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Steve Brush (Keyboard and Bass) In his spare time, Steve works as a youth coach and CPR Instructor at the Downtown YMCA. Steve is also a composer currently working on film scores. For more information, contact Steve at stevebymca@hotmail.com.

Paula Bennett Paula received her training from Cornish College of the Arts and Freehold Actors Lab / Studio where she completed The Meisner Progression and Instrument Training Intensive. While in Ireland, Paula studied at The Actors Workshop in Dublin. She recently directed THE MARLBORO MAN for this year's Seattle Fringe Festival. For more information about Contact Theatre, e-mail paulabennett@hotmail.com.

Rebecca Goldberg carefully cultivates her image as an innocent Jewish girl from the Midwest, but what kind of nice Jewish girl would perform at places with names like Theatre Babylon, Babes with the Bard, Slippery Fish, Outcast Productions, Vagabond Productions, and Soiled Soul? In the Midwest, she toured with Prairie Fire Children's Theater and the National Theater for Children. What happened? She hopes that the purity of The Spolin Players will restore her to a state of niceness without necessitating a move back to Minnesota.

 Órla Mc Govern hails from Ireland. There she worked with Punchbag, Red Kettle, The Abbey, Macnas and Glasshouse Theatre Co(s), and appeared in various TV/film roles. She co-created comedy for drunk lunchtime audiences with "The Flying Pigs" in Galway. She's written and performed some of her own work at Freehold Theatre, and was recently seen in Edge Theatre Ensemble’s Fringe show "Baby with the Bathwater". Órla now does funny voices for radio and film, and sometimes gets paid for it! This group inspires her. In her spare time, as a political statement, she channels the spirit of an angry Scottish woman.

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Jennifer Parker is the longest tenured Seattlite in the Spolin Players, spending the last 23 years dodging raindrops and refusing to wear flannel. She has always loved acting, and improv in particular, being part of an emerging force in the genre is something she's very proud of. Jennifer is also a free-lance photographer, receiving her Associates degree in photography from The Art Institute of Seattle in 2000. She would eventually like to become part of "The Price is Right" cast and caress refrigerators, sit on top of cars, and make people feel good about winning a life-time supply of rice-a-roni!

Heli Tattari disappeared from her home in Finland at night when she was 3 years old. Grandmother found her walking down the street wearing her mother's high heals and Grandmother asked; "Heli, where are you going?" "I am going to see the world", she said. She traveled around the world since she was 17 years old - by herself. She lived in several different countries and settled in America 1985, and became American citizen 1998. Acting became her passion in Seattle, which she is expressing in modern, classical and improvisational ways.

Allison Schumacher is 1/500,000th of the entire population of the state of Wyoming. While studying Theatre and English at St Olaf College (it’s more than what you’ve heard about on “Golden Girls”) in Northfield, MN, she sang with their world-renowned choir and was filmed for their PBS Christmas Special.  She has an MFA in Theatre from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY and has most recently been seen as Gloria in CenterStage Theatre’s “Grace and Glorie” and as a Hollywood Blonde in “Gypsy” at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Allison is currently at work writing her first book, “Shaking Hands with Shakespeare: A Teenager's Guide to Reading and Acting the Bard,” due out in 2004 from Simon and Schuster.

Paul Bergman Paul Bergman first drew breath in central California. After many asthmatic summers, a stint as a roofer, and a degree in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fresno he headed to the great Northwest. He has trained with members of the RSC, The Dell'Arte Players and several local gurus. Paul is pleased as punch to be part of the Spolin Players.

Gary Schwartz is a former student, longtime friend and associate of Viola Spolin's, and, is the de facto nucleus of our improvisational cell. As the tallest member of our group, he can not only be seen better by everyone in the audience, but, he has appeared in such films as "Quest For Fire," and looped dialogue for dozens of others. As a co-star of TV's "Zoobilee Zoo," and a guest on "Faerie Tale Theatre" and "You and Me, Kid," children everywhere know his work. But adults are quickly catching on too!