Brody Theater Cast

February 20

Brody Theater Cast

  • Marilyn Divine has been a member of the Brody Theater company since 1999. A known raconteur with an active internal life, she chose to channel her energies into the theater, rather than unleash them on the public at large. She also spends her time mastering the tonsorial arts, and is the proud mistress of four fantastically lucky quadrupeds.

  • Todd Greblo has been a fixture on our stage since 2001, appearing in a heckuva lot of shows, including Antiques Improv Show, Scary Movie, The Tashi Jones Christmas Special, TheatreSports, and Micetro.  He has represented the Brody internationally at the Instant Theatre Festival in Vancouver, B.C., Improvaganza in Edmonton, Alberta, and in Amsterdam. His other nocturnal pursuits include radio theater; he is producer, writer, and vocalist for the Sudden Radio Project on KBOO, and created the Brody’s radio show, The Listeners, (2002-2007). Todd is the proud owner of a pair of diplomas from Portland State University: a B.S. in Theatre Arts, and an M.S. in Speech and Hearing Sciences.  He likes eggnog and peanut butter.

  • Tom Johnson is Artistic Director and founder of the Brody Theater. Tom has created, directed and performed in more than 35 different shows at the Brody, including Game Piece, Monologic, Citizens of Brodavia, Unite!, Service, and Human Textuality. He has also performed and/or taught in Kansas City, Chicago, Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Vancouver & Victoria, B.C., Graz, Austria, Slovenia, and at Seattle’s International Festival of Improvisation. Tom is a charter member of the international performance group Orcas Island Project. He is a fanatical collector of old movie posters and 8mm and 16mm films. tom@brodytheater.com

  • Kerry Leek is a charter member of the Brody Company, and has appeared in every show from the 1996 Damn Dirty Apes through 2012’s Two Houses—in total over 700 performances in more than 40 different shows, as well as appearances at the festivals in Kansas City, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver and Victoria BC, Amsterdam, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has no intention of slowing down, and is thrilled to be in her sixteenth season at the Brody. Kerry is very active in the swing dance community and is an avid Aikido student. She also loves crosswords and oatmeal cookies.

  • Lisa DiDonato Brousseau joined the ensemble in 2003, having learned the art of improv in Brody classes. She has appeared in dozens of long-form shows over the years, with her favorite being “Girls! Girls! Girls!,” in which the women of the Brody tell personal stories and rock the stage. Lisa was invited to participate in the Seattle International Improv Festival and has been a guest performer with Brainwaves. She and her husband, Beau Brousseau, do a lot of improvising at home with their two sons, Leo and Jack, who remind them that playing is essential to living.

  • Jim Waigand joined the company in Fall 2003, first appearing in Scary Movie, and has attended improv festivals in Vancouver, BC, and Seattle. Jim performs regularly at the Brody, and works & volunteers in Portland’s nonprofit community. He rides a bicycle and enjoys photography, backpacking, baking and traveling. Also Star Wars and peanut butter.

  • Beau Brousseau has been performing and loving improv since 1993. A New England native, he took his love of improv to Los Angeles in 1996. For the next eight years Beau worked with sketch & improvisational groups throughout the Los Angeles area, performing on the stages of The Comedy Store, The Ice House, The Laugh Factory, and Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. 2004 brought Beau to Portland and to The Brody Theater. Other loves include almost anything from the 1970s and bacon.

  • Devin Harkness joined The Brody in 2003, and has been a regular performer in Micetro, Theatresports, and countless longform shows, plus full, non-stop performances in both of The Brody’s 24-Hour Improv-a-thons. In his quest to save the world through improv, Devin has worked with improvisers from Slovenia, Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, and beyond. He has received improv training from Del Close, Keith Johnstone, Mick Napier, Armando Diaz, and Randy Dixon, including participation in the Seattle International Festival of Improvisation. When he is not inadvertently spreading zombifying plagues, Devin works as a school counselor.

  • Manuel Hall made his Brody debut in 2003’s improvised musical, The Bards, and joined the company full-time the following year in Who’s Who?  He has appeared in dozens of other Brody shows including Mice-tro, The Tashi Jones Christmas Special, Campfire, and Super Secret Spy Team.  In 2009, Manuel made his directorial debut with Primal Compulsion. He is also featured in many popular standup comedy showcases, including Brody’s own critically-acclaimed Fly Ass Jokes. Off stage, Manuel will probably say endearingly awkward things to you like “Why are you so beautiful?” before giving you the best hug you’ve ever had.  He kinda wants you to like him.

  • Ashley Dawson started her theater career in the 4th grade; her skinny lanky body was perfect to play the boy’s role of the Emperor in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Contrary to popular belief, that was not her acting peak, only the beginning! She discovered improv at Washington State University with the student group Nuthouse, where she realized her dream of playing Batman, Zombies and the occasional dumb blonde. She has had the amazing opportunity to play with the Brody Theater since 2008, and is lucky to be surrounded by such a talented group of improvisers!

  • Mike Karras joined the Brody Ensemble in July of 2010 and has loved every minute since. He has appeared in My Country Tis Of Me, Super Secret Spy Team, Improvcalypse, TGI-Funday, Summer in Brodavia, Scary Movie, Tashi Jones Xmas Special, A Load of Hooey, Two Houses, Sprung! and one thousand iterations of Micetro. Mike gets frustrated at computers for a living and enjoys building things, playing music, kayaking, gardening, reading, writing and doing mad scientisty things.

  • Rogan comes to The Brody Theater from the future. Rogan has been featured in such Brody shows as Rogan’s World Of Tomorrow, and Scary Movie.