Cast

Betsy

Mild mannered high school by day wild improv performer by night. Betsy bring her energy and enthusiasm to Running Gag.

Drew

Drew has studied Theatre Performance at the University of Southern Mississippi and Vocal Performance at the University of Memphis. He uses that hard-earned (and expensive) expertise to teach youngsters about the environment at the Memphis Botanic Garden, where he is an Education Program Coordinator/Skydiving Instructor.
Having appeared onstage locally with such companies as Theatre Memphis, Germantown Community Theatre, and Opera Memphis, nowadays Drew likes to spend his free time tending his ice cream farm in the Mississippi Delta or fighting for the labor rights of mythical creatures.

Dustin

Dustin went into comedy to apply his newest discovery. He has figured out an algorithm to mathematically cram the most funny into each and every
Running Gag scene. This zany mathematician spends much of his free time in the nerdiest ways possible, including practicing his pedagogy.
He has a ZuZu pet named Steve, and watches Aladdin on an almost religious basis.

Dylan

Dylan lived the first few years of his life on the mean streets of Midtown, but soon gave into to urban sprawl and spent his formative under the oppressive suburban regime of Collierville His theater career started early at the ripe age of 8 as a orphaned and ridiculed boy (it can only get funnier from there), and he slowly progressed in the comedic arts subsisting almost entirely on old Brit-Coms on PBS and SNL reruns. This explains his nearly Saharan dry wit. He went to Christian Brothers High School where he did several minor roles in plays, but he has always maintained a love for the spontaneous. Breaking with the status quo he attended Christian Brothers University as a Religion and Philosophy Major. He helped found Running Gag Improv in the summer of 2006 to provide an integral service to the Greater Memphis Area.

Frank

Frank has recently taken on a number of projects to accomplish in his spare time, which include but are not limited to splicing the genes of various members of the troupe together, finding a locus for the emergence of Arthurian legend in the English mythological and typological spheres, instating Christopher ‘Walt’ Peterson as King of Running Gag, and finally getting that rascally degree. He trusts that his vertigo-inducing height will prove an asset in all of these endeavors.

Glen

Glen is the most “seasoned” member of Running Gag, which is a nice way of saying he is older than everybody. His first shows the first anniversary show in June of 2007.
Since then he has brought his wacky fun to Running Gag every month.

Matt

Matt is thrilled to be performing with this great group of creatures.  He is currently a student at the University of Memphis, majoring in Communications with an emphasis in Film and Video Production (…basically Film studies. He put that extensive title in to appear more impressive).  Matt is a Memphis native and currently lives in Midtown.

Robert

Robert is away on a “secret mission”.

Russell

After seeing Russell’s masterful rendition of “An Emo Christmas” as a guest performer for one of their shows, Running Gag had to have him. A native of Ripley, Tennessee (home of Ripley’s world famous tomatoes) his sense of humor was a natural defense mechanism that developed after being raised on a goat farm. After receiving a B.A. in psychology at Christian Brothers University with a minor in vocal performance, Russell decided that rather than have a real life he would enter graduate school to take up all the time that he wasn’t performing with Running Gag. In the best of all possible worlds, he would study improv and associative memory, but he’s happy working on educational games at the moment.

Spencer

Busted unto the scene much like a Roy Lichtenstein in the winter of 2008. Not much as been the same since, for himself or people who have seen him preform. From his John Cusack good looks to the ruling of the Cheese Kingdom with an iron fist, Spencer has been pretty much unstoppable. The only question people have is, “Can it get any better?” When asked this same question Spencer responded with the much zealous response of, “Maybe”. What wisdom and foresight.