Current Cast of Laughing
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DUSTIN AIKEN
Dustin Aiken was born in York, raised in Miami and schooled
in Gainesville, where he performed with the University of Florida's
resident improvisation troupe, Theatre Strike Force, while
getting a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Biology. Now back
in South Florida for graduate school, he's a graduate student in
Clinical Psychology at Carlos Albizu University, specializing in
Forensics. He indulges in urban exploration, writing, and contemplating
the ways of the world to kill most of his down time between
classes.
Click here to see his
picture.
NICOLE
AREU
Nicole Areu moved here a couple of years
ago from Los Angeles, CA where she performed in various plays,
sketch comedy shows and was seen in numerous independent films
such as The
Coven, Legend of Dead Man's Canyon and Wash,
Dry and Spin Out. She also produced an independent film
and a sketch comedy TV show. While in LA, Nicole studied at the
Stella Adler Academy, The Van Mar Academy and with various casting
directors. Since arriving in Miami she has taken it somewhat easy.
She recently performed as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
at the Main Street Playhouse and is very excited to be a part
of Laughing Gas.
Click here
to see her picture and resumé.
WING ARMSTRONG
David Wing Armstrong is originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. From there he joined
the US Marine Corp. and then attended Sam
Houston State University where he studied acting. He has performed
in theatre performances of Oklahoma!, Grease, Odd Couple
(Female Version), and Murder On The Nile. He made his film
debut in a Death Plots: My Stalker Death (2005). From there
he can be seen in such films as All Wrapped Up (2006) & No
Reply (2005). He also has been seen in the TV Shows Dexter
(on Showtime) & E.R. (NBC). Wing, got his comic start working
the circuit as a stand up comic, performing at The Hard Rock Seminole
Improv, West Palm Beach Improv, Mark Ridley’s Comedy Club, & Chaplin’s
Comedy Club to name a few. He aspires to be a reality show contestant
maybe Big Brother or Amazing Race. The accomplishment
he is most proud of is he is exactly 2 steps away from Kevin Bacon
in the “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon” game.
Click here for Wing's picture
and resumé.
GENE
BALLARD
Gene Ballardis
a native New Yorker who relocated to Florida, where he rekindled
his love of improv. When in New York , Gene performed with the
National Improvisational Theater, and he also committed
many a crime while working with Dial A Murder, an interactive
murder mystery group. His movie credits include Dead Silence
and Romeo and Julia. Gene appeared as a gangster in the
independent feature film, Quick
Pick. He appeared most recently in Andy Sottilare's short
mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. When not acting, Gene is playing music--if
you remember the sixties, Gene fronted the band Artemus Troll,
and in the seventies it was Mirage. Today he is working
on a solo project that is sort of country and sort of not....
MARILYN BRITO
Marilyn Brito is an actress, model, and writer. She has been
active in South Florida's independent film scene, having appeared
in half a dozen independent shorts and student films as well as
an independent feature, Sunburn. She has worked on several
stage and television projects including The Theater Within
with NYC director Alec Rubin and the TNN Network's promotions
for Miami Vice. She has also written several well-received
short films.
Click here to see Marilyn's picture and resume.
ANTHONY
CAMILO
Anthony Camilo has dipped his toes in theater a few times since the 80's. He took introductory theater courses at Miami
Beach High School and later at Miami-Dade College in the 90's, but he always went back to his other love:
computers. In 2006, Anthony gave acting another shot and signed up for improv acting classes, and being very comfortable with technology, he ran lights and sound during many
shows of Laughing Gas's 15th season. In the summer of 2007 Anthony also trained with fellow cast-member Todd Rice at the Fort Lauderdale Improv. In November
'07 Anthony made a pilgrimage to the "Improv Mecca" (Chicago) and sat in the audience for shows at The
Second City, Donny's Skybox and the IO Theatre (formerly Improv Olympic). In the Fall of 2008, Anthony was cast as "Prof. Alvarez" in Budha Gonzalez's "50 Million Dollars"
Anthony has been a cast-member since the summer of '07.
Click here to see Anthony's headshot.
