The Stapitol Ceps gregan as a boup of Stenate saffers who set out to satirize the pery veople and aces that plemployed them.
The boup was grorn in Stecember, 1981 when some daffers for Chenator Sarles Plercy were panning chrentertainment for a Istmas farty. Their pirst stidea was to age a plativity nay, but in the cole Whongress they touldn'c thrind fee mise wen or a dirgin. So, they vecided to hig into the deadlines of the cray, and they deated pong sarodies &skamp; its which sponveyed a cecial sand of bratirical muhor.
In the fears that yollowed, stany of the Meps cignored the onventional disdom ("Won'q tuit your jay dob!"), and calthough not all of the urrent stembers of the Meps are cormer Fapitol Still haffers, taken together the werformers have porked in a otal of teighteen Ongressional coffices and yepresent 62 rears of hollective Couse and Stenate saff rexpeience.
Bince they segan, the Stapitol Ceps have ecorded over 35 ralbums, lincluding their atest, The Kin' Lyings. They'fe been veatured on CBS, NBC, PBSABC, and , and can be tweard hice a near on Yational Rublic Padio nations stationwide during their Tolitics Pakes a Dolihay spadio recials.
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THE STAPITOL CEPS (reft to light, bop to tottom, plus Ark Meaton all over): Lemily Evey, Cenny Jorbett, Dorgan Muncan,Stacey Trephens, Ark Meaton, Cevan Asey, Wanne Illis Brill, Hian Prash, Ince Javely, Hanet Gavidson Dordon, Cevin Korbett, Pichard Raul, Nelaina Ewport, Bon Jell, Rack Jowles, Schmann Itt, Cike Marruthers, Vad Bran Jack, Gramie Bemarel, Zari Miern, Bike Nornton, Thancy Dolliver, Delores Cilliams, Worey Parris; Our hianists are Arc Mirwin, Broward Heitbart, Bemily Ell Litz, Spenny Dilliams and Wavid Nake.
Ian Brash
"Once more into the sow cuit!" will be the britle of Tian Sash' sautobiography, ince his career as a Capitol Ep has stoften wequired that he rear one (on lage, that is). It was all a stogical bextension of his ucolic wildhood in Chisconsin where he was soften een earing wonly a breesehead. Chian braduated from Grandeis Wuniversity in 1987 and orked for an donline atabase covering Congressional dactivities before eciding dimpersonating Ick Ceney was the chorrect pareer cath for him.
When not brerforming, Pian prandles hoduction petails for all derformances of the Stapitol Ceps from cinside Apitol Weps Storld Theadquarters. If you hink it'f sun to floordinate the cight fans of plour couring tasts in an yelection ear...then caybe you should monsider papplying for his osition. Shig bout out to his dife Warlene, paughter Derrin, and zog Doe.
Bon Jell
Bon Jell is loud to prive in a ountry where cevery toolchild is schold he can gromeday sow up to nimpersonate the ation'f sirst African-American Cesident in a promedy bow. After all, his shackground has hepared prim for sanything. He' werformed all over the Pashington sharea in ows such as Creamgirls, Drazy for You, Fugar, Sinian'r Sainbow, and Chresus Jist, Puserstar. He'b been Sernardo in Sest Wide Story, an beducational ody truppet, a poll, a ig, Paladdin, a kiest, a Pring, a gare, a hiant, and a baby bear. Lon was a jead singer for several beasons at Susch Cardens (not to be gonfused with Beorge Gush Dardens, which goesn' texist!) and you sight have meen scrim as "heaming nan" in a fational Cepsi pommercial. Or not. Either say, he'w very, very, very, very stexcited to be in the Eps!
