Lyn has appeared in theatre, film, radio and television; Going Home SBS TV, The Women Of Lockerbie, All Saints, The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show, Tabloid Musical and The Jason Chin Project.

As her alter ego Sister Mary Leonard she has appeared on ABC TV's Big Gig, at comedy clubs; the Harold Park Comedy Hotel, the Cat and Fiddle and the Tokyo British Club.

She has directed countless Theatresports® extravaganzas at the Opera House, Enmore, Belvoir Street, in Japan, Romania, New Zealand and all across Australia.

Lyn teaches Improvisation at NIDA, Stand up comedy at the Actors Centre and directs the teaching program IMPRO 2009. She is guest teacher for schools, universities and teacher training instritutions and is the author of 'Improvisation: the Guide.'

James isn't the least bit funny. He certainly can't act and is about as spontaneous as an apology from the Liberal party. However, he can get things done and has the knack of being able to get something for nothing - just what you need when you are putting on a charity event.

Much Ado About Impro is the fourth show that James has produced, the first being the successful NAPCAN Theatresports® fundraiser in May 2007, Impro Tropicano in 2008, and Much Ado About Impro in 2009all at the Parade Theatre @ NIDA. He was also Co-Producer for Impro Australia's sell-out 2008 Celebrity Theatresports® at the Enmore Theatre.

By day, James works as a consultant for the sales organisation of a large US based IT company. How does that prepare you as a theatrical producer I hear you ask - well, James reckons he has to work with drama queens every day of his life so there is more in common than you might think.

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Rae has dressed some of the best in her 10 years of theatre, video and film. From the quick rip of impro velcro to NAPCAN Theatresports, Rae has found, sewn and ironed costumes working behind the scenes for Theatresports productions Scared Scriptless, Mixed Doubles, Cranston Cup Grand Finals at Enmore and Belvoir Street.

Other productions include 'Pulp' '08, 'Sushi Xmas' and The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show.'

Presently enrolled with the 'Make-up & Special Effects Group' Rae is looking forward to the challenges of makeup on stage and screen.

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Daniel Cordeaux studied drama at the Australian Theatre for Young People and The Actors Centre. He started performing Theatresports® at the Belvoir St theatre in 1987. In 1989 he took part in the first International Improvisation Summer School with Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Canada. He performs regularly in the Theatresports® Cranston Cup at the Enmore Theatre. Daniel played on the Australian team that won the 2001 Improv World Cup at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, Canada. He also represented Australia in a solo effort, at the World Domination Theatresports® tournament in Atlanta, USA.

Daniel is currently one of the core cast members in Channel Ten's hit comedy 'Thank God You're Here' - awarded the 2007 Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy. Daniel has also worked on the ABC TV series The Chaser Decides and CNNN, as well as Channel Sevens' Home & Away. Other TV and film credits include the children's series Winners and the feature film Dags.

His theatre credits include lead roles in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Accidental Death of an Anarchist and is currently touring with the Umbilical Brothers, Rehearsal Room. As a director of Open Stage Productions Daniel has been teaching and performing improvisational theatre in schools around Australia for over 15 years.

Monique Dykstra is a champion improviser. She has won the Cranston Cup and has performed in and co-hosted many improvised comedy shows at the Belvoir St and Enmore Theatres.

Monique has performed extensively for stage and screen. Her theatre work includes productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Nights Dream and The Marriage Wreckers. You may have seen her on TV shows including The Chaser and All Saints and in the film Superman Returns. She starred in the sell-out show 160 Characters, which has toured nationally and internationally, playing the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival, Adelaide Festival and Singapore International Arts Festival.

Monique has travelled all across Australia performing and teaching at schools with her company Open Stage Productions. She has also worked for many years in the corporate world as a performer and trainer. Monique is also a regular performer at the National Gallery Canberra and the NSW Art Gallery Sydney.