JAMES CARREY
James Carrey was
born in New York City. He has been singing from an early age.
He joined the Florida Singing Sons Boy Choir in 1989. As
a vocalist, James has performed at the Broward Center For the
Performing Arts and various clubs around South Florida. James'
entrance into the world of acting and writing came in 2000, when
he joined the improv comedy troupe Name
Change Pending. Since then, he performed improv with Name
Change Pending until he joined Laughing Gas in the
summer of 2003. James composed the musical score for local playwright
David Sirois' play Secrets Of The LaCroix. Last year, he
appeared in the short film, The Test, directed by Gerald
Owens. More recently, James completed a role in the upcoming Sean
Astin film, Thanks
to Gravity. He most recently appeared in Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Main Street Playhouse.
He has also received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from
Florida Atlantic University.
Click here
for James Carrey's resumé. Click here
for his headshot.
VALERIE CARREY
Valerie Carrey
, The Artist Frequently Referred to as "The Girl With The
Curly Hair," is a young and curiously pocket-sized actress/comedienne,
originally from Palma de Mallorca, Spain. However, for no particular
reason at all, she was raised (and probably fed way too much sugar),
right here in Miami. Valerie has had show-biz aspirations of a
humorous nature for as long as she can remember, and enjoys being
a vehicle for hilarity within any and all situations that trigger
her almost clinical compulsion to perform. Although she often
plays the "dumb-brunette" when appearing with Laughing
Gas, offstage she is a closet-genius and can control otherwise
natural weather patterns with her mind. And if that doesn't do
it for you, she can be seen practicing the fine art of self-exploitation
whilst wearing only a bikini in the American Idol afterbirth/feature
film, From
Justin to Kelly. Last summer she appeared in Blithe
Spirit with the Main
Street Players. She also starred in the short film, The
Test, directed by Gerald Owens, and in 2004, she landed the
romantic lead in an Italian feature entitled Christmas
in Miami. Valerie now appears as her alter ego, Carmencita
(aka la Fanatica) on the Univision television series El
Gordo y la Flaca. She is currently developing a Spanish-language
sketch comedy pilot for television.
Click here for Valerie's
picture and resumé.
KIMBERLY COX
Kimberly Cox is
a Jersey girl, recently transplanted to South Florida. A gifted
actress and improviser, she discovered the joys of improvisational
theatre in college. She has now become involved in Miami's burgeoning
independent film scene, and most recently, she starred in the
short film, The Key, directed by Gerald Owens, and most
recently appeared in a new independent feature, Quick
Pick and stars in the horror short film The H Man from
Silver Sun Films. She appeared most recently in Andy Sottilare's
short mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. Besides Laughing Gas, Kim is also a proud member
of Model Citizens on South Beach and of the improv troupe
THEY improv.When
she is not performing with Laughing Gas, Kimberly is attending
graduate school at the University of Miami.
L.A.
EDWARDS
L.A. Edwards is an up and coming actor and standup
comedian eager to develop his skills in all levels of entertainment.
His favorite performers include Jim Carrey, Dave Chapelle, Charlie
Murphy, Jack Black and Martin Lawrence, just to name a few. He
has attended Miami-Dade College and Florida Memorial University.
When he is not performing with Laughing Gas, he can be found
expanding his standup repertoire at comedy clubs around South
Florida, including The Improvisation Comedy Clubs in Fort Lauderdale
and Miami, and Churchill's Pub. You can also visit him on his
myspace comedy page at http://www.myspace.com/la_edwards
MARK
GINZO
Mark Ginzo is a local actor of
Cuban-American descent, originally from Union City, NJ. He
is a member of Miami's Shakespeare In the Park and has performed
Romeo and Juliet with the
troupe in Spanish. He is a veteren of the local stand up comedy
scene as well as the local music scene. Mark recently completed
work as Antonio on Much Ado About
Nothing, a film for a PBS project. Mark sings, and
plays the baritone ukulele and if you need a backup harmonica you
could do a lot worse. He is an amatuer maker of wine and spirits
and speaks three languages including Esperanto. Mark strives to
be the best darned improv actor he can be and is currently enrolled
in The Kenneth Tigar Online School of Acting.
