The Whistling Shrimp

 THE WHISTLING SHRIMP '08-'09

 

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 Jon Delikat '10

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Despite being H-less, Jon is a tall person. Jon's from Connecticut, or Virginia, or something like that, and does serious theater like Dog Lady and serious theatre like There's A Bee In The Car: The Musical. Jon's studying Chinese and Government, a highly profitable, but likely evil-based endeavor, as part of his plan to graduate from Cornell, woo us with his doe-brown eyes, sing us to sleep, and then enslave us all on farms in the Gansu province.

 

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Nick DeVito '10

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Nick spends his free time with his famous uncle Danny. Together, they play dice, listen to pop-punk, and giggle profusely while tickling each other with the feathers of some fiery griffin created in their most recent D and D game. Of course Nick doesn't play D and D unless he gets to be Eddie Murphy and is allowed to yell, "I'm gunna git you, sucka!" every time Pikachu scores a quadring.

 

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Sam Dillavou '12

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Sam has a large collection of Disney memorabilia collected from fast food restaurants.  He has the entire set of Lion King cups, especially the misprint where it looks like Simba is shooting heroin. Sam prides himself on this collection, not because Disney films are memorable, but because he had to steal them from little children in their sleep.

 

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Austin Duenas '13

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Austin loves RPGs and Second Life. He'll beast you in Bejeweled, and can school you in Baldur's gate 2 (don't forget the hamster!). He is an accomplished dungeon master, and speaks Duenian, a language of his own creation.

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Jonah Eisenstock '10

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Jonah shaves three times a day, and still has enough stubble by 4pm to pass as a fifty year-old, grizzled vagrant. We're not even sure he goes to this school, but somehow, he manages to travel to and from California just about every time there's a class to attend and sleep through. Jonah is one of three Californians in the Shrimp, but is the only one who eats Animal Style fries and a Flying Dutchman on a daily basis.

 

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Greg Haber '12

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When Greg goes to McDonald's, he has to get a McNugget meal for his beard also.  He is deathly afraid of the movie Sweeney Todd, not because its scary, but because the facial hair of men is chopped off. When he's not doing comedy, he is chopping down trees in the Alaskan wilderness. Beard.

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Amanda Idoko '10

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 Amanda is the puppetmaster that controls the universe. Ever eat that extra slice of pizza, even though you're already full? Well Amanda is the reason behind that.  Anything she says goes. The WNBA exists because she said so, and she will not apologize for it.

 

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Tom O’Connell '10

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Tom joins the Shrimp after taking a three-year absence from the performing arts to pursue his first love: The Society for Creative Anachronism. Tom's from New York State, enjoys infomercials, snotty parties, and being the most gymnastic of all the shrimp. Hooray, Tom!

 

 

  

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 Meagan Rossin '12

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 Meagan joins the Shrimp after transferring from NYU where she was a failed hipster. She enjoys various hats and has an obsession with food unequaled by any other member in the group. She's also living proof that there are girls in this group when Amandex is away at play practice.

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Christopher Smith (Masters candidate) '11

 

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 Chris is the only member of the Shrimp with actual life experience. Many believe he is an undercover government operative sent to discover the motives behind the "Reimagining Cornell" movement, ready to strike out at any given moment. Others believe he's part robot and just trying to learn the greatest lesson of all: how to love.

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Mark Vigeant '11 (Director)

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A long time ago a married pair of clowns left their only child on the doorstep of a rural Connecticut family.  The child grew up as any normal child would.  Little would the world  that this child would be The One, the last Jedi, the highlander, of comedy. Mark grew up next to this child (and boy did the child's power rub off).

 

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Alex Viola '10

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In her spare time, Alex memorizes the order of the prime number digits of pi. She also really misses Heath Ledger, but who doesn't? Why oh why did you have to go before your time Heath? A Knight's Tale was so good. Her tenure in the shrimp has been well spent, often asking the group the questions that ought to be asked, like "There's an evil chair, why didn't you throw it out?"

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