Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! at Gilded Balloon Patter House - Other Yin

Rob Warner is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, comedian, singer, and lover of pizza. Originally from Boston, Rob caught the acting bug early and starred in a number of local productions like The Music Man (Harold Hill), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye), and The Tempest (Prospero). After singing a cappella at Brown University, Rob took a job in San Francisco at Google and worked in tech for five years before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting and writing. He performed in the Second City Premium show Trump in Space for two years and on the iO House sketch team Garden Party. He originated the role of Chris Harrison in Bachelor: The Unauthorized Musical Parody and Karentina in Real Housewives Unauthorized Musical Parody. He has published work in The Bold Italic and sung at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Training includes Upright Citizens Brigade, Lesly Kahn, and The Groundlings for comedy, Mary Jo DuPrey for voice, and his mom. He can be seen in Quick & Funny Musicals in Los Angeles. He has been singing and acting since he was 6 and hopes to one day live up to his most flattering stage name: Gay Seth Meyers. Select Film & Television Credits: StoneFruit (2010), Addicted to You (2019), Ranchlands (2019)

Jaime Ary (also known as DarylJim Diaz) is a Los Angeles-based actor, comedian, and content creator. He's trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade, World's Greatest Improv School, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Known for his work in live comedy and independent films, he is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. He performs with comedy groups such as Filipino AF and frequently produces and hosts comedy and improv shows in Los Angeles. He performs regularly with Quick & Funny Musicals. Ary has appeared in short films and streaming series, with credits including Me Night (2024), Love & Karma, and Served Cold. You may also have seen him in Patreon, Sam's Club Holiday, and Credit Karma commercials and ads, or in the 2018 Oscars performance of This Is Me from The Greatest Showman. He is also an accomplished photographer. He is represented by Aqua Talent and Stone Talent Agency.

Andrew Young is a writer / composer / actor / comedian / pianist based in Los Angeles. He's written and performed with Quick & Funny Musicals since 2019. He trained in film direction and production at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and studied comedy at Second City and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he now teaches Musical Improv. He is also a regular performer at UCB with his musical improv teams Candy Apple Red and Sweet Sweet Fantasy Musical. He is co-creator of Dramatique! - The Sung-Through Musical. He has performed and taught improv around the world. He also works as a musical director and accompanist for theater and improv. Select theater credits: Real Housewives Unauthorized Musical Parody (Dynasty Typewriter, Los Angeles), Dear Jerry Seinfeld (Joe Davola, Three Clubs Los Angeles), Beauty and the Beast (Lefou, NC Regional), The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion, NC Regional), 1776 (Samuel Chase, NC Regional)

Sean Meagher is overjoyed to be making his Edinburgh Fringe debut in this unbelievably silly musical! Originally moving to Los Angeles to work as a stop-motion animator, he created the award-winning short film A Slow Day For Doorman, then promptly said, “F*** this. I'm gonna do comedy instead.” Now he can be seen performing regularly at the UCB Theater, where he produces and stars in the monthly live show Tabletop Tunes: The Improvised Musical RPG. Select theater credits include Tosca (The Adrienne Arsht Center), Spelling Bee (Town Hall Theater), and Understood Betsy (The Actor's Playhouse), where he originated the role of Ralph.

Tara Cox is a UCLA grad with a BA in Theatre and creator of musical parodies on TikTok that have been shared by Rosie O'Donnell, Leslie Jones, and Shania Twain, garnering over 1 million views and 30k+ followers. She has 2 NAACP Theatre Award nominations for her roles as Dragon in Nocturne's Shrek and Lettie in the Wallis' world premiere of Rapunzel Alone. She originated Mirabel in the off-ice VIP Pre-Show with Disney on Ice. She can be seen regularly on the Upright Citizens Brigade main stage performing improvised musicals with Sing Out, Louise and writing/performing with Quick & Funny Musicals.

