Merrily Antony
Merrily graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Engineering Technology and has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. She has performed with several improv groups since 1996, including ComedySportz-Portland, Your Other Left, The BEE Word, and Screaming Mee-Mees. She is also the very happy mama to Zach and Katerina. She likes football, video games, and comic books, boys -- which means she's already taken.
Roxann Asp
Roxann's been playing with Comedysportz-Portland since 2006. She also is a cast member of the incredibly silly and successful Mystery Science Theater tribute show MST. She performs with the Screaming Mee-Mees and has made appearances with Disco Lounge as well. She fancies yoga, gardening, drinking coffee, and quoting lines from Airplane. Roxann is half owner of a powerwasher. We don't know what the other half is.
Bill Cernansky
Bill improvises and teaches with ComedySportz-Portland . He is also a cast member of the improv troupes Screaming Mee-Mees, Swingers, and Be And Be, and directs the improv show Harold Haase. He has performed at improv festivals across the country, on public access TV, and in a couple of Portland 48 Hour Film Festival short features. His car is a robot. IMDB
John Dieffenderfer
John studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts before moving to Portland. He then became a founding member of improv troupe Comedysportz-Portland in 1993. He's worked with Shakesprov and acted in local productions of The Good Doctor, The Crucible and the original piece A Fig for Such a Life. He has appeared in local short films Scribes and Doughnut Boy, and hopefully thru his work in TV public service spots, people are reading more and smoking less. IMDB
Kelsey Famous
Miss Famous is currently a member of Portland comedy troupes ComedySportz-Portland and The BEE Word. With her BFA in Theatre Performance and experience studying with The Groundlings in Los Angeles, Kelsey hopes someday to become an unstoppable improv robot.
Betse Green
Betse has been an ensemble member of ComedySportz-Portland since 2002, and has performed on many other Portland stages, including Curious Comedy Theater, Slocum House Theater, and Brody Improv Theater. She is an improv instructor and a founding member of the improv groups Be and Be, Moist Splendor and Screaming Mee-Mees, which she has also directed. She is a veteran of several improv and comedy festivals, including SFIT, CIF and SIP. She has studied in Chicago and LA and could name drop Joe Bill, Susan Messing and Bob Dassie, but won't. If anything naughty happens in our shows, Betse is probably the instigator. Unless it's Merrily.
Jill Headen
Jill Headen is an improvisational comedian from Dallas, Texas. She was smart enough to move to the Pacific Northwest in 2010, and lucky enough to become part of ComedySportz-Portland, Sideburns, and Peachy Chicken. Right?
John Lascurettes
Master of a thousand beards, this crafty improv veteran has played with ComedySportz in Portland and San Jose since 1994. He has played guest to various long-form improv groups and theaters. He was also co-creator and co-star of a sketch comedy pilot in the nineties that you never ever saw. He'd love to show it to you if you're buying the beer. He's a strong advocate of getting around by bicycle. You may have seen him in one of Portland's record-setting World Naked Bike Rides. All of him.
Craig McCarty
Craig is an 11-year veteran of the Portland and Chicago improv and sketch communities. He performed in Chicago with IO Harold team "Chopper" and was a member of Playground theater team "The Fling.", while somehow maintaining his career with ComedySportz-Portland. Craig is a teacher as well as pastor of improv, and an occasional member of the Curious Comedy Theater house sketch ensemble.
Jennette Zarko