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| KPUT Bios and Future Obits |
| Steve Scholz |
| Steve started writing and performing comedy pieces and songs in junior high and high school. He attended the University of Iowa where he created, wrote, produced and acted in KPUT with Ben, Glen and Hector. After graduating from Iowa, he moved to Chicago for training and shows with Player's Workshop, the Second City Training Center, ImprovOlympic and the Annoyance Theater. He has written and performed scripts for radio, TV and theatrical revues including "Postage From The Edge, or Lick It and Stick It" at Players Workshop, and the Second City Level 5 show "Keeping Our Day Jobs". He has also created ads for print, radio and the internet. He acted in six different improvised productions at ImprovOlympic directed by the late Del Close, including "The Carousel Players" and "Underlined Passages by Spoo in SHOW". He appeared with the Carousel Players at the first annual Chicago Improv Festival, and with Spoo at the Fourth Annual Big Stinkin' International Improv and Sketch Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas. In 1999, he wrote and acted in his first independent theatrical production. The sketch-comedy revue "Bugged By The Millennium, or Et Tu, Y2K?" opened September 1999 and ran six weeks in the Del Close Theater at ImprovOlympic (see review excerpts below right). Last year, Steve was the 98-pound weakling in Illinois Lottery print ads, and an undercover cop in the Chicago Seven Trial for the American Bar Association. He also performed the Harold at ImprovOlympic and did the solo improvized show "Sybilization" at The Playground Theater. He also did a one-person SlugFest at ImprovOlympic, and received acclaim in the play BEDLAM, running through April 27. He lives in Chicago where he pursues acting, writing, modeling and voice-over work. |
| Excerpts from reviews of BUGGED BY THE MILLENNIUM, OR ET TU, Y2K? "It's one of the few winning attempts at true political and social satire since the mock presidential debates at Second City nearly four years ago.�ImprovOlympic veteran Steve Scholz has scripted a revue that has both a soul and a conscience....When Scholz hits the mark--as he does more often than not-- the results are impressive." --Chicago Reader, September 25, 1999 "Scholz's satire, which also takes aim at the futile posturing of world leaders and the skewed politics of right-wing extremists, makes some powerful points." --Chicago Sun Times, September 22, 1999 |
| Steve is represented by: Shirley Hamilton, Inc. Emilia Lorence Agency Encore Talent Agency McBlaine & Associates, Inc. Lily's Talent Agency, Inc. For print, film, commercial and voice-over work |
| Glen Keenan |
| Glen is originally from Grinnell, Iowa, where he performed in many high school and community theater productions--including "The Music Man", "Arsenic And Old Lace", "The Pajama Game", "Guys And Dolls", "A Thousand Clowns", "Kiss Me, Kate", "The Miracle Worker" and "Storybook Theatre". He also served on the Grinnell Community Theater (GCT) Board of Directors and produced "Once Upon A Mattress" for GCT. He attended Grinnell College where he majored in Theater Arts, but later transferred to the University of Iowa, where he graduated with a B.A. in Communication Studies. At the U of I, Glen studied film production, and wrote, directed and edited many student film projects--including an animated short for which he was nominated for an Iowa Film Award (an annual, statewide award for professional and student film and video). He also took classes in acting, screenwriting, TV production and audio production--including an advanced audio production class taught by Duck's Breath Mystery Theater member Dan Coffey, a.k.a. Dr. Science. In this class, Glen met Steve, Ben and Hector, and the four of them later created, wrote and produced the half- hour sketch comedy radio series "KPUT", which aired on KRUI, 89.7 FM in Iowa City. He co-wrote, co-produced, acted in and edited a half-hour sketch comedy TV program called "The Desk Show", which aired on PATV in Iowa City, and he wrote comedy pieces for Dan Coffey's series "The Iowa Radio Project", which aired on many National Public Radio stations. Glen now lives and works in Fairfield, Iowa. |
| Ben De Jean |
| Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Ben attended the J. Graham Brown school, where he acted in and worked tech for all of the school plays. He also helped run the video department, videotaping basketball games and other school events. In addition, he borrowed the video equipment to make two short videos, "Plan 10 From Outer Space" (a sequel of sorts to the 1954 Ed Wood movie) and "The Verlif Toothpaste Commercials of 1985", which placed in a local competition and aired on Kentucky Public Television. Ben attended the University of Iowa and majored in Communication Studies. He was a member of the university's video club, taping lectures and concerts, and also borrowed club video equipment to produce a collection of skits called "The Lori Wunder Show". He was also a member of a writer's support group, The Dead Screenwriters Society. Ben moved to Los Angeles after collaborating on two episodes of "KPUT" (considered by many to be the finest two episodes in the series), but he continued to write for the show. Ben also wrote material for Dan Coffey's public radio show, "The Iowa Radio Project".� He joined another writers support group, The Alameda Writers Group (AWG), and eventually served as President. He currently works for a major Hollywood studio in a humiliating, low-level position with no chance of promotion and no overtime. |
| Hector DeJean |
| A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Hector currently lives in New York, where he has worked for a succession of publishing companies. The latest is Cooper Square Press As a university student in Iowa City, Hector joined Radio Comedy classmates Steve and Glen as a writer/producer/actor for the radio show "KPUT", created by Steve, Glen, and Hector's brother Ben. The show was broadcast for a year on KRUI, 89.7 FM in Iowa City. Hector's first writing job was for the "Iowa Radio Project", a nationally- syndicated radio show based in Iowa City. He has written for small-town newspapers such as "The Big Bend Sentinel" (Marfa, Texas) and "The Newton TAB" (Newton, Massachusetts), and he recently did a stint as a columnist for "CUPS: The Magazine of Cafe Culture". These days, he doesn't have much to say, unless it's about green tea or one of his other obscure obsessions. |
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| Click here to hear Glen in a few of the many KPUT skits that he's written |
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| Click here to hear Ben in a few of the many KPUT skits that he's written |
| Click here to hear Hector in a few of the many KPUT skits that he's written |
| Click here to hear Steve in a few of the many KPUT skits that he's written |
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| Excerpts from a review of the play BEDLAM (at the Playground Theater): "Steve Scholz offers strong work in several roles, especially a schoolmarmish drag turn . . . . ." --Chicago Reader, March 15, 2002 |