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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z Kendle Wade I started improv while attending The University of Texas at Austin. Most recently, I was a member of CU's Left Right Tim. My other theatre interest is Shakespeare. I teach Shakespeare through performance to middle school students at a summer camp in Texas. When not improvising or teaching Shakespeare, I can be found rambling about the swimming holes and hot springs, riding a horse, or playing the uke. Or teaching human geography courses at Metro State in Denver. Favorite Shakespeare quote: "Let wonder seem familiar." The Winter's Tale More info... Pete Wagner Pete was a proud member of the Bovine family! After graduating as part of class #5, he went on to work in several shows including On The Spot, The Young & the Maladjusted, The Sanscript players, and of course was a member of the Undeadjugfish. However undisclosed parties found out who he really was, and he had to go into hiding. (Just kiddin') Pete actually went on to graduate from the Columbia School of Broadcasting and The Ohio Center for Broadcasting, and is now proudly working in radio! Wray, Colorado is his home for now, and he can be heard on the air, doing commercials, live remotes and hosting the "TIGER" Oldies Show every Sunday afternoon on 1440 KRDZ-AM in Wray. (www.krdz.com) He really loves his 1959 Chevy pick-up truck! He should, that's where he lives. (Just kiddin' again..........REALLY!) How YOOOUUUU DOOOIIIIN'!!!! More info... Andy Waldrop Andy is a recent transplant to the Denver area. He was trained in Boston where he performed since 1999 with ImprovBoston and acted with Theatre-1. Although the thin air in Colorado makes him dizzy, he is excited to be a member of “On The Spot” and “Sans Script Players.” More info... Jim Walker Jim has performed improvisational theater in California and Colorado with groups such as the Didactic Duo, the Nonesuch Players, Your Mom, Bedfellows and others. A troupe member of Playback Theatre West, he performs regularly at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder as well (www.PlaybackTheatreWest.com). Recent acting credits include roles with Colorado Light Opera, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company and developing two new shows for the Boulder International Fringe Festival. Jim's creative influences include cartoonist and experientialist Brian Fowler, who has said: "My art is an extension of myself -- but not in the same way my arms are." More info... Nya Watkins Nya is currently an improv student in the Bovine’s Players Workshop West classes and is so thrilled at her newly discovered Bovine Family. An understudy for ACME 20 “ACME XX-Big & Tall” Nya would like to thank the Bovine for all of the opportunity presented to her! More info... Cara Webb Cara is so excited to be learning improv at the Bovine Metropolis that she could pee her pants! In her free time, Cara enjoys walking into unsuspecting fire hydrants, broadcasting an indie music podcast, browsing record stores for the next rare vinyl find, hitting up coffee shops and dive bars for a decent drink, screenprinting, riding her vintage bike, and improving with the Boulder crew! More info... Cassandra Weber More info... Carl Wedell Carl, a graduate of the third class of Players' Workshop West, has done short- and long-form improv, as well as sketch comedy, scripted theater and music. He currently hosts Bovine Metropolis's Improv Hootenanny! on Monday nights, and plays at Impulse Theater on the weekends. Over the years, he has had the privilege of working with Comedy Helper, The ACME Comedy Players, The SansScript Players, P-RoCK, On the Spot, Supahstah Funk Trunk, Taller Than You, The Bat People, Making the Scene (his Players' Workshop West class) and Carleton College's Cujokra. Carl would like to quote Judy Tenuta, who said, "This is my plant. His name's Robert. Get it?" More info... Kent Welborn Kent has been in love with improv since high school when he took his first improv class. He continued the love affair in college when he was one of the original members of Left Right TIM, CU Boulder's improv comedy team. Before graduating and leaving LRT, Kent traveled with them to Chicago, LA and Edinburgh to perform and learn. After graduating college, Kent continued his love affair with improv again as he started performing at the Bovine Metropolis Theater. He started off at the Bovine as a primary player in the 2009 holiday sketch show "Hark The Herald Zombies Sing". Now he performs in "On The Spot" and with the Thursday night House Team, Dungeon Cave; hosts the Tuesday night show, "Laughing Dragon Cake Samurai Fun Show"; will be a primary player in the 2011 run of the holiday sketch show "Real Housewives of the North Pole"; and also works at the Bovine full time, he is the Managing Director at the theater. What does that mean? Well, he pretty much does a little bit of everything: producing the weekend shows, running the admin side of the Bovine School of Improv and heading up the corporate sales for the theater. So, if you ever want to know anything about the weekend shows, improv classes, hiring the Bovine to come