Players & Support

Players

GOOSE DUARTE:

After graduating from ImprovWorks, Goose went on to star in Liquid Soap and Emotional Hospital (two highly acclaimed long-form improvisation troupes), fulfilled his dream of joining Flash Family, and now teaches improvisation. It is rumored that he never sleeps during the day... but he occationally naps.

JOEL MICUCCI:

Joel cut his theater teeth at University of Massachusetts where he graduated with a Theater Arts degree. He studied with Second City in Los Angeles and completed all of the workshops offered by ImprovWorks. Previous improv performance credits include LifeScape Theater and Emotional Hospital. When he's not improvising on stage, he's improvising his life as a handyman. Joel says (and we know it's true!) "If it's broke, I can fix it."

KRISTIAN RUGGIERI:

Kristian Ruggieri took her first improv class in 1997 and was hooked like a - well, like a fish. On a hook.

Since then, she's performed with The Hyena Comedy All Stars, Improvalicious, The Laugh Landers, Flash Family and even by herself. When not performing, Kristian can be found hiring scientists, building houses and roaming around Alcatraz.

ANDY SAROUHAN:

Andy Sarouhan has been involved in improvisation for 13 years, starting with a high school troupe when he was just a wee freshman. Later he graduated with a BA in Theatre from UC San Diego, where he co-founded the improv/sketch group "When The Script Hits The Fan." Growing tired of sun, beaches, and daytrips to Mexico, Andy moved back to San Francisco where he has been amazed with the local improv scene.

He has been a regular performer with Flash Family for three years, as well as a guest peformer with Un-Scripted Theater, and a graduate of the BATS Longform Improv Program (BLIP). He also is proud and honored to train the improvisers of manana, coaching high school improv teams around the Bay Area, including the troupe that gave him a start 13 years ago.

SUE WALDEN:

Sue Walden is the Founder and Director of ImprovWorks, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building Life Skills through Improvisation. Her experience includes a BA in Education and 26 years of teaching, performing, adapting and widely applying the techniques of improvisation. She approaches improv training as a powerful and joyful way to peel away constraints, restraints and inhibitions, allowing the naturally expressive, collaborative and creative self to emerge.

Sue is a skilled teacher in ImprovWorks' public workshop program, a dynamic corporate facilitator, an engaging speaker, an author (Working with Groups to Enhance Relationships, Whole Person Assoc. 1998), and the director and a regular performer with San Francisco's longest-running improvisational theater company, "Flash Family". She has been a member of the Specialty Staff for the year-long Co-Active Leadership Program since its inception seven years ago.

Her current passion is training trainers and consulting on how to design powerful experiential workshops. Sue promises that, in any of her programs, while the learning may be challenging, it will also be fun!

Special Guests You May Also See:

ZOE GALVEZ:

Zoe has performed locally (Magic Theatre, The Marsh) and abroad (Canada, Australia) in various theatrical productions. Among her extensive theatrical credits are performances in adaptations of Dickens' HARD TIMES, Melville's MOBY DICK and understudying for the lead female role in the World Premiere of THE LATE HENRY MOSS, written and directed by Sam Shepard. In addition to her stage work, Zoe works as an actor in TV and film, voiceover, corporate trainings, and industrials (most recently with John Cleese). She teaches acting, movement, improv and dance all around the Bay Area. In her spare time, she trains her cat. He can "sit" and "ring a bell" on command. Some argue that her cat has trained her.

Also: Chris Miller, Craig Neibaur, Ann Swanberg

Staff:

MUSICIANS: Jesse Dyan, David Norfleet, Dan Reich and others

LIGHTS: Danny Ryan, Patricia Pearson

HOUSE MANAGERS: Ray Kutz, D Papas, Sue Skiff, Brian Stell

Thanks to our workshop students for donating their time and talents