Click here for Mark's headshot.
DENDEN GIRMAY
Denden Girmay sure gets
around. Born in Eritrea (that's in East Africa, for the geographically
challenged), she has lived in Italy, Connecticut, North Carolina
and now finally, Miami. She is an actress, singer and model, and
received her B.A. degree in Communications from the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She's trilingual, too (okay,
she speaks American English, French, and Tigryna, the language
of Eritrea).
Click here
to see Denden's picture and resumé.
JESSICA
GROSS
Jessica Gross
was born and raised in Boynton Beach, Florida, before attending school
in North Carolina. A model, spokeswoman, actress and budding stand-up
comedienne, as well as a gifted improvisor, she has returned to Florida
to pursue her entertainment career. When she is not onstage or behind a
microphone, she works as a bartender. She is funny, quirky and
outgoing, and she's big enough to beat up anyone who disagrees with
that.
Click here
to see Jessica's picture and resume.
CARL GUERRA
Carl Guerra is a native New Yorker.
Carl is veteran stand-up comedian, and when he is not doing improv
with Laughing Gas, he appears in comedy clubs all over
the United States, as well as on many cruise ships. He has been
featured on the Arts and Entertainment Network's An Evening
at the Improv, as well as Comedy Central's Stand-Up, Stand-Up.
Carl has also had roles on One Life to Live and America's
Most Wanted, and he has appeared in commercials and industrial
films, including a promotional film for Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Prior to joining Laughing Gas, he performed in New York
with The Improvables, Some Assembly Required, The Comic Strip
Improv, and the CBGB Improv companies. He was featured
most recently in a commercial for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
He is a graduate of Cornell University.
Click here for Carl's
website for his resumé and photos.
LINDA JARVIS-GUERRA
Linda Jarvis-Guerra is a native of
South Florida and a long-time professional actress/comedienne,
in roles ranging from "Blanche Dubois" to "Mammy
Yokum." She has also been seen on national TV commercials
and heard on radio. In 1996, she and husband Carl Guerra were
featured in a promotional film for Norwegian Cruise Lines. Her
favorite role, however, is her most recentas "Mom"
to a ten-year-old bundle of energy named Dylan. She performs daily
from 7:00 am to midnight. Tickets will be available for this production
for the next 11 years. Linda is certain an academy award is in
the bag...the uh...laundry bag.
Linda performed previously with the Wit Happens and 'Til
Somebody Puts An Eye Out improvisation troupes, and was also
a member of the Mental Floss Comedy Improv Theatre Company.
She is one of the founding members of Laughing Gas, and
its Vice President.
Click here
to see Linda's professional resumé.
KIMBERLY ANN JONES
Kimberly Ann Jones comes from Oxford,
PA where she had a very athletic childhood. At the University of Pittsburgh she studied... get this
Rehabilitation Science and Technology with a Concentration in Athletic
Training. She is now certified in said field, but after living
in Washington, D.C., she needed a vacation and went to Miami Beach,
never to return. In the fall of 2007 she officially dedicated
herself to pursuing a long-lost desire to show natural human behavior
on camera or stage. In doing so, she's behaved as humanly
as possible in several short films, a couple of commercials and
some theater. In addition to appearing with Laughing Gas, she's currently portraying "Wanda
the Villain" in the feature film Crime Fighters (title subject to change)
directed by Kurt Donath, co-host of the TV documentary series The Knee Diaries, and "Amarosa,"
the narrating elf, in the children's musical Jack
and Jill and a Special Wish. She is also pleasantly
enrolled in The Acting School of South Florida
Conservatory Program.
Click here to see her headshot and here for her resume.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
Michael Joseph is an actor/dancer/singer/model/producer/ poet/writer/coach/director/filmmaker
and a healer/friend/lover/son/brother. That about covers it. The
rest comes with time. Michael is interested in meeting anyone
who is interested in learning, growing, making art, and tasting
all that life has to offer...or anyone who is a good cook and
wants to give him some food! While his heart belongs to the Big
Apple, is also a graduate of UCLA's Theater, Film and Television
program. In January and February, you may have seen him dance
in the Florida Grand
Opera's production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. He
appeared most recently in Footloose at The
Actors Playhouse in Coral Gables.