to you for a performance or workshop, or anything else for that matter, he is your man! On a side note, if you know of a good cheeseburger, let Kent know because he will want to eat it. Oh, and another side note, he is also taking classes at the Bovine, he is about to graduate with the 55th graduating class of the Bovine School of Improv, "Ducks Fly Together!" More info... Mo Welch Grad student at the School of Hard Knocks. Welch was born in a town called Normal, IL. Raised in Chicago. She is a stand up comedian and loves this improv world a lot. She does not like her Bovine Improv profile being so close to Jason Wenger. More info... Jason Wenger Height:6'3 Weight:195 lbs Reach:81" Fighting Style: NA. Born and raised in Loveland, Jason is a graduate of Bovine's 42nd class. He currently plays on the house team Maude and OTS. More info... Kelly Wensing Kelly Wensing - prefers life up, dirty and shaken, not stirred. Kelly has been exploring improvisational comedy styles for more than fifteen years. She has been with Comedy Helper since just about it’s beginning helping it grow from a short form/sketch group into a long form/sketch group. She carries a leading role with Comedy Helper as a writer, director, actor, producer and “Girl Friday”. She enjoys all the performers she works with in Comedy Helper and performing their signature format “The Kraken”. Kelly has performed in the Big Stinkin’ Improv Fest in Austin, Texas, The Chicago Sketch Fest, in Chicago, Illinois, The Denver Improv Festival, and most recently the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Regional Festivals in Wyoming. She has taught Long Form Improv at the University of Wyoming, Cherry Creek High School, Eaglecrest High School and The Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Kelly burst into improvisational comedy from a traditional theatre background where she conquered the jobs of Theatrical Designer, Director, Producer, and Executive Director of an award winning Theatre Company. As an actor, Kelly has brought to life the characters of Jane Pennington in Lovely Letters, Ma Joad in Of Grapes and Nuts, Dorothea Lange in Migrant Voices, Azreal in The Creation of the World and Other Business to name a few of the more obscure roles she has loved. More info... Bethany Wessel Bethany has been a performer since she was a wee little toe head. Her first experience with improv was her high school team "Theatrical Garbage." Bethany has a degree in Music Education and teaches band, choir, general music, and private piano and voice lessons. Bethany hopes to keep playing with everyone at the Bovine for years to come! More info... Carrie White More info... Joanne White More info... Mark Whitlatch Future graduate of the Bovine Metropolis Theater in April 2004, Mark Whitlatch is currently performing for the first time on stage with Sketchers. "They have told me that I'm always a character at work, why not on stage." He would like to Thank Eric, Denise and the Bovine Community for this wonderful opportunity and encouragement which has been very enriching in his life. More info... Margaret Whittum Margaret Whittum has directed Into the Woods, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and True West, among others. Favorite roles include Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid, the Witch in Into the Woods, and Fruma-Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof. Margaret has directed in Seoul, South Korea; Edinburgh, Scotland; across Canada; and in Denver and Colorado Springs. She has written two original shows, Love the Radio Edit, a one-act comedy performed entirely in song lyrics, which ran successfully at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Teeth, an educational ESL children's musical, which has run 5 times in Seoul. She resides between Seoul, South Korea, and Denver, Colorado, where she is an actor, director and voice actor. She founded the Seoul City Improv comedy group in 2007, and SCI has since toured throughout Korea, and to Taiwan, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Colorado. Margaret graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Drama, cum laude. www.margaretwhittum.com More info... Stephen Wilder Stephen is a recent transplant to Colorado from Los Angeles, where he was a graduate of iO West, Second City, Bang Studio, and Westside Eclectic. Stephen is the founder and director of <a href="http://www.hnrimprov.com/" target="_blank">Hit and Run: Musical Improv</a>, Colorado's only improvised musical, and he is also the executive producer of <a href="http://www.dinnerdetective.com/" target="_blank">The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show</a>, which performs regularly in Denver and Colorado Springs. One time at camp, an entire box of fireworks went off under his chair. More info... Linda Williams More info... Rollie Williams Rollie Williams is a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Biochemistry and Theater. He is currently a member of the Bovine house team The Fillers and On The Spot, as well as the University of Denver's Skintight Outrage. Rollie can run pretty fast, so if you challenge him to a race or a fight, there is a solid chance he will be running away from you. Also if you have questions about when to use 'less' versus 'fewer' give him a jangle. