Fools In Love

Devised / improvised performance

Summer 2024

Nashville

ANNE VEAL (Director/Performer, she/they) is a theatre creator, performer and teacher specializing in improv. She works with local nonprofit Unscripted, both in development and teaching at a local reccovery center and women's prison. You can currently see her perform at Third Coast Comedy Club with Freak Pony and Improvised Murder Mystery. Before moving to Nashville, Anne spent eight years in NYC, studying, teaching and performing improv. She led a number of devising ensembles and performed internationally with VIIF, Rapid Fire Theatre and Det Andre Teatret. Anne's devised and scripted work has been seen in Washington, DC; Prague, CZ; Chicago, IL; Basin, MT; Louisville, KY; and NYC, housed in theatre spaces, haunted mansions and historic buildings.

CANDACE OMNIRA-LAFAYETTE (Performer, she/her) is the Associate Executive Director for SistaStyle Productions, an artist and activist. She has been in the Nashville theatre and film scene for nearly ten years performing and directing. Her belief is that theatre and film have the ability to reflect the world to an audience. She has a passion to protest through art & disruption and believes strongly in opportunities for everyone to have access to the arts.

CHRISTINA ASHWORTH (Performer, she/her) is a Nashville native whose love of theatre dates back to her first role as Oliver Twist. She attended Nashville School for the Arts before going on to non-arts studies and careers. Today, her theatrical craving is met through performing improv at Third Coast Comedy Club where she performs with Rat Dude! and other shows.

DARYN JACKSON (Performer, she/her) is an actor, director, producer, and facilitator. She has been making theater in and around Nashville since 2007 with such companies as Actors Bridge Ensemble, Springhouse Theatre Company, Act 1, Ragana Creative, and others. She trained in the Meisner Technique at Actors Bridge, and studied improv at Third Coast Comedy, where she met and fell in love with many of the amazing people working on this project. Her work as a speaker and facilitator has taken her around the world working with students and educators, training emerging leaders to create culture by spreading kindness and compassion in their schools and communities. More than anything, she loves being on stage with other people who love being on stage and is delighted to be part of Fools in Love.

DILLON DAVIS (Performer, they/them) is an actor with 15+ years of theatrical experience. During this time, they’ve worked in educational theater (running the scene shop at Middle Tennessee State University), they’ve dabbled in improv (short and long), stand up, sketch, and Shakespearean acting, which has led them to having worked with various 501c3’s including Murfreesboro Little Theater, Inebriated Shakespeare, Murfreesboro Improv, Bravo Boro and Unscripted. They received their BFA in theatre from the University of Tennessee in 2016.

EMMA SUPICA (Performer, she/her) is an improviser, performer, and theater maker based in Nashville, TN. Her most recent production “East Nashville Facebook Page: The Musical” was presented at the Kindling Arts Festival summer 2023, and she is a current performing cast member of Cherry Bomb: An Improvised Musical. Supica’s creative work often celebrates sex positivity, and embraces the playfulness of pleasure. She is the founding director of Unscripted, a nonprofit organization which uses improv to heal, empower, and connect the community.

MAGGIE THOMPSON (Performer, she/her) is a middle child who finds the attention she needs through improvised performance. She believes in inevitability of fun and play when it comes to improvising. She can been seen locally at Third Coast Comedy with groups such as You Had to Be There, Improvised Murder Mystery, Improv Decathlon and more.

MARY ELIZABETH ROBERTS (Art Director / Costume Design, she/her) is a Nashville native creative who is passionate about fashion, costuming and comedy. She performed with Amm Skellars in Silver Platter! during last year's Kindling Festival and regularly performs with Freak Pony at Third Coast Comedy Club. She has a BFA in Theatre from Lipscomb University, where she spent much of her time in the costume shop, deepening her love of creating stories through a character's clothing. She would like to thank her grandmother and mother for teaching her how to sew and always encouraging her artistic pursuits.

SARA FIDELHOLTZ (Performer, she/her) holds a BFA in acting from DePaul University in Chicago. She has trained in improv at iO Chicago and Third Coast Comedy Club. She has a certificate in theatre directing from Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she also performed in a lot of experimental theatre. She loves creating devised theatre pieces, which is what leads her back to improv time and time again. She has studied acting in Mexico, London, New York City and Los Angeles. You can currently see her performing improv around Nashville with her troupes Rat Dude! and Madam Improv.

SETH NATHAN GREEN (Performer, he/him) grew up two blocks away from Afroman's house and that pretty much sums it up. His comedy and music are largely informed by chronic imposter syndrome and erotic ASMR. He performs regularly with Cherry Bomb: An Improvised Musical and Improvised Murder Mystery.

SOFIA APUZZO (Performer / Choreographer, she/her) has trained in the Meisner Technique (Actor's Bridge Ensemble); Improv and Stand-Up (Third Coast Comedy Club); Dance Performance under Marsha Barsky (MTSU and Company Rose). Following her performance years, Apuzzo taught dance and choreographed for Move Inclusive Dance, QuaverEd, Moves & Grooves, West Austin Dance Academy, Westminster School for Young Children, and Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. She is a current improv troupe member of The Deep End at Third Coast Comedy Club and a dance buddy at Move Inclusive Dance.

TY SATO (Technical Director, he/him) is Nashville's only full time improv technician- pulling blackouts every night at Third Coast Comedy Club. He directed sketch and improv at Belmont University (B.S. Audio Engineering and Video Production) and after graduating, premiered his original Chicago style revue "How To Live: A Sketch Show” to critical acclaim. Ty is also a passionate writer and improviser who performs regularly with Improvised Murder Mystery, Improv Decathlon, Bean Chili is Back, and more. He enjoys using his technical skills and wealth of comedic knowledge to subtly enhance every show he is a part of.