Killy Dwyer (Producer, Director, Writer) is a mock$tar comedic performance artist and musician. This is Killy's 3rd production with Horse Trade Theater and the second starring KILL THE BAND (the first of which won the Audience Choice Award). Most recently, Killy was named one of the "Top 10 Women Who Rock Comedy" by FunnyNotSlutty.com, starred in the feature film "The Crab", successfully toured the west coast with her latest solo show "Girl Balls", runs the hugely popular monthly surreal vaudeville show,  Alter Ego at Fontanas Bar on the third Sunday of every month, performed on the main stage at Figment and was honored to be part of the first annual NY Funny Songs Festival.  She is so excited to be releasing "Mock Bottom" with KILL THE BAND in this full on one-of-a-kind, multimedia theatrical performance.  www.KILLYTHEKID.com

Mike Milazzo (Guitar, Mandolin, Backups)  is an accomplished songwriter, singer, and guitarist who blends rock, folk, country, and blues into a distinctive yet familiar sound. Songs from The World Outside, Mike’s first CD, receive regular airplay on local and satellite radio. His second CD, The Show, is in production. Mike’s solo career is augmented with extensive collaborative work, reflecting the diversity of his relationship with art and music. http://mikemilazzo.wordpress.com/

Blair Frowner (Saxophone, keyboard, Backups) is a musician, arranger and photographer based in the East Village of New York City. He has performed with Aaron Copeland, along with recording as a studio musician with many R&B recording artists and is currently performing with the Downward Dogs and Kill the Band.

Joe Yoga (Bass, Ukulele)  is a multiinstrumentalist, stage performer, novelist, found-noise archivist and visual artist from Times Square, NYC. Along with his work in Kill the Band, he also plays guitar in Downward Dogs, who are releasing their debut album in August 2012. http://www.mrjoeyoga.com/

Nicholas Fox AKA Human Drum Machine (Mouth Percussionist, Sound Effects) Is a corporate raider by day and beatboxer by night.  He has been a freelance vocal percussionist in acapella groups, bands and artistic projects throughout NYC for 10 years.  Besides anchoring the rhythm section of KTB, he has jammed with bands from Hamburg to Toronto and everywhere in between.

Craig Schober (Mockumentarian, Video Editor) wrote, directed, produced and edited his first feature film, die Lucas die in 1999.  In 2000, Craig toured throughout Japan with the American grindcore band Discordance Axis as their videographer producing 2 commercial DVDs for the band.  In 2008, Craig teamed up with Killer "Killy" Dwyer to provide interactive video projections for Hysteri-KILLY!, an award winning, one woman show in the Frigid Festival, and in 2009, Craig executively produced the dark comedy feature, The Crab, which was an official pick at festivals around the world. Craig is releasing "Jesus FaceTime", a free iPhone App featuring daily videos full of positive affirmations, inspirational ideas and bold personality. www.JESUSFACETIME.com (also available on ITunes)

Lee Goffin-Bonenfant (Technical Director) is a longtime theatre junkie, whose interests run the gamut from tech to tap, and scenes to songs. You can find her on a stage or the booth most nights of the week. She is thrilled to be a part of such a badass launch extravaganza. 
Thanks to Killy for the job, Mom and Dad for the whole 'having me' thing, and Zach for saving that Game of Thrones episode for when I finally got home.  http://www.notoriouslee.com/

Bill Chambers (Stage technician, Assistant Director) is a writer, comedian, actor, musician, friend, and adversary, currently living in Queens NYC. His hobbies include writing flippant, dismissive blurbs about himself for various playbills around the city.

