Carol Skolnick has been involved in performance of one sort or another for many years; she was schooled in stand-up comedy in New York City with Fran Capo and Allan Chang, as well as in solo performance with Jake-ann Jones, and has performed celebrity impressions (most notably Mae West, Dr. Ruth, Barbra Streisand and Julie Andrews) at many a talent show/New Year’s Eve party/Passover seder. Somehow she managed to avoid improv until fellow Funatic Loren Rosen dragged her kicking and screaming to her first class with Fun Institute’s Clifford Henderson and Dixie Cox in 2006. Since then, Carol has been a regular at Cliffi and Dixie’s “Saturday Morning Live” and has studied with members of Um…Gee…Um, The Irish Mutts, Oui Be Negroes and True Fiction Magazine, as well as with Asaf Ronen, Steve Gilbane and other improv greats. She joined The Funatics in 2009 and is making her debut performance with the troupe at the 2009 Santa Cruz ImprovFest.

Carol has strutted her stuff (in lingerie, no less) in a Spotlife solo performance piece (“Thunderthighs:  The Musical”), and in 10-minute one-act plays at the Eight Tens @ 8 and Best of the Rest festivals. Carol is also a prolific author with but one play to her credit, “Hopelessly Devoted,” which was produced at the Love Creek Productions One-act Play Festival in New York City in the mid ’90s.