The following are the current and past members of Funny But Mean in both San Francisco and New York City. Some have provided bios, others have not. Some have photographs, others do not. This is our way.

  • Emily Ackerman (Writer/Performer - NYC)
  • Brian Agard (Writer - SF/NYC)
  • John "Paco" Anaya (Technician - SF)

    Paco washes windows and cooks the best fried chicken in the world. His time is spent focusing on the perfect "masa" to compliment his chipotle simmered chicken and mushroom blend and raising his California state Tae Kwon do Champion (3 years running), 7 year old daughter, Alia. John has worked with Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Tom Waits, Hedwig and the Angry Inch , U.F.O., President Bill Clinton and loves knobs and guitars.

  • Deirdre Ashby (Performer - SF)
  • Zehra Berkman (Producer/Performer - SF)
  • Stephanie Brown (Producer/Composer/Writer - SF)

    Stephanie has won many awards and certificates! Some of these include: Tulsa Clown Of The Millennium Competition (1983), Alcoholics Anonymous Clown School Valedictorian (1989), Al Qaeda Terrorist & Clown College (2000), and McDonald's McManager School and Ronald McDonald Home For The Insurance Certificate of Completion (2002). Last year Stephanie was voted "Best Clown Over Age 55 Pretending To Be A Deceased Baby In Order To Help A Family Deal With Grief In The San Diego Area" by the Mexico City Clown and Dental College!

    Stephanie has a clown fetish which is neither funny or mean. It's just sad and weird.

  • Zoe Daelman Chlanda (Performer - NYC)
  • Richard Ciccarone (Producer/Writer/Technician - SF/NYC)

    Richard created Strange Prescription in 1999 and then Funny But Mean in 2005. His work includes The American Gallery, Auditioning for Fellini, Citizen X and Dog Fiction.

    Richard enjoys a nap after one of the particularly gruelling rehearsals.

  • Robert Ciccarone (Performer - NYC)
  • Chris Cobb (Writer/Performer - SF)

    Chris got his BA from UCLA in Creative Writing (magna cum laude, bitches). He has performed and written for numerous Bay Area mainstays including Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon and Danville's Wigged Out . When not performing, he is hunkered down in his fortified compound with Sheriff Andy Taylor.

  • Patrick Costigan (Writer/Performer - NYC)
  • Alexandra Creighton (Performer - SF)
  • Kevin Crook (Writer/Performer - SF)
  • Andrea Day (Performer - SF)

    Andrea Day wondered why her Match.com profile was only responded to by the mentally handicapped and the violently deranged and then we saw her photo.

  • Ike DeLorenzo (Producer/Writer/Performer - SF)
  • Barbara Early (Performer - SF)
  • Lauren English (Performer - SF)
  • Rebecca Ennals (Writer - SF)

    Rebecca J Ennals has been a finalist for the Samuel Goldwyn Playwriting Awards and recipient of the Midwestern Playwright's Award as well as several poetry awards. As a writer, director, educator, and occasional actor, she has worked locally with the Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, Transparent Theatre, Pear Avenue Theatre, and Napa Valley Repertory Theatre as well as several Chicago area venues. Her original late night comedy show Sex Scenes played for 6 months in Chicago.

    Don't let her impressive c.v. fool you. Rebecca is, by far, our filthiest writer/director.

  • John Flannagan (Performer - SF)
  • Stanley Frank (Performer - SF)

    As a young, tender and succulent little babe, Stanley Frank ventured into the world of theatre by way of locally produced children's musicals in his hometown of San Diego, California. You may have appreciated his leotard-cladden portrayal of the Male Mink in Noah's Ark . Or who could forget the poorly blush-ridden Maurice, the jovial Russian vegetable vendor in the musical about Ellis Island? Stanley. Stanley would choose to forget. Sit back and observe how he uses comedic stage as a vehicle to drive far, far away from all this pain...

