Dylan Carey AKA Groovebox is an improv comedian, actor, voice over artist, musician & producer based in Chicago. A franchise owner of five Dinner Detective Murder Mystery locations, he has trained at Chicago’s Second City, iO Theater, Annoyance Theater and ComedySportz, and has been performing for over 15 years. Dylan has worked with TruTV, Fox, Zanies Comedy Club, McDonalds, Bud Light, Ben and Jerry's, Chili's, State Farm, and has even performed at Carnegie Hall.
EDUCATION
The Second City Chicago
Conservatory Program, Music Conservatory, Improvisational Acting A-E
Instructors - Anne Libera, Kevin Reome, Micah Philbrook, Norm Holly, Jeff Bouthiette, Andrew Roy Ritter, Jonathan Wagoner
iO Chicago
Improvisational Acting and Music Improv
Instructors – Dave Asher, Seth Weitberg, Christy Bonstell, Susan Messing, Shane Wilson, Matt Higbee
Tom Todoroff Master Class – JTF Miami
Susan Messing Protecting the Freak Workshop – JTF Miami
David Razowsky Instant Characters and Positive Choices Workshop – Sick Puppies Miami
iO Intensive in Miami - JTF Miami
Instructors – Charna Halpern, Lyndsay Hailey, Tara DiFransisco
Kevin Mac Donald Sketch Writing Workshop – SAK Comedy Lab, Orlando
Jeanette Hopkins Vocal Instuction
Voice Range: Soprano & Alto
Skills - Shortform and longform improvisation, sketch and screenplay writer, vocalist, freestyle and basic dance, marathon runner, scuba diver,
basic handgun, stage combat, golf, professional fashion design and fine arts Accents: Southern, British, Jamaican, Wicked Witch Cackle
LDorado Jonez is an American Actor/Recording Artist. Recent works include the Spike Lee Joint, Chiraq, and the How The Midwest Was 1 Tour. He has also made appearances in the TV show EMPIRE and Prison Break.
Claire Kander is a Midwestern gal with intense passion for acting, music, laughter, adventure, wildlife, forests and rivers. Born and raised in a small town in rural Michigan, performance has been an essential part of her life since she was a tiny child. She had the privilege of being a founding member of Michigan Youth Theater with whom she toured Shakespeare and educational shows to schools and festivals around the state for a decade. She moved to New York City when she was 18 to work in a Brooklyn elementary school as an Americorps member. After a year of service, she moved to Chicago to pursue her acting ambitions. She has been seen with many reputable Chicago theaters including Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre Company, New Leaf Theatre, Collaboraction, Lifeline Theatre, and National Pastime Theater. She also gained on-camera experience, became a member of AEA & SAG-AFTRA, and enthusiastically delved into the voice-over world. Her voice has been heard in numerous TV and radio commercials for Walgreens, McDonald's, The Laughing Cow, Colgate, American Family Insurance, Allstate, Ziploc, Artemis, La Quinta Inns, Cox Internet and many more. Kander is represented by NV Talent for on-camera and Grossman & Jack Talent for voice-over.
Kander is also a singer/songwriter and musician. She plays guitar, harmonica, ukulele and synth. She co-founded the band Scuttlebuggs (scuttlebuggs.com), which performed around the country and released their debut album in 2013 and has since released two EPs. Currently writing and performing music solo as HoboLoaf and with her newly founded band Decent People. Kander has also traveled extensively, from living in a van while exploring America (vanlifeinthescuttlebuss.blogspot.com), to working at a wildlife rescue center for a month in Costa Rica.
Her best friend is a spitz-mix from the Chicago streets named Yoshi. He is fiercely emotionally intelligent and complex and she has decided he will never die.
Ben is an actor, improviser, and writer. His most recent acting credits include CHICAGO P.D. (NBC) and the upcoming Aaron Sorkin film, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7. His feature films include SOUL SESSIONS, ROGERS PARK, UP ON THE WOOFTOP, THE FORMULA, and ONE SMALL HITCH. On stage, Ben has appeared in: Polarity Theatre's Hamlet, Backstage Theatre's Waiting for Lefty, and Annoyance Theatre's Glitter in the Gutter. His live comedy credits include The Second City's original sketch revue, Six Degrees of Desperation (Bench Co.) and iO Theatre's improv groups Michael Pizza (awarded "Best New Improv Ensemble " by Chicago Magazine), Owl Farm, Musical Armando, and more. He currently performs improv at iO Theatre with The Deltones and IMPROVISE! Musical Comedy.
Katie Klein began performing in Washington DC, with iMusical at the Washington Improv Theater and with friends at the DC Improv. She is an alumni of the Second City e.t.c stage, writing and performing in two reviews: Fantastic Super Great Nation Numero Uno, and previously A Red Line Runs Through It. She also performed weekly with her pals in The Late 90’s, Virgin Daiquiri and Improvised Shakespeare and currently still performs at the Annoyance Theater every Wednesday night with her sisters in Super Human.
You can catch her in a few TV shows and commercials (The Red Line, Shrink, Joe Pera Talks with You, Chicago Justice, Work in Progress). She has worked for many years as a writer, facilitator, and designer of corporate communication training for different organizations; and loves it. She co owns and operates The Shalom Collaboration and Super Human Collective.
