Shayne Hanson
Shayne Hanson (she/her pronouns) has been performing with CSz Portland since 2015. Most weekends you can see her in a ComedySportz match. She has also starred in the Mystery Science Tribute Show, Medford Medical, and And the Winner Is (a full-length improvised musical).
Mary C. Parker
Mary C. Parker (she/her) is visiting from CSz Seattle and has a decade of performing improv comedy in Portland, OR, London, UK, Pittsburgh, PA, and now in Seattle, WA. She has appeared at comedy festivals in Richmond, VA, Edinburgh, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA. Mary has taught improv comedy at various improv theaters, including Kickstand Comedy and Bandit Theater. Her musical improv experience includes The High Scores, Acaprov, Dropped Notes, and a regular guest with Your Life: The Musical. Offstage, Mary is as tall as Beyoncé, a reality show junkie, and is a mac and cheese aficionado who fervently believes not all mac and cheese are created equal.
Emily Larkin
Emily, originally from the Twin Cities, began performing at an early age. She flew out west to study at Willamette University. Since then, she has performed improv, sketch, and drag at CSz, Curious Comedy, Kickstand Comedy, Bridge City Improv, and more. Her combination of musical theater and improv backgrounds make Vision Euro the perfect opportunity to explore her favorite elements of performance!
Matt Beyer
Matt Beyer started the open mic standup circuit in Portland 2015 before making the transition into a full fledged improviser at ComedySportz in 2019. He’s since played a part in various late night improv groups and continues to be an active member of CSz Portland.
Mickey McGee
Mickey McGee was an improviser with CSz Portland from 1999 - 2016. After that, he had a penchant for performing in holiday pageants and plays. Donning the role of Donner and other supporting characters in Rudolph Live! and co-starring as Clarence in several renditions of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. In 2020 Mickey fell down the Eurovision Song Contest rabbit hole, and came back with an extensive knowledge of staging, choreography, flags, and mild political subtext.
Amy Milshtein
Amy Milshtein has been improvising since 2010. You can find her most weekends at ComedySportz. She also performs in long-form shows and improvised musicals. When not improvising, Amy works as a freelance writer. Her work appears regularly in Oregon Business magazine, as well as several trade publications. She lives in unincorporated Washington County with her husband, son, and cat. Amy once made brief but meaningful eye contact with Liza Minelli.
Bill Cernansky
Bill Cernansky is an improv performer, teacher and coach. He has been playing ComedySportz at CSz-Portland since 2001. He is also a former ensemble member of Portland's Brody Theater and Curious Comedy Theater, & long-running improv team Peachy Chicken. Bill can be seen improvising in many CSz-Portland projects, in various shows at Bridge City Improv, and at festivals around the world with the group B.A.B.E. in their show I Love Musicals, and in the duo B&B with his wife Betse Green.
Meagan Gombart
Meagan Gombart began her improv journey in 2019 at Magenta Theater, jumping into the world of unscripted comedy with the Magenta Improv Theater group (MIT), where she continues to perform regularly. In 2023, she continued her improv journey by joining CSz Portland. She also performs with Score!, an innovative improv group that creates unscripted, unspoken scenes set to musical scores. In 2024, she took the stage with Experience Theater Project as part of the raucous holiday production A Drunk Christmas Carol, blending classic literature with unpredictable hilarity. When not doing improv, Meagan can be found swing dancing at Norse Hall in Portland Oregon.
Starr Ahrens
Starr Ahrens has been improvising since age 13. In LA, she trained and performed improv and sketch comedy with Second City, IOWest and UCB. Her sketch comedy has been featured on Paramount's LogoTV and CBS's Diversity Showcase. Starr has been teaching and coaching improv for over 15 years and hopes to incorporate and explore some of the social and mental health benefits of Improv into her upcoming graduate school experience.
Betse Green
Betse Green teaches, directs, and performs improv at CSz-Portland, Curious Comedy Theater, and Bridge City Improv. She hit the Portland improv scene in 2002 and has performed in several great local troupes, including Peachy Chicken, Screaming Mee-Mees, Meet Cute, and the scripted show Fake Radio. Betse improvises at festivals across North America and Europe with several groups, including the B.A.B.E. show I Love Musicals, Slumber Party, and the duo B&B with her husband Bill Cernansky.
Bethany Garner
Bethany is a 10-year veteran of the CSz Portland Pro Team. She is very likely to drop one or more puns into tonight’s show, and far less likely to allow the use of a tambourine by any cast member. Bethany’s life goal: sparkle so audaciously that she is cast on Dancing with the Stars.
Brad Fortier
Brad Fortier is a thirty-year veteran of the Portland improv scene - he’s taught and performed with Kickstand Theater, Brody Theater, CSz Portland and many others. He’s originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin!
Steve Hynes
Steve Hynes is a member of the CSz Portland Pro Team and co-host/sidekick for Stumptown Tonight, our monthly late-night talk show.
Brooke Chamberlain
Brooke has been improvising since 2004 and is a long-time resident at Portland Comedy Theater. Performing for CSz Portland, she also manages and coaches the CSz Portland Rec League. Brooke created and directs the long-running improv group Score!, a silent film–inspired show blending music, expressive characters, and wordless chaos. When she’s not on stage, she runs her own garden business and crafts elaborate Halloween costumes (often inspired by Johnny Depp films). Equal parts performer and improv coach, Brooke brings a touch of character and physicality, and a lot of laughter—to every show she’s part of. Brooke also takes care of every cat in Beaverton.
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Mandy comes to Vision Euro hot off her directing of the hit The Ballad of Iron Jo at Bag&Baggage Productions in Hillsboro. Mandy has been improvising since 1996. She started in the Bay Area, most notably spending ten years directing and performing with the Un-Scripted Theater Company, in genres from Shakespeare to Bollywood to Dickens. In Portland, she’s onstage a lot at the Funhouse Lounge, performing both un-scripted (“USS: Improvise”) and scripted shows (“Die Hard: The Musical Parody”). She’s improvised on almost every improv stage in town; this show is her CSz debut! When not improvising (or teaching Zumba), she’s mostly being the Technical Director and a resident actor at Bag&Baggage.
Ruth Jenkins
Ruth Jenkins, former co-owner, started with CSz in 1988. She’s appeared in Medford Medical, ShakesProv, Possaluma County and ComedySportz at CSz Portland, and in scripted roles at Bag & Baggage, Twilight Theatre Company, Lakewood Theatre, Experience Theater Project and HART, among others.
Patrick Short
Patrick Short (he/him) was recently demoted to Education Director at CSz Portland - he’s the former co-owner and GM. He’s been with CSz since 1987, performed in nearly 3,000 shows and taught over 1,500 classes and workshops. Patrick will be teaching CSz 504 Advanced Improv Music starting November 13. He’s in the music duo AlleyLoops with Emily Larkin, and you can find his original music at patrickshort.bandcamp.com and on the usual services.
Lynsey Kemplin
Lynsey has been doing improv for two years and is part of CSz Portland's Rec League. She also enjoys reading, playing video games, ranking this year’s Eurovision entries and snuggling with her two cats.
Mary Ann Rambo
Maryann joined CSz Portland in 1999 and serves as Director of Fan Experience. She’s best known for amazing customer service AND as the light-speed wizard of our JANIS video system. She’ll be doing the images tonight from an undisclosed location. She thinks you have nice shoes.