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…
Stacy Price has been at this for at least fifteen years. She trained at Circle in the Square in New York and did plays there. Then came Los Angeles, the Groundlings, and open mics around town. She is now a member of the Actors Gang, where Tim Robbins is artistic director. Her SAG-AFTRA card came from HBO’s The Deuce. She did…
Marina di Marzo’s first stage appearance was at four months old. Her Italian immigrant parents are deeply Catholic. She played the live baby Jesus in their church nativity. She is confident nobody else can claim that credit. Her first speaking role came at summer camp, in The Wizard of Oz. She was Munchkin Mayor, which she…
Hannah Ponturo wrote 1518: The Dancing Plague first as a film, then as a play. She is also directing it, and is one of four producers. She made most of the props herself. The costumes came largely out of the actors’ own wardrobes, layered up to read as medieval. The show is a historical satire about a real outbreak of…
Liz Coin grew up in Iowa and now works out of New York. Her first stage role was Drake the butler, at eleven. It was a community theatre production of Annie. The lead forgot his lines and kept calling for champagne. Coin walked on with two trays and improvised the rest. The room came apart, and she drew a conclusion she still…
Meg Millane got married in her early 30s. Five of her friends did the same within roughly the same window. She was already doing wedding-adjacent characters and sketches on stage. Bride To Be is what happened when she noticed how much material there was. She workshopped it about a year ago, before the wedding. Then she let it…
Chloe Matonis plays a soldier who has travelled back from 2075. The character is called Lieutenant Love Doctor Hottie McTottie. Her mission is to end the loneliness epidemic before it takes hold. In her future, social contact has been criminalised for public safety. Boot Camp for Lonely People is the show built around that…