Murray is a film-maker and Theatresports® champion. This jack-of-all-trades was writer/producer of the movie/TV show Dags, a 2DayFM personality, and eight time Cranston Cup Improv. champion. He has starred in countless improvised shows including the Melbourne Comedy Festival hit Cops on Heat and toured Three Radicals, Crash Boom Bang Theory and his solo show MF is Scared Scriptless to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Murray has performed throughout Europe, UK and the USA.

Murray is one of the country's finest performers and revered in the improvised comedy world. He directed the feature films, Cubbyhouse, Encounters and Getaway Getaway and somehow finds the odd spare moment to renovate houses and work as a full time arts lawyer.

Michael is an actor, improviser, writer, teacher and director, and works extensively as a corporate trainer, role-player and performer.

He is a state and national Theatresports® champion, and has also won awards at international improvisation festivals in Australia and overseas. Michael is a former Artistic Director of Theatresports® Inc.

Michael is the creator and Creative Producer of This Is Your Laugh! which had theatrical seasons at the Belvoir St and Factory theatres in Sydney, as well as being produced as TV series for 7HD. He has performed in, and co-written and directed, numerous improvised comedy shows, including Hamlet Improvised, The Unspeakable Mockbeth, Completely Lost In Space, Bonds Have More Fun, Improzac and Impro Bzerko for the Sydney Comedy Festival.

His TV credits include The 50-Foot Show, Million Dollar Chance of A Lifetime, Candid Camera, Kideo, The Money Or The Gun, Denton, Just Kidding, The Midday Show, Roy & HG, Home & Away, the award-winning Topic of Cancer and Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. Michael appeared as an improviser in the Think Fresh Improv Challenge on the Comedy Channel.

Jenny has combined a successful career as an actor, director, television producer, comic improviser and teacher.

A champion Theatresports player, Jenny has been involved in many of Australia's ground breaking impro shows including Hamlet Improvised, The Unspeakable Mockbeth, Lost In Space, Bonds Have More Fun and Who Killed Santa?

Jenny has trained extensively in mime and physical comedy with the legendary Zora Semberova and in Paris at the Ecole de Magenta. Jenny choreographed the original Australian versions of Bouncers, Shakers and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole and has collaborated with Glynn Nicholas on many physical theatre shows including Kissing Frogs, Leaves Falling At Midnight and Certified Male. Jenny's television credits include Leaving Liverpool, All Saints and Love My Way.

Behind the camera, Jenny was producer at Channel Ten for five years and has produced over seven television series including Nickelodeon's Double Dare.

Jenny works regularly as an actor/director on the corporate circuit throughout Australia. In 2005 Jenny created the role of Ivana Popavalium for the Seimens Mobile Road Show, a national corporate event that won a prestigious industrial award. More recently Jenny directed two theatre pieces for corporate clients Railcorp and Sanofi-Aventis.

Josie O'Reilly is now based back in Australia after writing and performing for eight years all over the world with the Irish comedy trio, the Nualas and the American premier comedy company, Boom Chicago.

Jo is a Theatresports® Cranston Cup champion. She has performed at six Edinburgh comedy festivals, the Melbourne and Sydney comedy festivals and recorded a radio series for BBC Radio 4. Jo has performed sell out seasons in London, New York, and this October, at the Parade Theatre.

Jason is a 21-year-old journalism student at UTS. He has graced the improvised comedy stage as an improvising pianist since 2007.

He enjoys bushwalks, Australian Story, waking up early and having his hair ruffled by Lyn Pierse (The Director).

Berynn has worked in the theatre industry as an actor, director and choreographer performing in 'The Crucible' and 'Much ado about Nothing' with the Sydney Theatre Company, 'Bloody Poetry' at Crossroads Theatre, 'The Imaginary Invalid' and 'Macbeth' for the NIDA company, Kim Carpenter's 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Strictly Cinders' and 'Snow White and the Seventh Dwarf' for the Tilbury Hotel, 'The New Rocky Horror Show' (subbing for Frankenfurter), 'Certified Male' with Glynn Nicholas, 'Five Stories High' with State of Play, the one-man show, 'Homage' by Tobsha Learner, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' with Pork Chop, 'Cargo' for the Riverina Theatre Company, in 'Terminus' by Daniel Keene, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Twelfth Night' with Nightsky Productions, 'Defiance' at Qstation, 'As Bees in Honey Drown' for Darlinghurst Theatre and 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)' around Australia and in seven countries, and in many other productions in Australia and abroad.

