El Portal Theater · North Hollywood, CA
8:00 PM PST

How the Grunch Cribbed Christmas
*All audience members will be required to wear a mask and provide proof proof of Covid-19 vaccination to attend*

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El Portal Theater · North Hollywood, CA
8:00 PM PST
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The Show
*Christmas
November 18, 2022 at 8PM
November 19, 2022 at 3PM and 8PM
November 20, 2022 at 3PM
El Portal Theatre
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
*All audience members will be required to wear a mask and provide proof proof of Covid-19 vaccination to attend*
How the Grunch Cribbed Christmas! is a brand new Solve It Squad musical mystery one act holiday show from Tin Can Bros.
This Chrismahanukwanzakah Season, Scrags, Gwen, Keith & Esther are competing to be the most charitable team at Mayberry’s 1st Annual Holly Jolly Toy Drive and Nondenominational Winter Pageant Slash Variety Show as the clock ticks down to the culmination of the evening: a live performance of the holiday classic, How the Grunch Cribbed Christmas.
But with Gwen in charge and a real life Grunch wreaking havoc, the Squad is going to have their work cut out for them if they want to save the holidays!
Ashley Clements(The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Non-Transferable)
Gabe Greenspan (Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye)
Lauren Lopez(A Very Potter Musical, Twilight: The Musical New World Stages)
Joey Richter (A Very Potter Musical, Danger Force Nickelodeon)
Brian Rosenthal (A Very Potter Musical)
& MORE!!
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Cast & Creative Team

Ashley Clements
Ashley Clements is best known for starring in the Emmy Award winning digital series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and has also appeared in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, Inside The Extras Studio, VGHS, BlackBoxTV, Muzzled the Musical, Just Go With It, and TableTop. Her feature credits include Non-Transferable, August Falls, Call of the Void, and All The Creatures Were Stirring. Regional theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sea of Tranquility, Since Africa, The Glass Menagerie, An Ideal Husband, and Fiddler on the Roof. She received her MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/University of San Diego, so she's, like, classically trained and stuff. Follow her @TheAshleyClem for important updates about her cat.

Corey Dorris
(he/him)

Gabe Greenspan
Gabe Greenspan is a Los Angeles-based actor, born and raised, who moved back to LA after receiving his BA in Theater Studies from Yale University. He writes and performs as one half of the sketch comedy team The Idiot Chimney and co-created the Freeform digital series Dinner with Dad (Go stream it now!). Gabe is a member of UCB's first musical mess hall team, The Pickup, as well as iO West team, Family Band. He also has trained in and taught circus for the last three years at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts.

Lauren Lopez
(she/her)
Lauren is an actress singer and dancer currently living in Los Angeles. After graduating from the University of Michigan's acting program, she went on to perform in productions based in LA, Chicago and NYC. Lauren continues her training in improv, having studied at iO and The Second City in Chicago, and currently working through the Groundlings program in LA. Lauren is part of the Tin Can Bros' weekly show Choose Our Destiny on Geek & Sundry's streaming channel Project Alpha Wednesday nights at 7:30pm. You can also see some of Lauren's recent work in Shipwrecked Comedy's digital series Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, Tin Can Bros' Spies are Forever and StarKid's Firebringer, all available on YouTube. Look for her in the new digital series Stellar People which just wrapped production in February! Aside from acting Lauren also enjoys coaching high schoolers for their college auditions and choreographing things. Lauren recently gave birth to her daughter Diane, a 10 year old chihuahua. She is still glowing.

Joey Richter
(he/him)
Joey is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan BFA Acting program where he also Minored in Global Media Studies. Film/TV credits: Nickelodeon’s Genie in a Bikini and Henry Danger, Disney Channel’s Jessie, Glee, The Legend of Korra, Triggerfish’s film Khumba, GKid’s film Ride Your Wave. Online credits include: School of Thrones, I Ship It (The CW, Sundance Film Festival, ), Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, and The Case of the Gilded Lily. Joey is an original member of the online sensation, StarKid Productions, and can be seen in countless productions, including the A Very Potter Musical Trilogy, the S.P.A.C.E and Apocalyptour national concert tours, Starship, Firebringer, and The Trail to Oregon! (Cherry Lane Theatre, Off Broadway), The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, and most recently sold out runs of StarKid Homecoming (The Theatre at Ace Hotel, LA) and Black Friday (Hudson Theatre, LA). Writer/Producer/Actor/Founding Member of Tin Can Brothers.

Brian Rosenthal
(he/him)
Brian is a founding member of Tin Can Brothers as well as StarKid Productions (A Very Potter Musical Trilogy, Apocalyptour). Writing/Producing Credits: Choose Our Destiny: Improv Adventure (Legendary Digital), Flop Stoppers (Buffer Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival), Idle Worship, Spies Are Forever, The Solve It Squad LA & Off-Broadway), and Wayward Guide. As an actor, he has appeared at regional theaters across the country, off-broadway, in national commercials, and in dozens of projects on the web. He has a BFA in acting from the University of Michigan.

Katie Wilbert