Cara Yeates - Actor, Producer, Writer, Multimedia Artist
A graduate of Dalhousie University’s Theatre Department, Cara has toured and performed four very successful one-woman shows across North America.   Cara wrote the solo shows Knee Deep in Muck and Bye Bye Bombay.  She won the ‘Pick of the Fringe’ Award for Best Actress at the Victoria Fringe for her show Knee Deep in Muck, and was nominated for the same award with Bye Bye Bombay.  Cara was a dramaturge, produce and starred in Leah Bailly’s solo work Some Reckless Abandon.  Reckless was performed as a part of the Summerworks National Series and UNO Festival. Cara was awarded the first ever Joanna Marratta Award at the Vancouver Fringe in 2009.  This prestigious award celebrates artistic achievement and community leadership.  As a prize Cara was awarded a mentorship with Fringe legend TJ Dawe.  Together they collaborated with playwright Brendan McLeod to develop another one-woman show The Big Oops, which premiered at the Vancouver East Cultural Center in 2010. Cara has also acted in a range of media projects from Bollywood features and television shows, to independent films and web series.  She has produced and hosted numerous segments for Vancouver’s Novus Television.  Cara is currently living in New York.

HEIDI GRUMELOT Director, Dramaturge Heidi Grumelot is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. She is co-creator and producer of the monthly storytelling show TOLD and the founding director of The Drafts, an acting ensemble responsible for development of over forty original plays to date as part of a monthly reading series. Heidi’s New York directing credits include Donnie and the Monsters at UNDER St. Marks, punkrock/lovesong at The Brick, Dido and Aeneas with The New York Collective of Performing Arts at The West End Theater and The Boston Early Music Festival, and productions in Michigan, Virginia, and Mexico. Prior to working at Horse Trade, Heidi worked for Laura Stanzyck Casting and The Public Theater's Casting Department. 

Jonno Katz – Director, Dramaturge
Jonno has written, acted in and produced 5 solo shows (Uber Alice, Cactus, Jolly Roger, The Spy & The Accident) that have toured throughout Canada and Australia, winning awards and playing to sold-out houses. He has directed 4 full length solo theatre shows, Bye Bye Bombay, In God's Bedroom, Manners for Men and The Sputniks which have played in Australia, USA, Canada and Israel. Jonno has acted in around 40 short films and has made 6 short films that he wrote, directed and edited.

Anita Rochon: Direction/Dramaturgy
Anita works as a director, writer and actor in Vancouver and across the country. She's been involved in the development of more than 25 new works of theatre, ranging from movement-based pieces to verbatim theatre to traditional scripts. With her theatre company The Chop she's directed KISMET one to one hundred and directed the second two shows in the Patti Fedy trilogy. She performed in Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES which has toured to OYR's High Performance Rodeo, the PuSh Festival, BC Scéne, The Theatre Centre and the FTA. In Vancouver she directed for Vancouver Opera, Théâtre la Seizième, Theatre Replacement and at her acting training alma mater, Studio 58. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School Directing program, a recipient of the 2011 Ray Michal Prize for outstanding body of work by an emerging director and in 2010 received the Siminovitch Protégé Prize.

Tarun Nayar: Music Composition
Tarun is a hybrid, a meeting point between east and west; a cross-cultural (con)fusion. He is a classically trained tabla player, a DJ, and a producer, obsessed with fusing tradtional asian sounds with wikked electronic beats. He performs globally, trains in Mumbai, and represents the Canadian massive in Vancouver. Tarun is currently performing with 3 projects; global music DJ collective Beats Without Borders; crazy celtic punjabi live electronic act Delhi2Dublin; and bhangra/ grime/ hip-hop
trio BPM.

Kristin Arnesen (Co-Creator, Choreographer, Script Writer, Performer, Media Design)
            Kristin is a performer, writer, dancer, media artist, and the co-founder of Theatre Reverb. She holds a BA in performance and an MA in theatre. Kristin’s work is influenced by classical Indian theatre forms which she studied on two trips to Kerala India to train in kathakali and kutiyattam. She has performed with such companies as Mabou Mines under the direction of Lee Breuer.  Kristin is also a regular emcee and dancer in variety shows and clubs around New York, she is a resident artist at Galapagos Art Space, she studies classical bharatanatyam with master dancer Kamala Cesar, she is a sponsored artist of the Brooklyn Arts Council, and a collaborator with the Ukraine-based international women’s movement FEMEN.

