Cast
The Cast of "Mighty Joe Young" (1949)
Check back here soon to see which of your favorite improvisers will be starring in this Flick!Mike Christensen (Director)
Mike holds an MFA (Acting) from the University of Idaho and a BFA (Theater Arts) from University of Nebraska (Kearney). Twisted Flick fans have heard Mike's voice in over eighty re-dubbed "B" movies over the past twelve years. He has been with the Flicks since the fledgling 1997 Halloween night premiere all the way to the comedy phenomenon it is today. A few of his favorite Flicks are When Worlds Collide, Bride of the Monster, The Blob and War of the Worlds. In addition to performing with Twisted Flicks and Jet City Improv, Mike has appeared in many Wing-It Productions shows, most recently directing and performing in Bunker 13, The Irish Wake and Election Show. He directed and performed in Time Ques, and appeared in Late Night with Satan as Co-Host Dale Earnhardt. He also appeared in The Saturday Morning Cartoon Show, Reality World (Seasons 1 & 2), Musical on 55th Street, Daytime TV, and both runs of Wallflowers. He conceived, directed and appeared as Master Li in the late night show Most Extreme Improv Ninja Challenge. Mike is a Co-Founder of Wing-It Productions and Director of Jet City Improv and Twisted Flicks.
Glenn Bristol
Glenn is a Seattle native who graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Political Science. After college, he continued dabbling in language and film production, tooled around Russia for a while, then moved to Queen Anne, took some improv classes with his roommate, and started tending bar at the Wing-It Theater. He has been performing in Twisted Flicks since 2010's Troll (1986) (as the titular Troll), and, like Mr. Patella-Buckley, has quite enjoyed playing Santa Claus (Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)). He can be seen performing around town as one-third of The Antagonists: Occasionally Harmonious Improv, as well as various other duos and mashups. He is a frequent jaywalker and consummate lane-changer.
Jen Cargill
Jennifer is proud to be a Twisted Flicks cast member with Wing-It Productions!!! Prior to working with Wing-It, Jennifer performed with ComedySportz from 1997-2001 in Austin, TX. She performed and trained at Improv Olympic, The Second City Conservatory and Annoyance Productions in Chicago from 2001-2009. She was also the MC and co-producer for the Austin Air Guitar Championships at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin. She is � of the two person Seattle improv team Carskee. Thank you Mike for getting me this gig !
Jeannine Clarke
Jeannine is delighted to be part of the Twisted Flicks cast. Her first flick was Bigfoot (1970) where she played the "girl in the yellow bikini in the woods". Originally from Oregon, she moved to Seattle to study acting and costume design, and graduated from the UW with a BA in Drama. She has performed in 11 long form shows at Wing-It including Funbucket, Shades of Gray, Clues, and Men of Action. She has costumed over 30 shows, and was recently nominated for a BroadwayWorld award for her costume design work on Men of Action. When not performing she can be found doing nerdy things, such as reading comic books and playing Dungeons and Dragons with the local comedy podcast, Armchair Titans.
Jerry Haener (Assistant Director)
Jerry Haener is awesome and has been a cast memeber with Twisted Flicks since day one.
Tim Harahan
Tim made his Flicks debut as a carni-curious brontosaurus in Rudolph's Shiny New Year. He's also played with Wing-It's Unspeakable Horrors, with Redmond's Split Second Improv, and in many MS Theater productions. Tim hails from Illinois originally, which makes him very happy to be someplace with real mountains. He would like to thank B-movies for reminding us what we all thought the future would be like, and hopes to someday have a flying car. Maybe then he could parallel park.
Joe Koenen
Joe got his theatrical training at the University of Washigton where he was in such classics as Dark Ride and King Cole as well as the worst production of West Side Story ever to be staged. Joe joined Jet City Improv in 1995, and performed in the very first Twisted Flick on Halloween in 1997, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon". His favorite roles in The Flicks have been The Creature, Billy in "Gorgo", and Mustafa Bey "Supercar!" Joe is very excited to be doing The Flicks, and can't wait to see how we might save/destroy the world next time!
Dusty Lee
Dusty is a child of the Northwest. After graduating Arlington High School, he served in the Air Force. He then settled in Bellingham to attend college. While in the City of Subdued Excitement, he began performing on stage and shorly after moved to Seattle. Since moving to the Emerald City, he has attended Freehold Acting Studio and acted in several plays. He began taking improv classes at Jet City in 2009 and was hooked. He has performed in Wing-It Production�s Men of Action and many Twisted Flicks! Dusty can be seen locally performing improv and comedy along with emceeing, spotting, and auctioneering for local benefits and charities. Dusty lives with his wife Kirsten in Edmonds. The Lees like to: Travel the world, go on adventures, and hang out with friends. He loves being a part of Wing-It Productions. Come say hello after a show!
