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"bio": "Cara Fowler (They/Them) is a Chicago-based actor with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Sam Houston State University. They are eager to make their Annoyance debut as Natalie in Y2K: A 90's Musical which wouldn't be possible without the creative minds of Ryan J. Hurdle and Brandon Michael Thomas. Some of their favorite credits include Spring Awakening (Ilse) at Serenbe Playhouse, The Wolves (#25/Captain) and Godspell (Judas). Thank you so much to the cast and creative team for getting them out of a creative funk and you can follow @carahere on instagram for more. ",
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"bio": "Danny Sabo is an actor and improvisor based in Chicago. Recent credits include Steamworks: The Musical, Sorry: Summer Camp, and Christmas Karen 1 & 2! You can currently catch him at the Annoyance Theater in Little Orphan Boy and Y2K: The Musical, and performing with Sorry Improv. Thank you for supporting live theater!",
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"bio": "Edgar Nevarez is a theater and film artist currently based in Chicago. He was a recipient of the 2021 NBC/Second City Bob Curry Fellowship and is currently directing Little Orphan Boy The Musical at The Annoyance. Edgar can also be seen performing at several theaters throughout the city on weekly shows such as HitchCocktails, Flex, Kohl's Cash, Escandalo, Wheel of Improv, and many more. Edgar graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2017 where he studied Film/TV. For updates on the work he is producing to help pay off his massive amount of student debt follow @edgarinator on Instagram.",
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"bio": "Ryan Ben has been a performer, writer, and actor living in Chicago since 2008. Ryan has performed and taught for The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, iO, and many other theaters in Chicago. Ryan has over a decade of experience in the non-profit world and has been a facilitator, trainer, and experiential learning designer since 2018. Ryan has significant training in the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging space and as a facilitator with The Second City Works, Ryan has worked with clients such as State Farm Insurance, VRBO, Nuveen, The National Association of Realtors, Indeed, GM, Active Campaign, and BMO Family Office. Ryan loves helping people realize the power of their unique story and spending his time in service of others. Ryan has two kids, Alice Rose and Wilson Miles, and loves reading, playing video games, and still performs regularly with Hitch*Cocktails and CluedIn as a part of High Stakes Productions. Ryan will always laugh at a good prat fall, and you certainly don't have to, but if you do want to fall down on purpose, and safely, oh goodness, please do it, because it's hilarious.",
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"bio": "LAUREN RIVAS is an actor, director, writer, producer, and teacher from Las Cruces, NM. She is the creator of Jury Duty, Live Laugh Blood, and After Hours Improv. Lauren was the original tech director and a founding cast member of Batsu! Chicago. Currently, Lauren serves as the Training Center Director at The Annoyance Theatre, where she also performs, directs, teaches, and produces. She is also a faculty member of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Recent credits include: Fire and Beer, Jury Duty, Live Laugh Blood (The Annoyance), LOL & Disorder (Coronation Theatre), Miss Brightside (Whiskey Radio Hour), Girl Party (comedy troupe), Agua De Verga (comedy troupe), Secret Family (comedy troupe), and Huggable Riot (comedy troupe). ",
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"name": "Peter Corey",
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"bio": "<span style=\"color: #666666;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Peter Corey isn't usually as suave as his headshot implies – he's quite a dork in real life. The extra finesse is for Hitch*Cocktails, Friday Nights at 10:00 on the Annoyance Mainstage. Performing in improv shows for over two decades and acting even longer, Peter got his education from iO, Second City, Annoyance, Ball State University, and whatever life taught him. When he's not performing in Hitch*Cocktails, you can catch him at Second City in Ten Dollar Comedy and Clued In. And if he's not there, he's probably tethered to laptop, typing furiously while asking himself, \"Is this even good?\"",
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"name": "Alli Stark",
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"name": "Heather Mari",
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"name": "Bruce Phillips",
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"bio": "Bruce Phillips (he/him) is an actor and improviser in Chicago. Previous credits include: The Boy Scout Musical (Original Cast), Ask Your Doctor, DankTank, Burlesque is More, Hitch*Cocktails, Clued In: The Improvised Murder Mystery, and FRIGHT. (THEATRICAL): Do The Right Thing, No Worries If Not (u/s performed, The Second City), X (Clark/Cole u/s, Sideshow Theatre Company), Münsterspiel (John, The Plagiarists), Anna Karenina (Karenin, Lifeline Theater). Bruce is a Jeff Award winner for his work designing robots for Heddatron at the Steppenwolf Garage. He currently performs with Malarkey Theater, LOL Theater, and was the primary understudy for Second City’s 110 and 111th Mainstage Revue, and is currently understanding for their 112th Revue currently in process. He is a faculty member at The Annoyance and co-directs the long-running show Trigger Happy. Learn more at brucetheactor.com.",
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"name": "Jayson Brooks",
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"bio": "Jayson Brooks is a multiple time Jeff Award-nominated actor, poet and musician whose main pastime is writing love letters to the Chicago arts scene. Local theatre credits include I Hate It Here and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Ragtime and A Wonderful Life (Porchlight Music Theatre); Passing Strange (Bailiwick Chicago). He performs with some of Chicago's best musicians in an eponymous project, (formerly The Uptown Sound) and has toured the US and Europe with his work. He is a former governor of the Midwest chapter of The Recording Academy, a WXRT All-Star honoree, and was appointed by the city as a Chicago Cultural Ambassador to Italy.",
"email": "jayson@theannoyance.com"
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{
"name": "Ryan Ben",
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"bio": "Creative Ensemble",
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"name": "Bruce Phillips",
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"bio": "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.",
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"name": "Paige Maney",
