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 | |  | |  | JEN RYAN (SAG/AEA; writer, director) is the co-author of the The Imaginary All-True Leni Riefenstahl Show, a comedic two-hander about ‘Hitler’s filmmaker (FringeNYC Outstanding Performance Award). She also adapted Tony-winner Thomas Meehan's essay, "Movie, Movie", for the stage and performs the piece with PUNCH 59 (also starring Adam Murphy!). Jen's credits include: Tartuffe (Off-B’way), Closer (Carbonell Nominee for Best Actress), Scott Thompson’s Lowest Show on Earth. Jen has appeared in commercials, unaired pilots, and on the FM radio . | | RIK SANSONE (SAG/AEA, writer, director) Off-B'way: The Leni Riefenstahl Show (30+ roles, including Goebbels, Gable, Dietrich), Summer 69': The Musical Happening. Regional: Pony in the Eliot Norton Award winning Boston production of SubUrbia, <also composer of original music>, Dracula, Prices Right, The Rainmaker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Paul McCartney in The Silver Beetles (tribute band), and Biloxi Blues. Film & TV credits include: Love Potion #666, Torture Me No More, Playing By The Rules and The Nardo Boys, Discovery Channel, MTV, KISS, & the New York Mets. Rik is a talented illustrator and graphic designer. Riksgraphiks.com | | MELISA BREINER- SANDERS passed our rigorous crazy Test with multiple flying colors. She has had leading roles in over ten feature length and short films including "Women's Studies", "Love Knot", "Holler Creek Canyon" and more. Other then enjoying her time onstage with these crazies, Melisa also recently appeared in "It's All Goode" with the Reality Aside Theatre at The Laugh Factory in NYC. Her credits also include several web series, industrials and more! You can see Melisa's reel, photos and more information at ww.MelisaBS.com | |  | |  | |  | JILL BUTTERFIELD has studied both in NY and London but is very happy to call NY her home. Jill’s credits include: La Luz (48 hour film project), Lost Track (Winner, Best Short, New York Film Festival), Joan of Arc in Joan's Voices and Petra in Enemy of the People. She claims to be getting married this fall! | | ADAM P. MURPHY can finally give up selling pencils and string on Bedford Avenue. Originally from Baahston, he has acted in numerous off-off Broadway productions, including one-acts in the Samuel French and Wonderland short play festivals. Adam has worked in TV, film, commercials, and voice-overs, including national VO's for NHL 2K8. A hip-hop artist and devotee, "Proph Murph" is a top emcee on Dopetracks.com. He may or may not be a superhero. | | RACHAEL MARIE SHAFFER is an AMDA graudate and a PUNCH'-er since 2007! Favorite roles include "Claire" in Free Will and Wanton Lust, "Julie" in I Love You, You're Perfect... Now Change, "Mrs. Banks" in Barefoot in the Park, and "Mrs. Wire" in The Lady of Larkspur Lotion. Rachael would like to thank her supportive friends and family for always laughing at her and more importantly, with her. Rawk! | |  | |  | |  | |
MARTY HILL (writer) is the founder of PUNCH 59 in Miami, Florida and he wrote, performed in, and directed hundreds of sketches for the group until 2000. Marty is a prolific writer whose work has appeared in national magazines, and he received several awards. His plays have been performed around the country and overseas. If that wasn’t enough, he's a professor of pharmacology, a professional-caliber Scrabble player.
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RICHARD DICKSON (writer) has a cat, a fiance (!), a lifelong membership in the Star Wars Fan Club, and the Rollins College Alumni Association. Yes, another one. He is a resident of Orlando, Florida, where he wrangles tourists, does the occasional improv stint, and writes killer material for us here at PUNCH 59.
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| | ANDY SOTTILARE (writer) is a somewhat original member of PUNCH 59. He lives in Miami and is a Working Actor, currently performing with THEY Improv; and he is always uploading twisted bits to "59TV" on YouTube! Andy starred alongside Eva Longoria in the feature film "Carlita's Secret". | |  | |  | |  | CRAIG O'CONNOR (writer) has penned/typed/ scrawled plays, one-acts, helped Jen write her play about Leni Riefenstahl (YOU try and write something about that woman alone!!), books, sketches, and other assorted lunacy. He is the founder of TIGHT SHORTS Sketch Comedy as well as the sketch troupe COMIC FETUS. A badass acoustic guitar player and psychedelica afficionado, Craig is proud to contribute his insanity to PUNCH 59. | | THOMAS MEEHAN received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book for Annie, his Broadway debut, and subsequently won for The Producers (2001) and Hairspray (2002). He is the writer of the Broadway versions of Cry-Baby. Young Frankenstein, I Remember Mama, Aint' Broadway Grand, and Bombay Dreams. Mr. Meehan is a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays including Mel Brooks' Spaceballs and To Be or Not to Be. | | MELANIE KEEGAN (writer) is an original PUNCH member from the Miami days and now offers up her strange brain to us at PUNCH 59 NYC! Melanie has an extensive list of stage credits far too impressive to possibly list here. | |  | | | | | DAGMAR BERGAN (writer/composer) has been writing comedy songs and parodies for longer than most of us have been alive. She is an original PUNCH member from Miami and we are proud to continue performing her twisted, wickedly funny songs to this day. Dagmar is a professor of music and lives in Memphis. | | | | | |
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