Lauren Logan
Lauren is a caffeinated born-and-raised Seattlite who first joined the Twisted Flicks team fresh out of high school in 2006. She is so happy to have the opportunity to combine her loves for movies and improvisational theatre! Her first flick was The Amazing Colossal Man, wherein she portrayed giant footsteps, the terrorized screams of crowds, and a tiny elephant. Since then she has graduated to leading ladies, and greatly enjoys vocalizing the bizarre facial expressions made by the wondrous actors of the 1950s. You can also find Lauren among the ranks of Jet City Improv if you want to hear her voice and see her face at the same time!
Sean Patella-Buckley
Sean has been performing Twisted Flicks since 2005's The Black Scorpion (1957) (as "guy with gun" and "jeep sounds"). Among the many roles he has played, his personal favorites include Robert Neville (The Omega Man [1971]), Count Dracula (Dracula A.D. 1972), Professor Challenger (The Lost World [1960]), and Santa Claus (Santa Claus [1959]). His artwork is featured on each month's Twisted Flick limited edition pin, as well as each item in the Twisted Flicks store and throughout this very website. Beyond Twisted Flicks, Sean has been performing improv since 1999 (as a member of Gonzaga University Theatre Sports and ComedySportz Spokane). Through Wing-It Productions, he has performed in Jet City Improv, Election Show, Breaking News, and Late Night with Satan. Sean has also contributed artwork for a handful of Wing-It Productions projects, including Over and Through, Shades of Gray, Jet City Improv, and Twisted Flicks.
Erin Plischke
Erin has been performing improv for 14 years. He began performing with ComedySportz Austin in 1996. His love of improv continued to grow and in March 2001 Erin moved to Chicago to train at Improv Olympic, Annoyance Productions and The Second City Conservatory. Erin has been fortunate enough to perform in some really cool places like the Upright Citizen's Brigade theater in NYC and Second City ETC. in Chicago. He is proud to have been a member of many awesome improv ensembles such as ComedySportz, an Improv Olympic harold team, Obsessed and Pimprov!!! He currently performs, along with his wife Jen, in their two person show Carskee!!! Erin would like to thank Mike, Jerry, Sean and the rest of the Twisted Flick cast for being the most awesome people in the world to work with and Jen who constantly inspires him and makes him laugh!!!
Phoebe Richards
Phoebe has lived in Seattle most of her entire life. Phoebe has appeared in Men of Action and Clues here at Wing-it, as well as being The Dutchess of Destruction for Funbucket. Phoebe loves to hear laughter and merry, so please indulge her. She would like to thank Michael and Pamela for their amazing selves and endless support.
Live Musicians
Chris Lundgren (Live Musician)
Chris was born in Los Angeles, CA, over three thousand years ago. Chris plays piano, guitar, bass, mandolin, and slide whistle. Not in that order. Chris has played thousands of Jet City shows, hundreds of Twisted Flicks, and four rehearsals. Chris is very glad you came to the show and hopes you paid full price.
Carl Petrillo (Live Musician)
Carl bounced around growing up, living in New Jersey, The Netherlands, and Georgia (as in Atlanta, not Tbilisi) before heading out to LA. He played and worked as a singer, pianist, arranger, and music director and ultimately graduated from USC with a BA in English (cue music, musical theatre nerds). He spent a year leading a piano trio on Holland America ships around the world before arriving in Seattle. One day Carl wandered into an Improv Dojo class Mike Christensen was leading. When Mike asked if anybody played keyboard, Carl raised his hand and is now ecstatic to have joined the Wing-It musician roster.
Rob Scherzer (Live Musician)
Rob grew up in Montville, NJ, and 2x majored in Theatre and Psychology at Drew University. His path led him from Vienna, from an Opera intensive to working for the St. Augustinerkirche Chor, to NYC working for the Broadway companies of Hairspray and The Producers to Broadway Cares: Equity Fights Aids, to many countries in Asia, working with the 10th Anniversary World Tour of Rent as Company/Tour Manager. Now Rob resides in Seattle and considers Wing-It Productions a second home to him. Rob is both grateful and proud to spend every free weekend he has providing the musical accompaniment for Jet City Improv and Seattle's own Twisted Flicks. You can also hear Rob sing at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony Chorale or this summer with RK Productions (founded by Rob and Wing-It's own Kate Jaeger). Also, Rob is a highly acclaimed Private Voice Teacher in Seattle and is currently available to take new students. Please email him at vocalife (and then the email symbol for 'at') gmail.com for more information. Many thanks to the Wing-It family for being such a supportive, gracious, and talented group of folks!
