Meet The Idiots!

Current Idiots

Mike DiSano
Trent Gillaspie
Sean Bender
Kara Chesal
Becky Dash
Garrett McCutcheon
Bobby Wood
Rohit Kumar
Mike Davey
Mark Dube

Idiot Alumni

Michelle Gore
Kat Urbanowicz
Rob Headley
Erik Nelson
John Pettengill
Matty Welch
Wei Quan Zhou
Nate Bragg
Carrie DePetris
Joey Faust
Mike Hourihan
Matt Duggan
Jon Marcus
Matt Hitchens
Corey Lagunowich
Tara Caljouw
Doug DiPietro

Founding Members

Andrea Barreiro
James Carolus
Jeff Kimball
Craig Lampert
Stef Noble
Tiff Pinard-Westendorf
Dana Rossi

Our Story:

Tonight, children, I’ll tell you the story of Sheer Idiocy.  Sheer Idiocy was born in the spring of 1997, the strange but cuddly and lovable spawn of a group of RPI Players.  After many years of being a part of The RPI Players “Evening of Performance”, an annual series of one-act plays put on by the Players, Sheer Idiocy grew up and decided to move out of the house and strike out on its own.  Not long after moving out, Sheer Idiocy decided that it needed a roommate, and one with deep pockets.  “Who better to room with than the Student Union?” thought Sheer Idiocy.  Sheer Idiocy looked around at the Student Union’s rockin’ pad, and decided that its favorite room, the one room it would call home, would be Mother’s Wine Emporium.  And so it came to be that Sheer Idiocy and the Student Union lived a long and joyful life together.

Sheer Idiocy, upon its birth, had been given a simple task in life.  “Make people smile!”, Sheer Idiocy’s mother had always told it.  “Make them smile, and they will love you forever.”  And Sheer Idiocy found that it liked making people smile, and making them laugh, and, occasionally, make them wet themselves.  And what better way to make people smile than to perform improvisational comedy?  So Sheer Idiocy worked day and night, hour upon hour, honing its skills, knowing that one day it would be the best improv comedy troupe RPI had ever seen.  And that’s what Sheer Idiocy does to this very day.  You see, children, Sheer Idiocy may be RPI’s best improv comedy troupe, and it may be RPI’s only improv comedy troupe, but it still works very hard to make you laugh.  And that’s why we love Sheer Idiocy very, very much.  And remember, children, that Sheer Idiocy loves each and every one of you too.