Meet Mixed Company
Current Members
Sabrina Peaches and Karim
- Clip: Trouble Sleeping
- Year: Branford 2011
- Major: Cognitive Science
- Hometown: London, Canada
- Positions: Tour Manager '09, Performance Director '08-'09, Business Manager '09-'10
- Interests: Having fun with friendlies, traveling, making s'mores and funfetti cakes, High School Musical
- Favorite Music: Coldplay, Backstreet Boys, Regina Spektor, Ben Folds, Norah Jones, DMB, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou
- Fun Fact: She's a fiend for gummy candy!
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: McKay's last night at Yale, when all of Mixed Co laid out on blankets on Old Campus until 4 am and sang along to our favorite songs while Dan played guitar.
Sei Young and Hip Pyo
- Clip: Seasons of Love
- Year: Morse 2011 (Whim 2011)
- Major: Political Science
- Hometown: Seoul, Korea & Manila, Philippines
- Positions: Rush Manager '08, Tour Manager '09, Pitchpipe '09-'10
- Interests: Coffee ice cream, running, snow
- Favorite Music: Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Frou Frou, Incubus, Iron & Wine, Radiohead, Rent
- Fun Fact: She can probably kick your butt in Mario Kart.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: When she went to Wisconsin after a long day of roller coaster rides and ate dinner at the Oasis, the best rest stop ever, with Team Six Flags on Chicago tour.
Eric That's Why We Keep Him A- Randall
- Clip: Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go
- Year: Davenport 2011
- Major: History
- Hometown: Hingham, MA
- Positions: Rush Manager '08, Tour Manager '09, Asst. Business Manager '08-'09, Head Int'l Tour Manager '10
- Interests: TV marathons, piano, losing Jeopardy to the people on TV
- Favorite Music: Dispatch, Elton John, The Fray, Jack Johnson, James Taylor, John Mayer, Matchbox 20
- Fun Fact: He was once asthmatic, but he shook it off like a common cold at the age of three. It's because he's hardcore.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Going to Magic Kingdom and having all his dreams come true, unlike the dreams of team MGM Studios.
Daniel Stylin' Spector
- Clip: Mandolin Moon
- Year: Saybrook 2011+1 (Whiffs 2011)
- Major: Computing and the Arts
- Hometown: Weston, MA
- Positions: Rush Manager '09, Webmaster '09-'10, Head Tour Manager '10
- Interests: My band, playing guitar, skiing, fried food
- Favorite Music: John Mayer, Something Corporate, Nickel Creek
- Fun Fact: Dan played classical cello for 15 years - and didn't sing until college.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Singing karaoke at Jon Wu's restaurant in California, where Mixed Co got rickrolled by the karaoke machine.
Gabriella -gant Clapper Tortorello
- Clip: Stars and the Moon
- Year: Jonathan Edwards 2011 (Whim 2011)
- Major: Art History
- Hometown: Westchester, NY
- Positions: Rush Manager '09, Tour Manager '09
- Interests: Baking, opera, disney movies, Audrey Hepburn, Italy
- Favorite Music: Schumann, Bach, Ravel, Radiohead, Incubus, Band of Horses, The National, Muse, various musical theater
- Fun Fact: Though she looks innocent, Gabriella can make the most terrifying dinosaur scream you've ever heard.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Spending her birthday with Mixed Company and her old chorus at her high school in New York.
Elizabeth Whirling Dervan
- Clip: Satellites
- Year: Silliman 2012
- Major: Cognitive Science
- Hometown: Pasadena, CA
- Positions: Head Rush Manager '09, Tour Manager '10, Asst. Business Manager '10-'11, Head Int'l Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Musical theater, love stories, chemistry, vanilla froyo, talking too much, cooking, shoe shopping
- Favorite Music: The Shins, Regina Spektor, Death Cab for Cutie, The Weepies, any showtune, The Arcade Fire, Norah Jones
- Fun Fact: Carole King is her distant cousin.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Spending an hour driving in Cambridge, MA looking for the Harvard football field only to realize that the stadium was on the other side of the bridge... the bridge they had already crossed three times.
Esther Single As- Hyun
Musical Director
- Clip: Follow Through
- Year: Branford 2012
- Major: Political Science
- Hometown: Seoul, South Korea; Fargo, ND; Columbus, GA; Bellingham, WA
- Positions: Assistant Pitch '09-'10, Tour Manager '10, International Tour Manager '10, Pitchpipe '10-'11
- Interests: Love. And happiness. And piano.
