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Bob Apthorpe
Bob is Improv for Evil's radiological specialist. Improvising since 2001, he has an onstage fondness for wall charts, Germans, and fishing for lake perch (in season.) In his spare time he torments lumber and maintains IfE's giant computer complex deep beneath the Antarctic ice (codenamed Indestructable II.) As well as being a Man of (Evil) Science, he is a Man of (Evil) Letters as well; his favorite words include "palliative", "fuselage", "obviate", and "nubbins."
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Mo Daviau
Mo Daviau wandered into the Hideout Theater one summer day in 2002 not knowing just how hardcore improv was about to change her life. Not only did it lead her to meet and marry that scary-looking mad scientist Bob (pictured above), but it also provided a live and collaborative forum for all of the pretend people she usually commits to the written word. Mo has studied improv with practically every teacher who resides or has been transported to Austin, as well as at the Annoyance Theater in Chicago. She spent five years as a songstress with Girls Girls Girls, spun tales of old with One More Night, channels her future geriatric self with Battle-Axe, and currently shakes her booty with the Dancy Street D'Orchestra when she is not tending to the ministrations of her siblings of Evil. Mo is also a writer of novels and is a co-editor of the first edition of the official Out of Bounds Festival literary magazine, Out of Print.
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Eric Heiberg
Eric Heiberg is good with inadvertent, back-handed compliments, but is even better with hugging, which he does to every living thing -- especially if they don't want him to (the squirming means it's working). He has been in 4 different improv troupes and is currently in the troupes Snackers, and Improv for Evil. He has been performing on stage since 2005 when he took a class at the Hideout Theater and decided that he wanted to figure out what "the secret of Improv was and then immediately quit". He is still doing Improv.
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Mike Kinald
Mike Kinald started his career in humor by parodying his high school teachers with surprisingly accurate impersonations and placing them in student-created comic books. In college, he joined "The Spectator", the campus humor magazine and was once again writing sketches, articles, and the occasional advertisement parody. His unique form of humor ( mostly sarcastic and dark at times when it wasn't surreal) landed him a writer's position at the Stockwood Renaissance Faire, where he both helped in writing the script and performed as one of the actors in the faire's improv company. Moving to Texas from NYC, Mike knew nothing of the improv scene until he received improv lessons at the Heroes School as a Christmas present from his sister. He showed up ten minutes late to his first class, and the rest he says, is history. Mike was approached to join an improv troupe which was just about to form in Austin, The Austin Potato Famine. He accepted, and a few weeks later ( along with a troupe name change) found himself a member of Improv for Evil.
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Marc Majcher
Marc Majcher has been performing and directing improv theater for several years in Austin and parts beyond.
In addition to performing with Improv For Evil, he's taken the stage with many other projects, including SHOT,
Kabaam!, Haunted, After School Special, Start Trekkin', Improvised Shakespeare, the weekly Maestro show at the
Hideout Theatre, This Week Tonight, the Flying Theater Machine's children's show, and Lola and Guilds of Steel with Gnap! Theater Projects, and many others.
He recently toured with The Intergalactic Nemesis, and has performed with Jerm Pollet's Raspberry Brothers in
Dallas, New York City, and parts unknown. Marc also enjoys singing, game design, voice acting, and is part of
the currently reigning competitive charades team, I Drink Your Milkshake. He is totally stoked to see what the
future holds with the Evil Ones.
You can find Marc on Twitter, Facebook, and all over the place.
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Matt Pollock
What started as a fun diversion in his college troupe Theatre Strike Force at the University of Florida has become a regular part of his life. Living and performing in Austin since 2005, Matt has performed in over 400 improv shows across every improv stage in the city. He is a founding member of the Flying Theatre Machine (voted Austin's best kid's theater group by Nickelodeon) l, a regular cast member and occasional director of Maestro (Austin's longest-running improv show), a national tournament-level ComedySportz player, a former champion of the O Henry World Championship Pun-Off, and is the long time Box Office Director of the Out of Bounds comedy festival. When not pretending to be funny, Matt solves the world's problems as an engineering consultant and enjoys spending time with his fiancee, crossword puzzles, and excessive amounts of science fiction.
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Sarah Marie Tufts
Sarah Marie is an acting singing improvising frolicking human shaped being who began playing on stage in 1998 including such roles as: Maria in The Sound of Music, Polly in Crazy for You, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, June (Squish) in Chicago, Kate in Sylvia, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella in Into the Woods. In 2008 Sarah Marie took an improv class at The Merlin Works School of Improvisation and fell in love with improvisational acting. She hopes to develop her improv skills to such a terrible state, that something adorable and evil will explode from her like a supernova of destructive awesome. She is the proud member of such improv troupes as Girls Girls Girls: Improvised Musicals and of course: Improv for Evil. She looks forward to going further, looking deeper, and discovering more in a lifelong pursuit of artistic exploration. To adventure!
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Jason Vines
Jason Vines discovered improv comedy in Austin one night when he went to see the show, Maestro at the Hideout Theater in late 2005. He got up on stage as an audience volunteer and had so much fun that he decided to sign up for improv classes. That one show sparked a full blown addiction to improv and he hasn't looked back since. Jason is a founding member of Improv for Evil and has been a member of the casts of Ka-Baam!, After School Special, Cochise!, Apocalypse, Guilds of Steel, Lola, The Anderson's, Flying Theater Machine, Maestro, Suspicious Package and many more.
When Jason isn't making things up on stage, he dabbles in a bit of scripted work as well. He played the evil, demon moose and several other characters in "Evil Dead: The Musical" and he has been cast as FDR in the Zilker Summer Musical presentation of "Annie". Jason is also constantly auditioning for movies, television and film roles in the hopes that he can someday quit his day job and follow his dream of having an acting career.
Jason also loves bacon.
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