Cast Bios

Sarah Burns succumbs to fits of joy every time she thinks about performing with Dillinger at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. In addition to her pursuits with Dillinger, Sarah performs with Dark Champions and Ma Bell. She has performed with The Documentary, The Unusual Suspects, Sketch Show on the UCB stage as well as other venues around NYC. Sarah produces a monthly improv party, Holiday Inn Siberia, of which she is very proud. Her dad calls her "Beans", her mom calls her "Sour" (when she is being a pill) and her friends call her "Burnsie".

Brett Christensen has been studying and performing with the UCB Theater for the past two years. Before moving to New York, he performed with sketch and improv groups at the University of Arizona and professionally in Los Angeles. In addition to many improv projects, Brett has performed regularly in non-improv theater productions in NYC, including a recent reading of Burning The Old Man, a new work by Kelly McAllister, in conjuction with Boomerang Theatre Company He also originatied the role of David in McAllister's critically acclaimed Last Call in the 2002 NYC Int'l Fringe Festival. While continuing to perform with Dillinger at the UCBT, Brett performed in a sold out run of McAllister's Muse Of Fire in the 2003 NYC Fringe Festival.

Anthony King is a director, writer, and performer from Chapel Hill, NC. He was recently featured on Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn and in commercials for Spike TV and Ancient Egyptians on TLC. Directing credits include: 1940s Radio Hour, Wendy Spero’s Who’s Your Daddy?, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mister (starring Anthony Rapp), A Chorus Line and others. His first solo show, Chosen, was performed as part of the NYC International Fringe Festival, and his second, Day 8: Take Complete Control, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he was also in De-Evolution Theory, Gun Love, Filet of Film, Chastity Cove, and Retraced. Anthony was also member of the touring company of Chicago City Limits. His show, GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! is currently running at UCBT.

You can also read Anthony's online journal "The Best Imitation of Myself" here.

Lennon Parham: New York Improvisation: Karl, Above Kleptomania; Loud Bill, Lamb's Theater; Sunday Night Improv, Homegrown Theater; DTNY, Waterloo Bridge; High Fife, Rififi. New York Theatre credits include: Crepuscule, An interactive spelling bee musical @ The Present Company Theatorium in association with The Farm; We Built This City on Rent Control, the first ever Second City New York Training Center Revue Showcase at PSNBC@HERE; Assorted States and Clean Living, Blindspot in FringeNYC 2002; staged reading of Until We Find Each Other at Makor Cultural Center and with The Play Company. Regional Theatre: staged readings of UntilWeFindEachOther and Sodom and Gomorrah; readings of After Marseilles, Fascination and The Highwayman; O'Neill Playwrights Conference. BS in Theatre from the University of Evansville in Indiana. Alumni of Teach for America, Mississippi Delta.

Risa Sang-urai hails from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and has been studying and performing long-form improv since 2001. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of Without a Net Improvisational Comedy. In addition to Dillinger, she has performed and/or written with Dark Champions, $1,000,000, Ma Bell, Pleasure Island (directed by Armando Diaz), The Documentary, Asia-town and The Sickest F**king Stories I Ever Heard. Her theatre credits include: ÎDentity Crisis, Carousel, Sweeney Todd and Pippin, which she enjoyed so much she did it twice. Risa has an unhealthy obsession with Clay Aiken, raw onions and The Golden Girls.

Erik Tanouye has been performing in New York since the beginning of 2001. In addition to Dillinger shows, he can also be seen performing with The Mosaic NYC and Asia-town, an Asian-American improv troupe he co-founded. He has studied improv at the UCB Theatre and the People's Improv Theater and has previously performed with Orchestra Pit, Stomping Ground, and Corpa. In 2002, he co-wrote and performed in the shows Proceed With Honor and Red Christmas at the UCB Theatre. He has also performed stand-up comedy at alternative venues throughout Manhattan. He was raised in the Maryland suburbs and studied English and film at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Joe Wengert. I don't write my bios in the third person. I did short form improv at the University of Delaware. I moved to New York and studied long-form improv with Armando Diaz, Michael Delaney, Kevin Mullaney, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and many others. For a while I was in one hundred improv groups. Listing them all would be a sentence of puns and nonsense. I perform and write sketch comedy with Neil Casey, a professional son of a bitch. I have appeared in the shows Krohmp, Your Favorite Thing, A Special St. Patrick's Day, Sketch Show and Osgood-Schlatter at the UCB Theater. Once I did a scene on the back of an eagle.

Zach Woods hails from Yardley, Pennsylvania. He began his freshman year at New York University during the Fall of 2003. Zach has studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since the summer of 2001. He has also studied at the Atlantic Theater Company and the American Comedy Institute. Zach was a writer and actor in the comedic play The Dogs of St. Christopher, which was performed at the UCB Theater. In addition to Dillinger, he has performed with a variety of long-form improvisation groups, including The Documentary. Also, Zach loves animals and wishes that Gary Larson would stop making fun of them.