Krystle Simmons is an award-winning singer / actress with an easy urban sparkle. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Krystle Simmons has been dancing and singing since she was two years old. Singing has carried her all over the world, from the deserts of Namibia, the castles of Russia, the beaches of the Caribbean, and on stages across the United States. She sang on the OCTANE album by Don Toliver, which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. She is also an NAACP Award nominee for Best Female Actress in a Musical for Memphis (MTW). She also has a BS in Biology from Life University. Check out her album Standards to Cover (2014) on all streaming platforms. Select TV / Theater Credits: Jesus Christ Superstar (Hollywood Bowl), Wicked: One Wonderful Night (NBC), Come From Away (La Mirada Theatre), The Christians (Center Theatre Group), California Dreaming (National Tour), Sophisticated Ladies (Atlanta Lyric), Ragtime (Atlanta Lyric).

Vasthy Mompoint is an 8-time Broadway performer, choreographer, and the creator of Vasthy & Friends (formerly Vasthy's Friends), an interactive children's show that brings Broadway magic to families through original music, dance-alongs, and joyful cultural discovery. Her Broadway credits include The Prom, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, Rocky, Mary Poppins, and more. Vasthy's screen credits include High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, NCIS, and The Bold and the Beautiful. As a voice actor, she voices Briny the Whale on Nickelodeon's Baby Shark's Big Show! and can be heard in the Disney+ voice-over production Ariel Jr. With a deep commitment to inclusion and emotional fluency, Vasthy creates experiences where every child feels seen, celebrated, and invited to play.

Lindsey Moore Ford, actor and singer, was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up frequently performing on the stage of the nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre Company. During her many performances there, she was blessed to be under the direction of Kenny Leon, David H. Bell, and others. In high school, she also toured regionally with The Atlanta Workshop Players. She continued her studies at Yale, where she double majored in Theatre and American Studies. She was in numerous theatrical productions during her time at Yale and also served as the musical director of Shades, an internationally known a cappella group. As a member of Shades, she performed in Japan, Puerto Rico, and South Africa. Since moving to Los Angeles, Lindsey has been taking classes at UCB and Lesly Kahn. She has been in several theatrical productions and short films. You can currently see her as Skye in the Wonderstv.com web series Forever Summer. She can be seen performing regularly with Quick & Funny Musicals. She's also a Story Pirate!

Shilpa Das is a comedian/writer/actor based in Los Angeles. She has performed standup at the Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store, and Flappers and has performed improv and musical improv with Asian AF, Sweet Sweet Fantasy, and Baby Wants Candy in Shamilton at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. Shilpa is the producer/co-host of LA's largest South Asian variety comedy show, South Asian AF.

Nohely Quiroz is an actress-stunt woman and producer for stage and screen. She is straight off a two-month stint sawing a magician in half across the Caribbean and is the director of Odie's World, the children's animated podcast with 3 million views, where she also voices Roey. On television: Women in Blue (Apple TV), Better Call Saul (AMC), Monsters at Work (Disney+), On Call (Amazon), NCIS (CBS), and The Snowball Protocol (Disney+). She was recently honoring Chita Rivera at Carnegie Hall, singing alongside Melissa Errico, Liz Callaway, and Charlotte d'Amboise. After Edinburgh Fringe, you can catch her 54 Below directorial debut for EARTHA! on August 26 in New York City. Regular performer for Quick & Funny Musicals. Past theater credits: Tai (UMPO Clueless), Rita (UMPO Bridesmaids), Magenta (Rocky Horror), Extraordinary Girl (Green Day's American Idiot), Georgie (Full Monty), and Rusty (Footloose).

Dahlya Glick is an artist of all sorts based in Los Angeles and thrilled to be performing in their first Edinburgh Fringe show! They have been a writer and performer with Quick & Funny Musicals since 2019. Select theater credits: A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill (The Geffen Playhouse), Emojiland. Select TV: Awkwafina, Scream Queens, Spongebob, Perry Mason. Check out their original music under Dahlya Mani on all platforms.

