John Remak Joined Company: 2004 First Improv Class: 1976, San Rafael High School, Barbara Jay's Drama Class. First private class: 1980 with Sue Walden. First BATS Class: 2000 with William Hall (some earlier classes with John X. Heart) Myspace.com: Click Here Contact: company@improv.org John's first professional improv gig was way back in 1982 when he joined the long-running Flash Family. More recently, John has played with SNAFU, Those Improv Guys, and the acclaimed True Fiction Magazine.

John has also appeared in numerous unscripted play-length hits, such as the soap opera send-up Liquid Soap, the semi-scripted Bar None, the Rocky-style Underdog, and the doctor drama Emotional Hospital, which he also directed and produced. John first played with the BATS Improv Sunday Players in 2001 and joined the Company in 2004.

In addition to performing, John has been teaching improv for twenty years. He has written, directed and performed in dozens of industrial shows for such clients as the S.F. Giants, Apple Computers, and Microsoft. He also appears in the upcoming independent sci-fi comedy Welcome Space Brothers. John is a San Francisco native, a pretty good etch-a-sketch artist, and an attorney in his spare time.

Q&A With John Remak

First BATS Show: I can't even remember my own ATM pin number...no, wait...it's 9249.

Favorite Format: Play-like long-forms

Funniest/Best Moment on the BATS Stage: Funniest Thing that's happened: For some strange reason, people find it funny when I pretend to make love to a woman on-stage. Best Thing that's happened: Pretending to make love to a woman on stage.

Improv Advice: Take classes, perform, start a group, enjoy life, eat out more often

Artistic Influences: Everyone I have ever played with has taught me something.

Favorite Movies: The Godfather, The Planet of the Apes, The Great Escape, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Pulp Fiction, Tootsie

Favorite Music: Beatles, Classical, Jazz, Motown, etc.

Favorite Theatre: Anything "On Ice!" i.e.: "Death of a Salesman - On Ice!"