Andrey Madan Bio:

Andrey Madan was born on December 24th, 1978 in Dushambe, the capital of Tajikistan (a country north of Afghanistan). Throughout his Soviet life Andrey lived in Kishinev, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Novosibirsk. His student years Andrey spent in Akademgorodok (Nobosibirsk, Siberia), where he attended Physics-Math school and later Physics Department of Novosibirsk State University (NGU). In 1999 he moved to the USA with his parents. In 2004 Andrey graduated from the Purdue University of Indiana with Master's degree in Computer Science and then came to live to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Those degrees were quite useless in his creative life which included active KVN involvement in Indiana and Minneapolis, organizing Russian stand-up comedy club in Minneapolis and directing and acting in a short movie "Contract" in the Russian version of "The Other 48 Hours" project in Minneapolis.

Andrey is a huge soccer fan and plays in a local soccer league. He is married, but no children yet apart from Andrey himself.

Yegor Kurilov Bio:

Yegor Kurilov was born on September 30th, 1976 in Samara, Russia. For some time he lived in Ulyanovsk, but in 1987 moved with his family back to Samara. After finishing high school and musical academy Yegor attended Samara State Aerospace University. After finishing first semester he immigrated to New York, USA, where he studied and worked from 1995 to 2000. In 2000 Yegor moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and MBA program.

At the present time Yegor works at Smith Medical as a Business Analyst. He is married and has two kids. Yegor took an active role in creation and development of "KVN" (Russian-speaking Club of the Fun and Inventive people) in Minnesota and in 2000 along with his friends organized a local Russian stand-up comedy club. Yegor not only helped organize Comedy Club events but also participated as an actor and author of many shows. He also organized and acted in a short-movie festival "The Other 48 Hours", where he received an award for best director in movie "Sasha."

Ygor's other hobbies include music, soccer, photo art, travel and journalism. His best journalist works were published in Minnesota-based magazine "Mirror" and other popular Internet websites.