Bios

The Grumpsters is a multimedia comedy troupe slash no budget production company with a tendency to use puppets, animation, or anything that happens to be around to make short films. Grumpsters was formed in 2005 as a puppet troupe. The Grumpster puppets have been in internet shorts and on stage in several Theatre ‘d Art productions. In 2008 the Grumpsters started producing weekly shorts.


Elijah enjoys making films cartoons and puppets. He likes nerds candies, full tanks of gas and days off, he dislikes fly fishing. in his spare time he bums around the interwebs, cuts his own hair in the most haphazard of manners and tries unsuccessfully to get a date

Born and raised in Colorado Springs. Jordan was sheltered by his mom and still lives in his parents house. He makes $8.75 an hour at a dead end job he hates and doesn’t know what to do with his life. Is he a catch? No. Does he look like a Jones Brother? Yes.

(aka Carny Drip) wishes not to disclose too much information about herself that would link her name with this site when she is Googled. “Carny” does consider herself to be a Puppet Rights Advocate, wishing equal performance opportunities for puppets as well as humans. She dreams of a day when puppets can move beyond the stereotypes of entertaining for children, where they can perhaps take on more serious and adult roles. She thinks the Grumpsters have been a big step forward in the Puppet Rights Movement, and remains an avid supporter so long as it does not jeopardize her non-puppet related day job.

Once upon a time a ray of sunshine descended amidst the Grumpsters crew and down floated Katy, surrounded by fairy dust and violin music. Ever since Grumpsters has had a new twinkle in its collective eye, and a lot more enormous breasts, and they lived happily ever after.

Will, who is know to his friends as “The Evil Dr. Xavier Malcolm,” was born one vibrant autumn day in Victorian England. After conquering the world on two separate occasions, he set off to conquer the world of acting. Armed only with his limitless supply of puns, he has joined the Grumpsters.

Tom grew up in a rural town off the coast of the Bermuda Triangle. He studied hard to learn the secrets of the Ninja Godzilla. He used his skills to thwart all of Dr. Xavier Malcolm’s feeble attempts at world conquest, then joined forces with his arch-rival to create the single most powerful acting group the world has ever, or will ever know. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start.

Heather Bird McElroy likes to make stuff. Stuff is cool. She usually enjoys making pretty stuff, but for some reason these Grumpster people have brainwashed her into making silly, dark and icky stuff… and she likes it. She may never return to the world of high art again. Oh well.

Matthew Redwine kicked Nellie in the Belly in the barn but it didn’t do her no harm. He was a railroad man, washed his face in a frying pan, combed his hair with a wagon wheel and died with a toothache in his heel. Matthew also like to animate and act up.

Joe has a large belly, and people seem to laugh at his nakedness. Is this because obese nudity is uncomfortable for society so they hide it by laughing? Joe does not think so. He thinks it’s because skinny people don’t bounce when they hit the ground. Joe only does Grumpsters movies because he is in love with his own body. And because it is fun.P.S. Tom, F your codes… Gameshark, done.

The Grumpsters has included performances by: Ariel Baty, Jocelyn Baty, Ben Bonenfant, Chelsea Stoinski, Emily White, Erick Groskopf, Jacqueline McCrimmon, Jeff Keele, Karl Brevik, Erik Brevik, Angie Kinnett, Micah Mowery, Brian Mann, Jon Margheim, Mark Lutinski, Sean Verdu, Anthony Velasquez, Matt Hall, Sarah Williams and probably others!