Andrew Bayly

Andrew has appeared in three feature films, including a role as Constable Prowse in the AFI Best Film of 1998, The Interview. His television work includes an invitation to appear at the ‘butchers’ convention’ on Kath and Kim, and featuring in 16 commercials over the last decade.

Since completing an M.B.A, Andrew has combined his business and performance skills as a workshop designer and facilitator in the areas of strategy implementation, behaviour and organisational alignment. His recent projects include facilitating 1,200 Optus managers in a leadership skills day (200 at a time) and a 12 day organisational alignment project for NRMA Motoring & Services.

Andrew’s great loves are family/work balance, dramatic - often comic - improvisation, and an inquiring approach to business and organisations. He is currently working on a PhD research project into organisational change, using improvisation as a model.

Russell Fletcher

Russell is a former Theatresports® national champion (1987, 1996), and in 2001 he coached the Australian Team to win the World Improvisation Championship in Montreal.

He has eight seasons of Shakespeare in the Botanic Gardens, and several highly acclaimed solo shows under his belt. His theatre highlights include Cyrano de Bergerac (Melbourne Theatre Company 2005), and 12 Angry Men (2005 Green Room Award - Most outstanding production).

His favourite TV appearance is as Father Ricky in The Adventures of Lano & Woodley. In 2005, Russell played a Russian private eye on Blue Heelers, a zombie for the ABC’s new arts show Vulture, and is a winner on Network Ten’s Joker Poker. Russell's A tribute to Danny Kaye won Best Comedy in the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival. He also hosts the hilarious improvised musical spectacular, Spontaneous Broadway.

Christine Keogh

Christine has been an actor and improviser for 20 years. She has appeared on various TV shows including Round the Twist and The Comedy Company, and most recently on the new comedy series Real Stories. For over three years she co-hosted The Sunday Show on ABC radio. She produces and directs training films, and has hosted many events that deal with serious issues in an entertaining way.

Using the experience gained from her corporate work, combined with her therapeutic expertise (Chris has a Masters Degree in Creative Arts Therapy) she conducts proceedings with flair, sensitivity and humour. Chris brings with her a wealth of experience, a wicked sense of fun and a down-to-earth approach to what really matters.

Carole Patullo

Carole has been acting for the past 23 years. Some of her many characters include a Brighton lady, a ‘derro’, a tram conductor, an over-aged subversive brownie, a sloshed desperate single in the MTC’s production After Dinner, a bullied worker in David Williamson’s award-winning play Charitable Intent, and a downtrodden and deluded West Belfast mother.

Television appearances include Neighbours, MDA and, most recently, concerned mother Olivia McCarthy in Blue Heelers. She has been nominated for two Green Room awards and received a Best Supporting Actress Award for Operation Dostoyevsky at the Short Cuts Festival.

Carole played in the very first Melbourne Theatresports® show in 1985 and has regularly played Theatresports® since.

John Thorn (Musical Director)

John Thorn is Melbourne's leading impro musician. He has composed four musicals including the acclaimed All Het Up and has been musical director/composer for countless cabaret, comedy, jazz and theatre shows. John’s skills have been heard on Theatresports®, Spontaneous Broadway and Bob Downe and Pastel Vespa cabaret shows. He has won a Green Room Award for musical direction and in 2005 was Assistant M.D. for the national tour of Saturday Night Fever.