Alumni
Wondering what happened to that guy or gal from last year? Or, you used to be in Skits-O-Phrenics and want to catch up with your old buds? Look no further! Here, in all its glory is the phantasmagoric Skits-O-Phrenics Alumni Page. Go crazy and e-mail them by clicking on their names, if you like.
Comedy Groups Comprised of Former Skits
Spreading our comedy seed throughout the nation... Group |
Who's In It? |
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| Elephant Larry | Geoff Haggerty '02 | Stefan Lawrence '99 | Chris Principe '02 | Jeff Solomon '02 | Alex Zalben '99 |
| Madame Funnypants | Negin Farsad '98 | Alex Zalben '99 | |||
| Plants Need Water | Geoff Kirsch '98 | Jason Reich '98 | |||
| Uphill Both Ways | Colin Benoit '95 | Dave McKew '95 | |||
Former Skits
Keeping the dream alive...
Name |
Where Are They Now? |
| Calvin Godfrey ('05) | Calvin Godfrey graduated with an English degree. |
| Neal Kansy ('05) | Neal Kansy graduated with a History and International Relations English degree. He's living and working in British Columbia. |
| Matt Tompkins ('05) | Matt Tompkins graduated with an English degree. He's in New Mexico as part of Americorps. |
| Gabby Levine | In the group 2003 and 2004. Gabby transfered to Oberlin. We think. Anyone want to confirm this? Gabby? |
| Peter Baxter ('05) | Peter was in the group for one year 2003-2004. |
| Keith Hermanstyne ('04) | Keith is studying at Columbia Medical School. |
| Michael Quinn ('04) | Mike may have a job in Connecticutt. We're not certain. |
| Jennine Crucet ('03) | Jennine is in Minnesota working on her MFA in writing. |
| Andrew Missel ('03) | Andrew is in Urbana, Illinois working on his Ph.d.(with a ph) in Physics. And most likely listening to Bob Dylan. Alternate Email |
| Ankur Pandya ('03) | After getting his Masters of Public Health from Yale Ankur moved to Boston to work. Since graduating from Cornell, Ankur has gotten over Nelly Furtado, Phabricated Data, and the New York Mets. Look him up on the internet for the rest. Alternate Email |
| Jessie Thaler ('03) | Jessie is living it up and baking it up in New York City. |
| Geoff Haggerty ('02) | After getting his Masters at Rutgers, Geoff started working assessing psychiatric patients in New York City. He has also been seen continuing the comedy tradition with Elephant Larry in NYC. |
| Becky Heinig ('03) | Becky is working on insects for the government in Hawaii. Now, THAT sounds like a FOX pilot. |
| Chris Principe ('02) | Chris is living in the East Village working for Comedy Central. Though by all accounts, it doesn't seem to be very funny work. However Chris does do funny work with the comedy group Elephant Larry |
| Jeff Solomon ('02) | Jeff is working at a recording studio on Long Island and is just finishing up an album he's recorded. Along with being a member of Elephant Larry, Jeff is also pursuing a musician who's work can be sampled at jeffsolomonmusic.com |
| Monica Hill('01) | Monica currently works as a Field Producer in the documentary unit at the FOX News Channel. Previously she's worked on various programs, including A&E Biography: Jerry Seinfeld, A&E Biography: Robert F. Kennedy, Desert Storm (History Channel), and The Pulse (FOX). |
| Brian McMorrow ('00) | Brian is out on the West Coast doing tech support for a software company in San Jose. Brian seems to have found one of the last affordable good apartments in the Silicon Valley, so he may be there awhile. |
| Stefan
Lawrence ('99) |
By day, Stefan is art director at U.S. Concepts
in New York City. By night, he's a student taking classes at the School
of Visual Arts. By dusk, Stefan is a member of
Elephant Larry |
| Alexander Zalben ('99) | Alex Zalben was in a sketch comedy group with the other three members of Three Jews and a Persian. Currently he is in Elephant Larry and Madame Funnypants as well as working at Tisch School of the Arts as Majority Whip. Additionally, since graduating Cornell, he has become a world famous writer and director, producing plays and movies in New York City that are occasionally seen by other people. He is also the co-creator of the "ground-breaking" web site, xballonline.com. |
| Tarja Parssinen ('99) | After foraging for nuts in Long Island City for a year, Tarja has now moved further into Queens to the most Irish of Irish neighborhoods...Woodside. When she isn't wowing the Irish lads at the local pub, she's doing public relations for the Ad Council. Remember...only you can prevent forest fires. |
| Laura Kirsch ('99) | Laura is currently working on her PhD in Clinical Psychology in Arizona, so she can fulfill both of her lifelong dreams at the same time: studying sex offenders and wearing flip-flops in the winter. She also works at the local State Prison where she does therapy with inmates and continues her search for "the perfect guy." |
| Avery Pickford ('99) | Avery, otherwise known as The Supreme Ruler of Knowledge, is spreading his intellectual prowess at Saint Ann's school in Brooklyn, NY in the subject of mathematics. No, this is not a Catholic school so no, hell has not frozen over. Outside his variable-filled classroom, Avery enjoys hiking in Manhattan, clean socks, and writing bios. |
| Mike Rinke ('99) | Mike is now married and a 3rd year med student at John Hopkins hoping to go into pediatrics. Alternate Email |
| Derek Asaff | Derek is on the moon. |
| Jason Reich('98) | Jason is living in New York City working as a Writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart for which he recently won an Emmy. He is also working with himself and Geoff Kirsch in Plants Need Water, a sketch comedy troupe. |
