Sully
Donald "Sully" Sullivan was born on July 4, 1972 to Hellen and Marc (also Sully) and grew up in Brookline, MA. After graduating 3rd in his class at Brookline High, Sully accepted admission at UMass Boston, but quickly dropped out to pursue drinking on a full time basis. Sully owns the Dirty Water bar, his pride and joy. He can be found there during the baseball off-season, griping about the Red Sox. The same is true during the season.
Played by: Adam Desjardins
Adam has bounced back and forth between Boston and Pennsylvania his entire life, but his devotion to the Red Sox and the Patriots has never faltered. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and worked for 3 years with sketch comedy group Casual Sketch. Since moving to Chicago, he has studied at IO and Second City and worked with Liquid Fresh. Adam can currently be found slinging beers at sports arenas all across the city of Chicago and would like to remind you to tip your bartenders.
Rich King
Born on the shores of Bayou Desiard in North Louisiana, Rich was raised on a diet of jambalaya and football. He first mixed football with beer and Rotel dip and football instantly became as fun to watch as it was to play. Rich took a baby step towards becoming a Northerner when he moved up to Nashville for college. Ten years, two degrees, and 2,000 pounds of fried chicken later, he made the leap to Boston. He followed his fiancée, Nicole, who is doing her residency in neonatal otalaryngoloncology at Children's Hospital. He spends a lot of time avoiding her in hopes that she doesn't catch on to the fact that she could do a lot better than him. Rich loves his job teaching math, history, and English at James "Grizzly" Adams Middle School, where he acts as if he's making the world a better place but really just gets to laugh at fart jokes every day.
Played by: Pete Aiello
Pete was born and raised in non-Boston - more specifically, North Louisiana. While attending Vanderbilt University, he discovered improv and performed with the group Tonguencheek. While in graduate school at the University of Illinois, he performed with the groups De Bono and Spicy Clamato. Since relocating to Chicago, he has completed the training center programs at IO and the Annoyance. He has performed in Chicago on teams at IO and the Playground, and he is honored at the chance to bring a dose of Southern hospitality to the Dirty Water. Pete would like to thank the producers of the Cosby Show for giving him his first chance.
Perle Parlon
Born in Lynn, MA in 1969, Perle Parlon quickly learned that he was better then most children. While he could not read until the age of 9, his young life was truly comprised of one accolade after another. For instance, he won Troop 240's pinewood derby in 3rd grade and was the New England Roman Catholic Teen of the Year in 1981 for his vigilant campaigning for harsher punishment of Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca, the chump who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Perle has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Quincy Community college and has worked for General Electric on the lines for 15 years. By choice, Perle has never been married, but he has slogged McDonough's sister, McDonough. Perle is a Sunday school teacher at St. Elmo's Parish in Lynn.
Played by: Jon Dick
Jon was born and raised in Boston. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he earned a degree in Physics and performed with the popular student comedy show, Mission: IMPROVable. From there, he studied in Oxford, England, for a year and founded the Oxford Imps, a short-form improv group which performed weekly shows at a local pub. Jon also worked with the venerable English sketch comedy group the Oxford Revue while overseas, writing and performing in three revues. He has since settled in Chicago and studied at both IO and the Annoyance training centers. Jon currently improvises with Dirty Water and is a member of the Playground Theater, performing in Without Erin. He also creates short film featurettes with fellow cast member Adam Hyman. Dick and Hyman's work can be viewed at www.dickandhyman.com.
Roger Goldberg
Roger Goldberg was born in Stoughton, MA and currently resides in Canton, MA. He is a professor of English at Boston University, where he is working towards enlightening the minds of the world's future. His greatest achievements include earning a Ph. D. from Harvard University, amassing the world's largest collection of Edgar Allen Poe collections and attending Carlton Fisk's home run game in the 1975 World Series. He is soon to add another accomplishment to the list as his wife, Heather, is carrying their first brilliant beautiful baby boy (or possibly girl). He loves the Red Sox, Moby Dick, Van Morrison and drinking with his hilarious, though sometimes intellectually misguided, buddies at the Dirty Water bar.
Played by: Adam Hyman
Adam was born in Randolph, MA and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he got his start in comedy with Mission: IMPROVable and Casual Sketch. He moved to Chicago in 2003 to study improvisational comedy and has trained at IO (formerly ImprovOlympic) and the Annoyance Theater. He also makes independent film featurettes with Dick and Hyman Productions, www.dickandhyman.com. He would like to thank his family, the SVP crew and Dave Roberts for the greatest stolen base in baseball history.
Pat McDonough
Patrick McDonough was born in 1970 just 1 mile away from Fenway Park and grew up in Southie. He was raised Catholic, but he became agnostic during his days at Boston Latin, where he excelled to 3rd in his class. He also lettered in Football, Basketball and Baseball and was crowned Mr. Teen Massachusetts in 1988. Pat enrolled at UMass Amherst where he cruised to a Sports Management Degree and was Rush Chairman for Sigma Phi Epsilon. After college, Pat interned for his father, a successful franchiser of several Store 24 convenience stores. He now runs his own Store 24. He is unattached and plans on remaining as such for the time being.
Played by: Matt Hicks
Matt was born and raised in and around Boston MA, where he graduated from Lexington High School. At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he performed with Mission: IMPROVable as well as in plays and musicals with the UMass Theatre Guild. After college, he performed with the Improv Asylum's NET cast before moving to Chicago. In the Windy City he has gone through Second City and IO's training programs, performed on IO teams and in the Playground's Incubator program, and helped put together Dirty Water. Matt is looking forward to the continued run of Dirty Water with his drinking buddies.
Directed by: Jake Schnieder
Jake Schneider was recently named Dirty Water's new director. Jake currently performs with IO's The Reckoning and has performed with Armando, CLIFFY, Dinner for Six, River City, Vericose Veins, and Zombie Rockstar Firefighters. He has directed and taught at IO (formerly Improv Olympic) and directed Washington University's Suspicious of Whistlers. We are very excited to work with such a talented and experienced director. Welcome to the bar, Jake!