Gnu Tales

The second Saturday morning of each month, the cast of Gnu Tales puts on a brand-new, never-before-seen fairy tale, created and acted out before your very eyes! Ages 5-12 (adults are welcome, too). $10 gets the whole family in the door for this exciting shows!

Runtime is about 60 minutes.

MEET THE CASTS:

Dylan Kinney, Gnu Tales
Dylan accidentally began his improv career in 2003, when he registered for (and won) the first annual "Mr. Star Wars" contest at Dragon*Con in Atlanta. In the fifteen years that followed, he performed hundreds of shows with multiple teams in the Nashville area. He met his wife while he was performing improvised Shakespeare at the Tennessee Renaissance Festival. His two daughters are his inspiration to coach and perform the improvised fairy tale show "Gnu Tales" for families with young children of their own.

Edd Garcia, Gnu Tales
Edd Garcia has been performing improv professionally in Nashville since 2013 and has been doing theatre for young audiences since 2009. You can periodically catch him performing with Music City Improv, Love Circle Variety Show or in Secret Handshake with his fellow Gnu-tonian (and BEST FRIEND), Molly Kemp.

Mary Claire Reynolds, Gnu Tales
Mary Claire grew up in Nashville, so it’s unsurprising that her first professional acting gig at age 14 was playing a mermaid in a country music video. Many moons later, she got her start in live improv while she was in Chicago for a commercial casting & decided to sign up for a Second City intensive on a whim. Hooked, Mary Claire went on to train at UCB Theatre in Los Angeles. While in LA, she performed with her long form team Bacon Marmalade all over town including the iO West and the Clubhouse stages. Upon her return to Nashville, she jumped into all the improv she could find and now she’s super excited to be playing the Third Coast stage with Freak Pony and Gnu Tales. When Mary Claire is not on stage, she can be found chasing her two preschool age daughters around and/or staring into an empty mug, wondering why the coffee’s already all gone. And she always double knots her sneakers.

Molly Kemp, Gnu Tales
Molly is a Nashville transplant from a small town in northern Connecticut. She caught the improv bug over a decade ago and hasn't been able to shake the habit since! By day she works for a private preschool company, and she's excited to have the opportunity outside of work hours to positively impacting the lives of young children through the magic of improv.

Ryan Citrino, Music Director
As a music director, he accompanies The Third Coast Comedy Show and Music City Improv. As a performer, you can see him competitively “doing them goofs” with house team Infinity Etc. As a musician, he plays regularly with a variety of acts throughout the Southeast region while simultaneously yelling that his EP is going to come out soon.