Jeremy Robbins is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker who graduated from Yale in 2006. He recently produced the world premiere of Eliza Clark’s Edgewise at the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre. He is currently editing a documentary about his 101-year-old great great aunt who discovered six million dollars in her husband’s will. Upcoming: Jeremy will be accompanying a group of students on an electric car road trip through India as a videographer and editor. In addition to winning Potomac Elementary School’s “Student of the Year” Award in 5th grade, he moonlights as Claude on the sitcom.
Eliza Clark (Creator/Writer/Molly)
Eliza Clark’s plays have appeared at the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre (Edgewise), the Provincetown Playhouse (To Save a Burning Baby), the New York International Fringe Festival (The Metaphysics of Breakfast), and Yale University. Her plays appeared in the Yale Playwrights Festival in the Yale Repertory Theatre three years in a row: The Metaphysics of Breakfast (2005), Hiccup (2006), Puppy (2007). Past commission: Yale O’Neill Studio. She is a member of YOUNGBLOOD at Ensemble Studio Theatre. As a child actor, she appeared in Les Miserables, Law and Order, an old-school Billy Cosby Jell-o commercial, and a socially devastating head lice shampoo commercial, among others.
Julia Meinwald (Original Music)
Julia is thrilled to be teaming up with Eli and Jeremy again. It reminds her of those great college years in the early aughts. Her music has been heard in theatres (Dixon Place, New Georges Theatre, Barrington Stages, Goodspeed Opera House, Hangar Theatre), film (The Complications Productions), computer games (Gregames), and dance (Dance New Amsterdam.) She received her BA in Music from Yale University in 2005, and her M.F.A from NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program in 2007.
Justin Noble (George)
This doe-eyed beauty is Justin Noble. Justin has performed improv and sketch comedy for six years, training at Upright Citizens’ Brigade and the Magnet Theatre. He can currently be seen with the indie team Madam? At Yale, Justin was a member of The Viola Question, The Fifth Humour and The Whiffenpoofs. He also wrote a sixty-five page senior thesis on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and other black sitcoms post-Cosby. He’s asthmatic.
Jocelyn Ranne (Dana)
Jocelyn enjoys baking, Nintendo, popcorn, and the Internet. She also really likes movies, so much so that she runs her own video-production company (Ranne Day Productions) and has made over thirty sweet vids. She got her BA in Theatre Studies from Yale, where she was a sparkplug in the comedy scene, directing The Viola Question improv comedy group and the 5th Humour sketch team. There she met Eli Clark and the two wrote/performed Women Aren’t Funny, a comedy cabaret. Before graduating, she received the V. Browne Irish Award for her work in the performing arts and was named runner-up in Yale’s Last Comic Standing. Jocelyn did a lot of legit classical acting at YU - Shakespeare, Chekhov - she’ll send you a headshot, but she’d rather you visit www.ranneday.com and buy a beltpouch for your mother, watch a clip of Jocelyn and “Steve,” and order a cake. See her alive in Madam?, NYC’s up-and-coming comedy team.
Haley Blau (Young Molly)
Haley just turned eight and got her ears pierced. She is in the third grade and loves to figure skate. She recently won a silver medal at the Mid Atlantic Figure Skating Championships in New York City and is working on perfecting her axel jump. She also enjoys spending time at the beach, riding the waves on her boogie board, and riding her dirt bike. She has a big sister, Ashley, a big brother, Billy, and 2 dogs, Baxter and Ruby.
Spencer Treat Clark (Franco)
Spencer Treat Clark began his acting career at age ten in the feature film Arlington Road, and has enjoyed acting in numerous projects ever since. He has acted in films by acclaimed directors such as Clint Eastwood (Mystic River), M. Night Shyamalan (Unbreakable), and Ridley Scott (Gladiator). Spencer has also appeared in numerous TV shows including Law and Order SVU, and Third Watch. Recently, Superheroes, a film in which Spencer stars opposite Dash Mihok, won the Feature Film Award at the 2007 Avignon/New York Film Festival. Spencer is also pursuing a degree from Columbia University.
Megan Stern (Lisa)
Megan Stern abandoned her hometown of Atlanta, GA to join the class of 2006 at Yale University, where she appeared in a number of plays, musicals, and operas. Favorites include A Bright Room Called Day, Assassins, Titus Andronicus, Pirates of Penzance, Semele, The Turn of the Screw, Cosi Fan Tutte, and Le Nozze di Figaro. Recent New York projects include Young Jean Lee’s Church at PS122 and Rockberry: The Last One Man Show or The Infinity Within at The Brick Theater.
