A year-long
talent search of more than 3,000 sketch comedy performers and stand-up
comedians resulted in Hype's gifted ensemble of five men and five
women: Michael Roof (stand-up comic out of Atlanta, Ga.), Jennifer Elise
Cox (actress, The Brady Bunch Movie, from New York, N.Y.), Gavin
Crawford (stand-up and sketch performer with Toronto's Second City),
Daniele Gaither (sketch performer with Los Angeles' The Groundlings,
originally from St. Paul, Minn.), Nadya Ginsburg (stand-up out of New
York, N.Y.), Steve Kramer (stand-up out of Kansas City, Mo.), Christen
Nelson (sketch performer with Los Angeles' The Groundlings, originally
from Cape Cod, Mass.), Shayma Tash (stand-up out of San Diego, Calif.),
Chris Williams (stand-up and actor from Westchester County, N.Y.) and
Frank Caliendo (stand-up out of Milwaukee, Wis.).
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