He has appeared in numerous short films and features including 'Dead Heart' by Nick Parsons, and in television shows such as 'A Difficult Woman', 'Wild Side', 'Denton', 'Twisted Tales', A Country Practice', 'Comedy Inc' and 'Young Lions'.

Nigel's career as an actor and writer has taken him all over the world working in Corporate Entertainment, Television, Film and Stage. His comedic talents are well known in Sydney from his involvement with Theatresports® both as a player and host. Nigel is the creative Director of NDS productions a company dedicated to delivering innovative theater to cultural institutions.

Nigel's recent credits include, Getting away with Murder, Sydney Observatory (Actor/writer). Krispin K - Ornament is Crime, Sydney Design Festival (Actor/Writer). PULP, Factory Theatre Sydney (Actor). Canberra Impro Theatre Challenge (Host). The Dora Fay Davenport Show, NSW Seniors Week 2009 (Actor/writer). Cogs and the Dragon, Power House Museum, Sydney (Director)

Simon is a graduate of Improcorp's Improvisation courses, has worked as a child and adolescent Clinical Psychologist and has completed Directing and Music Theatre training at NIDA.

He has appeared in Chess, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, The Mikado, the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Sydney G & S Singfests (2000-2005). He played Capt. Corcoran HMS Pinafore with EUCMS and with Rockdale Opera Company as the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, Major-General Stanley Pirates of Penzance, Mr Goldbury in Utopia Limited and Wally Wilkins in Merrie England.

Simon came 1st in the Singer/Songwriter and Musical Theatre sections in the 2008 City of Sydney Eisteddfod, and 3rd in the Music theatre/Operetta section. He directed Ruddigore in 2008; wrote/directed/performed in a live broadcast for 2MBS FM, is currently directing his first opera Old Maid & the Thief, and performed in the Short Sweet & Song Festival in 2008.

He has had the privilege of working with MDs such as Ingrid Sakurovs, Sharolyn Kimmorley, Michael Huxley, Bev Kennedy, and John Martin. Simon had sell-out seasons of his one-man cabaret show in 2005, 2006; at the Seymour Centre in 2008, 2009 & at BarMe in 2009, and will return later in the year. He will perform as part of Twos a Cabaret's season at BarMe and in the Imagine Festival at the Cleveland St Theatre. Simon is verily thrilled to be part of this exciting project.

Having gained a Performing Arts degree in the UK, Emily came across the pond to study as a Screen Actor at NIDA. She has many Film and Theatre credits to her name as an Actor, Producer and Director - including a stint inside Norwich Maximum Security Prison (UK) - she was Directing Snow White and the Seven Giants.

Emily is no stranger to the world of improvisation performing Scared Scriptless @ The Roxbury. She has her own theatre-in-education company called Bamboo Theatre and is currently studying for a Diploma of Education in Drama and English.

Shannon graduated NIDA in 2007. Her student productions include Sweet Charity, Romeo and Juliet, The Lost Echo and The Rivals. Since then she has appeared in Short and Sweet, and has played in the Old Fitzroy's production of Poster Girl.

Jacquie is a bit of a Super Hero - well, she does work for Superheros Inc. as a children's entertainer. She trained with the Sydney Talent Company and has been a member of Impro Australia for 4 years, completing the Level 3 course in improvisation.

The one time that Jacquie's super powers let her down was as a contestant on the Bingo Show - she was just one number away from $50,000.

When Jacquie isn't being a Walt Disney Princess or playing bingo, she can be found doing promotional work at Hair Expos and Corporate Golf Days and you may also have spotted her in the Human Scoreboard at the Cranston Cup 2007. She has just completed a Bachelor of Media and Cultural studies, and a course in TV presenting - something she hopes to make her career.