Marnina Schon is an actor, singer, violinist and writer based in Los Angeles. Marnina is half of musical comedy duo Couplet (@coupletcomedy) with their romantic and creative partner, Micah O'Konis. Couplet has quickly grown a fanbase online and in person, touring their award-winning show Honey Honey Moon Moon to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and London, and making their Edinburgh Fringe and BBC premiere last year to wide acclaim (“so charming!” ***** - Ed Fest Mag, “wild” ***** - Starburst Mag). They are returning to the Fringe this year with their new show Folk Marry Kill at Assembly. As an actor, Marnina starred in the dramedy series Chanshi (featuring Henry Winkler), an Official Sundance Selection. Marnina has performed in countless theater productions in the Los Angeles area (South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse), and originated roles in staged readings at Center Theatre Group, The Wilshire Ebell, and the Geffen Playhouse. Critics have called their performances “quirky perfection” (StageSceneLA) and “most interesting...I wish she had more stage time” (Broadway World). You may have also seen Marnina ruining Kat Dennings's date on Hulu's Dollface, hacky-sackying to the delight of Fred Armisen and the dismay of Sian Clifford on Netflix's Unstable, creating sketch videos with the likes of Josh Gad and Seth Rogen, goofing with comedy icons like Paul Scheer and Rachel Bloom in The Muppets Script, and jumping into the wackiest of roles with Quick & Funny Musicals' revolving door of original musicals at Upright Citizens Brigade or The Elysian each month. You can spot them fiddling on cult-favorite Dropout shows Game Changer and Play It By Ear. You can also hear them on Good Guy with a Gun!, a new musical comedy album (featuring Chris Sullivan, Kimiko Glenn, Anthony Rapp, Jason Alexander, and more). Marnina has also sold their soul to be in some national commercials.

Henry Kaiser was at the Fringe Festival many years ago as a VIP room bouncer for Assembly Rooms. He is now very happy to be performing at the Fringe Festival, at the rival Gilded Balloon! He starred in the film Detective Detective Detective! He has performed off-Broadway in Who Loves You, Baby?, about Telly Savalas, as Telly's brother George, directed by Taylor Negron. He was also a part of the ARACA Project's off-Broadway workshops of The Odyssey: An Epic New Musical. He very much looks forward to a beautiful month in the land of his grandfather's family, the MacQuarries.

Andrew Young is a writer / composer / actor / comedian / pianist based in Los Angeles. He's written and performed with Quick & Funny Musicals since 2019. He trained in film direction and production at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and studied comedy at Second City and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where he now teaches Musical Improv. He is also a regular performer at UCB with his musical improv teams Candy Apple Red and Sweet Sweet Fantasy Musical. He is co-creator of Dramatique! - The Sung-Through Musical. He has performed and taught improv around the world. He also works as a musical director and accompanist for theater and improv. Select theater credits: Real Housewives Unauthorized Musical Parody (Dynasty Typewriter, Los Angeles), Dear Jerry Seinfeld (Joe Davola, Three Clubs Los Angeles), Beauty and the Beast (Lefou, NC Regional), The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion, NC Regional), 1776 (Samuel Chase, NC Regional)

Molly Moseley was a staff writer on CALL ME KAT (FOX) and on Robert Zemeckis' TOONED OUT (Max). Raised in Boston, she got a BFA in acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts before moving to Los Angeles, where she honed her comedy skills at The Comedy Store, The Groundlings, and UCB. After amassing millions of views creating content for Funny or Die and McSweeney's, Molly was a Just For Laughs New Face Creator and was selected for the Warner Brothers Writers' Workshop. She was also a SoulCycle instructor for several years... which was weird. Ask her about it!