- Favorite Music: Good pop from all spectrums
- Fun Fact: Bubba Dubba Kubba De Bubba de bubba Kubba Dubba - vowels + emphasized consonants = beatboxing.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Falling off the stage while singing One Fine Day and seeing Gump (and audience) faces as the shoe continued singing... resulting in a bruise the size of her forearm on her thigh all through Spring Tour.
David Shaken Not Stirred Martinez
Business Manager
- Clip: The Luckiest
- Year: Trumbull 2012
- Major: Political Science & Economics
- Hometown: Upland, CA
- Positions: Asst. Business Manager '09-'10, Alumni Coordinator/Historian '09-'11, Int'l Tour Manager '10, Summer Tour Manager '10, Business Manager '10-'11
- Interests: Performing, swimming, being vegetarian, post-modern theory, biotechnology
- Favorite Music: Rufus Wainwright, Britney, Gregory Lemarchal, The Beach Boys, Robyn, Jason Robert Brown, Girl Talk
- Fun Fact: He dislikes artificial cheese flavoring, artificial chocolate flavoring, and artificial grass.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Trying to circumvent Family Night on Sundays by eating together in TD.
McKay Where Are the CDs? Nield
- Clip: McDonald's Girl
- Year: Davenport 2012+2
- Major: LOVE
- Hometown: Kimberly, ID
- Positions: Absentee '09-'11
- Interests: Circus peanuts, colors, precipitation, contemporary things, loud things, thrift stores, humans, hugs not drugs, and the Argentine tango
- Favorite Music: Alternativepianorock indiecrunkpopopera
- Fun Fact: If McKay were a McDonald's sandwich, he would be a McNield. And you would eat him.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Staging an emotional break-up scene with Yael in a grocery store on spring tour while making a midnight run for cookie dough and cheese balls. Also, Esther falling off a stage mid-song.
Chloe 500 Days of Sarbib
- Year: Saybrook 2012
- Major: Ichtheology & Gambling Studies
- Hometown: Washington, DC
- Positions: Album Producer '11, Winter Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Film writing, Chipotle, Sandra the hairdresser, Arrested Development, peanut M&Ms
- Favorite Music: Sufjan Stevens, The Harlem Shakes, Bedouin Soundclash, The Weepies, The Smiths
- Fun Fact: Chloe is not from New York.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Staring at the thermostat in Jake's house for an hour waiting for the hot tub to hit 100 degrees.
Yael Lift Every Voice and Zinkow
- Clip: Song of Purple Summer
- Year: Saybrook 2012
- Major: Undecided
- Hometown: Bexley, OH
- Positions: Rush Manager '09, Summer Tour Manager '10, Spring Tour Manager '11, Int'l Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Telling (and repeating) stories, the Minnesota Vikings, Broadway, mac and cheese, classic Nickelodeon, Arrested Development
- Favorite Music: Broadway, Christmas music, The Beach Boys, Mika, Queen, Newsies soundtrack, That Thing You Do soundtrack
- Fun Fact: 'Yael' means mountain goat... and is also an anagram for Yale. She knows.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Playing Allison's Next Top Model on Spring tour. She won. Ask Allison.
Steph -initely Fierce Brandon
- Year: Morse 2013
- Major: Applied Horticulture
- Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
- Positions: Head Rush Manager '10, Spring Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Singing, acting, pork fried rice
- Favorite Music: Blue-eyed soul, belting divas, and everything in between
- Fun Fact: In the third grade, she punched a boy in the face for throwing the balloon from her static electricity science fair project in the garbage.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Spontaneously bursting into song with Mixed Co in front of the Spanish Steps in Rome, soon after participating in a heated screaming match with a guy trying to sell Chloe flowers during a conversation we were having. Rude.
Kyle Didn't Start the Fire Clark
- Year: Branford 2013
- Major: Astrology
- Hometown: North Bend, WA
- Positions: Rush Manager '10, Winter Tour Manager '11, Assistant Pitch '10-'11
- Interests: Theatre, music, physics and all the other clichés expected of an a cappella singing astrology major. He also enjoys skydiving, useless acrobatics, and underwater basket weaving.
- Favorite Music: That one great song that's always playing on the radio. That other great song that's at all the parties and that one guy everyone likes.
- Fun Fact: Kyle once lit a river on fire.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Cooking unconventional cuisine with Steph and Maeve in Greece.
