Liz Coin raised fourteen thousand dollars to bring her show from New York to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe. In the show she plays a woman who believes she is on Broadway with an enormous budget. What the audience actually sees looks more like a teenager in a church basement, and that is on purpose. Almost none of the money went on…
Lucy Boisvert Doesn't Believe in Creative Block
October 1, 2026
Lucy Boisvert is a New York-based writer, director and performer with Infinite Monkey Theater Co., where she works with her creative partner Fletcher Michael. She grew up in Alaska and rural Wisconsin, moved to New York at eighteen, and trained in sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Second City Conservatory. She…
Fletcher Michael is a Brooklyn-based playwright, performer and novelist, and the founder of Infinite Monkey Theater Co. He is the author of the novels Vulture, Glass Bottle Season and Sidewalk Dance, and has published satire in McSweeney's and Points in Case. His stage work includes the plays First Liar on the Moon and Oops! We…
Mark Ryder's Whole Career Came Down to One Email
October 1, 2026
Mark Ryder is an actor and writer from Belfast, based in London. At eighteen he was cast as the young Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven, which won two awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. He went on to play Cesare Borgia for three seasons of Tom Fontana's series Borgia, and has worked mostly in film and television…
Irene Woo is a French-Chinese stand-up comedian who grew up in France and is based in New York. She was a senior software engineer at Google, her first job, until she left in 2025 to do comedy full time. She trained in stand-up and improv at the People's Improv Theater and in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and has been…
CeeKay Brown is a half-French, half-American one-liner and storytelling comedian based in Washington, DC and Barcelona. She has performed since childhood, training in theatre, Shakespeare, ballet, choir, pantomime, clowning and improv, and she also works as a voice actor. She did her first stand-up set in Brussels in October…
Somewhere in France there is a unicycle that ruined Tori Morancay’s childhood and, indirectly, launched her comedy career. She fell off it at twelve in front of a packed crowd, and has since decided nothing on a stand-up stage will ever come close to that level of humiliation. Bombing an open mic? Rookie numbers compared…
Stacie Burrows has been on stage roughly as long as she has been alive. Her first credit was Old MacDonald Had a Farm at preschool. She played the black sheep, which she considers telling. Since then: theatre, improv, sketch, standup, musical comedy, solo theatre and storytelling. Her roots are in standup, in New York in the…
Sevrin Willinder: A Postman Who Is Bad at His Job
August 7, 2026
Sevrin Willinder is a clown, and somebody else told him so first. He was playing a piano repairman in a dramatic scene at drama school. His mentor told him to play something well, then act as though it sounded terrible. He did, the room laughed, and he did not understand why.
He grew up doing funny voices with his father, mostly…
Whisper Theatre’s Britt Anderson and Richie Schiraldi are married, and they have three shows. Well-Balanced Dads is the duo one, and it involves acrobatics. The Mothman Cometh is Richie’s solo hour, performed entirely in the dark. Arachne Athena is Britt’s, and Athena coughs up spider webs. They run Whisper Theater…