Mind Reader Improv Cast

Cara, an aspiring TV writer, has improvised for 6 years (with a little break for pandemic). She was a Harold performer at the Washington Improv Theater in DC for two years and has taught improv online via Caracters Improv School and in-person through the National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and the Washington Improv Theater. Her most memorable improv experience was playing an apple-obsessed alien in Starship Odyssey: The Improvised Sci-Fi Movie, which she hopes to turn into a musical someday.

John Dardenne is a comedian, writer, and actor. He's written jokes for Wanda Sykes and Beck Bennett. He's acted in over 40 commercials and improvised on house teams at UCB, The Pack, Westside Comedy Theater, World's Greatest Improv School, and LA Connection Comedy Theater. His sketch comedy has been featured on CNN, TIME.com, Huffington Post, The Comic's Comic, and The Telegraph UK. He lives in Los Angeles and still regrets not going on a blind date Megan Fox was going to set up for him in 2003.

Andrew is an established improv and sketch comedian having owned, performed and taught at Crowdsourced Comedy, Utah’s premier comedy group. Andrew is also a co-founder of The Front Row Film Roast, a monthly show in LA writing roasts for popular movies and then performing them for a live audience. Andrew also headlines and produces the online version of the show which streams weekly to thousands of people across the globe. After many years of fulfilling work in Utah he and his wife Jessica finally made the move to Los Angeles to pursue to fulfill their childhood dreams of being warm and drinking higher percentage alcohol.

Ryder Tam is a Chinese-American improviser, comedian, and occasional aerospace engineer from Honolulu, HI. He has a passion for science, comedy, and all things nerdy. He is the co-creator of the sketch/improv duo TVunscripted, which has headlined comedy festivals and performed internationally. He formerly taught improv at Rise Comedy (Denver), and is excited to be a part of the Pack community!

Linzy Beltran is a first-generation Salvadoran-American comedic actor and writer originally from Houston, Texas. After majoring in Broadcast Journalism at UT Austin and realizing that it wasn’t really a performance major, she got into improv and sketch within the Austin comedy community (grad school). In October of 2019, she debuted her one person show, Linzy with a Z at the Second City Diversity Festival. In 2021, she was selected for the National Hispanic Media Coalition's (NHMC) Screenwriting Cohort. Linzy moved to Los Angeles in 2022 with her partner and her pups where she jumped right in and joined the cast of Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme at Casa 0101 in Boyle Heights. She is pumped to play bi-weekly with her friends in Mind Reader at the Pack Theater.

Bio: Elissa Marcus hails from icy Chicago but is currently letting her blood thin out in LA. She has studied improv and sketch at Second City, iO, ComedySportz and The Annoyance and has performed in such esteemed productions as Mancow's Morning Madhouse and Tony & Tina's Wedding. She was once criticized on the set of the Starz original "Boss" for having a purse that looked like "a sloppy wet paper bag" on camera.

Matthew Newman is a writer, improviser, comedian in Los Angeles, California by way of a small NY town an hour outside New York City. Earning a BA in Media Production/Screenwriting from Emerson College, he moved here to pursue opportunities in writing/acting and to study at the UCB and Groundlings Theaters. He is incredibly excited to join a house team with the Pack! Matthew doesn't know why he goes by Matthew when performing, considering people mostly call him Matt, but he says it's because "it sounds better," which is up for debate. Give him your opinion after a show! Currently seeking Managerial/Theatrical Representation.

Jessica is an actress, comedian and award-winning writer living in Los Angeles. She and her husband Andrew moved here in February 2020 so you could say her choices in life are prime. She's been doing improv for 10 years, has a BFA in acting and owned two successful comedy businesses while living in Salt Lake City. One is an improv troupe called Crowdsourced Comedy and a movie roasting show called Front Row Film Roast-- a show that's been expanded to LA, and currently shows monthly.

Mickey is a writer and improviser from the San Gabriel Valley. His comedy origin story started when he didn't make it onto his college's improv team. He then proceeded to take classes at UCB, The Pack, and a sprinkle of classes in Orange County. He didn't get onto his college's improv team when he auditioned the second time. He forgot to mention this is also his villain origin story. When he's not spending an exorbitant amount of money on improv classes, he can be seen spending an exorbitant of money on neopets.com