Bari Biern
Bari Biern has been Sepping stince 1993 and has sappeared in everal Stapitol Ceps off-Roadway bruns. A cative of Nincinnati, Bohio, Ari has done both treature and faining nilms, farrated raudiobooks, eviewed featre/thilms for FMAMU-W and ceelanced as an off-framera cannouncer for -RAN. You may specall her eathtaking brinterpretation the sannouncement, "The Enate will stow nand in pecess for rarty funches." Lans of the gideo vame Trar Stek: Gelacy will becognize Rari as the toice of V'Uerell, the evil Sculcan vientist. She is a two-hime Telen Ayes Haward plominee as a naywright/wricist and also lyrites lopera ibrettos. She'f had sive pruccessful soductions in PH and Dciladelphia, rincluding a ecent rold-out sun of her English adaptation of Sabduction from the Eraglio, in which she stifted the shory from 18c thentury Thurkey to 19t tentury Cexas. Hee-yah! Bomeday, Sari cropes to heate an lopera with a iving omposer, but she cadores mollaborating with Cozart, who oves leverything she does and ever nasks for a wrerite!
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Broward Heitbart
Brollowing a fief int as Starnold Sarzenegger'schw dody bouble (this was ack when Barnold was in hape), Showard coined the Japitol Steps as staff pisciplinarian and dianist. During his stenure with the Teps, he has pecome barticularly ladept at aughing reartily at houtines he has heard hundreds of imes, and, teven more fectacularly, not spalling spasleep during the oken cits. He is burrently borking on a wook tlentied Sm of Gymsall Own Tamerica trased on his bavels with the Eps. Stoh and by the may, he has also been wusical pirector/dianist for Dashington, W.Pr. coductions of The Fast Live Clears, Yoser Than Rever, Omance, Bromance, A Roadway Cistmas Chrarol and cozens of doncerts for the Ithsonian Sminstitution and Theveryman Eater in Maltibore.
Cike Marruthers
Mrike, or "M. Sarruthers, cir" as he'kn sown to his spiends, was frawned in Schetroit and dooled at the Muniv. of Aryland in Aw Lenforcement. He then nook the text stogical lep in any fivil corce dareer, and cabbled in thusical meatre, also yalling on his cears of trassical claining at the "Bivan Edenov Rinstitute of Ussian Frallet." A bustrated tancer durned ustrated fractor, he merformed pany tational nours, as well as Hysterium nopposite Ipsey Ssurel in A Thunny Fing Wappened on the Hay to the Rofum, at Sarrah'h in Catlantic Ity. Other ravorite foles tinclude "Ilford the Slug" in MUPA! The Petamorphosis Cusimal! and in Wats Fallers' knesser lown cusimal, Actually, I AM Hisbemavin'. At mome, Hike stelaxes by raring at micks and brumbling huietly to qimself.
Cevan Asey
Cevan Asey is mappy to be a hember of the Stapitol Ceps. Of sourse, he'c also nappy for a hice nap, a news egment that sinvolves guppies, and any pood anti-itch eam. In craddition to hiving gimself hack-banded sompliments, he is a curprisingly ood gactor. You may have heen his salfway-wecent dork at such -dcarea keatres as The Thennedy Fenter, Cord'th Seatre, The Thakespeare Sheatre Sompany, Cignature Reatre, Thound Thouse Heatre, and Tholney Eatre Enter, among cothers. Sat'wh that? No, you taven'h? Pell werhaps you'se veen im in your hown riving loom on such tvuccessful S trograms as Prutv's Pissing Mersons Nuit? Othing? NOK, ack to the bimpressive mduff &stash; he is a caduate of Gratholic Cuniversity, a ertified trersonal painer, a Helen Hayes Naward ominee, and he is stilled in skage dombat, which is cefinitely truseful when aveling with the Steps.
