Brett Anderson

"To me, Theatresports is not this contraption that you climb into and push a button and it takes you up or down to the floor you desire - that's a lift. Theatresports is playing improvisational games on stage!" Once you've played a tap-dancing, spinning, finger-munching, giant singing snail in a TheatreSports end-game musical, the rest of it seems fairly easy by comparison. Tsports is the most fun you can have with your clothes on that doesn't involve chocolate.

Candice D'arcy

Completed a BA Dramatic Art from Wits with flying colours (there were so many colours...)and moved to Cape Town in 2001. She's a 1.78m classical statue with an ascorbic wit and an intense phobia of pigeons! After unsuccessful dabblings in the sticky world of self-help, Candice finds Theatresports a safe haven for the Balkan kleptomaniac hairdresser inside her. While people of the region traditionally enjoy the adrenaline rush of things like Theatresports and shin to horn combat with mountain goats, she sees it as piece of cake compared to the improvising she did giving birth to her daughter, Kaliya, who, when Candice is on stage, shouts "Hey, Mama!" and still gets to go home with her!

Easton North

Undergoing severe hair removal treatements as an infant, iain, (or 'easton', or 'e', or 'general-e', or 'exostential-e', or 'e-lit'....., suffered serious multiple personality disorder syndromes. Finally he has found a home in Theatresports, where he is able to become posessed in front of a paying audience.

Godfrey Johnson

This Cape Town based performer has been involved in all aspects of the arts since 1992. He has worked as pianist, composer, actor, script writer as well as theatre manager. He has performed both nationally and internationally in various productions including one man shows. From 1997 to 2003 he was artistic director of Pieter-Dirk Uys' Theatre venue, Èvita se Perron in Darling. Productions include Noel and Marlene in which he played Noel Coward, The Rocky Horror Show in which he played Riff Raff. One man shows include The Importance of Being Harnessed, Blonde Juan(directed by Megan Choritz and featuring fellow theatre sports musician, Trevor du Buisson; Songs my Lover Forgot to Sing to Me and many more. He has also Bambi sings the FAK (pianist), The Poggenpoel Sisters (pianist) and many more. He has also composed music for film. In 1998 his one man show, ”Trip” was voted one of the top 5 productions at the Montreal Fringe Festival in Canada. He was recently commissioned to compose the musical Snow White and the Special Branch.

Jess Taylor

In and amongst other things Jess has stood up and done comedy, likes to sit down and eat sushi and has spent a fair amount of time racing around the world. After travelling to foreign lands and making banal comments such as, "My, my isn't Budapest nice this time of year." and "Oh, no not another can of baked beans!", she has returned to Cape Town and decided that in fact her best journeys happen every tuesday and thursday night. "Someone, (who shall remain nameless just for the hell of it), once said, 'All the world is a stage...'. In Theatresports the stage becomes all the world and I count my lucky stars to be part of it."

Jonathan Keevy

Jon is a serious guy. Very serious. Seriously. He has a degree and everything. And he writes serious stuff, like plays. But serious ones. About, you know, meaning and stuff. One has a dinosaur. Rumour has it he's serious because he's from Elgin.

Leon Clingman

Born and bred in Jozi, moulded and shaped in New York and often compared to Robin Williams this man of many characters believes there is a serious dramatic actor inside just waiting to break out. After walking the boards in New York for 4 years Leon returned to Jozi and after tiring of Jozi again he decided to try the fairest Cape of all,loved it stayed and joined Improvision in 2005. You may (or may not) remember him from such hit commercials as Budget Insurance, Windhoek Lager and Nationwide Airlines or from SA’s much loved soapies Isidingo, Generations, Egoli and Backstage. PS: Leon is single and available (send a self addressed envelope and a photo of yourself for more info)

Liezl de Kock

Like an oyster spitting sand at pesty intruders, a young Liezl preferred the safe quiet existance of her own company. After graduating from drama school and falling into the industry she discovered that everything in life is improvised. The hermit leapt into a life of streetwise lingo and theatresports provided the artillery to impress on the spot. Now she is employed at a theatre company as a clown and goes to bed feeling at peace.

