Ricardo Pitts-Wiley (Willy Jefferson)
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley is an accomplished actor, director, playwright, teacher, and composer. He has performed at such noted venues as The Old Globe Theater, San Diego Repertory, North Carolina Black Repertory, Rites and Reason, and Perishable Theater. A sampling of his featured roles includes Othello, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Three Penny Opera, and Fences.
He was a member of Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for eighteen years. Additionally, he was the first East End Black Artist-in-Residence in Suffolk County, Long Island as well as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Rhode Island and Long Island University at Southampton.
In 2003, Ricardo and his wife, Bernadet, formed Mixed Magic Theatre & Cultural Events, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to presenting a diversity of cultural and ethnic images and ideas on-stage. The company eventually relocated to Pawtucket in 2005 and evolved into Mixed Magic Theatre, with Ricardo serving as Artistic Director.
Jeremiah Kissel (Flight Director Lex Harrison)
Jeremiah Kissel is a twenty-five year veteran of professional stages. He has been a member of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, the West Side Repertory Theater in New York City, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, as well as understudy for both Nathan Lane and Richard Nixon.
He is the recipient of the first annual Outstanding Boston Actor Award at the Elliot Norton Award ceremonies in 1990, an IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999, and, in June of 2003, was presented with the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.
Jeremiah's recent credits include The Sisters Rosenweig for Huntington Theater Company and Hamlet for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
Paula Langton (Mayor Kate O'Connell)
Paula Langton's Shakespearean work includes Cordelia in King Lear, Isabella in Measure for Measure with Actors Shakespeare Project ; Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Miranda in The Tempest with Shakespeare & Company; Kate in Taming of the Shrew with Boston Theatre Works; and Feste in Twelfth Night with Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.
She was a member of Kristin Linklater and Carol Gilligan's "Company of Women", playing Edgar in King Lear, plus Bardolph, Westmoreland, Michael Wiliams, and Captain James in Henry V.
Paula is currently Head of Acting in the School of Theatre Arts at Boston University's College of Fine Arts.
Will Luera (Voice of Lil' Moe)
Will Luera is the Artistic Director of ImprovBoston where he directs the Mainstage cast as well as the seasonal productions of Sitcom, Secret Society, Blue Screen, Playbook, and Quest. He is also the Assistant Director of Improv Asylum's Summer in New England Mainstage show.
Will has appeared at the Chicago, New York, Toronto, and the Greater Boston Improv Festivals as a performer and has taught his unique "Physics of Improv" class around the nation to a number of professionals and up-and-coming improvisers. He has studied improvisation with ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade, and Keith Johnstone. In 2004, he won the Boston chapter of the PAX-TV World Cup Comedy competition as well as the 2005 national competition in Los Angeles.
Jeremy Brothers (Craig Cates)
Jeremy Brothers is a mainstage cast member of Improv Asylum. His Asylum credits include: Harry and Sara's Hanukkah Extravaganza, AlterEgos, Postmortem, and Flight or Invisibility. He's co-creator of the two-man sketch shows Punch for Punch and Old Habits Die Hard. He has also performed around Boston as one half of The Menace, one third of Salazar's Diet and one fourth of Dinx. He's recently starred in the Columbia University graduate film, "1918", as well as appeared in national spots for Kitchen Etc. and Subway.
Lawrence Dierickx (Assistant Flight Director)
Lawrence Dierickx is a Belgian actor making his American film debut. He has appeared in commercial spots ("Look"), international short films (Ed Gregoor's "THE TRAVELER"), and series television ( "My School Has Donkey's Ears").
He is also a singer/songwriter, the frontman for several alternative rock bands (Need, Earwig).