Meet The Team
David Edward Perry
David Edward Perry is a creative savant of over thirty years as entertainer and educator. Laughter, storytelling, and theater fuel his creative spirit. Acting credits run the gambit from performing Shakespeare, to Kenan and Kel. Perry was nominated for in 2008 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor as Booker T. Washington in Ragtime: The Musical. He is the founder of PERRY Sketch Comedy. His specialty is creating hybrids of comedy and education. He teaches comedy for mental health wellness with UAB Arts in Medicine. Other successes include TAKE OUT Bullying at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, The Bear Show: Reading Adventures for Children, a teaching artist at Red Mountain Theatre Company, and leading comedy workshops for the Alabama Educational Association. Perry is ecstatic to be accepted into Harvard Medical School for their new master's degree in Media, Medicine, and Health.
Mike Cunliffe
Mike Cunliffe has been a Birmingham resident since 2008 and has spent most of his free time since arriving performing improv with the Extemporaneous Theatre Company (ETC) and the group Ugly Baby. He has also appeared in numerous theatrical productions around town including Theatre Downtown's "Boeing, Boeing," TNT's "An Act of God," BFT's "The Good Doctor, and Homewood Theatre's "Barefoot in the Park" alongside his favorite leading lady both onstage and off, his wife Sara James. Most recently Mike directed the stage version of "Clue" for BFT. In the moments when he's not busy dressing up as other people and performing for strangers, Mike enjoys spending time with Sara and their numerous cats, and has been known to direct feature films in the rare moments the cats aren't demanding to be fed and/or petted.
Kyle Bass
Kyle Bass is the Executive Director of Homewood Theatre. He is excited for David and flattered that he was included in this talented group tonight. As you can see by his headshot, Kyle insists on keeping his headshot from 1978 when he was a cast member of the avant garde comedy troupe "A Frayed Knot". Stick with the classics!
Sara James
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Debbie Smith
Debbie has been acting and doing in improv in Birmingham for 23 years. She has worked with Homewood Theatre, Birmingham Festival Theatre, UAB, Theatre Downtown, Virginia Samford Theatre, and Terrific New Theatre
Robin Rushing
Robin is a local community theater actor who has performed in drama, mystery and even a musical, but her true love and niche has always been comedy. She had a blast being part of the cast for Perry Sketch Comedy seasons 2 and 3 and is glad to be bringing more sketch comedy to the stage. Robin is happy to participate in this fundraiser to help a great local talent blaze the trails in a degree program with such a worthy focus. (Warning: David’s creative sketches are hilarious and can bring on spontaneous belly laughs.)
Penny Thomas
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Andrew Willmore
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Chris Davis
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Kevin Van Hyning
David Edward Perry is a creative savant of over thirty years as entertainer and educator. Laughter, storytelling, and theater fuel his creative spirit. Acting credits run the gambit from performing Shakespeare, to Kenan and Kel. Perry was nominated for in 2008 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor as Booker T. Washington in Ragtime: The Musical. He is the founder of PERRY Sketch Comedy (perrycomedy.com) Perry's specialty is creating hybrids of comedy and education. He teaches comedy for mental health wellness with UAB Arts in Medicine. Other successes include TAKE OUT Bullying at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, The Bear Show: Reading Adventures for Children, and leading comedy workshops for the Alabama Educational Association. Perry is ecstatic to be accepted into Harvard Medical School for their new master's degree in Media, Medicine, and Health.
Douglass O'Neil Jr.
Mike Cunliffe has been a Birmingham resident since 2008 and has spent most of his free time since arriving performing improv with the Extemporaneous Theatre Company (ETC) and the group Ugly Baby. He has also appeared in numerous theatrical productions around town including Theatre Downtown's "Boeing, Boeing," TNT's "An Act of God," BFT's "The Good Doctor, and Homewood Theatre's "Barefoot in the Park" alongside his favorite leading lady both onstage and off, his wife Sara James. Most recently Mike directed the stage version of "Clue" for BFT. In the moments when he's not busy dressing up as other people and performing for strangers, Mike enjoys spending time with Sara and their numerous cats, and has been known to direct feature films in the rare moments the cats aren't demanding to be fed and/or petted.
Nuriyah
Kim Wilcox-Stewart who performs under the stage name Nuriyah is a belly dancer that specializes in the classic Egyptian style. She has been a student of Aziza's School of Middle Eastern Dance since 2009 and has performed at festivals, parties, and other events in Birmingham, Pensacola, and Chattanooga. You can find her on Facebook @Nuriyah Raqs and on Instagram @nuriyah.raqs.
Karen Marie Black
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Adam Guthrie
Debbie has been acting and doing in improv in Birmingham for 23 years. She has worked with Homewood Theatre, Birmingham Festival Theatre, UAB, Theatre Downtown, Virginia Samford Theatre, and Terrific New Theatre
Jared Funderburg
Robin is a local community theater actor who has performed in drama, mystery and even a musical, but her true love and niche has always been comedy. She had a blast being part of the cast for Perry Sketch Comedy seasons 2 and 3 and is glad to be bringing more sketch comedy to the stage. Robin is happy to participate in this fundraiser to help a great local talent blaze the trails in a degree program with such a worthy focus. (Warning: David’s creative sketches are hilarious and can bring on spontaneous belly laughs.)
ETC IMPROV COMEDY
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Andrew Willmore
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Kelsey Crawford
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