Founded in 1998
what they do
Perform original skits set to contemporary music
Number of current members
About a dozen
Claim to fame
“America’s only collegiate mime troupe” (as far as they know)
Biggest challenge
Keeping white makeup off black clothes
why mime
“The extreme constraint—no words, no props, no costumes—forces creativity,” said HYPE! member Sean Murphy, E20. “There’s still a range of emotion we can evoke.”