| Negin Farsad ('98) | After a brief stint as an editor for a historical society full of psycho archivists, Negin went into the forensics field investigsting the Russian money laundering scandal. When the investigation is over she'll be an unemployment bastard, yet again. Also a member of Three Jews and a Persian she is now working in Madame Funnypants with Alex. |
| Geoff Kirsch ('98) | Geoff Kirsch is pursuing an MFA in fiction at New School University in New York. Continuing a writing partnership they began with the Skits, he and Jason Reich form the sketch duo Plants Need Water, and have begun writing short films together. |
| Jared Bishop ('01) | An architect, Jared didn't realize how much work it takes to be in the Skits-O-Phrenics and left pretty quickly. God knows where he is right now. Sorry. |
| Colin Benoit ('98) | In San Francisco working for Anderson Consulting and making more money than every other graduate his year combined. He is in Uphill Both Ways with Dave McKew. |
| Charlie Saulino ('98) | The last we heard Charlie was studying law at University of Michigan in 2000. |
| Michael Wallach ('98) | Mike is working for a non-profit organization called Seeds of Peace, which brings together Israeli and Palestinian. He's living in New York City. |
| Rob Trevino ('98) | |
| Jennifer Cho('97) | |
| Michael Levine ('96) | Mike is still working on his grand plan to save the world. He is in the last year of a four-year combined law and master or environmental management program at Duke. Eventually he hopes to do good environmental stuff. |
| Karen (Fadden) Fabbri ('96) | Karen, now happily married to her college sweetheart (and former Skits-O-Boyfriend) Gian, is living a life of leisure in Boston. After conquering the high-tech PR world and burning out in a BIG way, she left the regular work world and is now "creatively self-employed" as a screenwriter. She's also dabbling acting in plays and films that you will never see. |
| Jessica Brown ('96) | |
| Kevin Campopiano ('96) | In some foreign country forever. |
| David McKew ('95) | In August 2000 he moved from Princeton NJ to San Francisco CA. He's currently working for a software development company. He and Colin Benoit '98 are in a sketch comedy troupe called Uphill Both Ways |
| Ron Levi ('95) | Ron has been living in San Francisco for the past three (this was written an unkown number of years ago) years. Need we say more? Probably. |
| Mary Celenza ('95) | Mary is now living in Los Angeles. She worked in production (writing and voicing entertainment pieces) and freelance writing/researching for Jeff Greenfield's PBS show and is currently a field producer for the Dr. Phil show. She misses NYC-- but is enjoying life by the beach. Mary has been volunteering with the United farm workers out in east L.A. on weekends. She is a member of a comedy group called Danger Zone (half sketch/half improv) and does improv Friday nights with Addle Essence at the Comedy Underground. |
| Judy Goodman ('95) | |
| Mike Moran ('95) | After living with Ron Levi in San Francisco until September, Mike moved to Davis where he is a vet student at UC Davis. Mike is also a partner in a lovely bar on Haight Street called Hobson's Choice. |
| Richard Greene ('95) | Richard Greene was the first total drama queen to leave the group. After only one really memorable skit ("Depression by Calvin Klein," which he didn't even write) his utterly forgettable falling out with the other drama queen Dave McKew (with whom he performed the "EARS nazi" skit) forced him to leave the group. He worked in theatre for two years and worked as a personal trainer. Dave and Richard resolved their differences eight years later. Richard is currently in medical school and tells terribly amusing emphysema stories. |
| Andrew Cullen ('94) | After graduation in 1994 he moved down to D.C. with his girlfriend Lori to seek employment. He got a job with the American Institutes for Research, where he still works today. Since then, Lori and Andrew have gotten married, bought a house, and he just finished a Master's of Public Policy. Somehow, he manages to pass as a quasi-responsible member of society. Click here to see a picture of Andrew as Schwaman. |
| Cara Harth ('94) | |
| Claudia Hollis ('94) | Living somewhere near Princeton, but NOT dating Dave McKew or EJ Howard. |
| Melisa Sepe ('94) | Dating EJ Howard, and when she has time left over, kicks butt as an engineer. |
| Michael Lebowich ('94) | He is an attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP in NYC. He is married to his college sweatheart (Jenna Saidel Lebowich). They live in Manhattan (living the life of a tired overworked lawyer). And he longs for the life of making a fool of his self on stage. |
| EJ Howard ('93) | Living in Hoboken, New Jersey and dating Melisa Sepe (tee-hee). Click here to see a picture of EJ as Ampersand Boy. |
| Eric Garcia ('92) | Eric Garcia (who left to go to USC film school at the end of '92) is living in Los Angeles with his wife Sabrina (the Skits' first ever tech person), their baby daughter Bailey and their "short, fat, and cute" dachshund Oliver. Eric is a member of the Writer's Guild and has several projects in development. Eric has written three books, "Anonymous Rex", "Casual Rex" and "Matchstick Men". "Matchstick Men" was recently released in Major Motion Picture form directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage. You can get more general info about Eric and his books at www.ericgarcia.com. Or, if you're so inclined, visit his amazon.com website. Click here to see a cool publicity photo of Eric. |
Last Updated 12-8-1980