  • Jason Frazier (Performer - SF)

    Jason Frazier has been seen in the Playground Festival at the Zeum and as Victor Frankenstein in Monster at the San Francisco Playhouse. Other Bay Area credits include work with ACT, Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Marin Theatre Company, The Encore Theatre Company, The Shotgun Players, Tranparent Theatre Company and Women in Time. Jason can also be seen in the Will Smith film Pursuit of Happyness .

    During rehearsal, Jason likes to practice his "listening" look when given direction.

  • Lauren Grace (Performer - SF)

    If you have any information on Lauren’s whereabouts, please contact us immediately.

  • Ian Griffiths (Performer - SF)
  • Gaby Gold (Writer/Performer - NYC)

    Gaby Gold hails from New York City. She has been seen in Comedy Sportz and the Mistake Sketch Comedy Troupe in addition to many, many children's theatre and musical productions. She is so enthused to be a part of Funny But Mean!

  • Amy Heidt (Writer/Performer - NYC)

    Amy is a New York-based actor and writer. Recent roles include Rhetta in Pump Boys and Dinettes, Claire in Proof , Mrs. Pascal in The House of Yes and Girls Gone Wild, 3rd edition, #732,085 .

  • Jessica Heidt (Writer - SF)
  • Josh Hertel (Performer/Technician - SF)
  • Christa Noel Hunter (Writer/Performer - SF)
  • Patrick Inglis (Writer/Performer - NYC)
  • Eli Jones (Performer - NYC)
  • Kalli Jonsson (Performer - SF)
  • Alexis Lezin (Performer - SF)
  • Michael Mahany (Performer - NYC)

    Michael Mahany was once, I kid you not, an Abercrombie and Fitch model. He is currently acting in New York City and, although we haven't heard from him in some time, he was just cast in a show so we heard. If he ever drops us a line, we'll put up some more information here.

    Michael proves that comedy isn't pretty. It's downright sexy.

  • Dani Marcus (Performer - NYC)
  • Jennifer Masto (Producer/Performer - SF)

    Jennifer is an active member of Funny But Mean and is a professional listings writer for Craigslist.org. Some of her work can be seen in Missed Connections, for sale; free, the discussion forums and community lost + found.

    Jennifer does not like rude or overtly sexual comments written about her on the internet.

  • Ian Scott McGregor (Performer - SF)

    Ian has been acting professionally in the Bay Area for about four years. He has worked with ACT, The Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, and most extensively with The Magic Theatre. Ian has also performed in a handful of commercials.

    There's no "I" in Funny But Mean, but there is a "Me", as Ian proves at every rehearsal.

  • Christy McIntosh (Writer/Performer - SF/NYC)

    Christy is a Virgo who enjoys picking lint off of stranger's clothes. She just moved to Manhattan from breezy San Francisco, where she spent three years as Snow White in the world's longest-running musical review, Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon . Other favorite roles include Kissin' Kate Barlow in Louis Sachar's Holes . (It's a children's book, not porn.) Shelley in Bat Boy , and Cathy in The Last 5 Years , directed by our own little Richie Ciccarone. She has a BA in Theatre and English from Santa Clara University and currently studies at the Stella Adler Studio. For more information, go to www.christymcintosh.com.

    Christy slowly realizing that this is not the Upright Citizen's Brigade.

  • Elisabeth Sierra Millican (Writer/Performer - SF)

    Elizabeth is a writer, performer, director and producer. She is a founding member of the award-winning performance troupe, Rococo Risque (www.rococorisque.com) and has served as director on the group's five original full length productions. Elisabeth is the artistic director of her own theatre company, FeatherLead. She also writes poetry, cooks slo food, and drinks strong drinks fast.

  • Andy Miramontes (Performer - NYC)

    Andy currently hails from Inwood NYC (represent) where the Mofongo flows. A graduate of the Boston Conservatory in Musical Theatre (I know. What?) This marks Andy's return to comedy after having pretty much comedy as Groucho Marx in his past life. Other credits include: Roc from the hit television series Roc and featured rolls in the short lived series, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper .

