark Ari Leven Becca Tham Bruce Phillips Clark Newton Eric Simon Freddie Powers George Elrod Jen Connor Jillian Mueller Jordan Wilson Josie Benedetti Karl Bradley Kevin Strader Louie Cordon Mandy Leavell Maria Brothers Neftali Morales Tom Korabik |
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Creative Team
Meet the Company
A stand up, musical comedian, and improviser, Becca Tham is quippy with a haha-maker punch. Raised suburbs and living city, this Chicago comedian and writer is currently a part of Club Asia Improv, Trigger Happy, and top of the world. Also a musical director at iO and freelance, you have to know Becca has comedy bits she does with her cat and they are flawless.
Bruce Phillips is an actor and improviser in Chicago. He is an ensemble member of ComedySportz Chicago and has performed at the Annoyance Theater in The Boy Scout Musical and My So Called After-Life. He also directs and performs with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray aboard the largest cruise ship in the world: The Oasis of the Seas. Bruce is a Jeff Award winner for Artistic Specialization for his work designing the robots in Heddatron at the Steppenwolf Garage in 2011. He works as the marketing manager for both ComedySportz and Sideshow Theatre Company. For more information check out: www.brucetheactor.com.
Jordan Wilson is a producer, writer and performer that was locally grown just outside of Chicago. Jordan graduated from Colorado College where he studied music and film; winning Best Film in the 2013 Colorado College Film Festival. Jordan cut his teeth in the Chicago comedy scene writing and performing at iO, Annoyance and Second City with whom he appeared at The Goodman Theater for their show Twist Your Dickens in 2016. Jordan is very proud to have a home at Annoyance Theatre where he has authored and performed in the shows Bite Size Broadway, For the Record: A Best-Of Sketch Comedy Revue, Presence First: A Barbecue Election, Big Ski Trip: A Cautionary Tale for Teen Youth and more. Some of his acting credits across Chicago include Splatter Theater, The Annoyance Christmas Pageant, Dead Boy Scout Musical, Fuck Trump, The Milk Murders; Album Release Party, and Striking Out: a Gay Baseball Musical. You can see Jordan performing weekly at The Annoyance Theatre in their house improv team Trigger Happy, around Chicago with his sketch comedy group "garden boys" (album "The Milk Murders" available on Spotify), and on YouTube in the channel Middle Ground Guys. Jordan is excited to one day get a pug and name it a human person name like "Megan" or "Rachel" or maybe "Kyle" if it's a boy pug.
Josie Benedetti has a BA in theatre from the University of Portland and is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory Program. She produces for 'Baby Wants Candy_��_, an improvised musical, and can be seen performing weekly with her ComedySportz house team 'Pinafore_��_ and with the cast of Trigger Happy at the Annoyance. She can also be seen doing regular solo work around Chicago, including the third iteration of her solo show that will never die, 'People Person_��_, which will be going up next at the Annoyance Theatre in May.
Karl Bradley has sailed farther than most have dreamed. You can find Karl at the Annoyance Theatre bothering the bartenders, performing improv with Trigger Happy and Nuggets, and sketch with DANKS. Karl also performs with the harold team Slice at IO and the house team FiasCo at the Crowd theater. Karl has completed the Annoyance and IO training programs but would prefer to discuss theories about time travel and consciousness transfers.
Neftali Morales is a Chicago based writer, improviser and a physical comedic solo performance artist. His sensibilities lie at the intersection of Guillermo Del Toro and Pixar. Neftali writes and performs sketch comedy both solo and as an ensemble member of The Family Robot. In Summer 2018, he debuted his solo show Man-Y-Faces at Bentwood Comedy festival, which will run at Annoyance in Fall 2018. He's an ensemble member of Trigger Happy at The Annoyance Theater and also performs a music improv adjacent ensemble called Uncanny Latinx. Neftali is an active martial artist of 15 years, a comic bookworm and a father to a diabolical human child. www.randomobscura.com Instagram @gorilao
Tom Korabik, a Chicago native, is a writer/improviser currently performing in Trigger Happy at The Annoyance. Elsewhere, you can catch him doing improv with fan-favorite Great Lakes Activity Center at CIC Theater, as well as writing and performing bloated, unfocused sketch comedy all around town.