Who are the Tortuga Twins?

We are WACKY, we are WILD, we are totally OFF THE WALL and we are FOR HIRE!!!

Introducing the Tortuga Twins: the corporate world's most innovative interactive comedy troupe. A multi-talented team with an extensive performance background combining over 30 years of comedic audience participation and improv experience, we can turn any boring, run of the mill event into something quite unforgettable.

Our individual training begins in the early days of our schooling and continues on into twenty-odd years of variety performances both around the United States and internationally. We have studied various performance techniques to hone our craft, and taken up staged combat and movement skills to add a dash of flair and an air of danger to almost everything we do.

IOur repertoire includes a variety of audience participation and physical comedy shows, as well as staged combat stunts and themed interactive characters. From these we can provide a number of pre-packaged characters, scenarios, and performances or we can go a completely different route and tailor a show specifically to fit the theme of your program or event.

So if you are looking for a professional, versatile, dependable, and above all fun crew with the background and experience to handle even the biggest enterprise, then the Tortuga Twins are the trio for you!

Last survivor of a distant race of supermen
Jef Hall
is the baby of the group (1966). With a father in the Entertainment field, his early childhood was a little less normal (he has fond memories of being bounced on Rip Taylor's lap!) He's had extensive voice training since age 9 and it paid off when he sang in the Opera La Tosca a few years later.

Four years of mime training led him to be a professional mime for awhile (We know, we're embarrassed too!) The Originator of the group, he joined forces with Riki in 1987.

Besides being the "handsome and charming" Twin, and an accomplished Mime (he's even taught), he has a beautiful Singing voice, a flair for Stage combat, and is a great little Dancer too.

A Genetic Experiment gone hopelessly awry
Riki Robinson
was born like the song goes "late December back in '63" And with a father in the state department had the most interesting childhood of the lot. He has fond memories of Pakistan, (where he was born) Hong Kong, Japan Thailand, Germany and England, and even remembers chasing butterflies in Laos during the Vietnam War .The Best stage Combatant in the Group, and fight director for the troupe, he directed the Highly acclaimed Human Chess Match at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival of Largo for six years He is constantly honing his fighting and directing skills as well as pursuing a second career in literature.

Originally a street Character at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival, he co-founded the group in 1987 bringing a little comic madness to us all .

As well as his abilities as a fighter, director and teacher, he's the fitness guru for the troupe (have you noticed how nice his butt looks?), and he even does windows.

Raised in the forest by a pack of wild Otters
Ronn Bauman was born in 1965. After a relatively normal childhood, and a brief stint in the US Navy, he decided it was much more fun to make people laugh for a living than to launch missiles at them from a submarine. With this in mind, he started doing comedy in 1989. Originally involved in a solo show as a juggler, he joined the Tortuga Twins in 1990.

The Comic "Point Man" of the group, he takes the responsibility as narrator, storyteller, and "heckler control" (as well as taking most of the blame ). A razor sharp wit and lighting fast comic reflexes have made him very unpopular in "Biker bars" throughout the country.

Besides a funny voice and too much hair, he brings to the group, skills like Juggling, Stage Combat, Nuclear missile launching and is a darn fine Cook, too.



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