inDecision Theater Bios

Cheryl Napier shamelessly uses her fellow improvisers as a tool to break out of the button-down world of pharmaceutical research. And no, she can't get you anything interesting, sorry. Her grandest long-term goal is to grow up to be the eccentric old lady down the block.

 

Lewis Caviness came to improv late in life when he started taking courses with Transactors Improv Company at the Arts Center in Carrboro. He fell in love with improv and found that he couldn't get enough of it. Since then, Lewis has been studying and performing with inDecision Theater since it formed in 2003.

 

Lisa Klein is a native Chapel Hillian. She has been doing improv for over forty years and finally received formal training a few years ago. Lisa enjoys volunteering at her daughter's school as well as clowning for children in local hospitals. Improv helps her manage her life, her fabulous daughter, her three goats/three cats/three hermit crabs/numerous fish/two horses/untold dust bunnies and all the other members of inDecision Theater.

 

Oliver Vest has been in a number of area productions including Peter Pan and Alien Planet. By day he is a Graphic Designer and by night works on too many projects and terrorizes the jackrabbits that have infested his yard - undoubtedly come to taunt his mutant beagle into chewing through the door and releasing the cats.

 

Paul Paliyenko – lifelong swingin' guy about town – performed improv in Boston for many years before he was asked to leave. After wandering in the wilderness for a number of years, he appeared on the doorstep one night during an inDecision rehearsal. They brought him in, dusted him off, and immediately adopted him. Among the many epiphanies (and multiple personalities) that emerged during his walkabout, he has yet to find the answer to this burning question: "Do these shorts make my butt look big?"

 

Philip Semanchuk has lived in Durham since 1996. He started attending Transactors shows and classes shortly thereafter, and has been with inDecision Theater since 2003. Before joining the group, Philip's stage experience consisted of constructing plywood palm trees for a high school production of South Pacific. The smell of burning jigsaw motors still causes him to burst into a chorus of Some Enchanted Evening. Philip has a cat, speaks Swedish and spends too much time on the Internet.