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and UK productions and a one-year run Brad has also hosted and performed in
Off Broadway at Barrow Street; and countless comedy shows, often with
Paris Commune at multiple venues. Gotham City Improv where he taught
Other select directing: Anne Washburn’s and served as Executive and Artistic
A Devil at Noon (Humana Festival); Director for four years.
Ethel’s Documerica (BAM Next Wave); Clark Scott Carmichael (see above)
Dael Orlandersmith’s Stoop Stories;
Spring Awakening (Olney Theatre); Bus Laura Ekstrand (see above)
Stop (Kansas City Rep); and the US Noreen Farley is not
premiere of Attempts on Her Life (Soho making her debut in this
Rep) among many others. show, and certainly hopes
www.stevecosson.com that it is not her swan
Michael Friedman’s song. She doesn't
(Composer) credits remember everything she
include Bloody Bloody has done, but some of
Andrew Jackson the Vivid Stage shows
(Broadway and the Public include Fuddy Meers,
Theater) Unknown Soldier, Anton in Show Biz, Blood...A Comedy,
The Fortress of Solitude, The Outgoing Tide, Language Archives,
Love’s Labour’s Lost, and and the one where Harriett T. turned
Mr. Burns. With The into an almond.
Civilians: Canard Canard Goose, Gone Lulu French first took
Missing, Nobody’s Lunch, This Beautiful improv classes at Gotham
City, In the Footprint, The Great City Improv over two
Immensity, Paris Commune, Pretty decades ago and has been
Filthy, and The Abominables. He was improvising ever since. In
the Artist-inResidence and Director of addition to being a
the Public Forum at the Public Theater graduate of Gotham City
and Artistic Director of City Center Improv, she has also
Encores! Off-Center. He received the studied improv under Amy
2007 OBIE Award for sustained Poehler, Matt Walsh, and Matt Besser
excellence as well as a star on the — original members of the Upright
Playwright’s Sidewalk at the Lucille Citizens Brigade, Armando Diaz —
Lortel Theatre. founder of the Magnet Theater, various
Second City alumni such as Todd
~ The Flip Side ~ Stashwick (12 Monkeys), and improv
Brad Barton is a New masters Michael Gellman, Dave
York City-based performer Razowsky, and Aretha Sills. She has
who has appeared on Late appeared in numerous improv
Night with Conan O’Brien, performances in NYC improv theaters
One Life to Live, MTV, such as Gotham City Improv, the
Food Network, Comedy Magnet Theater, the People’s Improv
Central, and in dozens of Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade.
corporate projects. In She performs mostly in NJ these days
addition to hosting with Vivid's improv troupe, The Flip
corporate events, he Side in Summit, NJ and Montclair
interviewed film personalities as the Improv Comedy in Montclair, NJ.
east coast correspondent for Fandango. Dave Maulbeck (Voice
He is also an improv comedy performer, of Francisco) is an
teacher, and director. As one of the entertainment artist and
creative principals behind the comedy member of the Screen
short film organization Spitball Actors Guild and he
Collective, he has created comedy recently relocated back to
videos featuring a brand conscious New York City after a
Abraham Lincoln, Superman in therapy, multi-year stint in Los
and James Bond’s life in the suburbs. Angeles. He has starred
in several commercials, including the
Super Bowl Ad, Groundhog Day, for
truTV, and as the Polish Polisher for
Burger King and with film credits