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BEVERLEE BAILEY
Beverlee Bailey is so excited to join pH that she just let out a little squeal. Bev is a graduate of The Second City, Comedy Sportz and The Annoyance Theater training programs, but will really dazzle you with her ability to sing TV theme songs from the 80’s & 90’s. Bev can also be seen around town with the dramalicious musical improv group Recapitulation, The Alliance and Gossip Girlz. Some of her most memorable roles include Twinkle the Elf in her 4th grade Christmas pageant, Gussie the hooker in the musical Faceplant and Georgia in the film College Journalism. Thanks to everyone for supporting live theater. Hi mom & dad!
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BROOKE BECKER
Brooke Becker has been performing improv in Chicago since 2000. She is a graduate of The Second City Training Center, has gone through the iO Theater training and taken classes with Annoyance Productions. Brooke's ensemble groups include Stottlemeyer, LaTrish, Ned Beatty, and SFS. She wrote and performed a 2-person show, 5'8". Brooke has also participated in the Del Close Marathon (New York), Toronto Improv Festival and Sketchfest (Chicago). She is very excited to work with pH Productions and be a part of their ensemble.
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DAVE CARO
Dave’s first reaction to being taken in by the pH family was yelling out the word “Jawsome”and he is excited to be part of pH’s hilarity. He has trained at IO Chicago and is currently completing his training at Second City Conservatory. He has performed improv at Playground Theater and was a writer/performer with the sketch groups Smart Corky & Team Jamaica. |
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AMY COUEY
amy is so pleased to be apart of pH. she joins the group after completing the second city conservatory program and playing in various improv groups here in chicago. amy moved from the gulf coast of mississippi where she graduated from the university of southern miss, was one of the head artistic designers of the bottling company bar and grill music warehouse and apart of jenco construction after hurricane katrina. amy has aspired to make everyone laugh since she heard the first chuckle. amy enjoys witnessing guy love, watching the goonies and movies with gag reels. she thanks eveyone kindly epecially her family and friends for giving her the oppurtunity to play and do exactly what she always wanted.
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BOB EGAN
Bob was born and raised in Chicago. He attended Columbia College in Chicago where he found Improv and drinking. He has studied improv at Second City, Comedy Sportz, Improv Olympic and Annoyance. He is excited to be playing with pH. Bob recently just switched from heroin to methadone. |
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NANCY FAST
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ED GASS
"Young, Middle Class, White, College Educated, Unskilled, Broke, Drunk!"
eD grew up in the lovely south suburbs of Chicago. In fact, he still lives there, never quite able to leave his parents home.
eD performs Improv in and around the Chicago area and has trained with The Second City Training Center, ImprovOlympic, ComedySportz & Annoyance Productions. eD also has a Degree in Theatre from Illinois State University.
You can catch eD also performing with his Improv Team, Mess Hall (myspace.com/messhallimprov), at various other venues in and around Chicago. eD is very excited to be joining pH!
eD would like you to know, that if you're very quiet, you can sneak into his parents basement and make out with him.
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BRIAN HENNING
Cleveland native Brian Henning quit his job and moved to Chicago to be a poor actor after discovering that his home town most certainly does not rock! He couldn't be happier with the decision. Brian is thrilled to be a part of the pH pHamily. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory and Writing Program and the iO and ComedySportz training centers, Brian has performed improv in all the typical venues including with teams Skeleton Attack and Swoon at iO. In addition, he has written, produced and/or performed in well over a dozen sketch comedy shows throughout the city including Holiday Shows I, II & III, Four Single Guys Present: BROADS!! and Nipple Competition which recently helped close out the 2009 Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Brian is adept at reaching things on high shelves, is a licensed auctioneer and owes a tremendous amount of gratitude to both his mom and late President William Howard Taft.
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JESS HERRON
First and foremost, Jess is absolutely thrilled to be a new member of pH! Jess knew from a very young age that it was her destiny to perform and entertain, and found a natural gravitation towards comedy. Her first and greatest passion is dance, which she has been heavily involved in since the age of 5, but she has recently felt the undeniable pull of the acting and improv world. She moved to Chicago in July 2008, after graduating from Indiana University, and began her first improv classes at Improv Olympic, where she has just recently completed the training program.
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MIKE JUEN
Mike joins pH after spending 4 years on the Depaul Cosby Sweaters pHarm Team.
