ZEKE RIPPY

Zeke is not from around these here parts. He's a little bit country, he's a little bit Rock N' Roll. What he definately is is the founder of the JLOI. Zeke has spent countless hours of his time and extensive training ( A Neighborhood Playhouse graduate, The Groundlings, Sizzler, and Kinko's Asst. Supervisor) as well as many of his paychecks to make us kids look good. Well, dab nab it, I think he's done it! This bio was brought to you by Roberto Serrini and Zeke wishes to thank Roberto for making him sound good.

A graduate of Lincoln Memorial University in Herrogate, Tennessee and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-West, Michael is very pleased to be a part of the JLOI.Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, he started doing regional work in Tennessee. After accomplishing what Knoxville had to offer, he decided to move to a larger market - Cincinnati, Ohio. There he worked in industrial films and regional commercials. After accomplishing what Cincinnati had to offer, he decided to move to and even larger market - Los Angeles. Michael focused on training for the first two years in LA at the American Academy. Since leaving the Academy, Michael has appeared in countless sketch comedy and improvisation shows, along with short and feature films. He has also appeared in plays such as The Blue Room, The Torch-Bearers, Father's Day, The Glass Managerie and Born Yesterday to name a few      Currently Michael is working toward becoming a member of the LA based Comedy/improvisatiional group The Groundlings, and can be seen in the upcoming independent feature films New Suit and The Empiricist.      Michael would like to thank Roberto Serrini for typing all this as well.

MICHAEL R COLEMAN

ROBERTO MARTIN SERRINI

Roberto is orriginally from his mothers womb where he spent 9 engaging months as part of the Embriotic Fluid Troupe. Once released from his engagements there he began travelling the world over with his mothers airline benifits and his fathers money. He went to University at UC Santa Barbara for four years (or so they tell him) until he woke up one day out of a Benadryl haze on some random Bankok street.      Since then he has been many things from Astronaut, garbage man, pencil pusher, a racial slur, a ball for a IBM PS/2 mouse, pixie stix (green) as well as working at the Gap in downtown Glendale.      You can see him perform 5 nights a week at the Mondrian Hotel where he pretends he cares about his job.       Roberto takes no responsability for any child pornography found on the internet. "See you in Hell!"

LAURA MESHEL

Laura is the proud owner of a beautiful daughter named chloe and a wonderful husband who answers to the name of colm. She holds (at all times) an MFA in Acting from Columbia University, has owned her own theatre in San Francisco where she acted live and onstagge, and has mastered the art of Poodle Tossing while juggling live crabs. All this and she still found the time to appear on the Drew Carry Show, City Guys and countless other big budgeted movies with really super famous people. She's quite a gal, this Laura. Quite a gal indeed.

MARIE PETTIT

Marie Pettit is excited about he LA stage Debut, A native Texan, she has spent most of her time doing various stage, dilm, and commercial work, but her favorite experience was being a member of Comedy Sportz - Houston, an improvisational comedy troupe. Marie is quite pleased to now officially be an "idiot", and when she grows up. she wants to train penguins at Sea World.

MARK

Wishes to thank the Morman Tabernacle and low cholesterol cooking oil.

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