Click here
to see Michael's picture and resume.
HEATHER KASHICK
Heather Kashick was born and in Miami, Florida and continues
to progress artistically in her hometown. She was a Theatrical
Arts Major at Broward
Community College and the recipient of the Theatre Scholarship.
During this time she had the opportunity to star in several productions
including The Tempest, The Diary Of Anne Frank and
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. When not appearing in onstage,
Heather was working behind the scenes in every aspect, including
makeup artistry, wardrobe and as production assistant. Heather
wrote and directed her own play, Turn Off the TV. She had
the opportunity to direct the play What, Is This Everything?
She managed casting, costumes, lighting, make-up and sound, all
while directing. Heather is also a lover of poetry and has hosted
spoken word poetry nights at various locations, including the
Wallflower Gallery.
After college, Heather continued to study at the Hollywood Acting
Sudio in the Conservatory Program and paticipated in cold readings,
and script analysis. She was in the play the House of Yes
and in a promo for the Coca-Cola Museum. Her latest gig was appearing
as a spring breaker in the upcoming pilot, Burn Notice.
She enjoys modern dance, writing poetry, painting, making short
films, photography and living life to its fullest. Click here
for Heather's picture and resumé.
DAMIAN LANG
Damian Lang is currently enrolled as a Theatre Arts major
at Florida
Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Prior to that, he attended
Palm Beach Community
College, where he was a member of the college's own improvisational
theatre troupe, Cheese and Crackers. You can also visit
him online at myspace.com.
Click here to see
Damian's picture.
ANIELA
McGUINNESS
Aniela McGuinness hails from
from fabulous Hollywood, Florida. Though she describes herself
as 'a huge dork,' she is more properly described as a beautiful
redheaded actress, model and improv comedienne. She is also a
member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
(IATSE). That’s right, she’s a union stagehand who
works at the Carnival Center and other area arts venues on operas,
Broadway shows and more (her parents wanted her to have something
practical to fall back on). Maybe we're biased, but she's much
more fun in front of an audience than behind the scenes. She appeared
most recently in Andy Sottilare's short mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. Click here
for Aniela's headshot.
Click here
to see Aniela's headshot and resumé.
KELDRICK MOBLEY
Keldrick Mobley is an award-winning humor columnist and
actor, who comes to us from right here in Miami. Keldrick has
always had a passion for the stage and loves to entertain. His
talents for both were honed while attending Miami-Dade
College where he excelled in the improvisational aspects of
his theatre class. He resolved to take what he'd learned while
attending Miami-Dade, coupled with the wit he'd sharpened in high-school
to become the first C-student nominated for "most intellectual",
combine that with his borrowed good looks and join the cast. When
Keldrick is not volunteering his time to help kids in his community
(something he REALLY does) or saving old women from falling buildings
(which he REALLY does also!) he can be read in various magazines
dishing out his brand of what passes for humor. His aspirations
are to utilize what he has learned since January 19, 1979 to teach
5th grade and write a series of novels and children's books. Of
course, he wouldn't turn down a chance to write a nationally syndicated
column, either. Keldrick appeared in the independent feature film,
Quick
Pick. He appeared most recently in Andy Sottilare's short
mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. He is currently working on a novel.
A.J. NAVARRETE
Amed "A.J."
Navarrete Amed "A.J." Navarrete was born on the wrong side
of town, Havana, Cuba, later to be raised on crude toxic humour
and love, Union City, New Jersey. He has appeared in several plays
at Miami-Dade Community
College, including the 1 act montage, Welcome to the Moon
& The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder. He's a veteran
of numerous student films (both as an actor and director). An
actor and avid drummer, A.J. loves to bring out his Cubanismo
on stage. In 2000, he worked on the Andy Garcia HBO film, For
Love or Country. And in 2001, he appeared in a public
service ad for WPBT/TV for improving work attitudes in the workplace.
