GGG - Cast

Shelly Miller teaches Theatre classes for Theatre Action Project and teaches Preschool. She recently graduated from Texas State University with her M.A. in Theatre and received her B.A. in Social Work from Texas Lutheran University in 2000. She loves theatre. She loves working with people. Her hope is to one day to teach theatre full-time and/or run a program that is similar to TAP by using the Arts as a facilitator for working with the social issues of today. But as for the Girls: She loves working with such a talented and loving group of women and can't wait to blow away Austin with their Rock Opera!

KACEY SAMIEE has been doing improv and sketch comedy since 1998. She was first seen performing with We Could Be Heroes and since then has performed with many different troupes. Some of her favorites include: The Sicks, The Great Mundane, Start Trekkin, and of course, Girls Girls Girls. By night, Kacey works in the entertainment lighting industry. She graduated from the Automated Lighting Program at the UT Austin, completed a program at The Institute of Digital Performing Arts in Costa Rica, and spent a year at High End Systems. She now works as a designer, programmer, trainer, and consultant in the lighting industry. Once she has found a way to combine comedy and automated lighting, she will be completely unstoppable.

SHANA MERLIN is excellent at improv. For God sakes, she’s been improvising around the world since 1996 and has taught over a thousand hours of improv training to preschoolers and corporate executives alike. But on a more disappointing note, Shana is very bad with keys (as in opening doors and locks), has never balanced her checkbook and has an untreated addiction to In Touch Magazine. You can decide for yourself what you think about Shana by watching of her performances with Girls Girls Girls, Get Up, and Whirled News Tonight or by taking one of her improv classes at the State Theatre School of Acting or through Merlin-Works, her corporate training and entertainment company.

ANDREA YOUNG has been performing with Girls Girls Girls since 2002. A bonafide improv junkie, she can also be seen performing with such troupes as the Foolish Mortals, Wooden Nickle, and the Heroes of Comedy. Andrea is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin and hopes to one day combine her love of comedy with that of mathematics by telling a math joke that is actually funny.

MO DAVIAU has been merrily improvising with Girls Girls Girls since 2003. She has portrayed dozens of memorable characters such as a sleazy US senator, the first kid in outer space, an amorous sushi chef, and a toilet that leads to the underworld. She has degrees from Smith College and the University of Texas which allow her to make snotty comments and work as a librarian, respectively. Mo is married to Bob "The Goon" Apthorpe from Improv for Evil and is currently writing a novel set in her hometown of Fresno, California.

ADEN KIRSCHNER was born with a theatrical spoon in her mouth. She would have been delighted had she been born with a silver spoon, or even a porcelain spoon, but a theatrical spoon it was to be and she has embraced her destiny. Her first leading role was as Tiny Tim in the Minshal Musical Theater production of Scrooge in Talent, Oregon. Her most recent work has been as an up and coming member of the improvisational comedy community here in Austin, Texas. In her spare time she is mother of two delightful kittens, and a goldfish. Sometimes the goldfish talks to her. She is not embarrassed to admit it.g

MADELINE MALKA studied improv in Chicago at the i.O. Theater and The Annoyance. Performing with nationally recognized hip-hop comedy improv troupe THE BEATBOX, she has toured to The Fifth Annual Dirty South Improv Festival, The Courageous Mongoose Festival at Western Kentucky University, The Oberlin College Improv Conference, The Seventh Annual Del Close Marathon, and The Sixth Annual Chicago Improv Festival. Locally, she also performs with Jeremy Lamb in Kazillionaire*. She is thrilled to be a part of GGG.

JULIE LUCAS is a brand new member of Girls Girls Girls and couldn't be more excited. While she has been performing theater and dance since 1984, she was introduced to the wonderful world of improv through the Heroes of Comedy at the Hideout in 2004. Julie is a fundraising professional at the University of Texas, community volunteer, and proud, but slightly exhausted, parent of two lovely and talented boys who keep her on her toes, sometimes quite literally. She loves Thai food and reading US Weekly, just to stay on top of things.