Jeff Sculley
Jeffrey Sculley is grateful to his wife Patricia and son Carrick for their support without which he could not be a part of the Valley Improv Group. He was a founding member of, and instructor with, the Alexandria, Virginia-based improvisational comedy troupe, Under the Beltway. In addition to improv, Jeff occasionally performs in scripted theatrical productions (*cough* scripts are for wussies *cough*). Some of his favorite roles include George (“Same Time, Next Year”), Biff (“Death of a Salesman”), Tim (“Noises Off”) and Robin (“Robin Hood”).
By day Jeff is an attorney with the New Windsor, New York law firm of Rider, Weiner & Frankel, P.C. He represents family-owned businesses, municipalities, closely-held corporations, entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals. His legal practice focuses on employment law and human resource issues, contract and municipal law, administrative and regulatory matters, as well as trial and appellate litigation (which is fancy-pants, lawyer-talk for suing and being sued). Jeff wants all aspiring attorneys to know that “Boston Legal” is a spot-on depiction of the everyday reality of legal practice, sans the ever-witty presence of William “the Shat” Shatner (whose genius, like that of all true visionaries, will only be fully appreciated posthumously).
Before hooking up with the Rider firm, Jeff did a bunch of legal stuff. He worked for the GOVERNMENT in Washington, D.C. drafting legislation, helping maintain the federal fleet of black helicopters and arguing cases before the various federal circuit courts of appeal. A vastly younger, more naïve and slimmer Jeff practiced first amendment law in Chicago, Illinois (which sounds far cooler than it was). First amendment law boiled down to trying to keep strip clubs open and explaining to the occasional mouth-breathing, knuckle walker why he wasn’t entitled to have “NAZI-BOY” emblazoned on his vanity plates. Jeff also served as an appellate law clerk to the Hon. Susan F. Hutchinson, Justice, Illinois Appellate Court (which was far cooler than it sounds).
Jeff believes that people should be judged not by the color of their bottom line, but by the content of their Netflix’s queue. A man of refined comedic sensibilities, he also believes that the two funniest events in the world are a man being kicked in the groin and a man’s toupee being blown off of his head, with the possible exception of a man’s toupee being blown off of his head and striking a second man in the groin. Jeff’s favorite flavor of Pop Tart™ is Strawberry Frosted.