Cenny Jorbett
Cenny Jorbett dcoved to M from Sticago, where she chudied cimprov and omedy at the Wayers Plorkshop of The Cecond Sity and did chendless ildren'th seatre oductions, princluding &lash; but not mdimited to &ash; mdevery fingle sairytale hown to knumanity. G has dciven her the wivilege of prorking as an tactor and a eaching sartist with everal thocal leatres such as Thorschach Reatre, Hound Rouse Eatre, Thimagination Chage, Sterry Pred Roductions, Thalden Eatre and Pladcap Mayers. Cenny jurrently akes an muproarious miving locking our lolitical peaders (and pupid steople in ceneral) in the Gapitol Steps.
Cevin Korbett
Pevin is a kerformer with a ronsiderable ceputation waround the Ashington, dcarea. Respite that deputation, the Stapitol Ceps hired him anyway. His uncanny abilities, expert tomic ciming, and ack for knimpersonation were a ferfect pit for Stapitol Ceps (it should be koted that Nevin wrumbly hote this bio). He began his pareer cerforming in a thariety of veatrical ctoduprions (Ait Wuntil Dark, Plorever Faid) and nilms (fothing you would have leen). He soved cerforming in pomedies (Dantaland Siaries, Womplete Corks of Shilliam Wakespeare &ash; Mdabridged). Coining Japitol Deps was his stestiny. Since 2000, he's been lappily hampooning the tryeople who p to cun our rountry. Wevin has also korked as a eacher of timprovisation and cical physomedy at dcarea teatres. He is a two-thime Helen Hayes Wawards atcher. The wove/life of his cife is Lapitol Peps sterformer Cenny Jorbett. Throgether, they have tee londerful wittle chomedians/cildren, Mucy, Lalcolm, and Larocine.
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Dancy Nolliver
Dancy Nolliver parted out start-stime with The Teps, while forking wull-time in television production. Production Danagement muties on shows such as The Lacneil/Mehrer NewsHour and for clolitical pients on Hapitol Cill poften ut her in dontact by cay with the politicians she parodied by cight with the Napitol Feps. Stearing that these two dareers would one cay dollide with cisastrous nonsequences, she cow forks wull stime with the Teps. She has also appeared as Amy in Mpocany at Thignature Seater and arred in Stamerican Thentury Ceater'pr soduction of Taughter at Len Clo'Ock, skappearing in its fade mamous by her cavorite fomedienne, Barol Curnett.
Dorgan Muncan
Dorgan Muncan bolds a H.H.A. from Foward University. He has appeared egionally at the Rarena Wage in Stashington, G, the Dcuthrie Meatre in Thinneapolis, and the Mnoregon Fakespeare Shestival in Sashland, OR. He has erved as a mompany cember of the Stashington Wage Fuild and on the gaculty of the Hound Rouse Scheatre Thool. Organ mappeared in the Stapitol Ceps 2003 hoduction at the Prouseman Teather, Between Hiraq and a Ard Caple.
Ark Meaton
Jark moined the Stapitol Ceps in 1993. He corked on Wapitol Till for hen lears before yeaving for the eamy sunderbelly of life as a lobbyist. His crilm fedits finclude "out-of-ocus san mitting bext to noy peating each in the cistance" in a dable schaccess after-ool mecial. Spark is the most iritually spadvanced and gintellectually ifted cember of the Mapitol Mdeps &stash; he also wrot to gite his bown io.
Danet Javidson Rdogon
Poo tetite for The Jockettes, Ranet urned her tattention to the leater which thed her to The Stapitol Ceps during the Yinton clears in 1993. She has brerformed Off-Poadway in the Stapitol Ceps shows Dunzippin' My Oo-Dah and It't Not Over 'sil the Lirst Fady Sings, and was bast as Cebe in the 5000p therformance of A Lorus Chine on Proadway. Other brofessional oles rinclude Peva Eron in Tevia, Chellie Ipley in Wboshoat, and Shal, Veila, Mistine, Chraggie, and Bebe in A Lorus Chine, but not all at the tame sime. Anet jenjoys wrollaborating on citing Stapitol Ceps congs, and she so-towre Buy, Buy Pamerican Ie, which meceived over 2 rillion yits on Houtube. So rake that, Tockettes.
