Cast & Crew
The Golden Trio
Nathan performing a poem with dramatic arm gestures.
Photo by Christopher Clauss
Nathan Comstock
Writer / Voice of Eeeheeheehee "Loaf" Heehee
Nathan Comstock is a poet and fiction writer from The Midwest(TM) (specifically Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio). His poems have been published in places like Maps for Teeth, Amethyst Arsenic, and Koru, and he's been featured on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast. He doesn't know anything about actual science, but he went to his first Star Trek convention at the age of five. He lives with his wife and several other strange people in Boston, MA.
Michael F. Gill
Producer / Musical Accompaniment / Voice of the credits / Writer / Also writes those riddles at the end, yes, those, yes, I'm still mad about that one
Michael F. Gill is a musician-poet-librarian precisionist, and has had work published in Amethyst Arsenic, Spoonful, Maps For Teeth, and Best Indie Lit New England, Volume 1 (BILiNE). He runs the Brighton Word Factory (a bi-weekly writing group in Boston), organizes the 365/365 challenge (an online group designed to stretch one’s writing abilities in community with other poets), and is always on the lookout for a good bagel and a bad pun. His website is http://www.bbtp.net. Do you know anything about techno?
Michael standing in front of some mural in Allston, probably?
Photo by Austin Hendricks
Austin, also reading a poem, like a nerd.
Photo by Alex Barstow
Austin Hendricks
Writer / Voice of Janet
Austin Hendricks, poet and cat enthusiast, has only ever done art by accident. Her poetry has been published in Freeze Ray Magazine and can be viewed on the Slam Find YouTube channel. She was also a recurring guest on Vexed-Men, a podcast on comics. Austin can frequently be found at various Boston poetry open mics, in particular at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge.
Recurring Cast
Valerie Loveland
Voice of Frankie
Valerie Loveland is a poet and software developer. She enjoys running, audio poetry, silent movies, and celebrity cats.
Valerie posing with "Lil Bub" written on her knuckles.
Ramy, and his actual, proper, black and white, real comedian headshot.
Ramy Abdelghani
Voice of Officer Nassif
Ramy Abdelghani is a co-producer of ImprovBoston’s monthly late-night experimental variety show, LaughterRisk. His interest in improv was piqued after applying improvisational concepts to scavenger hunts and live-action “choose your own adventure” games he coordinated with local event planning groups Banditos Misteriosos and BostonSOS. He's also an actor, writer, storyteller, and occasionally performs standup. He plays with indie improv troupe NonBAEnary, writes for Boston Sketch Company, and writes and acts for Mister Bismuth (find them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube with short films on Vimeo and a new webseries at contentfilm.org). His solo sketch comedy has been featured at The People's Improv Theater in New York.
Chloé Cunha
Voice of Melody
Chloé Cunha is a comedian, poet, and occasional vampire/assassin/angsty lesbian such as in the retro indie horror film Blood of the Tribades (2016), or The Penumbra Podcast. She is a host at the Boston Poetry Slam, and performs stand-up all throughout the greater Boston area, featuring regularly at ImprovBoston as well as the comedy debate podcast Pick a Side Stupid!, for which she will soon appear in the Boston Comedy Festival for a special show. Additionally, she is excited this year to be in the Midwest Queer Comedy Festival. Catch her being silly on Twitter @ChloeCunha, and check out her and Dylan Uscher's podcast Yes Homo!, centered around LGBT+ comedians (part of the Women in Comedy Festival Podcast Network)!
Oh my gosh. Chloe has a fancy black and white headshot too. The rest of us feel so unfashionable with all the COLOR.
A picture of Ron hanging out and being a pretty cool dude.
Ronald Prudent
Voice of Mr. Xorfus
Ronald Prudent is a QA engineer originally from New York, but now lives in Boston. He enjoys video games, poetry, and movies that make him wish he was cooler than he currently is.
Phoenix Bunke
Voice of Samantha
Phoenix Bunke is or has been a milkshake maker, plate holder, steak wrangler, ghostwriter, copyeditor, visual artist, and house sitter. You can find her online at prbunke.com, or living in the questionable trailers of southern Utah, amongst a pile of leaves and shredded magazines, making as much art as possible.
Phoenix Bunke has a secret. Or maybe just a great fashion sense.