Adam Long (Performer, US, UK/Writer/Founding Member) Although born in Manhattan and raised in California with Texans, Adam now resides in London with his lovely wife Alex, his son Joe, daughter Tilly, 6 guinea pigs, two hens, a cat, two tortoises, a very old fish, and a gnat named Charlie. He cites his influences as Harpo Marx, Dogen Zenji and The Grateful Dead.

Reed Martin (Performer/Writer/Managing Partner) was drawn to theatre when he realized that performing gave him a good excuse to sleep late. Unfortunately his two young sons are early risers. Reed is a native of Sonoma, CA and has graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, The Bill Kinnamon School of Professional Umpire Training, and Clown College. Prior to joining the RSC in 1989, he was a clown with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus where he spent two years frightening children and smelling of elephants. Reed feels strongly that toilet paper should be fed over the top of the roll. (For a more extensive and less amusing bio, click here.)

Daniel Singer (Founder/Writer) left Sant Rosa, California at age 19 to pursue a classical theatre training in London. Two years later he returned home but couldn't get a paid acting job that let him keep his beard, so he founded the Reduced Shakespeare Company. After co-creating The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Daniel spent nearly twelve years designing theme park attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering; he's particularly proud of his contributions to Disneyland's Toontown. Currently a CPL (Creative Person at Large), Daniel is looking forward to productions of his new play, visit www.rozwellmusical.com for more information. He is also producing a line of hunky garden staturary.

Austin Tichenor (Writer/Performer/Managing Partner) is a fifth-generation Californian born on the 54th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake and the 185th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, which makes him older than he looks but short for his weight. Since his debut writing and performing his boldly conceived kindergarten puppet show, Austin's interest in sticking his hands up the backsides of interesting characters continues to this day. An intellectual welterweight, Austin remains disappointingly average despite three very expensive degrees (two from UC Berkeley and one from Boston University). For seven seasons, he served as Associate Producing Director of the American Stage Festival in Milford, NH, writing over 20 plays and musicals for young audiences, as well as directing summer-stocky things like The Foreigner and Jesus Christ Superstar. His productions there of A Christmas Carol and Frankenstein (which he wrote) and Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest (which he directed) were seen by literally dozens of people. Fortunately, children's theatre, summer-stock Shakespeare and puppets proved to be the ideal training ground for the RSC, which he joined in 1992.

He created the roles of The Conspirator Guy, Moses, Adolph Hitler, the World's Ugliest Rhinemaiden, Don Quixote, and Lucas Butch Cassidy Rowdy Rooster Sundance Jennifer McShane in the Complete (abridged) shows he also co-wrote. He's performed his own material on the BBC, NPR, and England's Channel 4; other writings have appeared in The Independent newspaper in London, the Washington Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the New York Times Book Review, and the men's room wall of Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, California. As an actor, Austin played recurring roles on 24, Alias, Felicity, Ally McBeal, and The Practice, as well as guest starring as Guys In Ties in many hours of episodic television.

Austin possesses a heartwarming spirituality and a delightful suspicion of organized religion; over the years, he's been an Agnostic (lapsed), a Pantheist (reformed), and now considers himself a Utilitarian (he believes in God when it's useful). This theological confusion is described in his comic memoir (written with Reed Martin) called The Greatest Story Ever Sold, available at blaspheming bookstores everywhere. He also collaborated with Reed on the definitive compendium of Shakespearean scholarship Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired (abridged); and his play for young audiences Dancing on the Ceiling is published by Broadway Play Publishing. He also produces and hosts the 2007 award-nominated Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast.

He has two kids (one of each) and lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing the Great American Novel and the Terrible Lithuanian Screenplay.

Jon Weber (Composer/Arranger) has composed and arranged incidental music for the America show (and DVD) as well as Bible and Hollywood. As a teenager, composer/pianist Jon Weber's prodigious quintet opened up for jazz luminaries Pat Metheny, Freddie Hubbard and Buddy Rich. Jon newest CD, SIMPLE COMPLEX, was voted 2004's #1 Jazz CD by the Chicago Tribune, Swiss National Radio, Norwegian National Radio, Estonian National Radio and BBC Online. DownBeat calls SIMPLE COMPLEX "A great stride forward." Jazz UK voted him "Best New Star of 2005... Exceptional.

Jon has toured all over the world and received numerous honors for performance and composition. Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove, Eric Alexander, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Avishai Cohen have all recorded Jon’s music. He's recorded in Denmark, Switzerland, India, Australia & the USA, performing with distinction as a sideman to Benny Golson, David "Fathead" Newman, Clark Terry and many more. Jon has performed to a sold-out Carnegie Hall four times and scored extensively for television since 1987.

CNN, BET, CNBC, Bravo Arts, NPR, Voice of America, Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y and the BBC have profiled Jon Weber’s unique musical depth and vast knowledge of his craft. UK’s Jazz Journal International writes; “Jon Weber is a virtuoso pianist with outstanding technique plus boundless imagination and enthusiasm who is bound to make a big impression on the international jazz scene.” He lives in New York City, and what he’s doing working for the RSC is anybody’s guess.

Jess Winfield (Founding Member/Writer): After 11 years of writing and performing with the RSC, Jess retired from the company in 1992 when he realized he'd acted the title role in Hamlet more times than Olivier and Gielgud combined and suddenly felt very dead. He now lives in Los Angeles where he has authored a bunch of Mickey Mouse cartoons and a book called "What Would Shakespeare Do?". Jess does not care for stewed tomatoes. Visit: www.jesswinfield.com.