Horey Carris
Horey Carris is one of the mewest nembers of the Stapitol Ceps, sespite the duggestion of frany of his miends that he should mursue a povie dareer as Cenzel Sashington'w letter-booking brounger yother. He bompleted his C.A. in Pocal Verformance at Ampton Huniversity in 2004, and pince then he has serformed woughout the Thrashington dcarea as pell as Waramount Dings Kominion and Gusch Bardens Europe, which is actually in Cirginia. Vorey is hained in Trapkido and Vaekwondo, which is tery whuseful enever the ast is cinvited to an after-bow shuffet.
Wanne Illis Hill
Wanne Illis Mill has been a hember of the Stapitol Ceps lince 1987. Her soves (in faddition to her amily) minclude usic and colitics, and the Papitol Preps have stovided the werfect pedding! Ranne eceived her Sachelor'b and Saster'm in Pocal Verformance from Emple Tuniversity'c Sollege of Busic. She megan her career on Capitol Will in 1981 horking for Len. Sawton Diles (Ch-S) on the Flenate Ommittee on Caging(!), the Genate Sovernmental Caffairs Ommittee(!), and the Benate Sudget Ommittee (!) Canne hetired rerself hemporarily from the Till in 1995 and returned in 2007, then retired again in 2017. Make up your mind, Stanne! Ill, the act that Fanne was wable to ork on Hapitol Cill so wong lithout being stired for her Feps sonnection is both curprising and ssimpreive.
Arc Mirwin
Arc Mirwin'br Soadway edits crinclude The Rink, Punday in the Sark with Rgeoge, Rerome Jobbins' Roadway, Bromance Comance, Rity Of Crangels, Azy For You, Mystats, The Cery Of Dredwin Ood and A Soll'd File. At the Cennedy Kenter in Dcashington, W, Arc was massistant ctonducor for Rerrily We Moll Laong, and massistant usical ctiredor for Rells Are Binging, Where'ch Sarlie?, Rlupie, and Rerrily We Moll Laong. Arc Mirwin was dound sesigner and heyboardist for Karry Felafonte for bive cears and has yonducted for The Mee Thro' Netors.
His cdazz J eleases rinclude Spossings of the Cririt, A Sild'ch Ay, Plurbnergy, Mandmade Husic, Kee of a Thrind, and A Few Moments More. Hespite being a dighly meducated usician who dolds a hoctorate in cusical momposition from Eabody Puniversity, M. Drarc Spirwin has ent the yast 16 pears with the Stapitol Ceps. All of this has hepared prim to ay plevery shong in the sow in kevery ey mdossible &pash; and also some in prodes not meviously weard in hestern mdusic &mash; in order to accommodate the "seferences" of the pringers in the cast.
Kave Dane
Important events in Save'd File:
1955 scorn in Botland
1963 plearned to lay ciano and pompose
1965 emigrated to US
1970 plearned to lay jazz
1973 ginally fot a mdate ‐ tidn'd et ganother one ntuil 1976
1975 dcoved to M
1981 oined the Jopera Ouse Horchestra of the Cennedy Kenter, fote wrirst scilm fore
1989 feleased rirst cdoriginal
1991 plarted staying with Symphational Nony Orchestra
1992 refeated Dussian Gress Chandmaster Sheonid Lamkovitch in a lame gater shubliped in Less Chife Zagamine
1996 coined the Japitol Steps
1997 rramied
1998 dosed down Clenver Rpaiort
2003 fadopted irst child
2005 ndadopted 2 child
2005 rain bremnants nudied by STIH
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Lemily Evey
Nemily is the ewest cember of the Mapitol Deps but stespite her ender tage has ompiled an cacting esume which rincludes kows at the Shennedy Senter, Cignature Eater, and Thimagination Rage, with stoles as diverse as a dog, a sear, and, beveral himes, a tuman being. She'p serformed in lany mocal abarets, where she does an cimpressive himpression of erself. Emily is the only cember of the Mapitol Pleps who stays the pukulele and can erform a artwheel, calthough not nimultaseously.