Radoslaw Konopka (Co-Creator, Media Design, Media Production, Performer)
            Radoslaw is a sound and media artist, audio engineer, performer, and the co-founder of Theatre Reverb. He came to the US from Poland in 1994 and earned a BA in film. Radoslaw’s work is influenced by classical Indian theatre forms which he studied on two trips to Kerala India to train in kathakali and kutiyattam. Radoslaw has also worked as a video designer for productions including Lingua Franca (59E59, 2010). He has also worked as a live-mixing and audio engineer at private events and performances at venues including Lincoln Center, The Met, The New Yorker Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival. With Theatre Reverb, Radoslaw is a resident artist at Galapagos Art Space and is a sponsored artist of the Brooklyn Arts Council. 

Ellery Royston (Music and Sound Composition, Performer, Live Music on Laptop, Harp, and Keyboard)
Ellery was born in 1986 in Honolulu, HI. She holds a B.A. in Electronic Music Composition, and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Computer Science from Mills College.
She is an M.F.A. candidate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College. Ellery has played in multiple projects around the Bay Area, focusing on experimental, improvised, and noise music. She plays and improvises on harp and keyboards, often augmented by electronics, both analog and computer generated. Since moving to Brooklyn, her focus has been on creating sound for collaborative multi-disciplinary works

Rajaneesh Chakyar (Kutiyattam Choreography and Consultation, Sanskrit Translation, Sung Sloka Arrangements)
Ammannur Rajaneesh Chakyar, the grand nephew of Guru Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, was initiated into Kutiyattam at the age of 7 at Ammannur Chachu Chakyar Smaraka Gurukulam with a scholarship from the Sangeet  Natak Akademy, New Delhi and had his debut in  Koothambalam at theKoodalmanickyam Temple, Irinjalakuda in 1991. His Gurus are Ammannur Parameswaran(Kuttan) Chakyar, Ammannur Madhava Chakyar and Ammannur Parameswara Chakyar. He has also learnt Sanskrit under Late Dr Paimkulam Parameswara Chakyar. Rajaneesh also performs Chakyar Koothu and Anguliyamkam Kootu. He performs annually at Koothambalams of  Koodalmanickyam temple Irinjalakuda, Vadakkumnathan temple Thrissur and Guruvayoor temple other major temples in Kerala. He is the First Prize winner in Kutiyattam competition in State Youth Festival Conducted by  Government of Kerala in 1994 and 1996. He has performed widely in different national and international festivals with  Ammannur Madhava Chakyar within in and outside India. He has also traveled with solo performances. He was a participant of the Abhinaya Kalari (acting laboratory) organised by Natanakairali and Sanskriti Pravah New Delhi and  one member of the theatre work shop conducted by the “World Theatre” Sweden in 2005. Presently working as an actor at Ammannur Chachu Chakyar Smaraka Gurukulam Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India.

luckydave (lighting design) Luckydave grew up in front of a sound board, started coding in BASIC at the age of 8, built sets in college, made a theater out of a friend's apartment in San Francisco, made a theater out of an abandoned public bath house in Brooklyn, slaved away on sound and lights at several night clubs in NYC, worked as a Master Electrician for 5 years, and has been a Projections Designer for several years, putting up work everywhere from Philly to Off-Off-Off-Broadway to Off-Broadway. He's passionate about creative flexibility at the juncture of art and technology.

Dr Michelle Leona Godin is a writer, and performer who's one woman, two voice, three act autobiographical treatment of Helen Keller's time on vaudeville (it's true!) called The Star of Happiness finished its second run at Horse Trade's Kraine Theater in January 2012, and is looking forward to touring next spring. She received her Ph.D. in early modern  literature from NYU’s English department in January 2009. Though her research on Helen Keller launched her from eighteenth-century England to 20th century America, the central
concerns, namely  how social and philosophical constructs shape blindness as both a trope and a disability, provide a through-line. Godin  is a regular adjunct and occasional faculty at NYU. When she is not teaching and writing she performs at comedy, storytelling, and variety shows in downtown Manhattan  and beyond.  Recently she
appeared at the Nuyorican with KickAssonance and the 92Y Tribeca with Sideshow Goshko.  She has also performed on The Moth Main Stage, and at Tell Your Friends, The Liar Show, and at many music venues around the city, both with her former band Gutter & Spine and currently as a solo act which can only be described as an avant accordion brain smash!