Russell Faillaci

Russ’s acting career began at Colorado State University where he learned that he did much better in acting classes then he did in business classes. After graduation he went to Los Angeles to study at the American Academy of Dramatic arts and discovered his love for improv comedy in small theaters around Hollywood. Upon moving back to Colorado, he joined Impulse Theater and gained 750 shows of improv experience. He is now proud to be co-owner of Madcap Theater and is now wishing he did better in those college business classes.

Brian Harper

Brian has been a performer for most of his life.  Some of his more memorable moments are tap dancing in food courts in malls all across the front range, singing songs about wearing your seatbelt dressed as a bug, and causing a car accident while wearing only a sumo outfit on a commercial shoot.  Brian also likes to build model train sets, watch movies and has started wood working.  He really enjoys spending time with his wife, Renee, and their two boys because they are the only people who think he is at all cool.

Renee Ashe

Renee Ashe has been involved in the Performing Arts as long as she can remember. As a girl, she used to dress up her kitty cats and made them perform Shakespeare. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a BA in Theater Arts. It was then she began her improv training at Denver's Impulse Theater. In addition to being a core cast member of Madcap, Renee is a dancer, choreographer, director and wellness educator. Renee discovered that she truly is a hippie when she tried to grow her own sprouts and roots and forced her family and friends to eat flax seed chips. Along with her husband Brian Harper, they are proud parents of two adorable sons.

Nabih Saliba

Back when he used to have hair, Nabih spent quite a bit of his time yearning to be bald. Having fulfilled that dream, he set out to make a name for himself with improv comedy. Nabih soon rediscovered his love of acting while trying to convince his friends and family that the "dot com" bubble would never burst. Nabih now spends his time trying to convince people that bald is the new “pony tail.”

Haley M. Driscoll

Haley is a graduate of CU Boulder's Bachelor of Fine Arts Performance program. She is relatively fluent in Italian and has performed some Commedia Dell'arte shows with CU Boulder's Italian Theater program. She has also worked at a corporate bagel shop for a little over three years, so if you hear her say, "What kind of bagel would you like that on Sir/Ma'am?" don't be surprised. Haley thinks she's really funny sometimes, and other times she doesn't. But for the most part, she does. She would like to thank her wonderful family, friends, cats and co-workers for all their love & support.

JT Wakefield

JT graduated from Colorado Christian University with a CIS degree. Officially, this meant “Computer Information Systems”, but to JT it meant “Computers Is Stupid.” After discovering his disdain for his chosen field, JT decided to take a job as a cart attendant at Target. There he discovered that, somehow, working on the bottom of the Target food chain wasn’t quite the life he was looking for either. He then decided to take a job selling legal addictive stimulants to people for exorbitant prices. JT found that working for “the green monster” was enjoyable, but not the career he’d always dreamed of growing old with. Finally, JT decided to try chasing his, self-dubbed, “silly dream” of acting and stumbled into a cast spot here at Madcap theater.

Zach Silver

Zach is attending Metropolitan State College of Denver for Business Management. We have encouraged him to make better life goals than pursuing an education, but he has assured us that he will keep time for Madcap. Zach started off working in Madcap's kitchen. When we realized he could not operate a knife properly, we looked for other means of employment. He liked pushing buttons so we threw him into our tech booth to run wild. To our surprise, Zach mastered the "press button, move fader, make sound effect" sequence. To be fair, we moved him to the stage, gave him a red shirt, and called him an actor.

Mark Cianfichi

Mark has been a performer at the Madcap Theater since 2006. When he’s not performing, he is a middle school math teacher in Thornton.  Mark firmly believes that students are the best teachers, so his job as a teacher is pretty easy.  Therefore, he’s chosen the endless challenge of improv comedy.  Improv has indeed proven very challenging for him, so you’ll have plenty of opportunities for bathroom breaks whenever he’s on stage.

Arhur Hash

In 2007, the sky opened up and from the heavens was sent the greatest sound and lighting technician the world had ever known. Unfortunately he got lost and we had to hire Arthur. Arthur has been in the A/V business since the age of 11, and he is happy to be a part of Madcap as the technical director.

Matt Meyers

Matt enjoys talking. In fact, he loves talking so much the he has won 12 speech contests in the last 4 years. That's a lot of blue ribbon talking. Matt is exstatic to be bringing his gift of gab to the Madcap stage. He may even recite one of his award winning speeches if you ask him really nice.

Garrett Gilhooly

Garrett graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater, with an emphasis in Costume Design and Acting. Improv became her passion in college when a group of her friends got together to give it a whirl, once realizing that improv was a type of theater that did not require any line memorization, she was sold. She has since performed in over 850 improv shows with Impulse Theater, and other improv troupes. Garrett is a part owner of Madcap Theater and is thrilled to bring some improv to the Northside!

Nicole Costello-Faillaci

Nicole began acting with a two year run as Dorothy at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As Dorothy, she had many pictures taken of her with many people, her favorite one being with David Hasselhoff. He’s dreamy. She then moved to Los Angeles to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was in LA that she discovered her love for improv. Locally she has been in various productions at the Country Dinner Playhouse and the Boulder Dinner Theater and she is known for her outstanding performances at karaoke bars all across the country. She is very excited to be co-owner of Madcap Theater.

Brad Umbaugh

Brad first acted in a Christmas production- never before had a first-grader portrayed the role of "Background Pine Tree" with such emotion. His next stage appearances came on high school's "awkward teenager stage" and college's "confused about life stage." He eventually moved to Denver and caught the improv bug. He hopes you will forgive his many bad puns.