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Actor Name:
David Michael Bennett
Born:
October 7, 1986
(age 23)
El Cajon, California
Height:
6' 3''
Eye Color:
Hazel
Hair Color:
Black
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Actor Name:
Christopher Andrew Bennett
Born:
October 7, 1986
(age 23)
El Cajon, California
Height:
6' 2''
Eye Color:
Hazel
Hair Color:
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Bio:
David Bennett was born the eldest brother to his identical twin, Christopher Bennett (AKA Rabbit). He is exactly one minute older than his brother and has no other siblings. David's childhood seemed simple enough at first. He and his brother shared everything, including the same room for the majority of their childhood. He had enough room to let his creative juices flow and develop, and all the art supplies, model airplanes, and MS DOS computer games that Christmases and his birthdays could provide.
Eventually David entered high school. He was working towards his A+ Certification in computers and looking towards becoming an IT Technician. A sudden (but possibly long overdue) divorce between his parents turned David's life upside down during his Junior year. The divorce didn't go well between parents.
Luckily things started to go right again. David felt a new sense of freedom, and quickly became more social at school. He joined the drama department, started to learn how to play guitar, and made new friends.
David graduated high school with honors and had a full year of school plays under his belt. He immediately got a job working as a Data Entry personnel at his father's work and started going to Grossmont College. David auditioned for productions at the college and began to take a multitude of general education classes and Theatre Arts classes. He landed roles every semester, including a few leads. David's job as a Data Entry personnel quickly changed to that of an IT Technician, Graphic Designer, and Print Operator once his and his brother's already developed art & technological skills became realized by the company.
David met Jerry Hager for the first time when he took his Beginning Acting class at the college. David knew of Jerry's "miming" down at Seaport Village and even visited his professor a few times while he was performing. It wasn't until his brother Chris took Jerry's mime class, and recommend that he take it with him again the following year, that David was introduced to the beauty of the art of mime and movement.
Things escalated fairly quickly and mime became a passion for him and his brother, along with their newly acquired friends Jon Sprague and Erin Burke. Steam Powered Giraffe started at the beginning of the second time David took Jerry's mime class. He wanted to incorporate playing music into the robot act, so his guitar playing skills, along with Jon's became the backbone of the act almost immediately in conceptual stages.
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Bio:
Christopher Bennett is the identical twin of David Bennett. He is a mime, actor, graphic designer, and illustrator.
His interests include movies, monsters, dinosaurs, art, and theatrical makeup (which he took classes for and continues to dabble in every Halloween).
His artistic inspirations include Dali, Burne Hogarth, and Leonardo DaVinci. Favorite foods are alfredo spinach, mushroom, and olive pizza, and banana milkshakes.
When Christopher was a child he would draw continuously, and wanted to be a cartoonist when he grew up.
Always highly imaginative along with his brother, he would come up with quirky stories and characters and express them through drawings and little comic books he would make.
In high school he joined the drama department after seeing his brother in a play, and graduated with honors.
From high school he attended the Art Institute of California, majoring in Game Art and Design, but as the first year curriculum went on, he dropped out, foreseeing a stale career of drawing muscular men and rendering football players. He wasn't convinced it would be a job where his imagination could wander and freely thrive.
He once again dabbled in acting, but this time at Grossmont Community College, where he took Jerry Hager's mime class along with Jon Sprague and Erin Burke. He urged his brother to take it with him the following year, and having found enjoyment doing pantomime, the four of them took it a third year as well, spawning the Steam Powered Giraffe act.
He also found a love for theatrical makeup and latex appliances, and took makeup classes at the community college as well.
When Steam Powered Giraffe came into fruition, Jon Sprague had started transposing Christopher's lyrics and hums into "On Top of the Universe."
This continued with "Brass Goggles" and all the songs Christopher wrote. If not transposed by Jon, it was David.
While having a musical ear, Chris cannot read music, and plays the melodica through memory. He is currently being taught by David and Jon to play the guitar.
Today, when not being a robot, Christopher illustrates in his free time, telling stories with his own comic and developing fanatical worlds in which his bent characters live in.
Examples of his art can be seen at the following link:
http://whitebunny.deviantart.com |
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Actor Name:
Jonathan Michael Sprague
Born:
June 10, 1988
(age 22)
Sacramento, California
Height:
5' 8''
Eye Color:
Blue/Gray
Hair Color:
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Actor Name:
Erin Marie Burke
Born:
July 25, 1986
(age 23)
San Diego, California
Height:
5' 6''
Eye Color:
Blue/Gray
Hair Color:
Brown |
Bio:
Jon Sprague grew up in a very nurturing family where almost all of his siblings were gifted in the abilities of art and unicycling. At Grossmont College in El Cajon California he met Christopher Bennett and Erin Burke in Jerry Hager's mime class, and eventually David Bennett through them. After a few years of performing in an improvisational troupe and several semesters of Jerry Hager's mime class, Jon and the other members of Steam Powered Giraffe set in motion the musical pantomime troupe idea that would become their lively hoods.
Jon is able to play guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, cello, kalimba, imbira, and mouth harp. Jon also plans to eventually get around to writing a complete bio.
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Bio:
Erin was born in the summer of 1986. She loathes the cold because of it. Being the first of her generation in the Burke-Evans clan, Erin was something of an enigma to her family. It had been so long since anyone had had a child that no one remembered how to raise one. Thus Erin was dubbed the "experimental child". Erin's duties as the "experimental child" increased at the birth of her sister, Kelly. Erin would set the stage for every experience her little sister would have. She apologizes for that.