He has worked for a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre company called
ACTA (Actors for Charity Theatre Alliance), which raises money
for charities doing an improvised/scripted dinner show called
Who Killed the Director, and he has also appeared in the
Christopher Durang comedy, The Actor's Nightmare in Broward
County. He's played & won a "Sabrina Award" for "Snoopy" in the
classic musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and more
recently, he appeared in The Music Man, The Pirates
of Penzance & The Musical Revue : And the World Goes Round
with the Main Street Players. He's also appeared as the Preist
in Tony & Marias Wacky Italian Wedding. Since April of
2005, AJ has been working on his "clowning around" skills, with
The Big Apple Circus @ The Miami Childrens Hospital in Coral Gables,
making it easier for sick children and the stressed out staff
to go on with thier days and nights. Most recently, AJ appeared
in the new independent feature film, Quick
Pick. You can also visit AJ on myspace.com.
AJ's new band, Vladez, has released its debut CD. To order
the disk or find out about live performance dates, visit their
band page on myspace.com.
He was also seen in the new play Cloudcuckooland at the Abanico
Theatre in Coconut Grove.
Click here
to see A.J.'s headshot. Click here
to see A.J.'s resumé.
GERALD OWENS
Gerald Owens has worked in South Florida
as a professional actor and director for twenty years. He received
his B.A. in Speech and Theatre from Wake
Forest University in 1979, and an M.F.A. in Acting and
Directing from Florida
Atlantic University in 1986. In 1983, Gerald was an intern
at the Burt Reynolds
Jupiter Theatre, where he received his Equity card. Most recently,
he filmed a scene in the upcoming crime drama, Lonely
Hearts, starring John
Travolta, James
Gandolfini and Salma
Hayek. He was also seen in Big
Trouble, the feature film starring Tim Allen and Rene
Russo, based on Dave Barry's novel, which was released in 2002.
Other film roles include Folks,
starring Tom
Selleck and Don Ameche, and Scam,
starring Christopher
Walken and Lorraine
Bracco. In 1998, he portrayed a sleazy attorney in the premiere
episode of the USA Network's short-lived detective drama, Sins of the City. His
stints on network television also include Moon
Over Miami, True Detectives, and two roles on Miami Vice.
He has appeared in numerous plays and industrial films, as well
as many radio and television commercials, including a recent national
TV campaign for GameZnFlix.com
featuring former "Dell Dude" Ben Curtis (click here
to view the commercials). From 1986 until 1992, he performed with
the Mental Floss improv troupe in Miami, where he also
served as a staff instructor for four years.
He is now the President of the Laughing Gas Comedy Improvisation
Theatre Company, which he helped found in 1992. Gerald is also
the staff instructor, and he has taught acting classes at
the Miami Actors' Studio, The
Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, as well as The
Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training and the John Robert Powers School in West Palm Beach.
In 2004, he joined the faculty of Palm
Beach Community College. He also works as a private
acting coach. Most recently, he has begun writing and producing
digital films, and his 5-minute short, Hot Pork, reached
the finals in the 2003 Entertainment
Industry Incubator Short Film Contest. His most recent short,
The Key, starred Andy Sottilare and Kimberly Cox. Click
here
for Gerald's favorite movies. You can also visit Gerald on myspace.com,
where you can find more YouTube video links to his work..
For information on Gerald's weekly improvisation classes in North
Miami, click here.
To see Gerald Owens' picture and resumé, click
here.
TODD RICE
Todd Rice has lived
a varied life, having lived in Texas, Chicago, Washington, D.C.
and now South Florida. He has worked for the Speaker of the House
in Washington, D.C., the Federal Aviation Administration, on the
floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and for an Internet Service
Provider in Latin America. As an improvisational actor, Todd trained
at The Second City,
as well as Improv Olympic
and Blue
Velveeta at The Improvisation Comedy Club in Chicago.
