Maxxeapolis Goes to Hell

Abilene Olson

understudy for Laura Hild (performing August 6th!)
Abilene Olson she/her is a graduate of Stephens College and holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts, and you’ll see her most often at Theatre Elision and Open Eye Theatre. When she’s not acting, she can be found shamelessly promoting her next project. Catch her back at Open Eye in October for Lizzie: The Rock Musical!

Alex Stokes

writer and performer, former HS football quarterback
Alex Stokes is an actor, comedian, disruptor, lover (not a fighter), joker, smoker, midnight toker, and writer from the Twin Cities. He's a freelance teaching artist, and his play "Hugo and Maeve Join A Cult!" won a Venue Award at the 2024 MN Fringe Festival.

Anika Reitman

writer and performer, general goofball
Anika has been performing in Los Angeles for over 13 years and is so pumped to bring the laughs back to her home state! She’s an improviser, sketch writer, and actor, and was a founding member of sketch and improv team Cornbread Kitchen. She’s also written and acted in original sketch content for Dollar Shave Club’s online men’s magazine, appeared as a comedian on the flop E! reality series Catching Kelce, and her favorite commercial she’s ever been in was for Toyota with Terry Crews and the Muppets for the Super Bowl! She’s beyond excited and grateful to be back onstage with Maxxeapolis!

Caroline Kraft

writer and performer, former beauty pageant watcher
Caroline Kraft is a professional improviser, comedian, and actress based in the Twin Cities. Caroline is an active member of the Strike House Improv Troupe, After Dark at Camp Bar, SmartMouth Comedy, and has performed for years at Stevie Ray’s Comedy Cabaret out at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. In her free time, you can find Caroline doing paint-by-numbers, listening to audiobooks, and hanging with her favorite fellas, Matt and Grizzly.

Dr. Henrico Ignatius Jablonzky-Pillsbury

craft services, key grip
Maxxeapolis is enthralled to welcome the esteemed Dr. Jablonzky-Pillsbury to their cast for Fringe. The enumerable good doctor Henrico made his theatrical debut at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1978 starring in his own stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's long forgotten "The Painted Paintbrush", a tale of a small boy who only gets smaller. You may know him best from the film "Milk, Milk, Lemonade", his work voicing commercials for Coppertone Sport Sunscreen, or his time as a series regular on the sitcom "Cheers". He is currently employed as a tobacco taster at the Guthrie Theater's secret cigar club.

Greg Baker

writer and performer, group founder
After catching a fever for sketch comedy in college at The University of Colorado's premiere sketch group Secret Recipe, Greg moved to LA where he honed his skills at Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City, and iO West. Post-covid, Greg found himself in Portland, Maine where he founded the sketch group Hey Party People! and served as Director of The Portland Maine Comedy Festival. Moving to Minneapolis last March, he is excited to help grow the sketch comedy scene here in the Twin Cities.

Justin Johnson

writer and performer, guitar maven
Justin Johnson has been performing standup and musical comedy in the Twin Cities since 2018 under the stage name Lefty Crumpet. He was a finalist in the "Funniest Person with A Day Job" Contest at Rick Bronson's House of Comedy at Mall of America, and he is a co-founder of Freshly Squeezed Comedy, which creates comedy shows in breweries and bars across the Twin Cities

Laura Hild

writer and performer, tall
Laura’s love of comedy started as a child when she watched SNL and David Letterman with her dad. She has been dabbling in the comedic arts for the past ten years in the Twin Cities. Performing improv, sketch, dance, and also writing and producing shows. She is a member of the improv teams Soap-Prov, BVTTMVNCH, After Dark at Camp Bar, and is a ComedySportz player. She loves a good steak off the grill and snuggling with her cat, Charlie.

Linc Owens

writer and performer, sword swallower
Local MN Comedian Linc Owens has been performing in the Twin Cities for 6 years. With HUGE Improv Theater, he has performed in 'Colonizer's Nightmare' and 'KaBAAM!' as well as Strike Theater with the 'Thursday Night Improv Spectacular'. He has been the TA for the BIPOC Improv course with HUGE and Good Camel. Linc focuses on longform narrative improv with some short form for flavor.

Nina Diatta

writer and performer, token gen-z
Nina Diatta is a multidisciplinary writer and performer based in Minnesota. Nina has been an active member of the Minnesota arts community for over a decade and has previously worked with organizations including Jungle Theater, Tru Ruts, and Theater Mu. This past year, she was a 2024-25 Many Voices’ Mentee at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. In her freetime, she can be found hogging the TouchTunes at dive bars across the Twin Cities.