  • Jennifer Moore (Performer - SF)
  • Lena Mullins (Performer - SF)

    Lena, who hails from Australia, is a founding member of Strange Prescription and her daughter Charolette. The first production, The American Gallery , was co-concieved with Lena and has since played in San Francisco and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her second project, Charolette, was concieved in 2005 and yielded much fewer box office returns. Lena has appeared in many Funny But Mean shows as well as a few Strange Prescription videos.

    "But in Australia, the arts are state-subsidized!" Lena learns some hard truths about the miserable wages as a performer here in the good ole U.S. of A.

  • Sarah Nealis (Performer - SF)

    Sarah believes in the kind of funny that makes you panic because you are an adult laughing so hard that you may pee your pants. Even just a little bit. She will do her best as a member of Funny But Mean to bring you this kind of funny. She does, however, draw the line at making fun of deaf girls.

    Sarah's laugh is the sort of infectious that causes your heart to burn and itch with joy.

  • Anthony Nemirovsky (Producer/Writer/Performer - SF)

    Anthony is short, hairy and Jewish. He spends his sad time away from Funny But Mean helping other short, hairy and Jewish men find dates. If you are a lonely, short hairy, Jewish man looking for true companionship, today is your lucky day. He can also be seen from time to time performing on various stages in the Bay Area including the California Shakespeare Theater and CenterREP. Call him.

    Anthony hunts the most dangerous game of all ... audience laughter!

  • Ignacio Orellana-Garcia (Performer - SF)

    Ignacio is a world travelled artisan who is currently the lighting designer at Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon . He is also a member of the Berkeley Rep. acting program and is a founding member of Funny But Mean.

    Ignacio is a man of few words. Mostly because we don't give him a lot of lines.

  • Sean Owens (Writer/Performer - SF)
  • Christopher Pflueger (Performer - SF)

    Chris is waiting for his scene partner to make just one critical mistake...and then he will pounce.

  • Frannie Pope (Producer/Performer - SF)
  • Kevin Rolston (Performer - SF)
  • Erika Salazar (Performer - SF)

    Erika Salazar has only recently been pronounced “funny”, but she is proud to say that she has been called “mean” all her life.

  • Kenny Shults (Performer - NYC)
  • Cole Smith (Performer - SF)
  • Paul D. Smith (Producer/Performer - SF)

    Paul was called to San Francisco by mime and puppetry work but then veered off into starting and then selling his own business. Not only is Paul a producer for Funny But Mean, but he also appears in many of the group's endeavors as Tigger, the rough and tumble tiger.

  • Beth Spotswood (Writer - SF)
  • Zoë Stagg (Producer/Writer/Performer - SF/NYC)

    Zoë is a graduate of Willamette University's Rhetoric Program with a Theatre Minor. A degree her mother calls "arguing and pretending". She has exercised both degrees in the Bay Area working simultaneously at Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon and the Mayor's Office of Protocol. Her high brow sensibilities lean from HGTV to Star Magazine and is currently in a twelve step program to ween herself off of this crap.

    Zoë patiently explains to her scene partner why his choices are painfully unfunny.

  • Liam Vincent (Producer/Performer - SF/NYC)

    Liam has appeared in many impressive theatrical productions as he is a classically trained actor. He has appeared at the California Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, The Huntington Theatre, The Alliance Theatre and The Pasadena Playhouse.

    Liam awakens to the fact that there are no afternoon dalliances, humorous misunderstandings in the garden, petticoats, antimacassars or fripperies anywhere near a Funny But Mean production. Unless it's part of a fart joke.

  • Genevieve Walshe (Performer - NYC)
  • Robert Watts (Producer/Writer - SF)
  • T. Edward Webster (Performer - SF)
  • David Zeltser (Writer - SF)

    David Zeltser has written many ads, as well as several stories, plays, screenplays and a humor book. He is represented by the Jeff Herman Literary Agency. David and his wife, Fiona, share their home with two smallish dogs and one fattish cat, where David is working on what can only be described as a "longish novella!" If you'd like to learn more -- or are ready to go handgun shopping with David to help protect America now -- please visit www.davidzeltser.com.