Jester

The Jester is the second oldest position at CTY Lancaster, and the only position to be shared by both sessions. It is a job with few responsibilities but is held in nothing but the highest regard. The Jester's main function is to act out the scenes in "American Pie" when the Jester steals the King's thorny crown and when the Jester is on the sidelines in a cast. Since some unknown year after 2009, the Jester also leads the Acting Improv activity with one other person of the Jester's choosing. The Jester organizes the stealing of The Painting in the site director's office as well as Second Sunday Shenanigans. The Jester is a nomore who is widely respected in the Lancaster community. Although the Jester is the oldest position at First Session, at Second Session, which has even older positions, it is slightly overshadowed in comparison. At both sessions, the Jester is usually passed down to someone who is considered to be outgoing and to have a good sense of humor, as a real jester would. In the latter Session, the Jester was part of the Pentinity.

The Jester's distinguishing article are a Jester's coat and hat. The hat originally belonged to Ken Levin and the coat was given to him by 2001 RA Travis-Jason "TJ" Feldstein. The coat and hat are passed down each year at Passionfruit to a promising one-more both sessions. As of LAN 14.2, the Jester also has a red slide whistle (a practice started by Matias "Mavs" Gonzalez). Ryan Grewal took an unprecedented amount of time to pass on the jacket and hat to Daniel Rock before 14.1, so RA Vivian purchased replacements. These were used in 15.1 and will presumably continue to be the session one Jester relics. There is a latex condom inside the left coat pocket as of 15.1.

Jesters Past*

* From the perspective of one year in the future.

• 1997: Matt "Wembley" Jacobs
• 1998: Aaron "The Short Kid with the Funny Hat" Tarnow
• 2001:

  First Session: Ken Levin

  Second Session: Matthew "Matt in the Hatt" Russo

• 2002:

  First Session: Stuart Schüssel

  Second Session: Andy "UnAndy" Schlesinger

• 2003:

  First Session: Gabriel Slamovits

  Second Session: Randall Leeds

• 2004:

  First Session: Alexia Simonnard-Note

  Second Session: Susannah Roush

• 2005:

  First Session: Josh Yanovski

  Second Session: Tassie Andersen

• 2006:

  First Session: Aliza Alperin-Sheriff

  Second Session: Christian "Christ" Burnette

• 2007:

  First Session: Molly Brean

  Second Session: Meghan Vu

• 2008:

  First Session: Dana Reback

  Second Session: Zeke Weiner/John Laws Harrison

• 2009:

  First Session: Verity

  Intersession: Max Wang

  Second Session: Race Archibold

• 2010:

  First Session: Faye Elgart

  Intersession: Rowan Matney

  Second Session: Otter Lee

• 2011:

  First Session: Joseph Fridman

  Intersession: Alex Kohanski

  Second Session: Graeme McGuire

• 2012

  First Session: Sam Sagan

  Intersession: Jonah Spear

  Second Session: Noah Goldstein

• 2013

  First Session: Ben Zweig

  Second Session: Louie Brown

• 2014

  First Session: Daniel Rock (When Ryan Grewal did not return)

  Intersession: David May

  Second Session: Matias "Mavs" Gonzalez

• 2015

  First Session: Gene Naumovsky

  Second Session: Isaiah Louder (when Lev Krasnovsky did not return)

• 2016

  First Session: Dan Fu

  Second Session: Ethan Pan

• 2017

  First Session: Casey Waite

  Second Session: Ky "Oh God How Did This Position Fall To Me" Lynch (When Joshua Medintz did not return) (when Jordan Ginsburg did not return)

• 2018

  First Session: Nathan Burke

  Second Session: Isak Sharfstein

• 2019

  First Session: Sam Schulman