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Our Cast
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Krissy Aucoin -
Member Since 2011
In 2010, Kristen "Krissy" Aucoin graduated from Bryant University with a degree in Marketing and Literary and Cultural Studies. While at Bryant, she joined Bryant Players theater group, a student run organization. Throughout her four years she served many different roles including President, Secretary, director, and a performer in ten full length shows and four musicals. Her most recent performances include Hedy La Rue in Guys and Dolls and Miss Scarlet in a stage adaptation of the hit movie Clue. In addition to acting, she sang with the Bryant Singers choral group for four years, performed in the Bryant University Bottom...
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Anthea Brady -
Member Since 2011
Anthea got started in improv playing hitchhiker with 10 year olds as a camp counselor and was recently reintroduced through the Improv Boston training programs. Returning to Boston from Washington DC with two degrees in public policy, she is practicing "Mr. President" tap outs to prepare for any future career moves.
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Ken Breese -
Member Since 2009
Ken Breese is an actor / improviser / musician from Attleboro, MA. He is currently a member of the short form improv troupes BYOI and Flaming Awesome, the ImprovBoston House Sketch Cast - The Latchkey Kids, and the long form troupe Made of Plastic. He is also a former producer of ImprovBoston's weekly sketch comedy show, SketchHaus. He has performed in short films produced by Love Thy Job Productions, Castparty Productions and Little Plum Pictures. He most recently starred in Castparty's first feature length comedy, Inventory, which is scheduled for release in the Winter of 2009. He has also performed...
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Stephanie Crugnola -
Member Since 2011
Stephanie has been employed as a full time entertainer for her friends and family since she was born. Growing up as a competitive figure skater she realized early on that performing in front of an audience was where she wanted to focus her attention, and has since been a part of a variety of musical and theatre groups. In 2008, Stephanie graduated from Framingham State College with a degree in English and Secondary Education. At Framingham State she was a part of the Hilltop Players, a student-run theatre group, where she acted in, produced, and choreographed a number of shows. She also was an original...
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Erich Gottschalk -
Member Since 2011
Erich has been acting in stage productions for over 25 years. Past works include roles in Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Boor, Richard III, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Oliver, Weekend Comedy, and was an original cast member in Fortress and Something's Rotten In the State of Denmark. Erich has also trained in Improvisation, having graduated from the Second City Chicago's Conservatory program and has performed with the groups Those Meddling Kids and the Speed of Thought Players...
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Evan Hancock -
Member Since 2011
Evan got his acting start in high school, performing in plays such as West Side Story, Cabaret, and Macbeth. He continued acting in college where he held the lead role in the show Big Night.
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Ryan Hanley -
Member Since 2011
Ryan Hanley earned a BA in Theatre and Arts Management from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and his MFA in Theatre from Rhode Island College. He has worked professionally with Trumpet in the Land, a summer theater out of New Philadelphia, OH, and has also worked with several community theaters in the RI area, including Theatre Works, Barker Playhouse, Community Players, and Daydream Theater. The majority of Ryan's work revolves around improvisational comedy, and he has had the privileged of working with several groups and individuals around the state. He hopes to pursue improv on a more professional...
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Ed Higgins -
Member Since 2011
Ed Higgins has been performing as a stand-up comic since 2009. Since deciding that the world needed one more out-of-shape white guy telling jokes, Ed has performed in Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, Connecticut, Boston, and all over Rhode Island. In 2010, Ed won second place in the Catch a New Rising Star comedy contest. That same year, he also won several other comedy competitions, and was chosen by the cable channel Versus to represent Rhode Island in a national comedy competition. Currently performing in clubs and bars all over southern New England, Ed has worked with some of...
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Nate Lopez -
Member Since 2011
Nate is a relatively new improviser based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently a member of the short form group Bring Your Own Improv. A married father of 2 boys, and former Navy Submariner, Nate has found an outlet onstage for his well timed fart jokes.
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Erin M. Olson -
Member Since 2011
Erin graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 2006 with a BFA in Theatre. She has since spent much of her on stage time at 2nd Story Theatre in Warren, although she has also had the pleasure of working with various companies throughout the state. She is also a film actor, having worked with various companies in New England.
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Liz Rieux -
Member Since 2011
Liz Rieux is an an improvisor, burlesque performer, theater tech and vaudeville historian in Boston, MA. She is a member of BYOI and Rogue Burlesque, and really likes eating cheese.
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John Ring -
Member Since 2008
I have been a performer for over 25 years. I have done stand up as well as improv and sketch comedy. I am also an experienced host. In 1982 I joined the founding members of This Is Pathetic, an improv and sketch comedy group at Emerson College. In May 2006 I became a member of the long form improv group Unexpected Company. I am a founding member of BYOI (Bring Your Own Improv) which began in 2008. I have acted in plays, film and television. I am equally comfortable on stage as well as in front of the camera. I approach each project with a professional...
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Paul Tourville -
Member Since 2011
Quite possibly the most accomplished performer you've never heard of, Paul Tourville frequently speaks of himself in the third person, and often without inhaling. Paul has worked in radio, and has been told he has the perfect face for it, by people who have no idea what a cliche is. Paul has been writing, performing and producing audio sketches and spoofs since the early 80's, started a one-man-band (with five of his closest friends) in the late 90's, and began writing, performing and producing a weekly comedy news show called NewsUndies in April of 2009, with more than 60 episodes completed, which can still be seen...
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Daniel Lee White - Producer/Owner - Member Since 2008
A native New Englander, Daniel Lee White developed an early obsession with the performing arts—both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. While creating his own homemade films and critiquing most of the movies made during the 1980s with his father, Daniel quickly realized that he wanted to dedicate his life to the arts. His extensive experience focuses on acting, directing, producing, editing, and teaching.
Daniel continues to develop his acting skills through performances in feature and independent films, as well as theatrical works. He has completed many creative roles in films such as Atomic Brain Invasion, Nun of...
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Joseph Wilkicki - Member Since 2011
Joe has been involved in community theater in Rhode Island for almost 20 years. He has mostly recently appeared in productions of "The Sound of Music" (Captain Von Trapp) and "Black Coffee" (Richard Amory) with the Theater Company of Rhode Island and in the RI community theater premiere of "Curtains" (Johnny Harmon) with the Community Players. Joe has recently joined the Bring Your Own Improv troupe as a regular cast member.
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Daniel Wood - Member Since 2009
I have been performing on stage in one form or another for a number of years. I have been through 2 levels of the Improv Asylums training center in Boston, MA. Also, I work with an Improv group based out of Boston. I currently am very interested in doing comedy, but I love to try new and dangerous things.
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BYOI Alumni
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| Mike Amaral - 2010 to 2011 |
| Randy Bush - 2010 to 2011 |
| Marina Clark - 2010 to 2011 |
| Henry Ben Clarendon - 2009 to 2011 |
| Adam Kennedy - 2009 to 2011 |
| Jimmy Sorel - 2009 to 2011 |
| Jon Audette -2008 to 2011 |
| Beth Czerny - 2008 to 2009 |
| Beth Hicks - 2008 to 2011 |
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