Colin Sweeney is the Co-Founder and Director of Education Emeritus at the Westside. He has taught improv to kids and teens from SMMUSD public schools, partnered with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as well as workshops for the US Armed Forces worldwide. He is currently a Masters of Education Candidate at CSUN. He is the proud father of a boy and girl who happen to love improv too. Before being a dad, he performed in all 50 states and internationally with the critically acclaimed, Mission IMPROVable touring company, playing a thousand shows at colleges, high schools, festivals and corporations including Lollapalooza and Dis
Carl Meyer-Curtis
Carl Meyer-Curtis is a graduate of Second City Hollywood, iO West, and Westside Comedy and completed the improv track at Groundlings. He performs regularly at Westside with house team Forever Team and indie team The Class Menagerie. His biggest work in comedy thus far is his “queer love trilogy” of sketch shows he wrote and produced at Second City Hollywood, French Dinosaurs, French Robots, and Jim + Sharon’s Lap Dance. He also enjoys doing, like, NORMAL theatre with an -re and being serious in it (I have FACETS, okay?). He is currently working on his country music singing skill which he intends to incorporate into his standup comedy. So self-deprecating country songs about being awkward, gay and lonely are coming–I know you can’t wait!
Jeff Faehnle
Jeff is an improviser, writer and actor based in Los Angeles. He has trained and performed at Westside Comedy Theater, iO West and UCB. He performs with the Westside Comedy house team Sidehug. You can also catch him in his autobiographical comic strip For Real Though (@forrealthoughcomix on Instagram). Jeff is currently represented by Sovereign Talent Group.
Sean Will
Sean Will is a comedic actor who has appeared in various films, commercials, and television shows on networks like BET, NBC, and Tru TV. With over 10 years of combined experience at UCB, The Groundlings, M.i. Westside Comedy Theater, iO West, and Second City to name a few, Sean has been a member of various comedy groups throughout the city.
He currently resides on the M.i. Westside House team Sidehug, every 1st and 3rd Monday each month at 10pm, and you can catch him around LA performing in multiple comedy groups because that IS his social life. And he’s proud of it!
He is represented theatrically by The Library Agency, and commercially and in print by BBA Models and Talent.
Lauren Flynn
Lauren Flynn is an improviser, clown, and Emmy-award-winning video journalist living in Los Angeles. She fell in love with improv at Finest City Improv in San Diego before moving to LA to work at the Los Angeles Times.
She is a graduate of Westside Comedy Theater and Finest City Improv and she has training in clown and musical improv. She can be seen performing with Westside’s newest house team, Sidehug, indie team Squid Family Robinson, and her improv/clown duo, 10City!
Lauren is a Hufflepuff, dog mom, wine and cheese lover, and has a healthy fear of gorillas. By day, she is the post production supervisor of LA Times Today, a SpectrumNews1 show that you can only watch if you have Spectrum cable. It’s okay, she doesn’t have it either.
Sam Skolnik
Sam Skolnik is super famous among his parent’s friend group. Seriously, if you go back to Petaluma, California and ask any middle-aged person if they know Sam Skolnik and they’ll be like, “Oh that short kid whose parents won’t stop talking about that Playstation commercial he did with a live bear?” And then you’ll be like, “Yeah, well he trained real hard at the Groundlings and now he’s on a house team at the Westside Comedy Theater called There Will Be Snacks and has an indie comedy troupe called Grasping at Straws and he won’t shut up about it.”
Nick Crosby
Nick Crosby began performing stand-up and sketch comedy in 2011 and graduated from the improv training program at Westside Comedy Theater in 2019. He originally hails from Bakersfield, CA, which you shouldn’t hold against him, but also, I get it if you do. Nick also has an excellent asthma inhaler impression, which he has used as a party trick since 4th grade. Please ask him about it.
Lish Bliss
Lish Bliss was nearly born into a pack of wolves in the Midwest which explains her knack for barking and sniffing people’s butts to say hello. The hunting of her dreams led her to LA where she became a classically trained actress and a director, graduating from LACC’s Theatre Academy. She also studied improv, standup and sketch at places like iO West to M.i.’s Westside Comedy Theater. She plays with the agents of Mission IMPROVable and is now delighted to eat the stage with There Will Be Snacks. Whenever you hear a bark or howl, consider for a moment that it may be the one and only, Lish Bliss. Awoooo. Follow her scent on IG: @lishbliss
Katy Foley
Jillian Ferry
Jillian is an actress, singer and sketch writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, Jillian has trained in both classical acting as well as improv, standup and sketch from UCB to The Westside Comedy Theater. In her spare time, Jillian is writing songs, planning her next bucket list trip and watching Parks and Rec on repeat! Check out more at www.jillianferry.com