Matthew
Krevat (Director/Performer)
Matthew started his improv training in 1980 under the founding
cast of
New York’s Chicago City Limits improv company.
Matthew has been a founding member of and artistic director for
ComedySportz of Chapel Hill,
The Stand-Up Guys, The Product,
and Mid-life Crisis. In 2005 he appeared as CK Dexter
Haven
in NRACT's production of The Philadelphia Story
and as Eliot Garfield in a scene from The Goodbye Girl in
NRACT's
History of the Theatre. He is the creator of (and half the
performing
cast of) Comedy Out of Context. Matthew was one-third
of the performing cast of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged) in the January and September 2007 joint productions
presented by the Idiots and
NRACT. Matthew discovered he
was an Idiot in 1997.
Romni
Rossi (Theater Manager/Performer)
Romni is the executive director of the North Raleigh Arts and
Creative Theatre (NRACT). She is an accomplished
instructor and
actress (in both improvisational
and scripted work), and a professional singer (currently studying with
Barbara Stiefel). She has been a local television producer and a
television
street reporter for such events as Artsplosure. She has appeared in
The MouseTrap, Noises Off, and NRACT’s productions
of
Harvey, Wait until Dark, The Wizard of Oz,
The Odd Couple, The King and I,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harold and Maude,
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Philadelphia Story,
Clue: The Musical, the Laramie
Project,
and as Antigone in a scene from Antigone in NRACT’s
History of the Theatre. Romni was
"Bob the light guy" for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged) in the September 2007 joint production presented by the
Idiots and
NRACT. Romni discovered she was an Idiot in
1998.
Mikey
West (Producer/Performer)
Mikey was a founding member of The Product and
Mid-life Crisis and has performed with ComedySportz
of Raleigh. He is one half of the performing cast for
Comedy Out of Context. He appeared in a staged reading
of
Broken Blossoms and the NRACT productions of Harvey,
The Wizard of Oz, The King and I,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harold and Maude,
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Dracula,
The Philadelphia Story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Run for Your Wife, the Laramie Project,
Diary of Anne Frank,
and as the Pirate King in a scene from The Pirates of Penzance
and as Duke Theseus in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
in NRACT’s History of the Theatre. He was the Assistant
Director
for NRACT’s production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile which
prepared him for his directoryial debut with Clue: The Musical.
Don’t upset him, as he is currently the Weapons Master for NRACT.
Mikey was one-third of the performing cast of The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (abridged) in the January and September 2007
joint productions
presented by the Idiots and NRACT. Mikey discovered he was an Idiot in
2000.
Wade Newhouse
(Asst
Director/Performer)
Wade performed with ComedySportz of Chapel Hill
for three years, and has appeared in local theater
productions of Desire Under the Elms, Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern are Dead, and Assassins. While
teaching at Cary High School, Wade directed student productions
of The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice,
Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Wade was one-third of the performing cast of The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (abridged) in the January and September 2007
joint productions presented by the Idiots and NRACT. Wade discovered he
was an Idiot in
1997.
John
Vettel (Musical Director/Performer)
Brian
Piper (Performer)
Brian came from Minnesota to Raleigh to be a graduate student in the
Operations Research program at North Carolina State University, but
first he had make a four year stop at Oberlin College. During
this layover, he
majored in mathematics and theater (which is easily the most useful
liberal arts major). He's done a lot of theater, creative and
technical, but the damage was done when he discovered improv in
Minnesota. Since then he has been in Primitive Streak, a
long-form group from Oberlin College, and he interned with Stevie Ray's Improv Company in
Minneapolis. Brian discovered he was an Idiot
in 2007.
Katie
Vettel (Performer)
Katie, like a select few other people (someone would say unfortunate
people), has grown up around the Idiots. Her father discovered he was
an Idiot in 2000, and surely put his World's
Best Dad mug at risk by bringing Katie to Idiot workshops.
It wasn't long before a teenaged Katie joined the troupe full time,
forever making her mark as Peg of the AlleyKatz.
Katie has since moved out of Raleigh, but she keeps her improv chops
sharp performing with her new troupe, Port
City Players in Wilmington, NC, and will be appearing in an
upcoming production of The Producers.
But whenever we need her, or she just happens to be in town, she's on
our stage as the once and future Idiot.
Katie discovered she was an Idiot in 2003.
Debbie
West (House Manager / Light Tech)
Debbie is the backbone of the North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre (NRACT) working behind the scenes and behind the checkbook. She has greeted patrons of the Idiots with a smile and a joke before every Idiot performance at NRACT. She has appeared in a number of NRACT productions, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harold and Maude (starring in the title role of Maude), The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The Idiots will always be in debt to her for her assistance backstage with wardrobe and props during The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). She has officially dressed and undressed more Idiots than any other woman. Debbie has been associating with Idiots since 2001.
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