Fielding Edlow is an award-winning writer, performer and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles whom Variety calls “a gifted scripter with virtuoso material”. She currently voices the character ‘Roxy’ on BOJACK HORSEMAN and hosts her own hit monthly show “Eat Pray F*ck” at the Hollywood Improv. Her solo show, COKE-FREE J.A.P., was performed in the NYC Fringe Festival (Backstage’s “Best of Fringe award”) and then had a four-month, sold-out run in LA at the McCadden Theatre and was subsequently developed as a half-hour comedy pilot at Showtime. Her full-length play, ICU, had a rave-reviewed, extended workshop run at Circle X Theatre with Caroline Aaron and was nominated for an Ovation Award for ‘Best Writing’. Her play, Admissions was workshopped at NY Stage & Film, Naked Angels, and was a semi-finalist in the O’Neill Conference. Her one-acts have been finalists in the National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville and City Theatre in Miami. Her short film, “DVR” premiered in the Palm Springs Film Festival and recently won ‘Best Comedy’ in the NYC Short Film Festival. She is a native New Yorker.
Larry Clarke is an established character actor who frequently works with Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh. TV: TWIN PEAKS (Showtime) SENSE8 (Netflix), THE BRIDGE (F/X) SHAMELESS (Showtime) & LAW AND ORDER (recurring). Films: CONTAGION (w/ Kate Winslet), THE INFORMANT (w/Matt Damon), TRANSFORMERS 3, ROAD HARD. Other TV roles include THE MENTALIST, LONGMIRE, OUTCAST, SURVIVORS REMORSE (recurring), RAISING HOPE, SHAMELESS, BONES, CRIMINAL MINDS, GREY’S ANATOMY. He also starred in David Rabe’s Broadway revival of STREAMERS at the Roundabout as well as many off-Broadway productions including Philip Seymour Hoffman’s THE GLORY OF LIVING at MCC.
Actor, writer and producer David Koechner is well-known for his roles as Todd Packer on “The Office” and Champ Kind from “Anchorman” and “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” Koechner recently starred in Legendary’s “Krampus” and Roadside Attraction’s “Priceless.” On the small screen, he appears in Showtime's "Twin Peaks," Comedy Central’s “Another Period,” ABC’s “The Goldbergs,” CBS's "Superior Donuts," IFC's "Stan vs Evil" and voices recurring characters on FOX’s “American Dad” and Netflix’s “F is for Family” and “All Hail King Julien.” An alumnus of Chicago’s Second City Theater, Koechner got his first break as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” and since has become an instantly recognizable face appearing in more than 170 films and television shows.
Billy Gardell currently stars in the CBS series Bob Hearts Abishola, from award-winning creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre. Prior to BHA, Billy Gardell starred in the CBS hit television series, Mike & Molly as Officer Mike Biggs from 2010-2016. Mike & Molly continues to air in syndication to this day. In addition, he starred as Col. Tom Parker in the CMT series, Sun Records and has had a recurring role on another CBS hit series, Young Sheldon. In 2016 he received a daytime Emmy nomination as best gameshow host for Monopoly Millionaires Club. Before Mike & Molly, Gardell co-starred in the critically acclaimed television series Lucky. His other television credits include Yes Dear and Judging Amy, My Name is Earl, The Practice, Monk and Gary the Rat.
John Michael Higgins is an American actor and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone Varrick in The Legend of Korra and Mini-Max in Big Hero 6: The Series. He also starred in the NBC sitcom Great News as Chuck Pierce for 2 seasons. He currently hosts the game show America Says, which earned him a 2019 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Game Show Host. Higgins' numerous television credits include recurring characters on Ally McBeal, Brother's Keeper, Boston Legal and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. In Season 8 of Seinfeld, he portrayed Elaine's boyfriend Kurt. He also played attorney Wayne Jarvis in five episodes of Arrested Development. Higgins arranged the dense vocal harmonies sung by the nine-part New Main Street Singers in 2003's A Mighty Wind, a change from the writers' original concept to have the group sing in unison, leveraged by Higgins' musical talent.
Originally from Montana’s Big Sky Country, and currently residing in Los Angeles, Chris Fairbanks headlines comedy venues internationally. His fast paced, quirky, and consistently improvised act has been showcased on Comedy Central’s “Featuring”, “Conan”, “Last Comic Standing”, and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”. For TruTV, Chris was the host of “Almost Genius”, and director as well as cast member for “World’s Dumbest”. He’s been featured on @midnight, Fox TV’s Punchline, HBO’s ‘Crashing’, Amazon’s ‘One Mississippi’, Comedy Central’s ‘Corporate’ and the film ‘Punching Henry’ starring JK Simmons. Chris’ comedy album, “Fairbanks!” was named one of Amazon MP3’s Top Ten. He also hosts the popular podcast, “Do You Need a Ride”, with “My Favorite Murder” host Karen Kilgariff, for her Exactly Right network. His latest comedy special “Rescue Cactus” is streaming on Amazon Prime. Chris is also self-employed as a freelance artist, illustrating for magazines, skateboards, album covers, etc.
TV Credits: Janis Hawk on Flash Forward, Grace and Frankie, Room 104, Brockmire, Man with a Plan, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Adam Ruins Everything and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She is a longtime member of IAMA Theatre Company and plays AVA, Fielding’s best friend in Season 2 of Bitter Homes.
Ahmed Bharoocha is a stand-up comedian, actor, and member of the sketch comedy group, Dead Kevin. Ahmed released his first Comedy Central Half Hour Special in 2016 and performed stand-up on TBS’ Conan, Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party, and at Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival as part of the New Faces Unrepresented showcase. His sketch comedy group, Dead Kevin, has been featured on Comedy Central Studios, Funny or Die, Huffington Post UK, BuzzFeed and shown regularly at Comedy Meltdown. Along with the other two members of Dead Kevin, Ryan O’Flanagan and Jack Robichaud, Ahmed stars in, writes, shoots and edits the group’s popular online sketches. Ahmed is currently a series regular on Adult Swim’s Dream Corp LLC.
Eric Edelstein is best known for playing the role of Bobby Mallison in Shameless, Chad in Clarence, B.O.B. in the Monsters vs. Aliens television adaptation, Grizzly "Grizz" in We Bare Bears and Detective “Smiley” Fusco in Twin Peaks. He also had a supporting role in the 2015 horror film Green Room, and he plays a paddock supervisor in Jurassic World. He also voice acted the role of Richard in the game Before Your Eyes.
Madison Shepard is currently recurring on Single Drunk Female as Gail, filming in Atlanta this summer. She can also be seen in College Humor's Kingpin Katie, and Comedy Central's The New Negroes. As a stand-up, she has opened for Maria Bamford and has an album out, "Goodnight Silverlake Lounge". On the writing side, Madison was hired for comedic punch-ups on the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, and was hired to do punch-up for the upcoming Untitled Chris Rock Project.