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| KPUT Bios and Future Obits |
| Steve Scholz |
| Steve began writing and performing comedy pieces and songs in junior high and high school. He attended the University of Iowa where he co-created, wrote, produced and acted in KPUT with Ben, Glen and Hector. After graduating, he moved to Chicago for training and shows with Player's Workshop, the Second City Training Center, iO (formerly Improv Olympic) 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 radio, print and the Internet, and wrote and performed sketches for the public radio show "The Iowa Radio Project.". He acted in seven different improvised productions at IO Chicago directed by the late Del Close, including "The Carousel Players in SHOW" and "Underlined Passages by Spoo in SHOW". He performed with the Carousel Players at the first annual Chicago Improv Festival (CIF), and with Spoo at the Fourth Annual Big Stinkin' International Improv and Sketch Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas (BS4). 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 IO (see review excerpts below right). Steve has been a Harold team member at iO, a 98-pound weakling in Illinois Lottery print ads, and an undercover cop in the ABA's Chicago Seven Trial video. He received acclaim in the play BEDLAM (review excerpt below).� In 2003, he performed his one-person satricial sketch show "TRUST FUNNIN' " (review excerpt at right). He followed it up with "TRUST FUNNIN' 2, You Gotta Be Kidding" at Prop THTR in 2005 and Live Bait Theater in 2006 (review excerpts at right). Other roles include: The Actor in The Woman In Black (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center), Verges in Much Ado About Nothing (Oak Park Festival Theatre) and Inspector Rough (understudy) and Constable 1 in Angel Street (First Folio Theatre). As a member of SAG & AFTRA, he has appeared in the independent films Manipulating Life (Oklahoma�s deadCENTER Film Fest), Mr. Gloom (Naperville Film Fest) and 16th Street (Studio 22 at Northwestern University), plus numerous TV commercials including ads for Ford, Security Health Plan, The Iowa Lottery and Winn-Dixie. He lives in Chicago where he pursues acting, writing, modeling and voiceover work. |
| Excerpts from reviews of BUGGED BY THE MILLENNIUM, OR ET TU, Y2K? (at iO) "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 |
| See Steve's resume and contact information at: Steve Scholz on Now Casting.com Steve is available for film, TV, commercial, industrial, print and voiceover 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. |
| Ben DeJean |
| 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 |
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| Click here to hear Glen in a few of the many KPUT skits that he's written |
| e-mail Glen at [email protected] |
| 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 |
| Updated December 2008 |
| Excerpt 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 |
| 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 Hectors 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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| Excerpt from a review of TRUST FUNNIN' (at WNEP Theater) �[H]e's a capable performer who's mastered a variety of ethnic accents, never makes concessions to political correctness, and succeeds at the muted mannerisms and precise object work usually lost in this type of comedy. Recent experiments with the solo-improv Sybil are evident in his finely etched character work, and overall the material is admirably polished. . . .Some clever video footage--including mudslinging TV spots by two brothers running for the same office--helps sustain interest while Scholz darts behind the curtain and back again.� --Chicago Reader, September 15, 2003 |
| e-mail Steve at [email protected] |
| Excerpts from a review of TRUST FUNNIN' 2: You Gotta Be Kidding (at PROP THTR and Live Bait Theatre) "Scholz's knack for physical and vocal mannerisms... brings his targets alive. And though some sketches end happily, all take an accurate measure of our culture's shortcomings." --Chicago Reader, December 2, 2005 "BEST BET!" --Chicago Red Eye & Metromix, April 14, 2006 |
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