Ellie DiBerardino is a writer and interactive experience designer (think video games meet immersive theater) with a background in music, film, and math. With a highly collaborative directorial style and an unrelenting attention to detail, she is uniquely able to execute on complex creative visions that often ask audiences to reexamine their fundamental belief systems. She draws inspiration from psychological experiments, logical paradoxes, musical theater, and potatoes. She has worked with artists from Reggie Watts to Gaelynn Lea, and with companies from Frito Lay to Intel. Her work has been nominated for a PGA Innovation Award and written up in the San Francisco Chronicle. Her prior career has run the gamut, from advertising strategy to statistics education, anything that lets her flex both sides of her brain and imbue her work with personality and flair. She currently uses her daytime brain at Apple working as an instructional designer for pro video apps. Ellie is based in Los Angeles, with frequent stints in San Francisco and a secret location in the rural Maine woods.

Rob Warner is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, comedian, singer, and lover of pizza. Originally from Boston, Rob caught the acting bug early and starred in a number of local productions like The Music Man (Harold Hill), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye), and The Tempest (Prospero). After singing a cappella at Brown University, Rob took a job in San Francisco at Google and worked in tech for five years before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting and writing. He performed in the Second City Premium show Trump in Space for two years and on the iO House sketch team Garden Party. He originated the role of Chris Harrison in Bachelor: The Unauthorized Musical Parody and Karentina in Real Housewives Unauthorized Musical Parody. He has published work in The Bold Italic and sung at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Training includes Upright Citizens Brigade, Lesly Kahn, and The Groundlings for comedy, Mary Jo DuPrey for voice, and his mom. He can be seen in Quick & Funny Musicals in Los Angeles. He has been singing and acting since he was 6 and hopes to one day live up to his most flattering stage name: Gay Seth Meyers. Select Film & Television Credits: StoneFruit (2010), Addicted to You (2019), Ranchlands (2019)

Shilpa Das is a comedian/writer/actor based in Los Angeles. She has performed standup at the Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store, and Flappers and has performed improv and musical improv with Asian AF, Sweet Sweet Fantasy, and Baby Wants Candy in Shamilton at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. Shilpa is the producer/co-host of LA's largest South Asian variety comedy show, South Asian AF.

Dahlya Glick is an artist of all sorts based in Los Angeles and thrilled to be performing in their first Edinburgh Fringe show! They have been a writer and performer with Quick & Funny Musicals since 2019. Select theater credits: A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill (The Geffen Playhouse), Emojiland. Select TV: Awkwafina, Scream Queens, Spongebob, Perry Mason. Check out their original music under Dahlya Mani on all platforms.

Tony Gonzalez is a composer / musical director / accompanist / vocalist from Los Angeles. He is a sought-after musical director for improvised and written musicals throughout the city. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Baylor University and a Master of Music in Voice from Indiana University. Alongside longtime collaborator Sam Johnides, he has composed original music and parodies for various theatrical productions, including Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical, Supportive White Parents, and unauthorized parodies of The Bachelor and Real Housewives. Tony's music direction credits include It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, The Devil's Bride, A Feast of Snacks, Pope! An Epic Musical, Theatrical Creations' Holiday Carolers, and Mirror-Mirror. Gonzalez and Johnides also co-founded the musical project Diary of Atticus, blending indie-pop with immersive theatrical and dance performances.

Larry Saperstein is a multi-talented entertainer known for his work as an actor, tap dancer, and creative. He gained widespread recognition as Big Red in the 11-time Emmy-nominated series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney+, which ran for four seasons from 2019 to 2023. He has also appeared in the SXSW horror-comedy feature Porno, BET+'s First Wives Club, and Freeform's Fan Girl. Formally trained in dance and voice, he starred in several regional musical productions at a young age, including the classics Oliver!, Miracle on 34th Street, and Fiddler on the Roof. He received his early dance training with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and the American Tap Dance Foundation in NYC. In 2022, Saperstein launched an in-depth tap dance masterclass series entitled Tap With Larry, teaching foundational tap dance skills to new dancers. He currently performs monthly with Quick & Funny Musicals at UCB Franklin in Los Angeles.