Stacy Rumaker
CREATOR AND HOST
Stacy Rumaker is a comedian, writer, and the host and show runner of The Night Cap with Stacy Rumaker. Originally from New Jersey (which is a lot nicer than it’s portrayed in The Sopranos) Stacy is an alumni of an embarrassing amount of comedy programs, including UCB NY, Improv Olympic West, and the American Comedy Institute’s One Year Program. Yes, it’s a real school and she was the valedictorian of her class, thank you very much. Stacy has written for ABC/Disney, DC Comics, CBS Diversity Showcase, and is a regular performer of stand up and sketch comedy. She is currently the head writer of The Color Collective, a monthly diverse variety comedy show. She is also one half of the improv noir duo The Dick and The Dame, which performs monthly at the Pack Theater in Hollywood. She loves living in Burbank (which is a lot nicer than it’s portrayed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) with her husband, two cats, and a dog.
Kash Abdulmalik
Co-Host
Kash Abdulmalik is a man of many talents -comedian, writer, sculptor and actor. He’s also someone’s daughter so please, show a little respect.
Originally hailing from Brooklyn, New York he moved to Southern California on a whim and started a punk rock band which he sang in for ten years. After joining the Upright Citizens Brigade and later, the Pack Theater, Kash began putting up and selling out live shows. He's appeared on FX's Baskets, BET's Comedy Get Down, HBO's Manic, Hulu's Future Man, lended his voice to AOK cartoons, Cartoon Network spots and appeared alongside Bruce Willis and John Goodman in the film, Once Upon A Time in Venice. Kash is represented by Spencer Willis and Debbi Epstein at Stewart Talent and managed by Jason Solomon of Full Circle Management.
Maria Felix
Writer, Performer, and Producer
Maria Felix is a Latina writer, director and producer. She’s written and produced content for Funny or Die, Comedy Central Digital, CBS Diversity Showcase, NBC, and E! News. She co-hosts the true crime podcast Bloody Mary with Maria and Lauri, writes and performs for The Night Cap, The Nicky Urban Show, and the Pack house sketch team Patsy. She’s not good at talking about herself, so if you approach her, talk about Jeffrey Dahmer instead.
Brandon Burkhart
Head writer
Brandon Burkhart is a beanerschnitzel (Mexican/German) writer/storyteller originally from San Antonio, where folks know what picante sauce should taste like. Since July 2017, he’s been head writer for the satirical late night talk show The Night Cap with Stacy Rumaker.
Other sketch writing credits include Color Collective, Your Late Night Show Tonight, and the 2017 CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase. His work has been seen at Comedy Central Stage, SF Sketchfest, LA Diversity in Comedy Festival, UCB LA (Sketch Cram, Best of Not Too Shabby), and Hollywood Fringe Festival (Encore Award winner).
Brandon also contributes jokes to the nationally syndicated radio prep service The Complete Sheet (more than 1.2k stations) and Funny or Die’s Pitch app, and his writing has appeared in McSweeney’s and LA Times.
As a storyteller, he’s won the Moth StorySLAM four times (including the GrandSLAM), won Write Club twice and been named as one of SHINE Storytelling’s Ten Best Stories of the Year.
Ben KuerschneR
DIRECTOR
Ben Kuerschner, director of The Night Cap with Stacy Rumaker, is a joke writer and cheerful malcontent. At The Pack Theater he is head writer, director, and producer for Your Late Night Show Tonight, and was a member of the former house sketch team Gunslinger. He also co-produces the Pack’s yearly three day comedy music festival, Packchella.
Outside the Pack he writes for The National Lampoon’s Final Edition Podcast. He was also the Producer and Head Monologue Writer of the monthly late night live show It’s Past My Bedtime with Topher Harless, as well as writer and producer for The 88 Show with Avery Pearson at the Hollywood Improv.
He began his career writing monologue jokes for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Besides writing jokes for The Tonight Show, Ben worked there as a coordinator. He started his TV career as an NBC Page. He spends most of his current day job posting jokes to Twitter instead.
