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Joey Bland
Joey Bland moved to Chicago from the great state of Virginia in order to study
improvisation. He is a five-year veteran at ComedySportz Chicago and performs
regularly at the iO Theater. Favorite ensembles include The Improvised Shakespeare
Company and Bullet Lounge. Joey also plays with the world-renowned musical improv
troupe, Baby Wants Candy.
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Tara DeFrancisco
Tara DeFrancisco - Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Tara made the big move to Chicago
around 2000 to pursue lady comedy. Tara is a performer at ComedySportz Chicago;
she also currently plays with Armando & Merman at iO, travels with Second City
TourCo, and sits in with decorated musical improvisers Baby Wants Candy. Recently,
she was awarded "Funniest Person in Chicago" in the Free Press. Tara teaches
improv, and writes and performs corporate comedy all over the place, too. Seven8Nine
is made up of some of the most talented people in the world - and some of her best
friends. How lucky is that?
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Hans Holsen
Hans Holsen tours and jokes around with The Second City Touring Company. He lives
in Chicago. He also improvises at i.O., and has worked for such great theater
companies as ComedySportz, Barrel of Monkeys, and Collaboraction. Look for him, or
don't, in the upcoming feature "Let's Go to Prison."
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Shad Kunkle
Shad has been studying improvisation in Chicago since 1996. He is currently a
performer at Comedy Sports, IO, and the Second City. He performs regularly with his
improv team Carl & the Passions on Wednesday nights and the Armando Diaz
Experience on Monday nights. The name Shad is a cross between Chad and Shane.
He could have been named Chane, but as it is he shares the same name as a small
fish used as bait.
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Deanna Moffitt
Deanna has always been drawn to comedy and found a home performing with Portland
ComedySportz and the critically acclaimed sketch group The 3rd Floor. She has
performed in comedy festivals across the country and in Canada with the two person
group All Jane No Dick and co-wrote and performed a two person sketch show entitled
Berkowitz and Moffitt.
Since her move to Chicago in 2004 she has continued honing her comedic chops as an
ensemble member of Chicago ComedySportz, IO and Hubris Productions and has
performed for two seasons with ImprovAcadia in Bar Harbor, ME. She cannot wait to
rock the world video style.
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Robyn Norris
Robyn has been performing comedy in Chicago since 1998. She currently tours with
the Second City Touring Company. Prior to touring, she wrote and performed in the
Second City revue Girls Night Out. You can catch her regularly at Comedysportz,
where she is an ensemble member, and at IO playing with the Signatures and ACE.
Robyn has written and performed in three original sketch shows with the very talented,
Hans Holsen. She also formed the sketch group Waste Management and has
performed with Profiles Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, Shaking the Tree, Fox Force Five,
Serendipity Theatre and WNEP. She feels incredibly blessed to make a living making
people laugh. Also.check out her website at robynlynnenorris.com.
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Rance Rizzutto
Rance Rizzutto moved to Chicago in 2003 and dove right in. He was immediately
welcomed by ComedySportz Chicago and has completed training with IO Chicago and
Annoyance. He hails from Portland, OR where he got his chops performing with
ComedySportz Portland, Your Other Left, and the sketch group The Third Floor Rance
can currently be seen at ComedySportz, on the iO Chicago team Johnny Roast Beef,
or performing with ImprovAcadia during the summer. Aside from performing he also
does headshot/portrait photography.
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Sam Super
Sam Super has performed improv and sketch comedy all over the country, including at
the Chicago Improv Festival, the Toronto Improv Festival, and the Del Close Marathon in
New York. Since studying acting at the University of Oregon and the Mountview
Academy of Theatre Arts in London, Sam has called Chicago home. There he is a
performer and instructor with ComedySportz, and can also be seen in The Hot Karl,
DSI's The Beatbox, ACE at the iO Theater, and in the recent Chicago premiere of the
new musical, "Listen, Kid!"
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Julie B. Nichols
Julie Nichols is thrilled to be part of seven8nine. She hails from Deerfield, IL, where her
love for music and comedy was cultivated from a young age through, comedy troupes,
The Three Amigos, and neighborhood garage rock. She graduated from the University
of Iowa with a degree. She composes for promotional and industrial videos, and short
films. She is the Musical Director for the Second City National Touring Company. You
can see her perform on piano regularly at iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theater.
Check out "Stop That Show!" at the Annoyance Theater at 8pm on Thursdays,
because Julie wrote the original score for it! Watch for her newest musical at the
Annoyance coming in August of 2007!
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Steph McCullough
Steph began her piano studies at the age of five and studying music composition at the
age of nine. Stephanie has been with ComedySportz since 1999 (and is the current
Musical Director), toured nationally with the Second City Touring Company from 2004
to 2006 and has, herself, co-written at least one original musical per year since 2000.
She has created hundreds of songs and has been music director for dozens of
musicals, corporate productions and recording projects.
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