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eEoveWOszkE"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eEoveWOszkE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object> More info... Ryan Williams Ryan Williams is in love with the stage. He graduated from Metropolitan State in Denver with a BA in Theatre. He is also a graduate of The Players Workshop West for long-form improv at the Bovine Metropolis Theater. While at The Bovine he also co-wrote and starred in three original sketch comedies and was a main player for On The Spot, a prime time short-form show. He has also appeared with Impulse Theater, Denver’s longest running show and was understudy to The Second City at the DCPA. He recently decided to make a go of the Chicago scene, where he performs weekly. Ryan is one of the founding members of CURDS ONLY!!! and you can find him anywhere injustice can be found! More info... Jake Williamson Jake has performed as an actor/singer/musician in the Denver/Metro area for many years. He has worked with such companies as Performance Now, Curious Theatre, Comedy Works, Miners Ally, Denver Center and many more. He is currently finishing up a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Metropolitan State College of Denver. With his degree in musical theatre, he plans to be a manager at a Denny's... that or a ninja, he really hasn't decided yet. He would like to thank all who have come into his life and changed him. GO KNIT WITS!!! More info... Meredith Winfield Meredith has many credits to her 'Moosume', including appearing in over 10 Bovine sketch productions, a trailer trash version of McBeth, and various other improv shows. A graduate of Bovine Metropolis Theater's Improv School(class #5), she is now a teacher herself. Meredith can be seen in Hit n Run Musical Improv, 539-ALI, and Two Girls at Once (TGAO). When not performing, she likes showing people various logos on aluminum cans. More info... Taylor Wingerter Taylor graduated with "Awkward Silence," the 37th class of the Bovine Metropolis Theater in 2008. She was a member of "The Fillers" house team, playing Thursdays at the Throwdown, and a cast member of On The Spot. She started teaching levels 1 and 2 at the Bovine in November 2010. In addition to her grad show, "the Impersonals", you may have seen Taylor in the Holiday Sketch Shows "Real Housewives of the North Pole" (2010 & 2011) and "Jingle with the Cringles" (2008). She also performed as an Ace with the Draw in 2010, Bleu Cow 5 III sketch group, "Magic Critters" Battle Royale House Team, Flipside, and Opposable Thumbs. Taylor made the top 10 of Denver's Next Improv Star Season 1. Her fans voted her back in, but in the end, she was the first person to be eliminated from DNIS twice. In addition to performing, Taylor produced the Thursday Night show Improv Jackpot in 2010. You can also see her perform with the Oklahoma Christian Summer Singers and with James Clark in their two person group "The Marty's". Taylor grew up in Evergreen, Colorado, graduated from CSU, and lives in Denver. More info... David Wohl More info... Madeline Wolfson More info... Willie Womack More info... Royce Wood Royce Wood holds a B.A. in Acting from the University of Northern Colorado. At the Bovine, he plays with Nancy's Apartment, and is honored and amazed to play with Makeshift Shakespeare! You can visit is website at <a href="http://www.roycewood.net">RoyceWood.net</a> for a full resume and more information. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4n-UKFbWCjU"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4n-UKFbWCjU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object> More info... Shannon Wood Rothenberg During the day, Shannon teaches math and science to a fantastic bunch of 6th graders. On the weekends, she performs with several long-form improv groups including "Two Girls at Once" and, up until recently, "Hit & Run: Musical Improv." She's also the founder and director of Denver's own "Makeshift Shakespeare" which you'll have to see to believe. Shannon loves helping stray dogs, Vivaldi's oboe concertos, all things Scottish, and her freakishly adorable twins. And no, that’s not her real hair color. Duh. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_5n98977gp0"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_5n98977gp0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object> More info... Chris Woolf Chris considers improv a religion and he's devoted. You can find him on the Bovine stage whenever they'll allow him, and all around town any other time. More info... Robert Workman Robert is hard at work on perfecting his comedic writing skills and trying out new ways to be social without getting restraining orders. He appeared in the PWW graduate show "A Product of the Times" (class # 17) and is thrilled to be involved with "Sketchers". He'd like to thank his family (and maybe Jack), his friends, the lunatics down at Caps Sports Bar, Eric and Denise, his fellow cast members, and, of course, his shrink...also known as the bartender. Hey, it's cheap! More info...