Alan Vincent Michaels

Alan Vincent Michaels was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, then moved to Rochester, New York. Having a fascination for all things a few degrees off center since the earliest thoughts danced in his cerebral cortex, he developed intense passions for science, art, music, astronomy, science fiction, history, ancient wisdom, fantasy, and…

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Corrie Spike Carter

Corrie Spike Carter is a performer and writer for one of Rochester’s most unique improvisational theater comedy troupes, Polite Ink Sketch & Improv. She regularly performs at MuCCC in Rochester and with Bravo! Creative Arts Production Company in Fairport. She was recently seen as Drypenny the evil witch in a successful run of a Rochester original: The Kingdom Next to Fid and as…

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Don Beechner

Don Beechner is a local actor and improviser. His favorite roles include playing the dashing Elliot Lovborg in the adaptation Hedda and the master of all blades, Jacques, in the epic The Kingdom Next to Fid. When there is no script, Don pushes the boundaries of his imagination and energy performing improv with Polite Ink. sketch & improv.

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Eric Scoles

Eric Scoles scored his first rejection slip (from George Scithers) about 36 years ago, for a deeply pretentious fantasy short that has thankfully been lost to time. Let’s just say it involved Cherubim, the Garden Of Eden, and flaming swords, and leave it at that.

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Gary A. Mitchell

Gary A. Mitchell still remembers his first pencil. It was red and the size of a log. It left dents in his fingers and taught him the first lesson of authorship–all writing is pain. Undiscouraged, he graduated to pens and keyboards. Along the way he spent four interesting years at West Point and served in…

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Jack Simel

Jack Simel has been acting since 1970. He studied Theatre Arts at Nazareth College and has performed with most of Rochester’s theater groups. Last year, Jack made his local directing debut with Penfield Players’ production of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Jack is having a blast working with the Disturbing Frequencies folks, and looks forward to more….

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Jeff Moon

Jeff Moon has a BA in Theatre and has been a stage and film actor for over 30 years. He has narrated audiobooks released through Audible.com as himself and as part of The Online Stage. These titles are also available on Amazon.com and iTunes. He is also a reader for many projects with Librivox.org. These…

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Jonathan Wetherbee

Jonathan Wetherbee lives and works in Rochester, New York. His acting career there has run the gamut from playing roles such as Edgar in Shakespeare’s King Lear with the University of Rochester Todd International Theatre to guest appearances with Polite Ink sketch and improv troupe. His other activities, hobbies, and history are a complete mystery, but…

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Karen Craft

Born at a very young age, Karen Craft had her first taste of acting in college and has been answering the call ever since. While recovering from flu back in 2000, she watched 24 hours the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and at that very moment decided to embrace the dark arts…

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Kurt Schweitzer

Kurt Schweitzer brings a broad experience to his writing. A former vampire logistics facilitator, past purveyor of Italian-style transportation, and Y2K disaster preventer, he’s experienced in such arcane pursuits as analyzing cellphone billing data, patent reading, valve sizing, timber framing, and teaching teen-agers how to drive. Schweitzer has written works in over forty different languages,…

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