2006—2007 Season

                        Aaron Orion Baker       Tyson Blanquart             Paula Dean        

Theresa Masters       Robert A. Mitchell

Ben Ritchie           Suzanne Roussin         Corey Stulce

B. Weller              Gary Wells

Staff Writers for the current season

Jill Barrett                Byron Kerman                Mike Orr

This is the NonProphet Theater Company's signature sketch comedy show. Originally produced in 1997, the show ran for a sold-out ten week run at the now defunct St. Marcus Theatre. The show saw several incarnations in the subsequent years, but finally returned to its original form in February 2003 when we were booked at The Hi Pointe Cafe. Between February and May of 2003, we performed six shows. The response was so great that in June of 2003 we were then offered the opportunity of turning it into a weekly Thursday night show. Two years and 100 shows later, we ended our longest consecutive run on March 10, 2005. Since then, we have performed several special shows and limited runs, and will continue with new shows into the future. When The Hi Pointe closed its doors on September 3, 2006, The NonProphets had the distinct privilege of performing a final show to a sold out (and sad) crowd.

The show is a fast-paced mixture of theater, bingo and sublime weirdness. The Militant Propaganda Bingo Machine has earned The NonProphet Theater Company a 2006 Kick Ass Award from the 52nd City, the title of Best Comedy Show of 2003 by the Riverfront Times, and the cover story in the November 12, 2003 issue of the Riverfront Times.

Here's how it works:

• Upon entering, the audience is given a program with that night's sketch list, listed numerically between 1 and 24. On the opposite side of the program is the bingo card,  numbered randomly between 1 and 24, and with columns labeled N, P, T, C, and O (if you can't figure out what the letters stand for, you need to quit eating paint chips).

• The MC starts off the show by pulling a letter out of our handy-dandy big-ass green-bean can, either N, P, T, C, or O.

• The audience then calls out the number of the sketch they want to see. Whoever calls out the number first, or whichever sketch has the most vocal support will be chosen.

• The audience then marks off the corresponding letter-number combination on their bingo cards, and we then perform the sketch. We repeat until some one gets a bingo, and they win a fabulous prize that we spared no expense in getting... at the dollar store.

The NonProphets have performed over 200 episodes of the Militant Propaganda Bingo Machine, and have nearly 1000 different sketches in our catalogue

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Here's what some local publications have to say about the show:

"It was a non-stop evening of break-neck comedy…"

-Playback St. Louis Magazine, July 2003

"Perhaps what is more important than how the NonProphets are doing what they do, is that they are doing it at all."

-John Shepard, Playback St. Louis, August 2003

"Founded by husband-and-wife team Robert A. Mitchell and Kirsten Wylder-Mitchell, the NonProphets are providing the St. Louis theater scene with a badly needed and remarkably witty, underbelly."

-John Shepard, Playback St. Louis, August 2003

"Considering that Saturday Night Live uses a few dozen professionally seasoned writers to churn out material for a weekly 90-minute program (minus commercials and musical guests) and considering that the last half-hour of that show consistently sucks, what the NonProphets accomplish each Thursday night in the Hi-Pointe Café's upstairs performance space smacks of miracle-working."

-Rose Martelli, The Riverfront Times, September 2003

"... The reigning kings of sketch comedy in St. Louis."

-Ben Westhoff, The Riverfront Times, November 12, 2003

"The Non-Prophets' show, such as it is, consists of 24 very short sketches, all written by the actors in the show and performed with a lot of energy and confidence. They do so much running and jumping and shouting that I'm amazed they have the strength to stand at the bar and have a beer by the end of the evening."

- Sean Ruprecht-Belt, 88.1 FM - KDHX

"It's a long night, but one that can provide an abundance of laughs to counter the groans."

- Mark Bretz, 88.1 FM - KDHX

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The NonProphet Theatre Company

1995 - 2006:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 

A top

Jeff Ackermann (1997-1999)

Chris Adrienne (1996-2003)

Sarajane Alverson (2004-2006)

Nicole Angeli (2002-2004)

Blake Anthony (2004)

Blaise Azzara (2002-2003)

B top

Aaron Orion Baker (2006-present)

Jill Barrett (writer; 2006-present)

Melanie Bauer (1996-1999)

Tyson Blanquart (2002-present)

Jon Burgmann (1995-1997)

Ronda Burgmann (1995-1997)

C top

Erin Chancy (1997-1999)

Sarah Cannon (2003)

D top

Paula Dean (2003-present)

E top

Johanna Elkana (2003-2004)

Sarah Engelke (1996-1999)

R. Travis Estes (2003-2004)

F top

Amy Fletcher (1997-1999)

G top

Josh Goodrich (1996-1997)

Don Goss (1996-2006)

Paul Gude (1996-1999)

H top

Adam Hale (2004-2005)

Stephen Harrick (1996-1999)

Ben Hunter (1997-1999)

I top

J top

Chris Jones (1996-2005)

K top

Matt Kahler (2003)

Byron Kerman (writer; 2004-present)

L top

M top

Phil MacFarlane (1995-1996)

Ken MacGregor (2002-2004)

Theresa Masters (2006-present)

Cary J. Miller (1996-present)

Rebecca Miller (2002-2006)

Robert Mitchell (1995-present)

N top

Melissa Navarro (2005-2006)

O top

Mike Orr (writer; 2006-present)

Jim Ousely (2006)

P top

Lori Peeples (1999-2003)

Q top

R top

Alan Razeghi (1996-1999)

Benjamin Ritchie (2006-present)

Suzanne Roussin (2006-present)

Josh Rowan (2003-2004)

S top

Schmack (2003-2005)

R. Ernie Silva (1996-1999)

John Shepherd (2005-2006)

Blaine Smith (2004)

Drew Somervell (2004-2006)

Margeau Baue Steinau (2005-2006)

Corey Stulce (2006-present)

Michael Szeles (1995-1996)

T top

Michelle Tesdall (1995-1996)

Rachel Tiemann (1995-1997)

Nicole Truman (2005-2006)

U top

V top

W top

Andrew Burnside-Weaver (1996-1999)

B. Weller (2004-present)

Gary Wells (2006-present)

Kirsten Wylder (1995-2006)

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Y top

Jeffrey Scott Yapp (1996-1997)

Matt Young (1995-1996)

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