Jake All Roads Lead to Iv- Eliasberg
- Year: Trumbull 2013
- Major: Agrarian Studies
- Hometown: San Diego, CA
- Positions: Rush Manager '10, Head Winter Tour Manager '11, Int'l Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Eating potatoes in any cooked form, San Diego Chargers, seeing shows before they make it Broadway, Friends, water skiing
- Favorite Music: Adele, Carolina Liar, Original Broadway Cast, anything pop
- Fun Fact: The first time he met Stephen Sondheim was at a birthday party.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Bonding with Mixed Co over our love of Ivy Noodle and our countless nights that end there. His favorite fortune is "Learn Chinese Beef!"
Ian Rose from the Graves
- Year: Timothy Dwight 2013
- Major: Aesthetics
- Hometown: Belmont, MA
- Positions: Winter Tour Manager '11, Webmaster '10-'11
- Interests: Sports, especially crew and hockey
- Favorite Music: Jack Johnson, Atmosphere, Brad Paisley, college a cappella
- Fun Fact: Ian loves black coffee and Peanut Butter Cups.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: When, riding in the front seat of David's car on the way to a gig, he turned around and saw Steph and Gabi licking Kyle.
Christopher mein Reisefuhrer ist SMOKIN' Murray
- Year: Branford 2013
- Major: African-American Studies
- Hometown: Hinsdale, IL
- Positions: Head Spring Tour Manager '11, Int'l Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Tennis, skiing, classical guitar, foreign languages, travel, pasta, things that fly
- Favorite Music: Anything but rap
- Fun Fact: Chris went to Toad's for the first time with his parents!
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory:
Maeve -y She's Born with It Ricaurte
- Year: Silliman 2013
- Major: Aeronautical Engineering
- Hometown: Howard County (Hoco!), MD
- Positions: Rush Manager '10, Spring Tour Manager '11
- Interests: Mixed Co, the great outdoors, pretzels
- Favorite Music: Michael-J, J-Mraz, and smooth jazz
- Fun Fact: Maeve goes through as many pieces of Orbit gum a day as the average nicotine addict does cigarettes.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Cooking bull testicles in Greece.
Recent Alumni
- 2008
- Jessica Bian
- Esteli Gomez
- Jessica Poter
- Felicia Ricci
- 2007
- Justin Baker
- Matthew Busick
- Mark Dunn
- Ryan Hickey
- Tory Nelson
- Lexi Newman
- Joe Samel
- Nat Zingg
- 2006
- Nika Hasegawa
- Aaron Lambert
- 2005
- Eve Fairbanks
- Elliot Greenberger
- Whitney Grolig
- 2004
- Molly Karlin
- Brian Kim
- Caren Perlmutter
- 2003
- Ted Bailey
- Jeannie Chung
- Anne Leone
- Dave Lerman
- Ting-Ting Liang
- Ben Lindy
- Derrick McBride
- Tommy Ogletree
Allison Singapore Unfortunate Bruff
- Clip: Shadowland
- Year: Branford 2010 (Whim 2010)
- Major: Biology
- Hometown: Bloomfield, CT
- Positions: Business Manager '07-'09
- Interests: Singing, baking, reading
- Favorite Music: Celine Dion
- Fun Fact: She cries at the end of The Little Mermaid every time because Ariel is leaving her father.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Belting "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" and the rest of the Dreamgirls soundtrack in the Car of Dreams on California tour.
Ted Let My People Go Gibson
- Clip: Mona Lisa
- Year: 2010
- Major: Applied Math
- Hometown: Watchung, NJ
- Positions: Rush Manager '07, Tour Manager '08, Tour Manager '09, Album Producer '09
- Interests: Singing, acting, football
- Favorite Music: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, John Legend, Coldplay, Billy Joel, Elton John
- Fun Fact: Ted was the captain of his high school football team. A football player in an a cappella group. Really.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Knowing he should have been studying for his four finals two days ahead of time, but going to the Yankees-Mariners game with half of Mixed Co anyway.
Scott Hi Ho Hillier
- Clip: Someone to Fall Back On
- Year: 2010+1 (Whiffs 2010)
- Major: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Hometown: Nevada, MO
- Positions: Pitchpipe '08-'09
- Interests: Cat Deeley, Silliman College, Au Bon Pain, talking, college football, theaters, Banana Republic, mashed potatoes
- Favorite Music: A Fine Frenzy, Maria Mena, Kings of Leon, The Carpenters, and the Big Five
- Fun Fact: He has the softest hair in the whole world.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: The time he gave a girl hives in Florida. Ask him about it.
Ian Like a Vir- Janer
- Clip: Two Points for Honesty
- Year: 2010+1 (Whiffs 2010)
- Major: Architecture
- Hometown: New York, NY
- Positions: Webmaster '07-'09, Alumni Coordinator '07-'09, Rush Manager '08
- Interests: Musical theater, visual art
- Favorite Music: Rent, the new Kelly Clarkson album, and plenty more... oh, and Mixed Co.