Erin fell in love with performance art at the age 5 when she played Tinker bell in a school play. She took a brief, 6 year soiree into the world of competitive cheer after the school's theatre program was disbanded.
In 1999, Erin discovered the world of San Diego Junior Theatre. Not much is known of Erin's time at this institution other than the fact that she had many male roles and discovered her love of teaching.
By the time she reached high school, Erin was a full fledged Drama Nerd. In her senior year, she was the president of the Patrick Henry Players.
Following her high school graduation, Erin attended Grossmont College where she received her AA in Technical Theatre. Erin participated in many productions in which she doffed her male roles and donned her slutty female roles.
Also, while at Grossmont, Erin attended Jerry Hager's Theatre Mime class where she fell in love with the art.
It was because of this time under Mr. Hager's tutelage that Erin and her fellow students formed Troupe San Diego.
During her time with Troupe, Erin found that she, David, Chris, and Jon had better chemistry with each other than with any of the other members. Jon must have noticed too because it was just shortly after that he suggested they all form their own group.
And that is how Steam Powered Giraffe began....in a nut shell.
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Name:
Michael Phillip Reed
Born:
June 18, 1987,
(age 22)
San Jose, CA
Height:
6'1"
Eye Color:
Blue
Hair Color:
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Name:
Steve Negrete
Born:
October 21, 1985,
(age 24)
Arlington, VA
Height:
5'8"
Eye Color:
Brown
Hair Color:
Brown |
Bio:
Michael grew up in San Jose, where anything is possible. He began his musical journey in the upstairs room of a dark, cramped and filthy music store. It was there that Michael sat and watched a piano player named Reggie Rockanelli play his piano. This is because Michael's mom, Suzanne Reed, paid for these magical lessons to happen. Somehow, magically, Michael learned how to play the piano by copying the music he heard. This went on for thousands of years until Michael moved to San Diego in 1999.
During his first year of living in San Diego, Michael met Jon Sprague (The Jon). After flicking near-infinite amounts of soda-can tabs at fellow students, Jon and Michael moved onto greater things. Jon introduced Michael to the acoustic guitar by showing him how to play Beatles songs. Thanks, Jon. Michael stopped limiting himself to the just the piano, and opened up to any instrument that he could get both of his manicured hands on. He started collecting strange instruments from his travels, and spent nearly 22 hours every day practicing with them.
After working over 9,000 deadbeat jobs, Michael decided to try and make an honest living with his music. He begged and pleaded for someone to allow him into their band. Eventually, out of pity, He started playing keyboards with Anna Troy's Blues Band. After this, Michael moved onto playing the bass, keys and guitar with The Kalimba Kings, and then eventually onto The Smart Brothers, where he primarily played suitcases and the spoons, along with scream-yodeling. After an Album and a few tours to the technologically advanced city of New York, He found himself back in San Diego.
Steam Powered Giraffe must have heard the horror stories surrounding poor Michael Reed, because they came to him and graciously took him in, teaching him everything he knows about showbiz. Michael no longer has to live with his wolf family and scrounge for food to survive. He has since recorded an Album for Steam Powered Giraffe, and has played super massive arena concerts filled to the brim with fanatic fans. He is now bathing in the "Big Bucks" and constantly thinking of ways to vanish off the face of the planet.
To inquire about any recording endeavors with Mr. Reed, email him directly at:
Michael Philip Reed
Musician, Audio Engineer
michael.philip.reed@gmail.com |
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Bio:
Steve was born in the faraway land of Virginia, but his family relocated to Southern California when he was very young. Therefore, he considers himself to be a Southern California native by assimilation. As the youngest of three brothers, Steve constantly found himself following in his sibling's footsteps simply because he thought it was expected of him. Because his brothers were both aspiring musicians, Steve decided to try his hand at the trombone. He was involved with the school band through the whole of middle school and high school, but feels like high school marching band robbed him of four years of his life.
However, his high school band room was located next to the school theatre, and as Steve's interest in performing music declined, his interest in performing onstage increased. As he performed in more and more plays (which sometimes conflicted with that blasted marching band), he made the decision to take his major in theatre as he made the journey into college.
Steve's two years at Palomar Community College saw little theatre due to general course requirements, but he did manage to perform the lead role in his final semester. This made for an excellent transition into the University of California, San Diego, where he was inundated with nothing but theatre classes. While at university, Steve signed up to run the sound board for one fateful show entitled The Labyrinth of Desire. This show spring-boarded young Steve into the world of theatrical sound, and he took more and more classes that allowed him to work hands-on with the audio department, and eventually land an overhire job at the La Jolla Playhouse.
After graduating from UCSD, Steve took some audio gigs here and there at theatres such as the Old Globe and North Coast Rep, but luck decided to smack him in the face like a frozen tuna. a full-time staff position opened up at the University, and because of his excellent work ethic and familiarity with the various theatre spaces, Steve got the job. He now spends his weeks installing and calibrating full-scale theatrical sound systems as the Sound Shop Foreman of the UCSD Theatre and Dance department.
Steve came to meet Steam Powered Giraffe through sheer luck when he attended a Tragic Tantrum Cabaret show at which the bots performed. From then on, Steve came to as many of SPG's Balboa Park shows as he could. There, he acquainted himself with the band and eventually suggested that he help out with one of their live shows. Nowadays you will inevitably see him swaying to the beat behind a mixing board whenever the bots plug in and perform. |
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