CAST AND CREW

DIRECTOR

Megan Maile Green is a comedy writer who has has a contributed to The Onion and ClickHole, been a staff writer on UPROXX’s daily comedy news show theDESK, and been a cast member of The Wheel Show, a sketch comedy show at the NerdMelt Theater in LA. She and her friends made a TV pilot called Cowards, which won “Best Comedy” at the 2014 New York Television Festival, which led to their IFC webseries, Does Dave Know We’re Here. Wow, she sounds fun! 

RECORDING AND SOUND DESIGN

Adam Goron  is an audio engineer/sound designer currently residing in Chicago. When he’s not busy listening to Iron Maiden or Faith No More, he produces and records the Space Lincoln podcast. He used to have a blog, but doesn’t any more.

WRITERS

Stephen Winchell is a writer and cartoonist living in Chicago, IL. His comic work includes Little Boys Room, Aquaman’s Beach Party, and Shitty Cat. His theater work includes the long-running sketch show The Telethon and the baseball comedy Strike 3*. He watches through Frasier at least two times a year.

Shawn Bowers is an artist and writer based in Chicago, IL.  He likes making stupid projects that make people uncomfortable, like his Garfield/Pokemon mashup series “Garfemon,” or spending years pretending to be other people online for various reasons, or crowd-sourcing a screenplay for a fourth Austin Powers movie.  He’s a regular on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.  

Buck LePard is a Chicago comedian and writer. As a member of the sketch group Oh Theodora, he has performed at festivals in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles & Boston, and opened for Hannibal Buress, Chelsea Peretti, and James Adomian. Buck is also the Operations Manager of the historic Music Box Theatre. Buck spent 5 months getting Netflix to restore a missing 30 seconds to Frasier Season 11, Episode 12. Buck once saw David Hyde Pierce in a CVS in Saratoga Springs, but decided not to bother him.

CAST

Wes Needham (Marty Crane) is an ensemble member of Chicago’s “The New Colony Theater” where he’s appeared in such plays as Merge, 11:11, Sordid Little Story, Frat, reWilding Genius and B-Side Studio, to name a few. You’ve maybe even caught him oh-so briefly keeping the streets safe from riff-raff on NBC’s “Chicago PD”. When not acting, he’s writing and producing for Chicago’s only late-night talk-show news-alternative, “Good Evening with Pat Whalen”. He’s also a writer and contributor for the website Romper. You can see all his work at wesneedham.com

Lisa Dellagiarino (Hester Palmer) moved to Chicago to write plays, and instead spent five and half years doing sketch comedy and had two children. She is a member of the board of Arts for All, Inc, a NYC and Chicago-based nonprofit which brings artistic opportunities to children ages 4-19 who would not otherwise have access to the arts. http://www.arts-for-all.org/

Josh Segovia (Duke) is represented by BMG Talent and is a performer, writer, improviser who has been performing in Chicago since 2008. Originally from Texas, he is a founding member of Claymoreproductions.com whose sketch comedy TV pilot was an official selection at the 2013 New York Television Festival and Josh shared the Best Actor award. He would like to thank his first wife Erin for all her love and support. Kisses.

Tim Dunn (William Fitzgerald) has performed with Second City Theatricals, the iO Theater, the Upstairs Gallery, and toured the country with his music comedy act, The Shock T’s. You can find him on Twitter or Medium at @TimothyRDunn or listen to his very serious political podcast, 15 Minutes with Lincoln.

Rachel Bowers (Evelyn Fitzgerald) is a graduate of Oklahoma City University, and an ensemble member with Adapt Theatre Productions. Niles is her favorite Frasier character, and she thinks the series would’ve been better if it had ended when Niles and Daphne hopped in that RV right before her wedding to Donny. She’s very excited to have worked on this project, and she hopes you’re excited to listen to it!  A word of warning: Eddy is not a character in this radio show, so just emotionally prepare yourself for that reality.

Zack Mast (Chief Stan Wojadubakowski) is a writer and performer living independently in Chicago. He produces independent sketches with the collective Peaches & Hot Sauce, performs improv with the independent team Law Dog, and writes tweets on the independent account (@ZackMast). Find his independent website at zackmast.com

Sarah Shockey (Nancy the Waitress) is a writer, artist, and performer in Chicago. She co-hosts a comedy pro wrestling podcast called Marty & Sarah Love wrestling and can be seen at iO Chicago in Sundays with Deep Schwa. You can find her art and writing here.

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