Staff, Board & Company
KML Staff
Creative Director - Andy Alabran Managing Director - Claire Slattery
Administrative Coordinator - Darl Andrew Packard
Bookkeeper - Chris Sadler
KML Board of Directors
Paul Charney – Interim Board President
Shane O’Connor
Ben Finkel
Geoff Horne
Ken Slattery – Company Representative
Hafsa Malik
KML Company Members
Allison Page is a writer/actor/comedian with nice hair, not necessarily in that order. She came to San Francisco from the frozen tundra of rural northern Minnesota in 2008, and first hooked up with the lobsters acting in 2010′s KML Preaches to the Choir and pretty much has had her lobster claws in the bisque since then. (what? yeah.) When she’s not busy with the lobsters, Allison can be found toiling away at Zynga as a game writer, or performing with companies including Custom Made Theatre and San Francisco Theater Pub or in various places on the internet, like the web series Everybody’s a Comedian.
Damon Brennen has been a writer for Killing My Lobster since 2009. He’s written for over 10 shows including Killing My Lobster Hits Highway 101, Preaches to the Choir, Holds the Mayo and KMLZ Holidaze. In addition to writing, Damon also ran the KML video department from 2009-12 where he wrote and produced some of the groups biggest viral hits including Oakland! and Why Is Everybody Here?. In addition to KML shows, Damon’s video work has been featured on Funny or Die, The New York Times, Laughing Squid, Boing Boing and The Daily What. Damon is also very tall and has an awesome dog named Fergus.
Erin Carter is a Bay Area actor, writer, & director, and has been a Killing My Lobster company member since 2007. She has performed in KML Saves the Day, KML For the Very First Time, and Pure Shock Value as well as multiple one-weekend shows and KML short films. Erin has also written for KML shows, including KML Conquers the Galaxy, KML Hits Highway 101, and most recently KML Chops Down the Family Tree. In 2009, Erin directed KML Patronizes the Arts. In addition to her work with KML, Erin has performed with the Shotgun Players, Impact Theatre, TheatreFirst, and the Magic Theatre Launchpad, and she is a company member with Precarious Theatre. Erin has trained at the American Conservatory Theatre and is a graduate of Princeton University. You can catch her in our upcoming fall show KML Does Not Fear the End.
Ken Slattery is KML’s Writing Director and Company Representative on the Board of Directors. Ken has been writing for KML since 2007. He is one of the Writing Class instructors, and also runs KML’s semi-regular fundraising trivia night Pops The Question, which he originated in 2010. Ken co-directed KML Goes Undercover in 2010, and was the Head Writer for KML Reboots in 2011 and KML Takes It to the Streets in 2012. The sketches he is most proud of are “Seinfeld 2011”, “Teenage Obsession”, “Fucking 101”, “Arbor Day”, and “Chess Murder Mystery.” Ken is also a playwright.
Njon Weinroth started on the road to funny as an actor and crewmember in children’s theater back in the dark ages. Later, after several years singing in Europe, he returned to the US and entered the not-so-funny world of opera. Realizing its lack of financial security, he quickly made the move to retail banking until they funnily broke the economy in the early 2000’s. He replanted his funny roots through KML in 2010 and has served as funny actor, writer, producer, backstage manager, director and editor ever since. He enjoys funny walks in the city and Stouffers lasagna with meat sauce.
Paco Romane is an award-winning comedian and a familiar face to Bay Area comedy fans. In 2012, he was voted “Best Comedian” in the SF Weekly’s “Best of the Bay”, and as NBC.com recently noted, “7 years of success have kept Paco Romane at the top of SF’s comedy scene.” In addition to stand-up, Paco is also a longtime member of the Bay Area sketch-comedy institution Killing My Lobster. He also produces the SF-based comedy show “The Romane Event”, which the Onion hailed as “hilarious”. The Romane Event stage has become a favorite destination for comedy legends, up-and-coming comedians, and fans of comedy. He has also written and directed many popular comedy videos and has performed stand-up across the country in clubs and festivals, including The SF Punchline, Sacramento Punchline, Dr Grins, San Jose Improv, The Purple Onion, SF Sketchfest, The Gulf Coast Comedy Festival, SF Comedy Day and more. He has also worked with Robin Williams, Rick Overton, Jake Johannsen, Mr. T, Joe Rogan, Will Durst, and many other great comedians.
Ty Bardi and Gina Bardi (AKA The Bardi Twins) are a lifelong collaborative comedy writing team that create sketches, short films, animation and audio pieces. They are KML company members and head writers on the Spring 2013 show. During the day, Ty makes the world a better place by working at an ad agency and Gina is a librarian. In 2012, they learned they were nominated for a Tony Award in the category of “non-profit sketch comedy written by a sibling duo.” They were very proud of this until they learned that no such award exists and they were just being made fun of.
