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.
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.
