Angela Giarratana
Angela Giarratana is so freaking stoked to join We Didn’t Plan To Kill Our Guest!!!!! Angela is from Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate from UCLA School of Theatre Film and Television. You can catch Angela every month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with Maude team Moon Goon and Characters Welcome. Recent theatre credits include, Lex Foster in StarKid’s Black Friday, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel Bluegrass (24th St Theatre), Irina Prozorov in Three Sisters (UCLA) and Squeaky Fromme in Assassins (UCLA).
Lauren Lopez
Corey Lubowich
is a writer, director and producer based in Los Angeles. Previous directing work includes the stage musicals Spies Are Forever (NoHo Arts Center, LA) and Movies, Musicals, and Me (Stage 773, Chicago), the one act comedy The Solve It Squad (Barrow Group Theatre, NYC), the musical short film Flop Stoppers (Newport Beach Film Festival), the sketch show Airport for Birds (The Second City, Chicago), the immersive Brooklyn 99 Experience (Comic-Con 2019), and The Only Podcast Left (Netflix). Other projects include Elsie Fest (Associate Producer), fourteen projects with StarKid Productions (including A Very Potter Sequel and Holy Musical, Batman!), and The Nest-An Immersive Experience (Scout Expedition Co). @coreylubo
Joey Richter
is a proud University of Michigan graduate (BFA in Acting, Minor in Film Studies). Improv Training at UCB and iO. TV: Henry Danger, Jessie, Glee, Team Kaylie, Coop and Cami Ask the World, Legend of Korra. Digital: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, School of Thrones, Muzzled, I Ship It (Sundance Film Festival). StarKid Productions (Founding Member): A Very Potter Musical Trilogy, SPACE & Apocalyptour Concert Tours, Starship, Firebringer, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, Black Friday, The Trail to Oregon! (Cherry Lane, NYC). Stage: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Stage 773, Chicago), The Solve It Squad (Barrow Group Theatre, NYC). @joeyrichter
Brian Rosenthal
is a founding member of StarKid Productions (A Very Potter Musical Trilogy, Apocalyptour) and Tin Can Brothers (Writer/Producer: Flop Stoppers, Spies Are Forever, The Solve It Squad). Favorite Theatre Credits: Stephen in Line, Twiller in The Torchbearers, and Solomon in Speech and Debate. Improv Training: iO, UCB, Clown School, and the Idiot Workshop. He has appeared nationally in commercials and holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Michigan. @brian_rosenthal
Mary Kate Wiles
Mary Kate Wiles is best known for playing Lydia Bennet in the Emmy-award winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Since then, she has moved on to producing as well as acting, most notably with Shipwrecked Comedy, creating such projects as acclaimed series Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party and film noir short The Case of the Gilded Lily, as well as being four-time invitees to Buffer Festival in Toronto. She has, against her better judgement, worked with Tin Can Brothers in the past, playing Tatiana in their Cold War spy thriller Spies Are Forever (it's a musical), as well as intrepid reporter Artemis Schue-Horyn in their upcoming series The Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye. Thankfully, nothing terrible has gone wrong yet, so she has no reason not to trust them this time. @mkwiles
Jon Matteson
Jon Matteson performed in Chicago for 8 years before moving to Los Angeles. While in Chicago, he toured abroad with the renowned theatrical group, The Second City, and in Chicago in #DateMe, directed by Frank Caeti. Jon performed regularly at the Annoyance Theatre in many musical comedies, including The Power of Prom and Shark Tank: The Musical.
While in Chicago, Jon guest starred on Chicago Fire and several other television pilots, while also producing much of his own work. Jon was a founding member of (re)discover theatre, a group focused on immersive classical theatre that has been going strong in Chicago for 7 years. In the Fall of 2018, Jon started working with StarKid in The Guy Who Didn't like Musicals. This summer, Jon rocked out on stage in StarKid Homecoming, which opened to sold out crowds at the Theatre at the Ace. He also just closed StarKid’s second LA production, Black Friday, which played to sold out crowds at the Hudson Theatre. In Los Angeles, Jon is represented commercially and for voiceover by Osbrink Talent. Jon is a member of SAG-AFTRA.
Joseph Walker
Joseph Walker has been a member of Starkid Productions since its founding in 2009, acting variously as writer, producer, and performer at different times over the past decade. Critics have noted that his mesmerizing ability to portray characters who “use pomp and bluster as ways to hide their essentially pathetic nature” allows us to “hold a mirror to the true nature of America in the 21st century” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times)*.
Joseph recently graduated top of his class at California Polytechnic State University while pursuing an MBA, and he wants you to know it (see above). He has stepped away from entertainment as a way to make money, and hopes to eventually use his new bizness skillz in bolstering the Clean Tech industry here in LA. That said, he looks forward to absolutely dominating the local theater scene wherever he lives when he is 60.
Joe is super duper happy to be back on stage with the TCB, because they are funny, and funny is good. And also they’re his friends and he loves his friends.
*this is a lie, I made it up.
Tessa Netting
Tessa Netting is a content creator, actress, and all around geek. She began her professional career onstage in the Original Broadway Cast of Billy Elliot the Musical. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has been seen and heard in numerous voice over roles, commercials, web series, and television shows including Disney Channel’s BUNK’D where she played Hazel. Online, she is a full time fangirl with her own Harry Potter inspired YouTube channel and nerdy podcast ‘Fantastic Geeks (and where to find them)’. She is a proud Ravenclaw. Follow her @tessanetting