As a writer, Todd helped run screenwriting seminars in Chicago
and was a Board Member of the Chicago
Screenwriters Network. Todd appeared in Picasso at the
Lapin Agile as Gaston for the Miami Stage Company, hosted
Football Tonight on Chicago radios' WCBR, appeared in various
short films and was almost type-cast as a Chicago cop in features,
having appeared uncredited in a couple of big-budget films including
the Fugitive
(1993) and Blink
(1994). Todd was featured in 1
Anunaki (2005) and Luxbel
(2005). Todd appeared in the independent feature film, Quick
Pick (2006). Todd is currently cast in 2 feature films
that are in production while also performing corporate and voiceover
work, being the voice of State Trust Life and other corporate
entities. Todd has also organized another improv troupe in Broward
County, THEY improv,
devoted to long-form improvisation, and has a satellite troupe
based in Boston
for corporate clients.
Click here for Todd's picture
and resumé or see Todd Rice's
website.
BENJAMIN SHAHOULIAN
Benny
Shahoulian is one of Downtown Miami’s resident artists. That’s
right, Miami has an arts underground--Miami actually is more than
bimbos and Mojitos. There are great spots for poets, for underground
musicians, for whoever does whatever. When he’s not improvising with
Laughing Gas, you can catch Benny reading his unique poetry at various
Miami arts hangouts, like Churchill's and the Wallflower Gallery. To
sample his poetry and find out where he’s performing next, visit his myspace
page.
FAWAD SIDDIQUI
Fawad Siddiqui
knows one thing: that Socrates knew nothing. When not pondering
the immeasurable complexities of this statement, he may be found
doing one or more of the following things: journalism, drawing,
singing/songwriting/playing guitar, writing prose/poetry, researching
comic books, teaching English/art to Muslim middle-school children,
improvisational acting, and, most recently, using a profuse number
of backslashes in sanctimonious self-written biographical paragraphs.
He is from Hialeah, Florida and his family is originally from
Pakistan, which he visits often. Oh, yeah, he attended the University
of Miami, where he was allowed to do some very curious things
on the radio late at night. Fawad played the evil policeman/narrator
in the hit musical Urinetown at the The
Main Street Playhouse. He appeared more recently in Andy Sottilare's
short mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. Fawad has been shuttling between Miami and
Chicago, where he has been studying at The
Second City and the
IO Theatre (formerly Improv Olympic). He even picked up
a commercial
there, where he got to do an authentic Pakistani accent! He just
shot an episode of the USA Network's offbeat spy series, Burn
Notice, where he plays a Pakistani consular official.
He now travels the globe and hopes to someday be numbered amongst
the GREAT nondescript ethnic, stereotypical, brown "Middle-Eastern/South
Asian" actors of ALL times: the Sabus, the Apus, the Anthony
Quinns, the Kal Penns, the--dare he say it?--yes, yes, he must--the
ART MALIKS of the world! *Thunder* Oh, to dream, but in dreams,
what dreams may come? Quick, Indy, THIS WAY! Click here
for Fawad's headshot.
ETHAN SMITH
Ethan Smith was
born and raised in Houston, Texas, and reportedly began performing
improv as a six-month-old fetus. In Atlanta, he appeared onstage
as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Pseudolus in A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Marcellus
in The Music Man. Since moving to Coral Springs in the
summer of 1998, he earned his Equity card performing in the Broward
Stage Door Theatre's production of The 1940's Radio Hour
and was also seen in Broward Stage Door's productions of Hello
Muddah, Hello Fadduh and Funny Girl. Ethan has been
seen in numerous local and national commercials as well as having
roles in the feature films Big
Trouble, All
About The Benjamins and The
Bahama Hustle. Ethan appeared in the second season of
CSI
Miami, playing the track physician at the Grand Prix of
Miami. More recently, he completed a role in a new Sean Astin
film, Thanks to
Gravity. He recently filmed the pilot for a new
Showtime series called Dexter,
and landed a role in an Italian film, Christmas
in Miami. Ethan also appeared as the Winn Dixie checkmark
in a series of national commercials. He had a role in the film,
The Year of Getting to Know Us, starring Jimmie Fallon,
which premiered at Sundance this year. And most recently, he picked
up a supporting role in the HBO docudrama, Recount.
He is also an accomplished pianist/arranger and enjoys writing
original music. One of our busiest actors, Ethan now splits his
time between South Florida and Los Angeles. You can also visit
Ethan on myspace.com,
where you can sample his short films and professional reels courtesy
of YouTube.
