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Comedy Industries team includes the best variety talent
in the country. Our skills include: comedy, juggling,
unicycling, magic, fire-eating, improv, tight-rope walking,
and straitjacket escapes. |
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on performers' photos for more bio information
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 Scott
Meltzer
Scott
Meltzer is the head writer for Comedy Industries. He has
degrees in math and computer science from U. C. Berkeley
where he graduated with honors. An ex-IBMer and a Watson
Scholar, he chooses to spend his time writing comedy and
juggling knives on a six-foot unicycle. He has escaped
from more straitjackets than any other computer programmer
in the world. |
 Katrine
Spang-Hanssen
Katrine
Spang-Hanssen toured North America, Europe and the Far
East for over 13 years with her own comedy juggling act,
Grinn & Barrett. Now Katrine is Comedy Industries'
resident polyglot, fluent in English, Danish, French,
German, Norse, and Swedish! |
 Tim
Kelly
Tim
Kelly is a world champion juggler and footbagger. He performs
the most obscure tricks in the Comedy Industries repertoire
including box juggling, top spinning, yo-yo tricks, tennis
can manipulation, coin snatching, butterfly knife and
origami. Fortunately he doesn't do mime. Yet. |
 Mike
Goudeau
Mike
Goudeau became a street performer on San Francisco's Fisherman's
Wharf at age 14 working with fellow Comedy Industries
performer John Park. Later he did three years hard time
as clown for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Now he's a regular instructor at the Ringling Brothers
Clown College, the featured act in "The Lance Burton
Show" in Las Vegas and a staff writer for Penn &
Teller. |
 Rich
Ross
Rich
Ross and Scott Meltzer formed Monkey Wrench - The Comedy
Explosion in 1991. Together they toured the country for
five years, performing over 200 dates a year. Now when
he's not on the road with Comedy Industries, Rich teaches
acting and improvisation. In his spare time he blows
glass and bubbles with his baby daughter. |
 Ken
Newman
Ken
Newman has racked up over 20 years experience and 2 million
frequent flier miles as a performer, comedian, and trade
show presenter. He has played dozens of characters at
hundreds of trade shows over the years. Ken is an expert
improviser, a brilliant actor and an experienced writer. |
 Paul
Nathan
Paul
Nathan started performing as a magician in LA, doing celebrity
parties for stars like Michael J. Fox, Prince, Eddie Murphy
and Rob Lowe. He's now starring in his own one man show,
"Devil in the Deck" at the Climate Theater.
Evening Magazine has called him "The world's most
dangerous magician." The Hollywood Reporter called
him "The best magician in LA." We just call
him "Pudgy." |
 Jay
Alexander
Jay
Alexander comes from a long family tradition of vaudeville
performers. He is the star of the Brøderbund CD-ROM
"Learn the Art of Magic with Jay Alexander."
He's made cars appear, CEOs disappear, and recently
assisted in the appearance of his second daughter. |
 Sara
Felder
Sara
Felder is an accomplished juggler and performer, as
well as an award-winning playwright. Her plays "Beyond
Brooklyn", "The Lady Upstairs", "Shtik!"
and "June Bride" have toured the nation to
rave reviews. When she is not on tour, Sara plays with
her son and teaches theater at San Francisco State University.
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