- Fun Fact: For a while, Ian had a cat named Blob. It weighed twenty pounds.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: When Scott dressed up as Bald Britney for Halloween.
Allyson Take Her or Lieberman
- Clip: Turn Me On
- Year: Saybrook 2010 (Whim 2010)
- Major: Biophysics & Biochemistry
- Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
- Positions: Rush Manager '07, Tour Manager '08, Asst. Pitch '08-'09, Tour Manager '09
- Interests: Golf, singing in the car, DDR, musicals, dorkiness
- Favorite Music: Basically all her Dad's music. And indie. And show tunes.
- Fun Fact: Allyson is a world-level competitor on both Jeopardy and competitive spelling.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: When, singing on the street in California, the guys and girls switched solos and one passerby fell over herself because she was too busy watching Ian sing to look where she was going.
Chaka Boom Jaliwa
- Clip: Walking in Memphis
- Year: Branford 2011
- Major: Computing and the Arts
- Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
- Positions: Winter Tour Manager '08, Winter Tour Manager '09
- Interests: Every IM Sport
- Favorite Music: Anything but country.
- Fun Fact: Seriously. He really, really likes IM sports.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Dominating two super large buffalo chicken calzones from two different Massachusetts restaurants, thereby reaffirming his captaincy of Team Eat.
Julian Plays Ball Like a Prokopetz
- Year: Ezra Stiles 2009 (Whiffs 2009)
- Major: Political Science
- Hometown: Winnipeg, Canada
- Positions: Rush Manager '06, Music Director '07-'08, Spring Tour Manager '07, Spring Tour Manager '08
- Interests: Penguins, nonce words, expressive facial contortions, saving the planet but not neccessarily all the people living on it.
- Favorite Music: Show tunes, Motown, classic rock, classical, and anything sung by a blasty woman.
- Fun Fact: Due to his involvement in a glam rock musical in 2006, Julian will never be able to eradicate traces of glitter from his personal belongings.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Finishing a concert in New Jersey only to be mobbed by an army of children begging us to autograph their notebooks, lunchboxes, hands, and faces.
Stephanie Homeword Bound Chan
- Year: Davenport 2009
- Major: Psychology
- Hometown: Glendale, CA
- Positions: Business Manager '06-'07, Winter Tour Manager '07, Rush Manager '07, Assistant Pitch '07-'08, Summer Tour Manager '08
- Interests: Knitting hats, following competitive ice-skating, making dream-catcher earrings, attempting roundoff-back-handsprings, kicking ass in foozball
- Favorite Music: Frank Sinatra, Debussy, Juanes, Rilo Kiley, musical theater, oldies (motown!) and late 90's anything
- Fun Fact: In 2004, Steph was the second-runner up in the North American Miss Pageant. In the process of getting there, she walked precariously down runways in three inch heels and answered questions such as, "If your life were a board game, which one would it be and why?" Ask her which one she chose.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Learning and perfecting High School Musical choreography (DVD extra!) with ABruff and Chaka on tour in California, winter 2007. Dancer Jenny Baik will never forgive us.
Jenny Fall-Ow! Through Baik
- Year: Trumbull 2009
- Major: English & Psychology
- Hometown: Brea, California
- Positions: Business Manager '06-'07, Winter Tour Manager '07, Assistant Business Manager '07-'08, Winter Tour Manager '08
- Interests: Dancing, shopping, cooking (especially baking), sushi, organic foods, NOT sleeping, organizing things compulsively, beluga whales, perms
- Favorite Music: John Mayer, Alanis Morissette, Gavin DeGraw, John Legend, ABBA, Corinne Bailey Rae, Robyn (the 90's = a great era for girly pop)
- Fun Fact: Jenny spent her tap night running around in stilletos and a mini skirt. The sprint to Davenport (to tap Jess B!) was kind of painful, but she was too happy about joining Mixed Co to care about her blistered feet.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Spending a day on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. Mixed Co went vineyard-hopping, and during one particularly long yet scenic romp across the island, Tyce and Stro managed to finish off an entire bottle of rosé by themselves. Their faces became redder and redder as we went along, and their pace got slower and slower. Good thing the rest of us were in good spirits and found the whole situation amusing. Great views, great beaches, great wine, great (albeit, slightly tipsy) company.. how could you not be in a fabulous mood in such an idyllic place?
