Kevin Gillese
Artistic Director
Kevin started improvising with Rapid Fire Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta
as a teenager in 1996. As an undergraduate he studied Theatre and
Creative Writing at the University of Alberta, he then went on to take
the Post-Graduate Comedy Writing and Performance program at Humber
College in Toronto. He is
one-half of the comedy duo Scratch which has toured several times across...
Vanessa Bamber
Managing Director
Vanessa's arrival to Dad's Garage comes after a long and perilous journey filled with arduous theatre and dance instructors, lascivious producers, corporate tyrants, and battle with the "Iron Mouse"...well, at least how Vanessa tells it. We do know that she escaped from New York City in the dead of night to be the Managing Director here at Dad's...
John Brandt
External Sales Director
John descends from a long line of business men, pirates and rock stars...truly, you should ask him.
Joining
Dad's Garage in the spring of 2009 as the Front of House Manager, and
after a few twists and turns (including an amazing baby boy) has landed
as the External Sales Director. He comes by this work as...
René Dellefont
Associate Artistic Director
René recently joined the staff at Dad's Garage as Associate Artistic Director. While at Dad's Garage, René curated and directed The Saturday Morning Pajama Jam,
an improvised throwback to the Saturday morning shows of the 80's that
featured the world's only improvised cartoon and was hailed by critics
at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival as a live version of MTV's
Wonder Showzen. He also directed the improvised soap...
Linnea Frye
Marketing Director
Linnea graduated with a B.A. in Business Management from Georgia State University, and was lucky enough to land her first grown-up job as the Audience Development Director at Dad’s Garage. After 3 years of working in the Dad’s Garage catacombs with no heat or air, she has since earned a fancier title and subsequently mutated into a super-human species that can sweat out of her...
Anthony Green
Front of House Manager
Anthony Green, Jr. is a native of Charleston, SC where he first became captivated by the arts. His interest led him to Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, FL where he earned a B.A. in Theatre Performance. Since then he has served in the field in many forms from acting with the Tallahassee Little Theatre, the Essential Theatre and the Atlanta Street Theatre, stage managing for...
Matt Horgan
Associate Artistic Director
Matt has been improvising since 1994, when he joined the "We're Not Your Mother Players" while attending the University of South Carolina. After graduating from SC with a BFA in Media Arts (completely useless), Matt moved to Atlanta and saw an improv show at Dad's Garage. He witnessed a scene where Matt Stanton played a talking chicken and Joseph Limbaugh ripped out his heart and...
Amelia Lerner
Development Director
Amelia Lerner is serious about squid, elephants, and very small things. She values funny above all else, most cheeses notwithstanding.
A graduate of Indiana University with an MA in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of...
Adam Pinney
Multimedia and Graphic Artist
Adam Pinney was born in Munich, Germany, the same birthplace of famed German filmmakers Werner Herzog and Michael Haneke, Footballer Franz Beckenbauer, Nobel Prize winners Ernst Otto Fischer and Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, and pornstar Briana Banks. He was born on June 2, the same day as the Marquis de Sade, actor Jerry Mathers, and activist Cornel West. Adam got a BA...
Jamie Warde
Technical Director
Jamie Warde is originally from Buffalo, NY, where he misspent
his youth and educational years. At the age of fifteen, he began working
in professional
theatres on scenery, electric and props crews. Over the next four years,
he put
in time with every theatre company in Buffalo at every black box and
university
theatre he...
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