Power 2 Improv | Troupe Z

Touring Troupe Z *Alumni* *P2I Members Never Leave They Go On Tour*
	Mickey Melillo myspace / facebook / website
	Where to begin with Mickey? Well he’s a recent NY transplant to Orlando, yes folks another one. He hails from New Rochelle, NY where he left his job as a firefighter and EMT to move to a warmer climate and begin a new chapter in his life. Ok now that we got the mushy, nauseating crap out of the way here’s the good stuff. As far as Improv, he started as an “alternate” in a Kids Improv group, Generation Gap, at the tender age of 18. Soon there after…2 weeks (and after one of the main cast members disappeared, AKA moved back to Canada) Mickey became part of the main cast. With Generation Gap, he performed at the 1996 Toyota Comedy Festival in New York City and performed in Clubs all around NYC including, Stand Up NY, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and West End Gate and filmed an on air TV pilot which with them, that went absolutely nowhere….obviously. He performed in over 40 theatrical productions all over NY and is proud, excited and yet worried to be making his Florida debut with Power 2 Improv. Oh he has no clue what he gotten himself in for.

	John Tilakos myspace / facebook / website
	John has been performing since 1988. He was bitten by the improv bug when he was attending Columbia College Chicago and visited Second City with friends. His first improv class was with Martin DeMott from Second City. John liked improv and used it as a tool for his theatrical training. After graduating Columbia and leaving Chicago John moved to New Orleans where he ran into a friend from college and joined her theatre company Theatre Louisianne as an ensemble player. While a member he used his improv training to help workshop and develop original plays written by Amy Woodruff, friend and company founder. When John moved to Orlando his intention was to become a part of the entertainment industry here. Through a friend (Phil) he discovered SAK comedy lab. There, he found a new love a passion for the art of improv. It was through Phil and SAK that he is now a part of Power2Improv. One of the BEST darn improv troupes. He is very proud to be working and growing with such a wonderful group a varied and talented people.
	Dave Sucharski myspace / facebook / website
	Dave turned down a career with the FBI to pursue a life of theatre (no, really, he did). Born in raised in Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love and Cheesesteaks, Dave makes his home in sunny, central Florida. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre with the University of Central Florida Conservatory Theatre. Raised on the genius of SNL, he found a love for improv and sketch comedy at a young age. He is currently sharpening his improv tools as a student at the SAK Comedy Lab and is thrilled to be joining the ranks as an ensemble member of Power 2 Improv. Additionally, Dave is combining his various performance interests in a hilarious musical-stand-up-comedy-cabaret entitled I Live With Dead People: [some hilarious subtitle], chronicling his childhood living in a funeral home. www.freewebs.com/davesucharski


	Elizabeth Bailey myspace / facebook / website
	Elizabeth moved here from Nashville in 2006 after appearing as the token “hot-girl-who-dies-first” in the horror film “Sidesho” (available Amazon.com). When she is not singing with her “Critters” at Busch Gardens Elizabeth can be found performing in the Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue, at Walt Disney World, or Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue, and Disaster at Universal Studios. She recently toured Europe with Disney Live and can proudly sing about Winnie the Pooh in Swedish. Improv has always been something she feared so naturally she enrolled in classes at Sak Comedy Lab. Elizabeth says she is grateful for any chance to make someone smile.

	Dakota Fiori myspace / facebook / website
	Desperate to find a way to not talk to a guy she was on a bad date with Dakota lobbied to watch back-to-back improv shows at the now defunct Comedy Warehouse at Pleasure Island. After laughing her way through the multiple shows, she longed to give improv a shot (but not that guy). She wandered into the SAK lobby one evening after work and ended up signing up for classes. The rest is history. She is so excited to be a part of this great team! In addtion he is a charter member of Kidsprov




	Seth Stutman myspace / facebook / website
	Seth Stutman was born in Boston in 1985 and began has improvising career at Rollins College about five years ago when the power of "yes and..." grasped him and made him agree with everything. In reality, Seth has been improvising since the Cub Scouts made him get up onstage and entertain mothers, den leaders and pedophiles. While always claiming not to be an actor, Seth has been on the stage for a while. In high school, Seth was reporter #2 in Never the Sinner, and soldier #2 in Trojan Women: A Love Story. However, Seth has moved beyond numbers, preforming in The Mousetrap and other works. In his improvisational career, Seth helped turn the Rollins Improv Players into campus phenomenon, creating various long and short form shows. Also, he helped to create, research and bring to life Murder We Wrote: An Improvised Who-Dun-It. This two-hour, completely improvised show played for two weeks with full set, props and accouterments. More recently, Seth has been studying the synergy between communications and improvisation, and taking summer sessions with Michael Gelman at the Second City in Chicago. Seth would like to thank Power2Improv for taking a chance on a kid, his loving girlfriend and family for feigning laughter, and his professors and mentors for consistently prodding and molding him.