Meg Texes Hold'em Holden
- Year: Morse 2009
- Major: Political Science
- Hometown: Georgetown, TX
- Positions: Rush Manager '06, Spring Tour Manager '07, Spring Tour Manager '08
- Interests: Mexican food, summer camp, family, ice cream, musicals, cows, being stealthy
- Favorite Music: Fiona Apple, Ani Difranco, Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Elliott Smith, Jay-Z, show tunes
- Fun Fact: Meg is "studying" abroad in Madrid this semester but plans on performing with the Gump via webcam.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Getting asked for her number during Q & A after serenading a high schooler in "One Fine Day."
Tyce Port Authority Walters
- Year: Pierson 2009
- Major: Philosophy
- Hometown: Glencoe, IL
- Positions: Album Producer '07, Winter Tour Manager '07, Spring Tour Manager '08, Summer Tour Manager '08
- Interests: Capoeira, magic, and stage-hypnosis
- Favorite Music: Blues, jazz, post-rock, folk
- Fun Fact: Tyce will never be seen without a bottle of port and the New York Review of Books.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Walking down the road in New Zealand from one wine tasting to another, drinking chilled rosé. Then showing up at the second winery and making fools of ourselves (see Jenny Baik's profile).
Jessica To Infinity And Bian
- Year: Davenport 2008
- Major: MCDB & American Studies
- Hometown: Richland, WA
- Positions: Winter Tour Manager '07
- Interests: Musical theatre, classical piano, all-nighters, domestic chores, interstate highways
- Favorite Music: John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae, Van Morrison, John Mayer, Rilo Kiley, Aretha Franklin
- Fun Fact: Ask Jess what she would do with a team of supersonic huskies and a giant crossbow and she'll tell you her fun fact.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: "Road Trip of Dreams": California Winter Tour '07: Getting lost in Pasadena, Long Beach, and everywhere in between; freaking out on Rodeo Drive and "Avenue of the Stars"; Wendy's drive-thru at 1:52 am, and finally making it to Hollywood Blvd to see the real stars!
Esteli Unleash the Beast Gomez
- Year: Saybrook 2008
- Major: Music
- Hometown: Watsonville, CA
- Positions: Winter Tour Manager '06, Assistant Pitch '05-'06 & '06-'07, Solo Coach '05-'08, Winter Tour Manager '07
- Interests: Doing as much music as is humanly possible at Yale, listening to music while trying to keep up with that whole academic thing, organic food, playing intense games of (bilingual) scrabble
- Favorite Music: Jazz (tons of vocal and Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Artie Shaw, Louis Prima & Armstrong), classical (mostly early Renaissance stuff lately), folk/blues (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Judy Collins, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker)
- Fun Fact: She has double jointed shoulders, ankles, and thumbs.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Singing Zombie Jamboree at home on California tour Winter 04 for her very thrilled parents at about 12am, only to get up at 5am the next morning to drive to San Francisco and sing "One Fine Day" for the elementary school kiddies. That, a million more, and of course tap night.
Jessica TipSAE Poter
- Year: Calhoun 2008
- Major: Theater Studies
- Hometown: Northbrook, IL
- Positions: Rush Manager '05, Summer Tour Manager '06, Alumni Coordinator '06-'07
- Interests: Acting, making to do-lists, playing musical theater name-that-tune, shaking what her mother gave her
- Favorite Music: Show tunes, reggaeton, the soundtrack of Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, cheesy 90's pop, Black Eyed Peas, Linda Eder
- Fun Fact: Jessica's voice teacher once called her "the most willful child" she had ever met.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Driving down a rural New York state highway on the way from New Haven to Chicago with a sedan full of MixedCo belting Disney songs at the top of their lungs. Coincidentally, this was immediately succeeded by her Worst Gump Memory: getting a $195 speeding ticket because she was in no way paying attention to how fast their car was going. Sometimes Alan Menken gets her a little out of control.
Justin Shake 'n Baker
- Year: Davenport 2007+1 (Whiffs 2007)
- Major: History
- Hometown: Westfield, NY
- Positions: Business Manager '04-'05 & '05-'06
- Interests: College football, reading horrible books while maintaining the most pretentious bookshelf possible, Halo 2
- Favorite Music: Beatles, Ben Folds, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Coldplay
- Fun Fact: Justin's first performing career was as a ballet dancer, performing in the largest children's production of the Nutcracker in the world at the tender age of six. He is about to become a marine.
- Favorite Mixed Co Memory: Feasting on KFC and Pizza Hut after spending an entire day on our feet with no food while being given the longest and most thorough tour of Barcelona in the history of the world. Pure bliss.