Shannon Connolly started her improv career at UMASS Amherst with Mission:IMPROVable known to the college party animals as Diesel. Her three years spent there she was able to train in Chicago with Joe Bill, Liz Allen, Mark Sutton, Susan Messing, and TJ Jagodowski at Improv Olympic and the Annoyance Theater. Upon return to her roots in Boston she performed with The Rumble at the Tribe Theater, and is currently a member of the BHP players. In early summer of 2006 Shannon found herself cast at ImprovBoston in TheatreSports. Since joining she has found that salt can cure anything.

Actor/Promotional Director

Lisa caught the improv bug while ushering at ImprovBoston during the summer of 2001, later graduating from ImprovBoston University in 2002. Upon graduating, she became a member of ImprovBoston's mainstage, Micetro cast, and performed a weekly hour-long, short-form program for over a year. Lisa appeared in ImprovBoston's showcase Agent Spy in 2003. She also appeared in several features such as If These Walls Could Talk, Joliwill and Last Rites. A founding member of ImprovBoston's first extension team, Project D, Lisa performed armandos, harolds and deconstructions with the troupe for nearly four years. Project D performed at various theaters and festivals including the Upright Citizens Brigade, Above Kleptomania, and the Chicago Improv Festival. In 2003, she performed in the Tribe's showcase Director's Commentary, and in the two-person features Jim and Lisa and Detritus Blow. Lisa also served as director for the Tribe's Sosnys and Big In Japan casts. She has been fortunate enough to train with Adam McKay of Saturday Night Live, Mick Napier of Chicago's Second City, Charna Halpern and Susan Messing of Improv Olympic, Joe Bill of Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, Armando Diaz of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and Asaf Ronen of Yesand.com.

Peter Fenzel was born and raised in Ridgewood, NJ. After graduating from Yale University, where he studied playwriting and performance with Deb Margolin, Peter moved to New York City, where he performed with the Gorilla Repertory Theater and worked in arts management for City Lights Youth Theatre and Theatre Communications Group. He first caught onto improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City and studied with Betsy Stover, Mike Delaney and Armando Diaz before moving to Boston. Peter's a graduate of the ImprovBoston workshop program and is totally pumped, nay, amped, to be part of Neutrino Boston.

Sasha Goldberg is very glad to be rejoining neutrino after an extended hiatus. She also performs with ImprovBoston's Mainstage and Rondo, the ImprovBoston Harold Team.

Member of our Board of Directors

Jason is proud to be the first graduate of the Tribe's Director's Lab Program. He is even prouder to direct the stunningly gorgeous actors and actresses of Neutrino Boston. He could use a little more sleep. Jason is the former Artistic Director of Neutrino Boston.

Manny Hernandez loves improv, movies, and running. He auditioned for Neutrino hoping to combine his three passions into one super-hobby. He relocated from Southern California to Boston in order to attend Berklee College of Music. While in Los Angeles he trained at The Groundlings Theatre. After relocating he continued training at Improv Asylum, and ImprovBoston. Manny can currently be seen performing with The IB Family Show. He is very excited to be part of Neutrino. If you would like to be friends with Manny you should bring him a Grey Goose White Russian, a piece of tiramisu, or go see some of his shows.

Bob is originally from Zephyrhills, Florida: The City of Pure Water, and home to numerous record-breaking formation skydiving displays. After a none-too-brief stop in Atlanta, Bob made his way to New England where he resides to this day. Formerly fancying himself a musician, Neutrino marks Bob's first legitimate Boston theatrical appearance, and he is plum tickled to be a part of this amazing cast. Now that he's been officially bitten by the acting bug, he can also be seen in the occasional community theatre production around town.

Paul Kursky is alive!*

*Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish, or eggs may increase your risk of foodbourne illness, especially if you have certain medical conditions.

Actor/Producer

Mike Lemieux is a native of Massachusetts, raised on good ole' Cape Cod. Having just realized he probably competed against fellow Netrinonaut, Dave Sawyer, in grade school soccer, he is organizing a reunion match to the death, which will be filmed in real time and directed by audience suggestions. When Mike is not busy bringing in Multi-Million dollar deals for his employer, he is game-fully employed on the stages of New England. Founding his first comedy group in college, Missing the Point, Mike also helped create and can be seen with the IB house team Rebels Without Applauze. Touring the country performing with Boston's Chamber Theatre, and his recent starring role as King Monkut in the famed Gilbert and Sullivan piece The King and I, were nothing compared to his reality-tv debut with Monica Lewinsky on Mr. Personality...don't ask. Mike is psyched to be part of Boston Neutrino and can't wait to see you in the audience.

Don't let those charmingly angelic looks fool you: Maitland is a heartless cynic who'd cut you as soon as look at you. In fact, she's holding a knife to my throat as I write this. True story. She's dangerous. Dangerously sexy, that is.

MaryBeth Makara, orginally from Webster, MA has traveled far and wide for the love of theatre. She received her B.A. in Fine and Performing Arts from Mass College of Liberal Arts in May of 2003 and has been movin' and shakin' ever since. Although no tests have been done MB is believed to have Muppet DNA. MB has worked in MA, NC, and TN as a professional actor, pyrotechnician, scenic artist, and theatre educator. MB is a proud member of The Tribe Theatre, where she broke into the Boston improv scene as AmyJeanne Morgan in "Sea Mission: Aquanauts Prime". MB's favorite candy is swedish fish, and glady accepts donations! MB loves Neutrino and thinks you will too.

