Thunderwolves

Alex Kendig is quick to make a strong physical choice and full of energy. He is in level 5 at the Second City Conservatory and performing with several improv groups here in Chicago. You can see Alex on Wednesday nights doing amazing karaoke laced stand-up at the Old Town Pub.

Erin Neumeyer has completed the iO West training program and has taken several courses at iO Chicago and workshops with the Groundlings in LA. She studied acting with Howard Fine and was the lead in Wait Until Dark and Eleemosynary both produced at The Raven in Los Angeles. Erin is currently appearing with her Second City class ensemble, the Thunderwolves, at local theaters, including the Playground. While in Los Angeles Erin produced and acted in 2 full length plays as well as 6 short films.

Adrienne Dawes is a writer, producer and sometime performer from Austin, TX where she co-founded St Idiot Collective, a performance co-operative. Adrienne is a graduate of the Second City Training Center's Core Writing and Musical Improv Programs. She recently participated in The Playground Theater's first Sketch Lab, contributed sketches to Fighting Neverland, a sketch revue produced for Donny's Skybox Theater and wrote a one act play for American Theatre Company's outreach program at Morton East High School. She is currently developing a web series project with sketch collective Private Portions, studying improv at iO and studying music at Old Town School of Folk Music.

Matthew Fahey has worked with such theatres as the Court Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare on the Green, Free Associates, Drury Lane Evergreen Park, Theatre Banshee, Chicago Theatre Works, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, Victory Gardens, ImprovOlympic and Organic Theatre Greenhouse among others. In 2005 he had a featured role in the award winning short film The Call of Cthulhu. He is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association. He is also a singer and songwriter who has been classically trained.

David Paliaras is a man dedicated to the art of improv. From the great state of Indiana, he sets aside a life and family every week to come to Second City to learn this fine art. He's done a bunch of improv before, and he'll probably do some more later. Go Bears.

Jenkins. Jenkins, Jenkins, Jenkins. Jenkins was all like, yeah, I wanna do some improv in like New Mexico and some shit, and then shit happened, and so now it's like you bet, dude.

Tim Lane has improvised for a number of years, having studied acting in College. He is currently enrolled in Conservatory Level 5, and is looking forward to performing for many years.

Laurie Jones is a member of Wishbone Theater Collective as well as the sketch Comedy Troupe Red Denim Mustache. She is thrilled to be part of this production, not least because it allows her to finally let go of her gangland past.

Matthew Asciutto spent five years performing in San Diego before ending up in Chicago on a whim. He is enrolled in The Conservatory at The Second City, a Masters Program in Chemistry at DePaul, and recently completed the training program at iO. Most recently he was seen at the iO playing The Dude in The Dude Abides, a show which is scheduled to remount in the near future.

Anthony Venturini is a native Chicagoan studying comedy and performing for about 2 years. Anthony completed the Improvisation program at Second City and the Acting program at ActOne studios and is currently enrolled in Second City's Conservatory and Comedic Writing programs. He can be seen around Chicago performing with Improv troupes "GULP" and "Mac Attack".

Martha Hearn traveled to this land of Chicago from Columbia, South Carolina where she earned her BA in Theatre from the Univ. of South Carolina, after graduating from the SC Governor's School for the Arts. She is a proud company member of pH productions, a GayCo artistic associate, member of the Belmont Transfer, and a writer/performer with the sketch comedy troupe BoomerangTango. You may have seen her play the brunette version of Claire, the Princess, in the hit show The Breakfast Club Musical at Studio BE. You can see her this February at the Pub Theater performing in the new sketch show Beotches. She proudly howls with the Thunderwolves as they perform beneath the beautiful moon. Aaaaooooooooh!

Sarah Shook is a graduate of University of Maryland and is a current student of the Second City Conservatory and the iO training center. In Chicago she has been in Popgasm at Gorilla Tango and was part of the Mad River shows with the improv group Mac Attack.

Recent grad of iO, Annoyance, and real college, (UIC), Phil divvys up his time working multiple jobs and performs stand-up on the side. Also, Phil is a Chicago native eager to put a theatre degree to work in this great city.

Elizabeth Cole is an improviser is in 5B of the IO program and is a member of the troupe Yossarian Candidate among others. She's like, "yeah, improv is pretty cool."

Shelly Luster = Amazing. She did improv stuff before and that was amazing. She's in the conservatory, and it's "amazing," she says. She hopes to continue her improv and comedy career, but doubts anything will really surprise her. Or anyway, she won't be amazed. She's sure it'll be cool or great, though.

Jasbir Singh a muy muy talented performer currently a student of the Second City Conservatory and the iO training center. He is part of the Harold Team Pheonix Lights and a member of the hilariously funny group Warm Milk appearing at theaters in Chicago.

Thomas Einstein graduated from Boston's Improv Asylum training program, and played on their house teams for a year. He moved to Chicago last January to see if he could bring his skills to a higher level, and is now busy absorbing what the city has to offer. He studies at the Annoyance, IO, and Second City Conservatory, and plays with the Thunder Wolves and GULP. He hopes to become a much better improviser.