Stacy BablStacy is a real-life superhero – not because she lifts buses off people or stops trains from plummeting into gorges, but because by day, as Human Resources Woman, she rids the world of inappropriate comments, theft and harassment. The employees she polices cringe when she walks in the door or surprises them on the other end of the phone.
By night, and sometimes on weekends, she sheds her Anne Klein skirt suit to become BROADMINDED LADY, spreading her own brand of humor complete with “use of offensive language such as swearing or other inappropriate language or conduct thereby creating a hostile work environment”, you know, things that she fires people for while doing her day job. “Babl” to her friends and husband, Stacy played Division III college basketball and softball, got her bachelor's from Marquette, is working toward her masters at a school on the coast, graduated from Second City’s Conservatory program in January 2005, is crazy ‘bout Elvis, loves Jesus and is a proud parent of a crazy Boston Terrier, Mugsy, oh...and to three actual human boys. |
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Anne Graff LaDisaAnne is the quiet one. This description sounds strange to her co-workers, friends and family, but relative to the ladies of broadminded, this is a true statement. Maybe her mild-mannered ways come from all those stuffy science classes she took during pharmacy school. Maybe being soft-spoken originates from her small-town Wisconsin upbringing. Or maybe it’s just that the other broads are abnormally crass and loud. It’s a mystery.
Anne found her comedic voice at ComedySportz Milwaukee where she discovered a love for improvisational comedy, a use for all her pop culture knowledge, and three other like-minded women who formed broadminded. When she’s not watching movies (while thinking of sketch ideas), spending time with friends and family (while analyzing them for sketch ideas), or playing with her animated cotton ball of a dog, Barney (and figuring out how she can write him into a sketch), she can be found working as a pharmacist (no, she cannot get you any Adderall) and pursuing all types of comedic endeavors. Often at the same time. |
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Melissa KingstonMelissa is the rebel of the group. Despite peer pressure to share the sordid details of her life, she stands strong, insisting that any attempt to collect personal information is just a political plot to assassinate her female prerogative to change her mind. She will not be pigeon holed.
Melissa refuses to reveal that she began her comedic career as the butt of jokes from 1978 to 2001. It is none of your business that Melissa went to the University of Wisconsin school for clowns (teachers) specializing in sarcasm. She cannot bear to divulge that without her training at ComedySportz Milwaukee, she would be a shell of a comedian. She insists that we not share that she gets her comedic genius from teaching Kindergarten full time. |
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Megan McGeeMegan, a graduate of Chicago’s Second City Conservatory, is the Executive Director of Ex Fabula, a Milwaukee nonprofit dedicated to strengthening community bonds through the art of storytelling. One of the org’s co-founders, she believes that everyone has personal stories worth sharing and she tries to ask 10 people a day to consider sharing a story at an Ex Fabula StorySlam, workshop, or outreach event; in 559 years, she will have asked everyone currently in the Greater Milwaukee area (assuming that she takes no days off, which is generally true as the single employee of a nonprofit).
Megan loves creative cooking, having parties to look forward to, karaoke, speaking Spanish well, speaking other languages poorly, vermicomposting, her bike, manila mangos, indy and foreign films, well designed processes, podcasts, music that the other Broads have never heard of, and John Bedalov. She hates inefficiency, allergies, overcooked vegetables, desserts that are too sweet, getting up early, traditions that have outlived their use, and all forms of oppression. She is rarely ambivalent. |
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