WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

MATTHEW LOREN COHEN

Matthew Loren Cohen co-created, co-produces and plays piano for NYC’s original fully-improvised musical, The Next Big Broadway Musical. He is currently performing Off-Broadway in the musical improv show, The Nuclear Family, which was also filmed as a pilot for the Sundance Channel. He has appeared as musical director for the OffBeat Comedy Club on Disney Cruise Lines’ Magic and has played keyboard for the cable-television improv program, Lifegame. According to his mother, he is extremely famous.

JOSH KAPLAN

Nary a month before graduating law school, in a desperate attempt to lay claim to what remained of a spirited youth, Josh became a stand-up comic and began appearing regularly at Gotham Comedy Club and Carolines on Broadway. He improvises regularly with The Yes Show, The Next Show and What Men Talk About (While Women Make Us Wait).
Josh is a commodities attorney by day, a comic by night and all around "delicious young man," according to his grandma Edie.

JASON LAKS

Sadly, Jason is only the second-best attorney with The Yes Show: On Tour. On a happier note, he is also an improviser with The Yes Show Workshops and performs with The Yes Show and The Next Show in New York. His most recent solo appearance was at his cousin Morty’s son’s bar mitzvah in upstate New York (where, incidentally, he killed). Jason is very excited to be performing in the Hawkeye State for the first time.

SUSAN PASQUANTONIO

Susan Pasquantonio is happy to spend another season with The Yes Show: On Tour and her Yes peers. She is an actor and improviser who has performed for years in plays, industrials, and improv-based family theatre. This summer she made her big screen debut in the indie film "Entrepreneurs", and she also worked on the small screen as the host of a fly-fishing travel show. She is now strangely drawn to waders.

REBECCA STUARD

Rebecca Stuard is so excited to be returning to Iowa with The Yes Show: On Tour. Credits include: Cabaret (Helga) Rob Marshall, Dir., Forum with Rip Taylor (Gymnasia), Can Can (Claudine), and Gigi national tours. European tours include: On The Town and A Chorus Line (Val). Favorite roles include: notorious murderess Velma Kelly in CHICAGO (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse).
Rebecca remembers a fantastic Thai restaurant in Des Moines. This “Music Woman” is ready to roll. Spring Roll.

ROBERT ZWASCHKA

Robert Zwaschka is pleased to return to Iowa, where his journey as a performer began at the tender age of seven. He is an actor, improviser, singer and dancer with various New York and Regional credits in theatre, film and TV, including: The Next Big Broadway Musical, a completely improvised musical comedy, plus appearances at Chicago City Limits and with ComedySportzNY.
Robert is probably best known for his anonymity.