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Who We Are


LISA BURTON

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Lisa Burton is a Minneapolis transplant who has performed all over the Caribbean with Second City Theatricals, around the U.S. with iO Harold team Devil's Daughter, and all over Chicago solo or with various groups for the last ten years. She loves scary movies and musicals and you can catch her at iO on Tuesdays with Devil's Daughter or Friday nights with The Musical Armando.


Hannah Parsons

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Hannah Parsons is a card carrying BFA educated Actress from Northern California who moved to Chicago to continue her studies in improv comedy. She studied at Second City Chicago, iO Theater and with the Neo Futurists. She edits fun award-winning podcast like The Improvised Star Trek, The Probe, Two Journalists and even a super informative podcast about financial literacy. She’s currently a Stage Manager at Second City Hollywood, and the Co-Artistic Director of Let Love Run, a presence gallery in DTLA.


MARY BETH SMITH

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Mary Beth honed her improv and theatre skills while earning a Chemistry degree at Furman University before relocating to Chicago to continue performing. She has been a part of making many podcasts, videos, sketch shows, and card games as a member of the comedy collective The Nerdologues. She is also a regular performer at the Annoyance Theatre (including weekly improv with Sight Unseen and past productions of Generation Gap, Ask Your Doctor, The Annoyance Christmas Pageant, Splatter Theatre, and Fuck You, I Love You, Bye: The Rahm Emanuel Story) and is part of a rotating cast of improvisers for Cards Against Humanity's Late Night Writers Room. Mary Beth has studied improv at the Annoyance Theatre, iO Chicago, One Group Mind, and the Playground Theatre and has enjoyed 5 years of hosting her own interview podcast, MBSing.


MATT YOUNG

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Matt Young is an actor, writer, and producer based in Chicago and one of the co-creators of The Probe. He is best known as Usidore the Wizard from the hit improv comedy podcast Hello from the Magic Tavern. He is a proud member of the Improvised Shakespeare Company, and a founding member of the long-running, improvised news satire, Whirled News Tonight. He also leads the inept crew of the U.S.S. Sisyphus as Captain Baxter in the Improvised Star Trek podcast. Matt hopes to continue focusing on narrative and satirical podcasting with Improvised Star Trek and The Probe. Matt is represented by Paonessa Talent.

 

OUR CAST

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