Megan Furniss (Megan Choritz)

Megan is the boss of Improvision. She has been playing TheatreSports for fourteen years and imagines that she’ll be doing it when she’s ninety. She teaches improvisation, runs workshops, runs her own Industrial Theatre company and also writes, directs and performs in other stuff when she can. She is who you contact if you need to book for TS or for more info or if you want to brave doing the next course. See her blog at www.meganshead.co.za

Monika Roese

Monika escaped out of her Dirndl and proceeded onto the stage as a talking, man-eating plant, and she once beat all the boys at school when she was cast as Captain Hook. Later she delved into textile design, and Europe, before returning to study drama. Now Monika is inspiring the youth (little brats) to take to the stage and be fabulous. She also paints, and even better, sells her paintings. All this inbetween regular performances of Theatresports.

Nicholas Spagnoletti

Due to a childhood trauma involving a dressing gown and a supermarket trolley, teenage Nicholas could never bring himself to audition for the school play so he quietly studied English and only discovered latent performance skills after he was introduced to TheatreSports by partner Edward (arguably TheatreSports' most committed fan). In between running his business and playing TheatreSports Nicholas also writes plays, stories and sketches.

Ryan Ross Jales

After researching and archiving data on the survival tactics of the rare and highly poisonous Karoo Dassie (1976 – 1999), Ryan felt the need to explore ‘improvising in tough situations’ in a more challenging arena and so delved into the dark and dingy world of theatre. After studying at UCT, Ryan travelled the globe in search of the cure for restlessness. As a result, his stints in gypsy acrobatics and Romanian buffalo herding have helped him immensely in his ongoing search for the purest improvised form. Like all thoroughbred Capetonians Ryan could not be kept away from the magickal lure of the flat-topped mountain for too long. He returned to the city with a craving … to conquer the world of improvised theatre and so joined the merry team of Improvision with a view to mesmerise all audiences with his rugged good looks. He continues to try anyway.

Tamarin McGinley

Tamarin comes from a very nice family in a pretty little neighbourhood in the not so very nice city of Johannesburg. She was raised in a household firmly built on the principles of tragedy, melodrama and, quite frankly, the absurd. It isn’t surprising then that Tamarin left all that behind in Johannesburg for a life of fame and fake fortune telling on the stages of Cape Town. A true devout of the theatre, Tamarin can be found backstage, upstage, downstage and lets not forget, centre stage. A professional working actress and performance junkie Tamarin can’t wait for Theatre Sports to get her weekly fix, in her own words, “It’s pretty flippin rad guy.” Tamarin is a director of The Chameleon Collective a fairly new and pretty explosive theatrical outfit currently making waves on the Cape Town theatre scene. Apart from working as an actor/ puppeteer/director/ writer/ producer/ stage manager/ technical operator, Tamarin also watches a lot of theatre and that “Is pretty flippin rare guy.”

Tandi Buchan

Tandi or "Bucket" as she is known is a seasoned improvisor, having played TheatreSports from way back when. We're delighted to have her back from the abroad where amongst other things she co-founded "off the cuff" an improv group based on a barge! She is a proffesional actress, reiki practitioner and for now loves everything Greek! (watch this space!)

Yve Pelser

The way she speaks might fool you, but she’s an Afrikaans gal born in Brisbane on Christmas Eve and she’s left-handed. She's a daydreamer that found a profession that pays her to actively daydream. During her honours she had her directorial debut at the NAC, then she taught at AFDA, Cape Town (1st & 2nd yr Acting Lecturer). Now she’s focusing on her own work and teaches as artist in residence from time to time. She’s been accepted to Giovanni Fusetti’s school, Helikos, in Florence to be trained further as of October 2010. Motto for now: Let go of inhibitions & play! It will most likely not change drastically she thinks.