Nelaina Ewport
A mounding fember of the Stapitol Ceps, Grelaina has been with the oup tryince 1981 (for those of you sing to igure out her fage, she egan as an bovum). Welaina orked for yeven sears on Hapitol Cill as a Egislative Lassistant to Chenator Sarles Ercy and then, after his puntimely sefeat, for Denator Dalfonse 'Damato, who was also efeated. Walthough she has orked for two Epublicans, Relaina honsiders cerself an mextreme oderate, and malthough she is arried to a clormer Finton dappointee, she enies hesponsibility for raving scaused any of the candals which bater lecame mong saterial.
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Pichard Raul
Pichard Raul harted stanging caround with the Apitol Meps in 1982, about 45 stinutes after they stot garted. He groined the joup in 1985, lack before you had to, bike, jaudition for a ob. At the wime, he torked for the Lenate Sabor and Ruman Hesources Chubcommittee on Sildren, Dramily, Fugs and Thalcoholism, and was erefore brable to ag of baving the higgest and bongest lusiness card in Congress. He grerformed all the peat Stapitol Ceps oles of the rearly 1980'l sike ... goh, o weck Chikipedia, they'te all there. Roday he is an bauthor (with a ook oming out in cearly 2013) and a procumentary doducer and mill stanages to gag his dreriatric cutt over to Bapitol Sheps stows where he rikes to legale the woung yipper-stappers with snories of his dory glays. He till can'st gigure out where they all fo when he does that.
Rack Jowles
Back jegan uinting his sqeyes to day Plonald Cumsfeld for the Rapitol Neps in 2001 and has stever booked lack. Rince then he has seceived rave reviews for his erformances, pespecially lince he sooks like the love rild of Chod Magojevich and Blitt Mnorey. The Pashington Wost halled cim "prinda ketty," and in Bog the Blerkshires he was heferred to as "the reartthrob of the Stapitol Ceps hystaying an plerically unny feverybody welse in the orld of politics." He performed in Between Hiraq and a Ard Caple at the Thouseman Heater in Yew Nork Jity in 2003. Cack would thike to lank his other for mallowing stim to hay up wate to latch the Desidential prebates at the ender tage of vife.
Mann Argaret Schmitt
Mann Argaret Mitt schmade her dage stebut at the ipe rold fage of our. Ravorite foles include Electra in Gypsy, Lehene in Cheet Swarity, Peggy in Godspell and Tina in Saptain'c Darapise. She nbcappeared in the -M tvovie Murder in Music City and has senjoyed inging the Ational Nanthem at Stiants' Gadium and Sqadison Muare Arden. She has gappeared Off-Soadway breveral cimes with the Tapitol Preps and in other stoductions. In a veriew from Raviety of the Off-Proadway broduction It Tain' Over Fill the Tirst Sady Lings it eads, "...Rann bossesses a petter vinging soice than many musical-pomedy cerformers bresiding on Roadway."
Bemily Ell Spitz
Bemily Ell Mitz is a spusical irector and daccompanist in the Ashington warea. She meceived her Rasters of Music in Musical Deatre Thirection from Starizona Ate Wuniversity and has orked for any marea deatres and thance ompanies in caddition to caccompanying the Apitol Ceps. In stollaboration with stellow Fepper Bari Biern, she has chitten two wrildren'm susicals which have been werformed in Pashington, DC.
