
JENNIFER SHEPARD In 2004, Jen and Larrance decided to open ImprovAcadia. This is the fifth year! After graduating from the University of Iowa, she moved to Chicago to study improvisation. During her nine years in Chicago, she was fortunate enough to perform at iO (ImprovOlympic) and The Playground Theater. She also worked with The Chicago Comedy Co, touring to colleges and writing corporate comedy. While in Chicago, Jennifer helped to write over 10 sketch comedy shows with The Galileo Players (Science nerds doing comedy), Gay Co! (Some gays, lesbians and a couple of straights doing comedy) and Brick (Masonry mixed with the cement of comedy). Since moving to Maine she's enjoyed teaching improv at The College of the Atlantic, the Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center, on Isle Au Haut, and at ImprovAcadia. During the winter months she joins Chicago's The Second City performing for Norwegian Cruise Line in the Caribbean. If you really love her, send her yarn. K2Tog now!. |

LARRANCE FINGERHUT (Music Director) has been improvising on the piano since he was two years old. After spending 13 years performing and composing in the Bar Harbor area he went to Chicago where he was music director for iO, Baby Wants Candy, and Second City Touring Company, and a teacher and music director at Columbia College. He composes string quartets and music for theater. During the winter months he joins Chicago's The Second City cast performing for Norwegian Cruise Line in the Caribbean. |








FARRELL WALSH is excited to be part of ImprovAcadia's2008 season. Farrell is a founding member of the iOChicago house team Revolver, as well as theindependent improv group 21st Century Men. Hecurrently holds the position of Artistic Director withChemically Imbalanced Comedy, and is part of CIC'shouse team, Cornwallis. Farrell would like to thankhis wonderful wife Beth for her love and support. |


JOHN HARTMAN is quite excited to be performing with ImprovAcadia. Before moving to Chicago, John was a main stage cast member of the Improv Inferno in Ann Arbor, MI, and appeared in many scripted and unscripted shows at the Planet Ant Theatre, including Timeless: The Danceical (Audience Award Ð Boxfest '07). A Virginia native, he has written and performed in To Catch a President (Second City Detroit) and O Christmas Triage (Improv Inferno), for which he received an Oscar Wilde Award nomination. He has also performed around the country at the Dirty South Improv Festival (North Carolina), the Chicago Improv Festival, and the Kansas City Improv Festival. In Chicago, John performs in the weekly sketch comedy show Big News (iO Theater), in the two-person sketch duo Kapowski, and with Victory at Sea at The Playground. He'd like to thank everyone who has performed and put up with him. |




MARLA CACERES a Miami native, studied improvisation, acting and sketch comedy at the University of Florida. She currently performs with the critically acclaimed improvised political satire "Whirled News Tonight" at the iO Theatre and recently finished "Because They Have No Words" at the Piven Theatre. Marla also writes for and performs with PennyBear, a sketch comedy group thatÊ received "Best Sketch" accolades from the Tribune for their Chicago Sketchfest performance. Other credits include the iO Theatre house ensemble Cougars, the bilingual LoCo for Second City Outreach, Dinner for Six, Second City Communications, and Storybox. |

MARY THERESA ARCHBOLD is thrilled to be joining the ImprovAcadia cast. She currently resides in New York City where she teaches and performs improv at The Magnet Theater. Recently, she performed for The Second City in the Mexican Riviera. She performed at the ImprovOlympic for years and did various musicals in regional theaters across the country. Favorite shows are West Side Story, The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun and The Secret of the Old Queen: A Hardy Boys Musical. Her career highlights are her one woman show, "Make 'em Laugh; A Tribute to Donald O'Connor", her independent Television pilot "Manayunk Press" and her upcoming solo show "Jazz Hand: Tales of a One-Armed Woman" at the NY Fringe Festival. Thanks to her amazing husband Pat Shay. |

Mike is delighted that Jen and Larrance have invited him back for his fourth season in Bar Harbor. For The Second City, Mike has performed in the national tour of "Sex and the Second City", "Jewsical, the Musical", the "Music Improv House Ensemble", on the Norwegian cruise line, and is a faculty member of the training center. At ImprovOlympic , he was a founding member of "Frank Booth" and directed "Baby wants Candy". Some other roles Mike has enjoyed are; Corey in "Roasting Chestnuts" at The Noble Fool Theater, Fred Gayley in the national tour of the musical "Miracle on 34th Street", "Ronald McDonald", an ensemble member of all three mountings of "Musical! the Musical", spokesman for the Dusseldorf tourism bureau and improvising for Brave New Workshop on the Disney cruise line. He also founded and directs "Novel Ideas", an educational theater troupe touring the Midwest.


PAT SHAY is downright giddy to be back in Bar Harborfor his fourth season with ImprovAcadia. A longtimeperformer at the ImprovOlympic theater in Chicago, Patrecently joined a shipboard cast of the Second Cityfor four months along the Mexican Riviera. He alsoperformed as one of the "teachers" in the upcomingshow "Improv School" on Comedynet.com, and has donesome voices for the HBO powered site thisjustin.com.He continues to teach and perform at the PeoplesImprov Theater in New York City. |







SHELBY JENNINGS is very excited to be returning to Acadia this year. A native of North Carolina, Shelby currently lives in Chicago. Her most recent projects include The Fowler Family Radio hour which was selected to for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina and Hogwash - an improvised family show. She is also a proud member of two improv teams Cowlick (The Playground Theater) and Airbourne (iO Theater). She would like to thank her family,friends Joe, and Kevin for thier love and support. |

