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Collin Williams
Collin is the Founder of Gfulness. An attorney by trade, Collin was previously General Counsel at Reverb.com, the preeminent digital marketplace for the buying and selling of musical instruments, gear and equipment. Reverb was one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing companies in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Collin ran Reverb’s acquisition by Etsy in 2019 for $275M. Prior to Reverb, Collin was the first attorney at a healthcare technology start-up in Chicago that was also one of Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing companies in the country, as well as Corporate Counsel in the first cloud computing legal department of Oracle, a Fortune 100 company. Collin holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from Tulane University School of Law.
Andrew Ritter
Andrew is the Creative Director, Sound Editor and a writer/voice over artist for Gfulness. He spent over 20 years working in Chicago as a director, producer, actor, teacher, improviser, writer, singer and facilitator. He was on faculty at The Second City, Emerald City, and Dream Big Performing Arts. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and has been on screen in Chicago Fire, Utopia, Proven Innocent and some commercials for Boost Mobile and Jango SMTP. Some favorite stage credits include Jewsical! The Musical (The Second City Theatricals), Sankofa (Collaboraction), An Average Man (American Blues Theater), The *Best Church Of God, The Improvised Sondheim Project and Mansical. He created, directed and performed in the critically acclaimed family improv show The Greatest Story Never Told and served as the official bookmaker. He taught ESL at the University of Loei in Thailand and created The Amazing English Camp touring company there. Andrew holds a BA in Theater & Psychology from Middlebury College and has studied Wing Chun, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, meditation, and is currently studying and practicing Pencak Silat in Vermont.
Anthony Bonazzo
Anthony is a Stand Up Comedian living in Chicago. He has starred in videos for The Onion and Clickhole, was a Semi Finalist in Stand Up NBC, and recently open for Adam Carolla at Park West Theater. He has Headlined Zanies, The Comedy Bar, and is a regular at Clubs all over the Midwest.He is a also a Personal Trainer and Certified Yoga Instructor.
Lisa Farver
Lisa Marie Farver is a poet, storyteller, journalist, and comedian based in Chicago. She is a graduate of Second City’s Conservatory, Music Conservatory and Writing Programs. She has conjured words for Chicago Poetry Brothel, Poems While You Wait, You’re Being Ridiculous, Typewriter Tarts and The Stoop. In her spare time, she practices yoga, avoids eating animals and improvises songs on the ukulele.
Bri Fitzpatrick
Bri Fitzpatrick is a writer and performer based in Chicago, IL. She is an actor with The Second City’s Theatricals, most recently seen in Temple of Geekdom and Deck the Hallmark: A Greeting Card Channel Original. Recent credits also include the television series Chicago Fire and Hot Date, as well as commercials for companies including Sprint, Popeye’s, KMart, St. Louis Zoo, and Boost Mobile. Originally from Seattle, Bri holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College, Dublin, where she also founded Ireland’s first university-based improv troupe, Improv, She Wrote. Bri can be seen performing improv all around Chicago when global pandemics allow. Bri is represented by Paonessa Talent, and has this new-fangled thing called a website: www.brifitzpatrick.com.
Audrey Flegel
Audrey Flegel is an actor/improviser for 20+ years in film, television, and stage – most notably 25+ commercials. She teaches acting both independently (AudreyFlegel.com/classes) and with the Second City. After premiering at Leeds International Film Film Festival, her independent sci-fi film, It’s Okay, garnered multiple awards nationwide: Best Sci-Fi Short (Culver City Film Fest,) Best Drama Short (Noho Cinefest,) Best Short Film & Best Editing (Deep in the Heart Film Festival,) Jury Selection (Pensacon Short Film Festival,) Best Editing (First Glance Philadelphia) + 3 nominations (Filmquest.) – You can watch it on the youtube sci-fi channel, DUST. Audrey is currently training to be certified in reading the Akashic Records, which at its core is centered around healing and receiving messages of love.
Will Granger
Will Granger is a software developer from Birmingham, AL. In the past Will taught English in Ukraine with the Peace Corps and has been involved playing and booking shows in the Birmingham and Chicago music scenes. He spent the past several years in Chicago as a developer at the Adler Planetarium before moving back to his home state in search of warmer weather.
Knute Horwitz
Knute was born and raised in the city of Chicago. Like any well rounded actor, he has experienced a variety of jobs. He shoveled snow in 20 below, tended bar for Windy City politicians and athletes, fished commercially for salmon in Alaska, slung herring in a Swedish deli, taught speech and diction to immigrants, sorted parcels in a basement mail room and mended forklift potholes in a liquor warehouse. Knute studied theater and voice at Northeastern Illinois University where his favorite operatic role was Sarastro in The Magic Flute. He performed extensively in the Chicago improv community and toured America with The Second City’s Jewsical the Musical. Knute lives in Los Angeles and practices yoga regularly.
Sara Massey
Sara is an avid comedy and wellness seeker. She grew up in New Jersey and currently attends Middlebury College in Vermont where she is the head writer for her on campus sketch comedy group, ‘Middlebury Discount Comedy’. The school’s president said that one of her sketches was, “whimsical yet serious”. Nailed it. Sara is currently a spin instructor at a student run spin studio on campus, and was a yoga instructor in high school. In her free time, Sara enjoys doing yoga, sudoku, listening to music, reading and exploring the great outdoors in beautiful, rural Vermont.
Darren Stephens
Darren has been a top communications coach for business leaders and managers. Two of his areas of expertise include adding humor into communication and helping clients relieve stress and anxiety in public speaking situations. Darren is also an accomplish actor with roles in Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, and as an anchorman for The Onion News Network. Work onstage includes the roles of Pastor Dave Shepherd in The Best Church of God and Rod Blagojevich in Blagojevich Blagojevich, and as a musical improviser with Baby Wants Candy and Infinite Sundae’s. A voiceover talent for more than twenty years, Darren’s been heard on TV and radio ads and every other recorded place. Recently he could be heard on the end of Corona spots starring Tony Romo, who is an important football person.
Ryan Stone
Ryan is the Director of Communications for Gfulness. He is also a yoga and meditation instructor at UC Berkeley. Before moving to California, Ryan had extensive experience working in the Chicago PR scene from high-tech clients to comedy theaters where he arranged TV coverage, traditional print, Web, and multimedia campaigns. He also performed both improv and sketch comedy at the iO Theater, Comedy Sportz and The Second City Training Center. Stone graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in writing and has a cat named Goose who quacks Ryan up on a daily basis.
Justin Swinson
Justin is a writer and performer originally from the great state of Maryland who is currently based out of Chicago. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago, he performs regularly with Hitch*Cocktails at the Annoyance Theater and is an ensemble member at Comedysportz Chicago. When he’s not performing, Justin also hosts the quiz show Stupid Games, Stupid Prizes on Twitch, he would like to thank his friends, family, and Rihanna for their continued support.