BIOS
ANN BENSON (Grandma Lenore) I've done a lot of thing in my long lifetime--emceed my own Children's Show on WFAA TV in Dallas; leading lady in summer stock; performed for four months in Tokyo at the Imperial Theatre in the musical, OLIVER; starred in satirical revues written by my husband, Jerry Segal & played leading hotels across the country, including NY's Pierre Hotel; I was Merrill Lynch's National Spokesperson, & won a Silver Anvil presented by the Public Relations Society of America for excellence in marketing to women, etc., but I've never had more fun than I'm having now, in my old age --- as a series regular in Betty White's Off Their Rockers; acting in short films, one that just won Best Short Film in the Vermont Film Festival; being in Mad Men & CSI, and being a part of the cast of FUNNY BONED. Life is good!!
STEVEN BUEHLER (Ty) was born and raised in rural Missouri, where some of his first friends included a surly opossum and a wise-cracking owl. He studied Theatre and Political Science at the University of Missouri before moving to the City of Angels to pursue a career in film and television. Steven has now appeared in over a dozen films since moving to LA. Special skills include: playing alto and baritone sax, ukelele, riding horses, and wiggling his ears. He now splits his time between his three loves: acting, running along the Pacific, and personally rescuing baby seals from the gnashing teeth of great white sharks off the California shore. Since moving to LA, Steven has appeared in a number of commercials for such companies as Samsung and Gillette. He has also starred in two short films and one indie feature.
BO FOXWORTH (Matt) Bo is a bi-coastal kid having lived in New York, Los Angeles, and Northern California all his life. He was raised in a family of actors and artists, his father being an actor and his mother the artistic director of a theater for 25 years. He started his career as an actor at the tender age of 10 playing Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and that was all it took. Since then he as been working professionally in New York and Los Angeles in theater, film and television. He just recently finished successful runs of David Ives' adaptation of The Liar and as John Proctor in The Crucible, which he received his second nomination for an Ovation Award for Best Lead Actor. He has been destined to be a Funny “Boner” from the moment his middle name “Ner” was leaked to his High School class. (Go ahead… put his names together) Very damaging. Bo is also an accomplished athlete playing football, basketball, fencing and running track in school and then as a professional Polo player for years, which took him all over the world. He is a proud graduate of UCLA and The Yale School of Drama and a member of the Antaeus Theater Company in Los Angeles. Yet his greatest accomplishment to this day is being the father of his beautiful daughter India.
CHRISTINA HARDING (Ruby) A Los Angeles native, Christina has been working in the Arts for most of her life. She studied acting with Howard Fine, classical voice technique with Jeffrey Allen and Julia Gregory, and dance with Dean Barlow. Christina has penned lyrics for the Broadway musical Little Women - An American Musical, and recently finished writing, directing, and producing her first short film, Moustache, which premieres in January 2014. Christina’s theater credits include Chess at the Ford Amphitheatre, and The Who’s Tommy at the Ricardo Montalbon Theater in Hollywood. She can be heard on the original cast recording of Dan Redfeld’s musical Canterville, and on the album Titanic, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ship’s fateful voyage. Christina has enjoyed working as a ballroom, ballet, and tap dance instructor, a martial arts instructor, and as a producer for theater and film projects. She wished to express her deep thanks for her long friendship with the exceedingly wonderful and talented JJ Hickey, and is very excited to be a part of his hilarious new comedy series FUNNY BONED.
CHRIS O'BRIEN (Curt) is an actor, a writer, and a vegetarian who hates salad. A native of Rhode Island, he has a BA in English Literature and Theatre Studies from Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Chris grew up playing ice hockey, hoping to one day make it to the NHL and play for the Boston Bruins. Later, he realized that was a hopeless dream and decided that making it big as an actor was a much more realistic goal. Since moving to LA in August of 2012, Chris has appeared in multiple independent projects, a feature film, and a few web series, many of which are yet to be released. Chris is really excited to be part of FUNNY BONED!
ROCHELLE ROBINSON (Sally) was most recently seen on Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing. Other television credits include SouthLAnd, My Name is Earl, The Nine, Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, The Joe Schmo Show, NYPD Blue, So NoTORIous, Hyperion Bay and Third Rock from the Sun to name just a few. She is a founding member of the Met Company Theatre in Los Angeles, where she originated the role of Patsy in Moonlight Cocktail. Met Company credits also include: "Mistress Quickly” in The Merry Wives of Windsor, "Dancer" in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (directed by J.J. Hickey), and "Janet" in Happy Birthday, Little Grace. She is a graduate of South Coast Repertory’s Conservatory Program (about a thousand years ago) and is a seasoned improvisational comedy performer as well. She is thrilled to be working once again with J.J. Hickey and this incredibly talented cast.
ELYSE MIRTO (Larraine) A Detroit native Elyse began her professional career at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Rep. where she played Ophelia in Hamlet, Viola in Twelfth Night, and Rosalind in As You Like It. After moving to Los Angeles Elyse appeared in numerous television shows, several feature films and dozens of national commercials. In 2008 she moved to Manhattan, where she received the 2009 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead role for Nat Cassidy’s Any Day Now. She was nominated in the same category in 2010 for Next Year in Jerusalem and made her Off Broadway debut in White’s Lies. Last summer Elyse appeared as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet in Los Angeles at Kingsmen. Most recently in LA she was Mrs. Webb in Our Town at The Rubicon, M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias at Laguna Playhouse, and Ilona in The Guardsman at A Noise Within. Proud member of SAG, AFTRA, AEA. For more info go to www.elysemirto.com