Brian Rubinow
VIDEO PRODUCER
Brian Rubinow is a writer and editor born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Brianʼs first jobs in the industry were working on reality TV, but he soon found his love of comedy and has been pursuing it ever since. Since his first classes at Upright Citizens Brigade in to serving as Video Producer for The Night Cap, Brian devotes 100% of his creative energy towards making people laugh, whether that be in writing, performing on stage, or producing videos. Brian currently resides in the beautiful Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles where he plies his talents wherever he can.
Julianne simitz
writer
Julianne Simitz is a Hollywood-based stand up comedian, writer, and producer. She was a finalist for NBC’s 2019 Late Night Writers Workshop. In 2018, Julianne became a staff writer on ABC’s Emmy-nominated Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Prior to Kimmel, Julianne was a writer for CBS Diversity Showcase. Today, Julianne continues to produce and write for the sketch-driven late night show The Night Cap at The Virgil as well as Late Night with Jimmy Fallopian Tubes at UCB Sunset. She is also the co-creator and head writer of political comedy talk-show Bad News, which is currently in development with Big Vision Creative.
Founder of the nationwide women’s comedy writers collective, The Clitorati, and an alumna of Pretty, Funny Women, Julianne performs in festivals, iconic comedy clubs, and shitty dive bars from sea to shining sea. In her past life, she worked in the swamps of Washington, D.C. as a Soros-funded pinko commie activist. Julianne hates soda (A LOT) and the patriarchy (EVEN MORE).
Royce Shockley
writer
Originally from New Jersey (where only the strong survive), Royce is an actor, writer and producer who has been living his best life entertaining the masses since moving to LA. He has been a member of improv and sketch teams who have performed at UCB, The Pack Theater, and Second City Hollywood. He is also the creator and producer of The Color Collective, a popular variety show featuring diversity in entertainment. He is proud to be a part of The Night Cap and working with so many other talented people.
ALYSSA FELLER
writer
Alyssa is a comedy writer originally from southern Florida. After her pilot won second place in the 2016 Los Angeles Scripted Comedy Festival, she took the leap of faith and moved to LA later that year. In 2018 she was selected as a participant in the NBCUniversal Late Night Writers Workshop and as a writer for NBC Spotlight (formerly known as the NBC Scene Showcase). She is a regular writer for two late night-style shows, The Nightcap with Stacy Rumaker at The Pack Theater and Late Night With Jimmy Fallopian Tubes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She’s had additional sketches performed in various shows at UCB and iO West and is in both the advanced study sketch and improv programs at UCB. She was also a contributor for Cracked.com, where she wrote or co-wrote over fifteen articles. She is currently an executive assistant at Titmouse, Inc.
John Mahone
writer
John Mahone has been writing, producing, and performing comedy for more than a decade. In New York, he was accepted into the New York Comedy Festival and co-hosted “Ms. Show,” a monthly stand-up show giving a stage to under-represented comedic voices. He moved to Los Angeles in 2016 where he has been an active member in The Second City community as a graduate of its directing program, and a writer-performer for the house sketch team, Cuddle Puddle, and is the co-head writer of the diverse sketch team The Color Collective. Additionally, he is the first winner of the Second City Los Angeles Diversity in Comedy scholarship and was accepted into the 2018 NBC Late Night Writers Workshop. He was unsure whether this bio was supposed to be funny.
Tim mcgovern
writer
Tim was born and raised on Long Island, went to school at Northwestern in Chicago, and now lives in Los Angeles, so yes, he’s slowly sinking into the Pacific Ocean. A former freelance writer for The Tonight Show, he has also written for Elite Daily, Vulture, Huffington Post, Time Out LA, and Hollywood Life. He once won $500 in a disco dancing competition.
Joe hospodor
writer
Joe Hospodor is a writer and performer based in Los Angeles. He has previously written and produced comedy for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Clickhole, BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, NBC, Fox, Paramount, WB, Funny Or Die and the CBS Diversity Showcase. He also currently writes and performs at The Second City Hollywood. He is terrified of whales.