John Perich only needs four hours of sleep per night. John Perich reminds you of someone you used to know really well. John Perich will stop the motor of the world. John Perich's style is protected by heat shields and ceramics. John Perich is the "I" in your favorite novel. John Perich stole his moves from KRS-One, a little Big Daddy Kane and some DJ Run. John Perich is why bad things happen to good people. John Perich has never been a saint and he won't start tonight.

Actor/Technical Director

Brian began doing sketch comedy while in high school after becoming unhealthily obsessed with the show 'The State'. Soon after this he began improvising, starting in Poughkeepsie New York with Marist College's unfortunately named comedy group 'The HuMarists'. After college Brian moved back to Rhode Island and dove into long form improv as a founding member and occasional artistic director of Unexpected Company. Still a member of the troupe today, he has performed with UC in places as noteworthy as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Del Close Marathon, Toronto Improv Festival and the Miami Improv Festival. He also once performed with the group in a nearly empty parking lot. Brian is really excited to be part of Neutrino Boston. To learn more about this fine gentleman, please visit BrianPerryComedy.com.

Jeff started performing regularly as a member of The HuMarists, Marist College's improv/sketch comedy troupe. During his time at Marist, he was able to perform at three National College Comedy Festivals. Meanwhile, back in his home state of Rhode Island, Jeff performed sketch shows with the group The Blueberry Johnsons. After graduation, Jeff went back to RI, and joined the long form improv group Unexpected Company, with which he still performs today. He has also studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. Jeff looks forward to seeing audience member's head explode with amazement (Don't worry, it won't hurt) at Neutrino Boston shows.

Rachel Rosenthal has been performing improvisation for over 15 years. In that time, she has worked with many groups including 7 years of sketch and improv comedy with The Half Pint Players in CT and New York, 3 years with Improv Foundry in Boston, and 2 years with ImprovBoston's TheatreSports cast. Rachel is no stranger to drama and musical theater as well, performing everything from Shakespeare to Christopher Durang. In the past few years, she has been a familiar face at ImprovBoston, performing in many showcase shows and seasonal productions such as the 2004 Holiday Spectacular, Voice of the White House, GoreFest III and IV, and an Evening with Ladley and Craig. These days, you can catch her performing on Saturday nights with ImprovBoston's Mainstage. Rachel studied Video Production and theater at Ithaca College and is excited to show off those mad skillz with Neutrino Boston.

Artistic Director

Dave Sawyer has been with Neutrino Boston since it was formed at the Tribe Theater in 2005. He is currently a cast member of the ImprovBoston Mainstage as well as IB's house sketch troupe. He also writes and performs sketch comedy with The Uncommonwealth as well as in his two-man show, Sawyer & Hurley. He is a former member of Boston's The Tribe in the sketch comedy troupe, Comedy Bronze. Dave has studied and performed improv for over 12 years and is a graduate of the Second City conservatory. He has appeared in various festivals including the Providence Improv Festival, The Tokyo Impro Festival, and ImproSport in Puerto Rico. He is the producer and co-writer of a new show called, Laugh Track! which opens at ImprovBoston in January 2008.

Actor/Finance Director

John Shaughnessy began his acting career at St. John's College in Annapolis MD where, among playing in first run productions, he played Hortensio in William Shakespeare's "Taming Of The Shrew" and the Commendatore in George Bernard Shaw's "Man And Superman." He's performed stand-up at The Gotham Comedy Club in New York City, The Comedy Connection in Boston, and the Comedy Studio in Cambridge, in addition to late night runs on Brookline Public Access Television. After taking classes at the Improv Asylum, he's performed short-form improv with The Tribe's Starship Imagination, long form improv with The Tribe's Sosnys, character based improv with Spinning Hardcore, and was in the original cast of Neutrino Boston and acted in their first public performance.

Matt hails from Middleboro, MA, the self-proclaimed "Cranberry Capital of the World". It is here that Matt cut his showbiz teeth, performing predominantly female roles in neighborhood block party sketches and family barbecue variety shows. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he was a founding member of an improv comedy group called Guerilla Improv. At WPI, he also performed in and authored a number of plays. He has performed in a variety of Boston-based improvisational comedy groups including The Tribe Players (The Tribe Theatre), Unnatural Selection (Improv Boston) and Code Duello, an original two-person improvised comedy about the fatal duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Code Duello has been an official selection of the Providence Improv Festival, The Del Close Improv Marathon and the Toronto Improv Festival. Currently, Matt can be seen performing on Thursdays nights with Bastards, Inc, a weekly comedy variety show in Central Square, Cambridge, MA and with Neutrino, a "nearly live" improvised film group.

Rachel joined The Tribe in June of 2004, and has since worked with such troupes as Starship Imagination, Villalobos, and Thomas in Wonkyland. After graduating from the Improv Asylum Training Program, Rachel studied under such luminaries as Mick Napier, Asaf Ronen, and Armando Diaz. If you want to win her heart, pronounce her last name correctly on the first try. Rachel is a former Artistic Director of Neutrino Boston and is the creator of the show, I'm the Rhoda. She can't wait for Camprov.