Cast
![]() | JON AXELL | |||
| Jon is a graduate of the University of Washington where he spent four years as a performer and one as the director of UW's improv troupe, The Collective. With Wing-It Productions he is a teaching artist with the education program and a regular cast member of Jet City Improv and has appeared in Time Quest, Clues, Election Show 2008, Go Tigers! and Funbucket. He was the creator and director of the courtroom comedy Objection! with Wing-It in the summer of 2009, and appeared with puppets galore in 2008's Over and Through. | ||||
![]() | JEREMY BROWN | |||
| Jeremy has been doing improv in Seattle ever since he moved here in December 2006 from Michigan. He has been a regular on the Wing-it Stage performing in shows such as Clues, Objection!, and Dirty Laundry as well as Jet City Improv and Twisted Flicks. He made his puppet debut in the Wing-it Presents show Over and Through and has loved the things ever sense. He is excited to see you here and apologizes in advance as your image of sweet puppets is slowly destroyed. | ||||
AMANDA DENNING | ||||
| Amanda's first performance was at age 5 where she played a growling, dancing Poppy in The Wizard of Oz. After that, she auditioned for every show she could find in the smallish town of Olympia, WA, mostly musicals. From there she attended WWU in Bellingham and was awarded a BA in Communication, with a minor in theater. After college, she moved to Seattle, and a friend introduced her to Jet City Improv. She attended am Improv Dojo class led by Mike Christensen, auditioned a month later, and has been in the cast ever since! A pianist since age 3, you can sometimes catch her at the keyboards during a show. Amanda is proud to be the only former homecoming-princess/drill-team-captain in the state who has converted to major geekdom - she's looking for tanks & good dps dealers for her wow guild... | ||||
![]() | MOOG HESCOCK | |||
| Moog has a full head of hair. | ||||
![]() | RACHEL JACKSON (Assistant Director) | |||
| Originally from Missouri, in her seven years in Seattle Rachel has had the fun of working with Annex, Wing It, Live Girls! and Kram, among others. Recently, you may perhaps have seen her puppets in Emerald and S2, her puppeteering in The Knights of Nowhere and Over and Through, and her acting sans puppet in Alecto: Issue #1 and Quickies 10. When she’s not on stage or gluing a puppet, she enjoys incorporating bacon into baconless recipes and writing sketches about ninjas. | ||||
MAX KRAUSHAAR | ||||
| Max is an actor, artist and baker living in Seattle. He is currently attending the University of Washington for a B.A. in Drama and a B.F.A. in Photomedia. He likes to make things out of wood and draw and bake pies. | ||||
![]() | RYAN MILLER | |||
| This is Ryan’s 18th year of improv comedy, and his 10th with Wing-it Productions. He’s done hundreds of Jet City Improv shows, as well as many Twisted Flicks and Wing-It Presents shows such as Bunker 13, Dirty Laundry, The Lost Folio, Late Nite with Satan, PROJECT: B-Movie, Reality World and Improv Lab. He’s also one-third of Seattle sketch comedy troupe Train of Thought. | ||||
![]() | LINDSEY NEWMAN | |||
| Lindsey is a native Seattle gal who has graced the Wing-It stage in such previous shows as The Irish Wake, Objection!, Rudolf: The Next Verse, and most recently, The Lost Folio. She holds a degree in Acting and Educational Drama from Western Washington University. She was also recently seen in the Puppet This production of The Knights of Nowhere, as the verbose and lovable Stuart. She would like to thank her parents for the steady diet of Muppet shows she was exposed to as a child. She is addicted to bike riding and is learning to play the banjo. | ||||
![]() | MICHAEL ROBLES | |||
| Mike is thrilled to not only be reuniting with some of his Puppet TV cast, but getting to play with some new faces. Originally from Los Angeles, Mike studied with Comedy Sportz LA before moving out to WA. Favorite Roles include Tim Algood (Noise Off!), and General Mayhem (Captain Intrinsic). Mike is currently an ensemble member with Unexpected Productions. He would like thank Elizabeth and Rachel for giving him a chance to play with puppets, and his wife Cassie who thinks his weirdness is adorable. | ||||
![]() | LAUREL RYAN | |||
| Laurel is from all over the place but calls Seattle her home. She started doing improv with Second City in Los Angeles and moved up to Seattle the morning after graduation. She has been seen on the the Wing-It stage in Your Job Sucks, but you can catch her almost every weekend in TheatreSports at the Market Theatre. Her favorite reality show personalities are Janice Dickinson and Angelique from the "Rock of Love," who, upon closer inspection, are actually puppets. | ||||
![]() | JENNY SCHMIDT | |||
| Jenny made her acting debut in her elementary school’s Christmas Pageant at the age of 10. To this day she continues to enjoy acting... like a 10 year old. Jenny has a B.F.A. in performance from the University of Idaho. Local performance credits include Penguins, The Tempest (in the Lake) and Lysistrata. She is also a member of Asterisk Improv. Internationally, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Shakespeare for Breakfast. Jenny likes putting her hands in strange, dark, felt-covered places. | ||||
COLIN SMITH | ||||
| Colin is a friend to the animal. | ||||
![]() | ELIZABETH WESTERMANN (Director) | |||
| Elizabeth has been interested in puppetry ever since her eyes were able to focus on Sesame Street. She has been performing puppetry since 2004, when she staged the first incarnation of Puppet TV - then known as The Cotton Gin. She began building puppets shortly thereafter and has created puppets for Wizards of the Coast and The Saturday Knights' "Count it Off" music video. | ||||









