WRITers:

Allison Cavanagh

April Pascua

Joe Peña

Rebecca Pierce

Sam Heft-Luthy

Tim Ma

ACTors:

TEAM A

Bob Lewis

Kate Jones

Tirumari Jothi

TEAM B

Andrew Chung

Melanie Marshall

Perry Fenton

Director: Nicole Odell (she/her)

Nicole Odell is a director, actor, writer, and improviser. A Bay Area native , she earned her B.A. in Drama from SFSU and completed the Conservatory program at Second City Hollywood. She has appeared in comedy festivals around the country and on stages throughout the Bay. She first began working with KML in 2015 as an actor and writer, and began her role as Artistic Director in 2021. Nicole maintains that after this process she is totally fine, in actuality she is 2 Blessed 2 B Stressed, and she resents you for even asking.

Head Writer: Kate Elston (she/her)

Kate has had the joy of working on over 20 KML shows since 2014. By day, she’s a video producer for an international news outlet. She's also the mom to a kooky five-year-old who recently made up a banger of a song titled "Fartable Galaxy."

Stage Manager: Dani Spinks (she/her)

Dani Spinks has been working in theater for over a decade with her company Dreams on the Rocks. She co-founded Eclectic Box in 2023.Dani is a director, writer, set and lighting designer and sfx makeup artist. She's excited to work with Killing My Lobster in 2026. Go to www.dreamsontherocksproductions.com to see what shows she has coming up

Bob Lewis (he/they)

Bob has been with KML since 2023 and loves being apart of this wacky community. Bob grew up performing, both professionally and amateurly. For clarity: professionally refers to their annual elementary school plays and amateurly refers to their family dinner parties. He also played Camila Rosario in Saint Mary's rendition of In the Heights and was apart of the Youth Musical Theatre Workshop in Sacramento growing up. Outside of performing, Bob streams occasionally on Twitch and TikTok @kittybibblesgaming

Kate Jones (she/her)

Kate has been performing in SF for over 15 years, mostly with her sketch comedy group Chardonnay, ocassionally in KML class performances with her improv group Your Fucked Up Relationship, and dozens of other shows. By day, she leads marketing at a local music venue, and all her other time is spent being the mom and chef to two wild lil kiddos. This is Kate's first sketch on speed show, but she was without a doubt made for this type of sweaty speedy experience.

Tirumari Jothi (he/him)

Tirumari is a nerdy stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and playwright based in the Bay. He joined KML in 2017 and has been lucky enough to act, write, and head-write for them over the years. He feels very old. You can find him in Oakland running his weekly Saturday standup showcase Critical Hit, at home drawing goofy cartoons, or online playing competitive video games where he loses to children. He's also got a website; tirumari.com

Andrew Chung (he/him)

Andrew Chung works at UCSF by day and sometimes performs at night. Since joining the KML acting pool in 2018, he has performed in J'Accuse!, Model Minority Report, and Triple Feature. This is his second Sketch on Speed, and boy howdy does he have a need for more speed.

Melanie Marshall (she/her)

Melanie Marshall is a Jack of All Lobsters; since joining in 2015, she has worked as an actor, writer, teacher, choreographer, and Giving Tuesday Program Manager. One time she got nominated for a Theatre Bay Area Award for a KML show, and that was pretty cool. She's going to keep this show moving above 50 mph so it doesn't explode!

Perry Fenton (she/her)

Perry Fenton was not hugged enough as a child & that’s why she’s like this. Perry joined KML in 2025, and has been acting & performing in & around the Bay Area since 2018. This is their first Sketch on Speed. May God have mercy on us all.

Allison Cavanagh (she/her)

Allison is a sketch comedian and improviser who's written for KML's Lobster Boil and Sketch on Speed shows. Catch her co-producing a monthly variety show called the Living Room show on second Fridays, or find her performing in Your Fucked Up Relationship also on Fridays. Speaking of speed, she once got her only speeding ticket for going 10 mph over the speed limit nearly ten years ago and she still feels like that was unreasonable (10 mph over should absolutely be allowed on the highway).

April Pascua (she/they)

April Pascua is a writer, performer, musician, cat lover, and serial hobbyist based in San Francisco. She joined KML in 2022 as a New Voices in Comedy Fellow, and since then has worked on a number of shows including BAD Lobster, J'accuse!, and Toon Out. This is their second Sketch on Speed -- will they sh*t themself? Only time will tell!

Joe Peña (he/him/any)

Performer. Writer. Director. Communicator. Cancer sun. Enigma. Described innumerably by many, Joe prefers not to be. He has performed, written, directed, taught, and edited for the screen and stage with various theaters and groups across the country, including The SF Neo-Futurists, Finest City Improv, Old Town Improv, Murder Mystery Dinner Detectives, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, BoogieManja, The PIT, and, for the first time ever, with this Sketch on Speed, Killing My Lobster.

Rebecca Pierce (she/her)

Rebecca has been a KML writer and teacher since 2019, writing for shows like Freddie Kruger's Day Off, Mythed Opportunity, and Romancing the Sketch. Outside of her comedy life she is a filmmaker, writer, and marketing maven focused on the arts. Rebecca’s first full-length play Bloodline is currently being presented by Awesome Theatre through May 23rd at Eclectic Box. You can find her on social media: @aptly_engineerd

Sam Heft-Luthy (he/him)

Sam Heft-Luthy is an actor and writer in San Francisco. He has writing credits in Crosscut, The Nation, The Onion, and Killing My Lobster. His acting work includes Theatre Lunatico's Frankenstein (Creature), Killing My Lobster's Sketch on Speed, Let's Do The Sex, and Troupe Theatre's Cymbeline (Cloten) and Three Sisters (Kulygin).

Tim Ma (he/him)

Tim joined KML's writing pool at the end of 2025. After developing a taste for hastily cooked crustacean, he's thrilled to return for his second sketch on speed. When he’s not working a 9-5 in marketing, Tim can be found rearranging his apartment to quell his neuroses, disassociating to NPR in the shower, and vigorously re-applying chapstick to ward off evil spirits.