Click here
to see Ethan Smith's resumé.
ANDREW SOTTILARE
Andy Sottilare
is a native Floridian, born at North Shore Hospital in Miami.
Andy has studied comedy and acting for most of his natural life.
Onstage, in 1998, he became a writer and performer with Punch
59, a sketch comedy troupe based out of Hollywood, Florida,
and also helped form Best Medicine in 1999, a non-profit
sketch comedy troupe that performed without charge for pediatric
patients at Miami Childrens Hospital and for the elderly at retirement
homes. In September 2001, he appeared as "Fenney," in
the South Florida premiere of the musical comedy, The Singer,
the Dancer, the Painter and the Muse at The Hollywood Performing
Arts Center. He then happily joined Laughing Gas in 2003
as a performer and writer.
Andy has acted on television since 1989, first appearing as a
party guest on the last episode of Miami Vice. In 1996,
he produced his own improvised comedy-cable access TV show, Drive
In TV, for Miami Springs TV Productions in the Doral area
of Miami. More recently, he portrayed "Roger ," Jewel's
ex, in the 5th installment of the Swedish/American nighttime soap
opera, Ocean Avenue (2002) , slated for US release in 2005.
He portrayed Detective Ron Kastell in Breakaway
Films' production of the crime-drama, Carlita's
Secret (2004) (starring with Eva Longoria from ABC's Desperate
Housewives), as well as "Dr Ari Ptah" in the indie
Sci-Fi thriller, 1 Anunnaki
(2004). He can also be seen in a cameo appearance as a hysterical
bank loan officer in Breakaway Films hip-hop comedy, The
Bahama Hustle (2004). Most recently Andy directed the
short mockumentary film, Boxball,
The Movie. You may recognize Andy from local and national
commercials, as well as an occasional print ad. Andy is currently
producing the horror short film The H Man. If you see him
at a show, be sure to say hello.
Click here
for Andrew Sottilare's picture and resumé. Click here
to visit his homepage.
SUSIE TAYLOR
Susanne Kreitman-Taylor
is originally from Miami and is thrilled to work with this intoxicating
group of artists. Susie attended New
World School of the Arts in Miami and college at Penn State,
after which she jumped the pond and spent a few years training
in London at the Webber Douglas Academy of Classical Theater.
In New York, Susie is affiliated with several theater companies
including Resistance Theater and Broad
Horizons. Some of Susie's favorites roles include "Helen"
in The Trojan Women, Antigone, "Rosalind"
in As You Like It, "The Fag Hag" in Timothy
Leary in Space, and "Mephistopheles" in Not My
Heart's Desire, as well as "Jill" in Jack and
Jill at Miami's Florida Shakespeare Company. She appeared
in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at The
Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables, and she was seen next in
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at the Amaturo Theatre
in the Broward
Center of the Performing Arts. She landed a recurring role
in an English-language Telenovela, Ocean Boulevard. You
may have seen her in a commercial for TNT promoting cable reruns
of Miami Vice, and she appeared in the Summer Shorts
short play festival at the University of Miami's Ring Theatre
in Coral Gables and the Amaturo Theatre in Fort Lauderdale in
2001 and rejoined the Summer Shorts ensemble for the 2002
season in Miami and at the Broward
Center of the Performing Arts. In June 2004, her short play,
Mittelschmerz, premiered as part of the Gallery Players
Black Box Festival in Brooklyn, New York. She recently completed
shooting of the film Eagles
Gathering, American Skin 2 with Straightaway
Movies in which she plays Lead villain Rene’ Bergman. She
also portrayed a detective in the pilot for the new Showtime original
series, Dexter.
Susie most recently appeared in the film, The
Year of Getting to Know Us, starring Jimmie Fallon, which
premiered at Sundance.
Click here
to see Susie's picture and resumé.
Photos of AJ Navarrete, James Carrey, Deborah Sherman, Andrew
Sottilare, Ethan Smith, Todd Rice, Valerie Zach and Gerald Owens
are by Bob Lasky.
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