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"bio": "Paige Maney's got it goin on and you can find her in Clued-In at The Second City (Hitch*Cocktails' sister show). ",
"email": "pmaney123@gmail.com"
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{
"name": "Katie Cutler",
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"bio": "Creative Ensemble",
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"name": "Heather Mari",
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"bio": "HEATHER MARI is an actor, improviser, writer, content creator & dancer from Rockville, MD. Recent credits include: Big Deborah (iO Theater), Fire & Beer (The Annoyance), Clued-In (High Stakes Productions), Hitchcocktails (High Stakes Productions), Stir Friday Night (Asian American Theater Co.), GROWN MAN BABY (Blackout Cabaret at The Second City), IT’S A BAO DAMN TIME! (The Second City Victor Wong Fellowship), Fright: An Improvised Horror Movie (High Stakes Productions), Improvised DCOM (Malarkey Comedy), BIG Time (BIG Improv), The Greatest Sketch Show in America (BIG Improv), Wet Pizza (comedy troupe), A++ (comedy troupe), and Melk (comedy troupe).Heather has been featured on Funny or Die, The Second City Network, and Broadway World. She is a co-creator of the comedic TV pilot,https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27738632/ Grinding, and has created comedic content for brands such as Dunkin Donuts, Pepsi, and Snapchat. Previously, Heather was a Saul Zaentz Film Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and trained in comedy at the iO Theater, The Annoyance, The Second City, The Groundlings, CIC Improv, and the Baltimore Improv Group. You can find her onhttp://www.instagram.com/theheathermari IG and http://www.tiktok.com/@theheathermari TikTok @theheathermari",
"email": "theheathermari@gmail.com"
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"name": "Michelle Lerch",
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"bio": "Michelle Lerch first started her horror obsession as a wee babe. Frequenting Nickelodeon's \"Are you afraid of the dark?\" or Cartoon Networks \"Courage the Cowardly Dog.\" However, her hunger for horror could never be satiated. As her filmography grew she found herself enamored by zombies. Her favorite film recommendations are \"Cargo\" and \"Les Affamés.\" Michelle also does comedy. ",
"email": "Lerchm11@gmail.com"
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"name": "Molly Jones",
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{
"name": "Caleb George",
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"bio": "Caleb George lives in Chicago by way of Arlington, Texas. He attended the University of Houston where he studied Theatre and Film. He was a member of the ComedySportz Houston ensemble for four years until moving to Chicago in 2010. Caleb is apart of several wonderful teams in Chi-town including , Thirsty: The Premier Improv Drinking Party at the Apollo Theatre, his two-man troupe George Lusk, iO's Harold team Artemis and is proud to be a founding member of Chicago Reader's Best Improv Troupe of 2016, HitchCocktails . Caleb travels across the country performing short form with Mission IMPROVable's red team company and you can follow his exploits @CalebGeorgeous on Twitter.",
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{
"name": "Lisa McQueen",
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"name": "Grace Goze",
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"bio": "So much has been said about Grace Goze (she/her), but who is Grace Goze really? Is she a writer and improviser? Sure. Does she hold an MFA in screenwriting with a concentration in comedy from DePaul University? I mean, I guess. Is she an alumna of The Second City's 2024 Victor Wong Fellowship and ensemble member with High Stakes Productions performing in Hitch*Cocktails (The Annoyance Theater) and Clued In: The Improvised Murder Mystery (The Second City)? Who's to say? The answer is yes, but who's to say? I'd say all we know for certain is that she could maybe be an American Girl Doll come to life, and her instagram is @mazingg. ",
"email": "gcgoze@gmail.com"
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"name": "Edgar Nevarez",
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"bio": "Lucas is stoked to be part of this cast and crew! If you enjoyed the things I did you can see more in Lil'Sluggers and Voila at the IO theatre. Cheers! 👯‍♂️",
"email": "lucascpollitzer@gmail.com"
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"name": "Marybeth Kram",
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"bio": "Beth Nelsen is a musician, writer, and performer originally from Iowa, go Hawks. You can catch her performing in Voila the Improvised Musical (iO), Spellbound (iO), Hooked Up (Clash on Clark), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: The Improvised Musical (Fridays in March at Second City), and the upcoming revival of Little Orphan Boy: The Musical right here at the Annoyance!",
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"bio": "Eamon Hegarty is a comedian and musician based in Chicago. He is the co-creator of So Far So Good, a sketch comedy group whose viral videos have been seen by over 30 million people and featured by The Bob and Tom Show, Cracked.com, and Bert Kreischer’s Bertcast.",
"email": "eamonhegarty568@gmail.com"
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"bio": "A South Carolina girl with a lot to prove.",
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"bio": "KJ (they/all) has performed as an understudy for the second city mainstage, done solo prop comedy as Carrot Bottom, and worked for Cards Against Humanity. IG: carrotbttm (instagram.com/carrotbttm)",
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"bio": "Molly Jones, originally from Los Angeles, has been performing in Chicago for 13 years. She has studied comedy at Second City, iO and The Annoyance. She performs in Clued-in: An Improvised Murder Mystery at Second City and Hitch*Cocktails at the Annoyance as part of High Stakes Productions. She also performs in The Armando Diaz Experience at iO. She is a graduate of the University of Miami in FL and works full time at Sprout Social.",
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"bio": "C.J. TUOR (he/him) Illinois State Theater Education Program and Second City Conservatory graduate. He has appeared in Second City’s Life Hacks, After Hours & Star Wars Tribute Show. C.J. works for Jackbox Games where he writes trivia, comedic prompts and sinister game setups. He co-founded High Stakes Productions and performs improvised suspense/mystery/horror in Hitch*Cocktails, Clued In, etc. His parents always supported him and his wife and son are spookier and funnier than him.",
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"name": "Cynthia Bangert",
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