• Current cast
  members
• Mike Beard
• Anoo Brod
• Greg Hohn
• Nancy Pekar
• Dan Sipp
• Steven Warnock
• Annie Zipper
• Jeff Alguire
• Rachel Klem
• Former cast members

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Mike Beard

From the production side of the tracks, Mike Beard has been a designer, engineer, and technician for over 30 years. His touring sound production work spans 48 states and hundreds of artists. Mike is equally comfortable with lighting and he even plays bass clarinet on occasion. He has a B.S. in Music, Communication, and Recording from UNC-Asheville in his sock drawer. Transactors Improv's resident tech guru for several years, Mike also directs and performs in TET shows, while continuing to blend improv, voodoo, and technese from behind the consoles for main stage productions. Mike can also be found at his recording studio, in the field designing sound systems, or at home with his wife, daughters, cats, and toys.

Anoo Brod

Anoo has been performing improv since her debut with Transactors in 1997. Since then she has also taught improvisational theater to people ranging in age from four to 76 in all sorts of places, including businesses like Novant Health, schools such as UNC's School of Public Administration, and arts centers around the Southeast. Recently Anoo has appeared in MooreTale Film and TinkhamTown Production films and performed in the all-female improv group Ask Daphne. She is also an intuitive life coach, writer, poet, and goofy spazz.

Greg Hohn

A member of Transactors Improv since 1989, Greg Hohn was the company's executive and artistic director from 1996 to 2011 and is currently on sabbatical from those roles although he continues to perform and direct shows for the company. He teaches Applied Improv (FIZ) in the MBA program at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School, in Duke University's Theater Studies Department, and in academic settings, corporations, and organizations across the country. He has also taught improv and acting in many different venues, including UNC's MFA acting program. Greg's other theater work includes performances with Archipelago, Manbites Dog, Shakespeare & Originals, Temple Theatre, the 10x10 Festival at The ArtsCenter (acting and directing), and Long Beach Playhouse. He also works in film, television, radio, and industrial/corporate media (visit his website). Greg graduated from UNC with a degree in English and has written fiction and for stage, radio, and periodicals.

Nancy Pekar

Nancy Pekar has been performing with Transactors Improv since 1999 and became co-director in 2011. Previously she performed with Reality Optional Improv Company in Pittsburgh and with the Ark Theater in Madison, Wisc. She acted in and directed improv shows and original plays while attending Carnegie Mellon University, and she played the bride in the improvisational La Nozze Italiana. She appeared in the 2009 Common Ground Theatre production of A Trailer Park Christmas. Nancy holds a BA in Creative Writing and works as a writer and editor.

Dan Sipp

Dan Sipp is a Chapel Hill native and a Transactor since 1988, its co-director since 2011. He returned to the Triangle in 2007 from an eight-year hiatus in Chicago. While in The Windy City he studied with The Annoyance Theater and the ImprovOlympic (now known as the iO). He performed for many years with iO House teams People of Earth and The Pat Shay Dancers and directed groups at The iO and The Playground. He's also proud to be founding member of the independent ensemble The Goldbrick. Dan teaches long-form improv at the Worx Training Center in Raleigh. He's pleased to be back home where he can work with some of his best friends in the world and watch all of the Carolina games on TV.

Steven Warnock

Steven started working with Transactors Improv in 2001. In the past few years he has appeared in Loveseat Theater's production of Sex, Drugs, and Dinner and has been seen in One Song's production of The Phantom Tollbooth, The ArtsCenter's 10 x 10 Play Festival, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and Romeo and Juliet. He has also been a storyteller for A Tour of Southern Ghosts festival near Atlanta. Steven received his BA in religion and completed a masters of divinity degree (yep-not lying!). He moved to the Triangle from Georgia in January 2001 and works with Project Compassion in Chapel Hill.

Annie Zipper

Annie joined Transactors Improv in 2011. She has studied and performed improvisation at the iO Theater, Annoyance Theatre, and The Playground Theater in Chicago. Since returning to her native North Carolina, she has appeared in A Trailer Park Christmas and The Window at Common Ground Theatre and Nightwork at Manbites Dog Theater. She also performs improv with the group Danny Canoe. She has a BA in art history from Bryn Mawr College and loves her kitties.

Jeff Alguire (The Professors cast)

Jeff trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, spent seven years working with some of Chicago's finest Off-Loop theatre companies, and now lives and performs in the Triangle. Acting credits include: Road to Nirvana, Long Day's Journey Into Night, A Skull in Connemara, One For the Road, The Miss Firecracker Contest, All in the Timing, and Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll (Ghost & Spice); Abigail's Party (Party Girl Productions); A Streetcar Named Desire and The Waves (Little Green Pig); and Over the River and Through the Woods (Raleigh Little Theatre). Jeff is a co-founder of Ghost & Spice and Common Ground Theatre. He has a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University.

Rachel Klem (on hiatus until 2012)

Rachel Klem received her MFA in acting from The Theatre School at De Paul University. She has been professionally improvising since she was 18, working with such esteemed companies as Bay Area Theatre Sports in San Francisco and Apiering Daily at Navy Pier in Chicago. Rachel is managing director of Ghost & Spice Productions, with whom she also acts and directs. She is the manager of Common Ground Theatre in Durham, where audiences can see theatre, music, and--of course--Transactors Improv.