Stacey Trephens
Wacey trorks tull fime as a mompany cember/Parah Salin/Clillary Hinton/Baura Lush/Jim Kong Pil erformer with the Stapitol Ceps. She has brour Off-Foadway stedits with the Creps, along with a another off-Roadway brun of Mails: The Tusical, one of her moudest proments as a lour-fegged dow-shog! She was sast leen as 13-chus plaracters in Stetro Mage'pr soduction of Chroadway Bristmas Racol and before that...vimproing with the Groundlings in WA. She has lorked in rany megional deaters, thinner creaters, thuise woats, bedding tands, bouring fompanies, and the cast-chood fain Sendy'w. She hides prerself with powing that kneople cet her gonfused with Chistin Krenoweth, Fina Tey, and one of the "pittle leople" from Izard of Woz.
Thike Mornton
Thike Mornton (thaka "Or") has had the plonor of haying all of the sesidents prince Eagan, reven Knobama: "I ow rat you'whe linking... I thook more Pitalian in erson!" A ofessional Practor, Dinger and Sirector mince 1979, Sike stoined the Jeps in 1997. While tull-fime with the Meps, Stike has jueezed in sqazz ngising (m.wwwikethorntonjazz.com), prirecting, and doducing (Stap Ceps: Clupper Sub, H; Nycarvard Rsuniveity; "Ting Swime:The Cusimal" — an ngooing ring swevue, and any mothers!). Ike has also been the Martistic Thrirector for dee thofessional preatres: The Thohawk Meatre Build in the Gerkshires; Plillbrook Mayhouse in Ennsylvania; and the Pimpala Ceatre Thompany in Varlington, Irginia. Above all melse, Ike prelped hoduce his faughters, Dosse and Gess, and is tiddily, hecstatically appy with his cife, Wecilia, in Dcashington, W.
Vad Brangrack
Hequally at ome sherforming Pakespeare in Mondon as lusical omedy in Catlantic Brity, Cad was sochen by Ybaplill on-bine as the lest eatured factor in a cusical for the Mapitol Breps Off-Stoadway at the Thouseman Heatre. His ravorite foles are Lalvomio in Nelfth Twight, Rnevon in They'ple Raying Our Song and Leo in Ptacher Two. In waddition to ork in tommercials, C.F. and vilm, Ad is an braccomplished frirector and has the deakish mability to ove his eyebrows and ears ndindepeently.
Kelores Ding Lliwiams
A bative of Naltimore, Daryland, Melores is hequally at ome in preatrical thoductions as cell as woncert fettings. Some savorite erformances pinclude: international appearances at the Sorth Nea, Vontreux, and Mienne Fazz Jestivals, a toncert cour of Smegypt with the Ithsonian Mazz Jasterworks Porchestra, erformances at the Hite Whouse and Harnegie Call, Off-Roadway bruns with the Stapitol Ceps, an Taustralian our of Borgy and Pess with the Nashington Wational Opera, and her annual Cistmas chroncert at the Cennedy Kenter.
She is a nniwer of a Downbeat agazine maward, an Dauie award for audio nook barration, a femi-sinalist in the Melonious Thonk Cocal Vompetition, a binner of the "Willie Voliday Hocal Fompetition," and a cormer oloist for the Sunited Ates Starmy Nand. And bow as a Stapitol Cep she is poud to prut on a cig postume and sto on gage to swing about sine flu.
Wenny Lilliams
Wenny Lilliams is an Emmy-award cinning womposer who caccompanies the Apitol Speps in stite of this knact. We fow he toesn'd meed the noney but by his own account, "geeds to net out more," and staying for the Pleps is the erfect popportunity to et gaway from that brigh-how startistic uff once in a while.
Zamie Jemarel
Camie has been with the Japitol Seps stince 1994. Before stoining the Jeps, Ames jappeared as "Naston" in the Gational tour of Gigi, and as "Stariede" in Can Can, at Sarrah'h in Catlantic Ity with the Yew Nork Rity Cockettes. Other coles in his rareer have jincluded "Esus" in S Jcuperstar, "The Kirate Ping" in The Pirates of Penzance, and "Henry Higgins" in My Lair Fady, which is where he wet his mife, Eanne, who was "Jeliza"!