Noah Brody (Performer) is thrilled to be playing with the RSC. He has worked around the U.S. at theaters including Trinity Rep, Madison Rep, The Hanger, the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, and the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. He spent the last two years as an adjunct professor at NYU teaching voice and acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. Noah is a founding member of the Fiasco Theater (info@fiascotheater.com) and holds an MFA from the Brown/Trinity Consortium. He has been seen on the big screen (if you don't blink much), on Law and Order, and ten years ago was decapitated on America's Most Wanted. They never found his killer, but they kept sending residual checks. It's a living.

Dominic Conti (Performer; Additional Material Hollywood) was discovered by RSC talent scouts in Chicago, performing America (abridged) with The Noble Fool Theater. He workshopped Hollywood (abridged) in Rohnert Park and St. Louis, premiered it at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and tours it along with Books (abridged), Bible (abridged) and America (abridged).  Other Chicago/regional theaters he's worked with include: Plasticene, Steppenwolf, Second City, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman, Westport Country Playhouse, Beaver Creek Theatre Festival, Madison Repertory, Chicago Shakespeare, Next, A Red Orchid, Apple Tree TYA, First Folio Shakespeare Festival and Lost Angels Theatre. Film/TV credits include:  Shades of Hope, Fiona's Fortune and The Roaring Twenties. www.dominicconti.com

Matthew Croke (Performer; Additional Material Bible, Books): In High School, Matt was voted 'Most Likely to Join a Circus, Study with an Improv Company, and then Join a Three-Man Comedy Troupe.' Having spent 2 1/2 years with Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus and then studying with Second City in Chicago, Matt is content to perform with the Reduced Shakespeare Company until he can find a comedy troupe.

Ryan Dietz (Performer) comes to the RSC directly from The Hangar Theatre's production of ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (Abridged) where he played Professor. Having made a career of playing nerdy guys with glasses (you may have seen him as the nerdy, glasses wearing package of Coco in the Options Speed Dating commercial in the UK (or on his website www.ryandietz.net) or as Seymour in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) some other credits include the Broadway Concerts of A WONDERFUL LIFE and CHESS, Toad in A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD at The Clarence Brown Theatre, John Hancock in PAUL REVERE for Theatreworks USA, SHE LOVES ME at Papermill Playhouse, the national tour of 1776 as well as several shows at Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cleveland Play House, Carousel Dinner Theatre and many new plays and musicals around New York City. He also starred in the short films "Target Audience" and "The Joke". Ryan is a proud graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music and will shamelessly plug his website www.ryandietz.net as many times as he can. He happily lives in New York City with his life partner and hopes his landlord will let them have a dog one day. He sometimes wears contact lenses (see photo).

Mark Farrell (Performer) has enjoyed a long and storied past in American television and cinema. Audiences may recognize him as the voice of Charlie Brown’s father in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Mark got his big break playing the mellifluous taskmaster Charlie in Charlie's Angels, where he was happy to let the on-screen intercom do all the acting. Years later, Mark made a triumphant return to the small screen as the clandestine Wilson on Home Improvement, where he didn't have to let his face distract any one from the natural hilarity of this long-running sitcom. Most recently, Mark appeared as The Gimp in Pulp Fiction which allowed him to make use of his training from France's premier academy of mask work, L’Institut de Moquerie. While friends and family may lament the nature of his fame, Mark looks forward to future acting work that hides his identity completely. At the very least, it leaves super-heroic crime-fighting as a ready option, which is not to be overlooked.

Michael Faulkner (Performer; Additional Material Books) was an accomplished classically-trained actor before joining the RSC in 2001. Since joining the RSC he has contributed additional material to the fifth show in the canon, "All the Great Books (abridged)," appeared with the RSC on "Jeopardy" and NPR's "Day to Day," and re-subscribed to MAD magazine. Despite the effect his wife fears all of this is having on his brain, he now produces two podcasts: "Amanda Banana, the Obsessive Dogwalker," (amandabanana.net) starring his lovely wife, and the 2007 Best Political Podcast Award Nominated "Hawke and Dove Political Punditry Podcast," (hawkeanddove.com) which he also performs in. They put the pun back in punditry.

Jerry Kernion (Performer) received rave reviews for his performances as Falstaff in LA Shakespeare's Henry IV, as Don in Rounding Third at The Colony Theatre, and as Donnie Dimes in Nickel and Dimes in San Diego. Now he's back to doing this crap. Jerry's appeared at the Mark Taper Forum and in many films and TV shows, most of which you probably missed. He's also produced and directed several national and only mildly annoying commercials as well as THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged) DVD. In fact, prior to joining the RSC, Jerry had quite a successful little career going and he hopes it's not too late to go back.

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.)

Steve Marvel (Performer) has performed a variety of peculiar roles throughout the US and Europe in places nobody's heard of. On camera, Steve has played an enchanted prison guard on NBC's defunct daytime soap opera PASSIONS, a megalomaniacal villain on Saturday morning TV pilot PHANTOM INVESTIGATORS which never aired and, on the long-cancelled NASH BRIDGES, an evil bomber who gets shot in the head. Fans of the Mattel's Barbie dolls will recognize Steve's voice as Azul, the talking peacock, in the full-length BARBIE: THE ISLAND PRINCESS cartoon, released in fall of '07. He currently lives in Los Angeles with a bunch of cuddly animals, one of whom appears to be his wife.

Dustin Sullivan (Performer) is not particularly funny. Seriously, ask anyone. In 2003 he conducted a phone survey asking a randomly selected group of 500 “tweenagers” how amusing they thought his jokes were. The result? An average of .005 laughs (or “violent exhalations”) per joke, with a margin of error of +/- 2 chuckles. It is therefore understandable how excited he was to have Scott Boras represent him going into the 2006-07 offseason (HUGE family favor; not at liberty to discuss the details) during which he was offered a 5 year, $237 million contract with the RSC. Needless to say, he will soon join Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in their fantastic philanthropic ways... or buy a mega-yacht, he’s really not sure.

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.

Brent Tubbs (Performer) got his start in theatre as "Soldier 1" in the play "The Happy Troll" at Junior Theatre in Davenport, Iowa. Now, Brent performs regularly in many different improv groups in Los Angeles at such theatres as Second City and IO. Brent's TV and film credits include small roles on shows that are now canceled, and leading roles in films that went nowhere. Brent's theatre credits include the role of "Brent" in "All the Great Books (abridged)". He has also played the part of "Brent" in "Completely Hollywood (abridged)", and he can be seen also playing to great reviews as "Brent" in "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)". Brent hopes that one day you will get to see him playing the extraordinary part of "Brent" in "The Complete History of America (abridged)". Brent would like to note that his favorite part that he has ever played, was the part of "Brent". Brent would like to try and fit the name "Brent" into this bio 5 more times...Brent, Brent, Brent, Brent, Brent. Enjoy the show!