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MEGAN KELLEHER
Megan Kelleher has a degree in Theatre from George Mason University
College of Visual and Performing Arts in Virginia. She has been
studying, performing, and directing improv and sketch comedy in
Chicago since 2005. Chicago performance credits include shows at
Donny's Skybox at The Second City, IO Chicago (formerly Improv
Olympic), and The Annoyance. She recently directed two shows at The
Annoyance Theatre including "The Annoyance Christmas Pageant". Megan
was the 2007 recipient of Second City's Jim Zulevic Award thanks to
her year of shameless self-promotion on Youtube.
(http://www.youtube.com/happymondaygirl) She occasionally returns to
the East Coast to boogie board in the Atlantic Ocean and teach improv
workshops.
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MICHELLE MARQUARDT
Michelle Marquardt is very pHired up to be a part of the pH pHamily! A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Michelle thought she might become a news reporter or filmmaker. She headed to Memphis, and after dabbling in both of those worlds for about five minutes, she moved to the Midwest. She has been improvising, acting, writing and producing shows in Chicago since 2001. Michelle is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and Writing Programs, has studied at IO and Victory Gardens and always writes thank you notes.
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PETE PARSONS
Pete Parsons is a Theatre Arts major at The Theatre School at DePaul University. Along with performing with pH he can be found on pH's pHarm team The Cosby Sweaters, where they took third for the Midwest....but not for long. Pete also performs with Party Shark, Hogwash, Battleprov and is an understudy for Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. When he's not doing stuff behind stage and on stage he explores. Pete does it all.
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JEREMY SCHAEFER
Jeremy Schaefer is a recent addition to pH. He's performed stand up comedy around Chicago and London and improvised with Storybox Theatre and The Improv Playhouse. He's also worked with Imagination Theatre, Janus Theatre, The Big Picture Group and First Folio Shakespeare Festival. He can also be found on the internet (just don't get confused with the hockey player by the same name.)
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PATRICK SERRANO
Patrick is a hot sauce aficionado who is excited to add some spice to Ph. He is a graduate of The Second City Musical Conservatory as well as the Comedy Sportz Training Center. He is an alumni of The Second City's Music Improv House Ensemble and a founding member of Recapitulation: Dramalicious musical Improv. Patrick graduated from Frostburg State University with a BA in Theater where he majored in acting and costume design. He also can eat a pound of pasta in one sitting and was a former competitive swimmer!
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MARK SOLOFF
Mark Soloff is addicted to laughter (and uppers). An associate member of Chicago dell'Arte, Mark has acted with Promethean Theatre Company and Red Tape. Mark has performed in several shows at Donny's Skybox including his heavy metal musical, The Downward Smile. Recent improv work includes Comedy Sportz REC League, hosting Playground's OC, and performing with indy team Damascus Steel. Mark holds an MA in Theatre from OSU and is a graduate of SCTC Conservatory Program.
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KIERAN SULLIVAN
Kieran returns to pH after a couple years off to persue his teaching career and getting married! |
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MADELINE WAGER
Madeline (Maddy) Wager is super pumped to join the pH family. Maddy grew up in Oklahoma City, traveled to Chicago for the love of art, and has since graduated from the Theatre School of Depaul University. She keeps herself busy with improv activities, her Chemically Imbalanced team, Housekeeping, and arts and crafts. She has graduated from the iO Training program and is currently finishing up at The Annoyance.
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MARY WALSH
Mary is originally from Prairie Villiage, KS but moved to Chicago about 4 years ago. She will graduate in May from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Theatre/Acting. She is currently a Co-President for pH's college pHarm team, Droppin' $cience. She is also a part of an all female sketch group called Delicious But Unnecessary, which performs at various venues around the Chicago area. Mary is thrilled to be moving up in the pHamily tree.
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STUART SEALE - ASST. MUSIC DIRECTOR
Stuart has played pHamily the Musical with pH folk and now is composing and arranging music with the rest of the cast for Rubbed the Musical. Currently, Stuart makes music with the "Shout Section Big Band", his piano trio "The Gumdrops," a rock band "Young Stellar Objects," and with students at The Cove School where he teaches music, and a bunch of other things. Sometimes he also accompanies silent films for Doc Films at the University of Chicago. Previously, Stuart graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and then went for a bicycle ride across the country.
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JEFF SEVENER - ASST. MUSIC DIRECTOR
Former cast member Jeff Sevener rejoins pH as an Assistant Music Director and can be seen playing pHamily the Musical shows at our new space.
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TIM REID - ASST. MUSIC DIRECTOR
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