Mark Ryder's Whole Career Came Down to One Email
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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 : Press Kit By Hop For Pop
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Irene Woo : Press Kit By Hop For Pop

October 1, 2026
The Comics Unseen Press KitStand-up · Solo Hour Irene Woo A software engineer at Google who quit to do stand-up full time — and whose hardest audience was not a room of strangers but her Chinese father, who had spent her whole childhood steering her toward straight As.BasedNew York City · from France …
Irene Woo Quit Google for Comedy, Then She Had to Tell Her Dad
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Irene Woo Quit Google for Comedy, Then She Had to Tell Her Dad

October 1, 2026
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…
Stacie Burrows: She Told You She Loved You Without Saying a Word
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Stacie Burrows: She Told You She Loved You Without Saying a Word

August 7, 2026
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
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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…
The Emperor Doesn't Have Clothes On: An Interview With Stacy Price
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The Emperor Doesn't Have Clothes On: An Interview With Stacy Price

August 7, 2026
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…
Her Exes Are MS Paint Drawings: An Interview With Marina di Marzo
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Her Exes Are MS Paint Drawings: An Interview With Marina di Marzo

August 7, 2026
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…