Cast List

Al Zimmerman

In addition to a variety of careers (including high-tech product designer, college teacher, and radio disk jockey), Al Zimmerman has been having a blast doing improvisational comedy at venues such as Comedysportz, Funhouse Lounge, Capital City Theater, Slocum Theater, Magenta Improv Theater, and of course, Curious Comedy Theater. He is a proud alumnus of the Curious Comedy Training [...]
Alissa Bagan

Alissa is a local improviser and performer in Portland. She began performing at an early age in musical and dramatic theater as well as performing as a gymnast. She credits her sense of humor to growing up in a family where sarcasm and pranks were a daily occurrence among she and her brothers. Alissa became involved in [...]
Annie Rimmer

Annie Rimmer has taken the Stand up and Improv courses at Curious Comedy Theater and is looking forward to taking many more. She has been seen on the stage at Curious performing various shows. She is also a big lover of theater. Annie was most recently seen as Cecily in the Importance of Being Earnest [...]
Bill McKinley

Originally from the swing state of Ohio, Bill has been performing in Portland since 2009 and last year directed the showBroditarianism. Before that, he performed and taught improvisation for nine years in Columbus with such groups as Out of Our Heads and Pale Imitations, with whom he appeared at the 2009 Chicago Improv Festival. He is [...]
Bryan Fernando

Bryan Fernando is a graduate of the Curious Comedy class of 2012. Turn the clock back to 2010, Bryan is new to Portland, an English major at PSU, looking for something fun to do on New Years Eve. He sees an ad for Curious Comedy’s New Years Extravaganza, and the rest, they say, is history. [...]
David Calkins

David began studying improv during Spring 2011 because his therapist told him to. He fell in love with it after his first class and has been doing it ever since. He has trained with many local improv groups including the Brainwaves, Brody Theater, The Liberators, and has recently joined the Curious Comedy house team. He [...]
Dylan Reiff

After studying experimental theater at Antioch College, Dylan spent his early twenties in Chicago, IL working with the Neo-Futurist, Annoyance, and Apollo Theaters writing and performing while holding down many strange and terrible jobs. Since then he has performed, worked, and lived across the United States ultimately landing in the dream-hunk city of Portland, OR [...]
Gabe Dinger

Gabe started doing stand up comedy in 2005. He won the Portland Amateur Comedy Contest in 2006 showcasing his razor-sharp wit and unmatched timing, and in 2007 won the CBS Radio Laff Off. Gabe’s material is fun and smart in a way that is accessible to a wide audience. Gabe can boast being the first [...]
Greg Schasse

Greg is a four year veteran in improvised comedy. He got his start at the Brody theater, then quickly found his home at the Curious Comedy Theater. He is an alumnus of Curious Comedy’s original class, with fellow Playas Gabe Dinger and KT Behrens. Greg has guest starred at Comedy Sportz’ Disco Lounge and has [...]
Hadas Cassorla

Hadas hails from around the world and has made her home in the lovely Pacific Northwest. For the past three years she has been studying improv from any teacher that would give her notes and is very excited to be in whatever shows she can. She also enjoys creating and directing improv formats such as [...]
Jake Michels

Jake started his acting career at the tender age of 9, and his improvisation career at the hardened age of 13. Thankfully he has a day job; in the Education department at Oregon Children’s Theatre, where he also teaches and directs. Nowadays he coaches improvisation classes for kids and adults, directs and acts in various [...]
Jay Flewelling

Jay Flewelling was born and raised in Portland, OR. His friends and family will tell you he has been a comedian since birth. He has been involved in the dramatic arts for more than a decade. As an established member since the first the Bridgetown Comedy Festival Jay adds his special flavor to the festivities in [...]
Josh Stenseth

Originally from a small farmstead outside and even smaller town in rural North Dakota, Joshua has been performing comedy and not comedy since 2004. He is an actor and singer by day (and night), improviser on the weekends and sometimes both. Joshua can be seen in many bad regional industrial videos and commercials. He can [...]
Katie Behrens

Katie is a local improviser who trained at the Curious Comedy Training Center. She has been in the Main Stage cast for the last two years and has moved into teaching as well. She studied theater at a small liberal arts college, and feels happiest when she’s on stage.
Katie Michels

Katie is a local actor and improviser in Portland, Oregon. She started acting at a the age of seven, and has continued her performance career appearing in numerous theatre productions, films, and commercials throughout California and the Pacific NW. In 2008, Katie graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Theatre Arts and Drama. [...]
Laura Satterfield

Laura Satterfield started her career in theater at a young age starring in family-gathering “sketch comedy” with her siblings (the Satterbrats) and cousins. She quickly developed a reputation of being an annoying, literal, know-it-all, both at home and at school. Throughout her life, her attention has been divided between science and theater. Laura did musical [...]
Leon Anderson

Leon began improvising as a very young child, playing to crowds in sandboxes up and down the eastern seaboard. Leon moved to the left coast to attend the University of Southern California, where he found others that shared his passion for creating stories and characters. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Los Angeles, [...]
Nate Smith

Nate has been performing professional improv, sketch, and stand up comedy since 1999. He has performed improv with ComedySportz, The Brody Theater, and was one of the founding members of the Curious Comedy Theater. Nate has also been a regular MC at Harvey’s Comedy Club, and recently appeared on an episode of Conan. Nate also [...]
Nathan Loveless

Nathan is a Portland native who began his comedy career performing “Who’s on First” for the cutthroat audiences of the annual Beaumont Middle School Eighth Grade Talent Show. Since then Nathan has performed throughout the Northwest with groups such as Absolute Improv, Five Days Shy, Nate and Nathan, ComedySportz and the Brody Theater. A frequent [...]
Nick Beird
Sam De Roest

Sam De Roest graduated from Portland Actors Conservatory last May. Since then he appeared as Hal Grotta in Soundskript Entertainment’s Mock Trials. Sam made his Curious Comedy debut as an understudy in Rhapsody, an entirely improvised musical. He was last seen in Post5 Theatre’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). He is genuinely thrilled [...]
Shawn Fleek

“Portland comedy’s political id,” Shawn Fleek is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor who in 2007 fled rural Pennsylvania to perform in Portland, OR. He is the founder of the Mental State Department, a monthly sketch comedy variety show, and produced and starred in the “Dr. Tyrant and #24 Fascist Radio Hour,” an eight-week internet [...]
Stacey Hallal

Stacey has been performing, teaching, and directing improv and sketch comedy in Portland and Chicago over the past ten years and has appeared and taught at over 25 comedy festivals across the United States and Canada. While in Chicago, Stacey complete the iO Chicago, Annoyance, and Second City training centers. She went on to complete [...]