Noah Robbins (Darren)
Noah Robbins is a junior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. When he was eleven, he was a singing, dancing little clown in his first Debbie Allen musical at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has been in four of Allen’s subsequent productions, including a run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. He’s soon to return to LA as the Mad Hatter in her production of Alex in Wonderland. He has also appeared on the Wayne Brady Show.
Julie Lake (Kelly)
Julie is too lazy to write an interesting bio. So here’s what she’s done recently - just the facts: Williamstown Theatre Festival LeapFrog Company (2007), Else in Heddatron (Les Freres Corbusier), Jan in Hell House (Les Freres Corbusier), Winona in Dixie’s Tupperware Party (dir. Alex Timbers, Ars Nova), Linda in By Proxy by Amy Fox (EST Sloan Series), Asking for Trouble (EST 2006, 2007), Patricia Highsmith in Little Tales of Misogyny by Elizabeth Meriwether (ENVISION 2006), Paris in Nicky Goes Goth by Elizabeth Meriwether (NY International Fringe Festival), Judy in Duder (www.dudershow.com), member of Madam? Improvisational Comedy group.
Eric March (Randy)
Eric March, a 1992 graduate of Tokeneke Elementary School was recently one of 14 emerging songwriters invited to participate in the 2007 Johnny Mercer Power of the American Popular Song Festival with guest artists Craig Carnelia, Andrew Lippa, Amanda McBroom and Lari White. He is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Writing Workshop, an employee of Comedy Central and a contributor to The Onion.
David Chernicoff (Russell)
David Chernicoff is a 23-year-old longhair from Berkeley, California, a place best known for its blue-blooded traditionalism and enormous library; he graduated in 2007 from Yale University, a place best known for its radical leftist leanings and penchant for manufacturing with hemp. David currently lives in New York City, where he improvises with Madam and works as the Associate Producer at Chicago City Limits. Past employers include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Onion, and Comedy Central. He is honored to be a part of the Inconvenient Molly team and very much looks forward to the moment when, ten years from now, somebody watches the show and says “Holy hell! So many famous people…and they’re all so young!”
Claire Siebers (Suzanne)
Claire Siebers appeared in Day Lights the Bone (River to River New York), Macbeth (Yale), The Glory of Living (Yale), and A Bright Room Called Day (Yale). She can be seen in the upcoming I, Kreon with the New Moon Rep Theater Company and Time Is The Mercy Of Eternity by Deb Margolin in Spring 2008. She lives in New York City with a series of bumbling roommates. This is her first web sitcom.
Peter James Cook (Gregor)
Peter improvises with Madam?, has performed with Les Freres Corbusier (Hell House @ St. Anne’s Warehouse) & the Bushwick Hotel (Johnny Applef*cker @ the Soho Rep), and directs and acts as a member of Jollyship the Whiz-bang, Brooklyn’s Pyrate Puppet Rock Opera Consortium (thewhizbang.org). Stuff he’s directed has been performed at P.S. 122, Ars Nova, the Brick, Luna Lounge, Columbia & Yale Universities, and the Hangar. He’s a fancy pants graduate of Yale University (www.yale.edu) and a Drama League directing fellow.
Kobi Libii (Bradley)
Kobi Libii, a recent graduate of Yale University, is thrilled to be appearing in Inconvenient Molly. Favorite Yale roles include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Clay in The Dutchman, Henry IV in Pirandello’s Henry IV, and Reverend D/Baby in In The Blood. New York and regional credits include King Lear, Comedy of Errors (Yale Repertory Theater), Angelic Faces (TheaterVision/Playtime), and Boiling Pot (FringeNYC).
Zachary Robbins (Jack)
Zachary Andrew Robbins is a struggling poet who resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. When he’s not writing, he’s working or spending time with his folks in Stockbridge, MA or Windham, NH or Chappaquiddick. He worked as an office production assistant on the short-lived CBS neurosurgery drama 3lbs and more recently on the long-lived Rescue Me starring Denis Leary as a firefighting bad boy. In between, he hung out on the sets of Law and Order, Cashmere Mafia, Gossip Girl and I am Legend, to name a few. He filmed parts of Inconvenient Molly and then put on overalls and a crown.