Mayra Leal is a talented Latina cinema artist of Mexican and El Salvadorian descent, born in Houston, Texas. The University of Houston Communications and Mathematics graduate has discovered a passion for film, TV and digital media and is garnering the attention of veteran producers, directors, business leaders, marketing agencies, fashion designers, and a growing loyal fan-base.
She enjoys the business of entertainment, but loves to spend time with her family and friends when not on the set. She currently resides in Malibu.
Mayra has over 32 movie and TV credits to her name and has appeared in several music videos, featured in “Locked Up Abroad in Bangladesh” – National Geographic, “Revolution”, “Southland”, and “Memphis Beat”. She has also been introduced in “Machete” by Director Robert Rodriguez, starred in “Playing House” by Director Tom Vaughn and supported in “Sanitarium” with Robert Englund (“Freddy Kruger”) and Lou Diamond Phillips, to name a few. She most recently completed “The Wisdom to Know the Difference” by Director Daniel Baldwin with William Baldwin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Bowles Elle LaMont and Faith Stanek, which resulted in four best pictures with prominent film festivals and two best actor nominations for Mayra.
T. Murph has established himself as one of today's rising comedians onscreen and onstage. Currently receiving rave reviews, Murph stars alongside Lamorne Morris, Blake Anderson and Sasheer Zamata in Hulu’s comedy series WOKE, which returned for its second season on April 8, 2022.
Since the premiere, the show has helped spark important social conversations, while T. Murph has received widespread praise for his role as ‘Clovis.’ Hailed as “scene stealing and hilarious” by ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and “the most consistently funny aspect of the show” by THE NEW YORK TIMES, T. manages to bring even more energy to Season 2 as ‘Clovis’ returns with a new ripped post-covid body and love interest who might change his womanizing ways.
A true powerhouse onscreen and onstage, T. Murph broke out of the Chicago comedy scene and has been quickly rising ever since. He has toured extensively across the country’s most prominent comedy clubs, colleges, and festivals, and has performed at the NBC Diversity Finals Showcase, HBO's American Black Film Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs, and the Second City Breakout Festival, among countless others.
With notable television credits such as SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, KEY & PEELE, COMEDY' CENTRAL's KEVIN HEART: THE NEXT LEVEL, GET SHORTY, NBC'S CHICAGO FIRE and BET's COMIC VIEW, T. Murph is stepping into the next chapter of his career and focusing on his passion for acting.
T. Murph currently resides in Chicago.
Laurie is a Chicago-based actor, singer, dancer, and voice over talent. Originally from Cincinnati, she is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Miami University and a proud 27-year member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Laurie has been fortunate to live and perform in NYC, LA, Tokyo and London before landing in Chicago and calling it home for the last 20 plus years. Her TV/Film credits include Chicago Med, Early Edition, and The Tonight Show, as well as many independent film productions. Laurie most recently played Jean in “Good People” at Indiana’s New Harmony Theatre. She also enjoyed entertaining Wisconsin audiences as the “Soap Star” in Menopause the Musical at The Fireside Theatre. Next up, Laurie will travel to Dayton’s long-established Human Race Theatre Company to play Della in “The Cake”. Other local theatre credits include Robyn in “The Roommate” and Irene Livingston in “Light Up the Sky” (Citadel Theatre), Masha in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” (Artists’ Ensemble Theatre), “Follies” (Drury Lane Oakbrook), and Simone in “A Bed Full of Foreigners” (Drury Lane South). Laurie was seen by Michigan audiences last summer as Georgette Howard in the hilarious musical comedy “It Shoulda Been You” (Farmers Alley Theatre). Favorite past theatre credits include “Jesus Christ Superstar” (Broadway National Tour starring Ted Neely and Carl Anderson), and “Sunset Boulevard” (London’s West End starring Betty Buckley) Laurie sings regularly with Route 66, an all-women a cappella quartet that you might hear at your next corporate party or singing the National Anthem at Soldier Field. And for her most challenging and rewarding role to date, she cites parenting three sons with her amazing husband. As the only person in her household under 6’ tall, she looks up to all of “her men”. www.LaurieCarterRose.com
CASEY ROSS is a dashingly handsome, impossibly modest, and surprisingly pale ginger-haired character actor based in the great city of Chicago.
Hailing from historic Dodge City, Kansas (home of Wyatt Earp, Miss Kitty, and a McDonald's with a stagecoach in it), trained in Musical Theatre, raised on the comedy of Mel Brooks, and proudly descended from a family of shameless hams, Casey enjoys making people laugh, falling down in new and interesting ways, and writing in third person.
He spent the last 5 years in Los Angeles (the one in California), working in several films, commercials, and television productions, none of which anyone has seen. He comes to Chicago to indulge once more in stage work, while still pursuing onscreen opportunities wherever they arise.
In the mean time, you can find Casey annoying bartenders throughout the city, and begrudgingly listening to native Chicagoans lecture him on how "this is a mild winter. You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Tori is originally from the Washington, DC area and has been writing and performing in Chicago for 6 years. She is an ensemble member at The Revival Theater, has written and produced shows at The Second City, and can be seen in the ongoing run of Burlesque is More at The Annoyance Theater. She can be seen in online advertisements for Game Night Out, and is a graduate of Second City’s Conservatory and Comedy Studies Programs.
