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Jason Shotts

Jason studied improv at the iO Theater in Chicago and performed there from 2003 to 2014. Currently living in Los Angeles, he can be seen performing as one-half of the improv duo Dummy, winner of the iO Theater’s Del Award for Best Improv Show in 2013 and 2014. He’s also the co-host of LIVE from the HOLLYWOOD ROOM!, a monthly variety show at Second City Hollywood.

He’s been teaching improv since 2006 and received the Del Award for “Best Teacher” in 2011 and 2013. ​In addition to teaching and coaching improvisers and improv groups all over Los Angeles, he travels around the world teaching and performing at improv theaters and festivals. He’s traveled to London, Edinburgh, Rome, Copenhagen, Oslo, Warsaw, Wrocław, Krakow, Bremen, Mannheim, Beijing, San Francisco, New York, San Diego, Denver, Austin, Houston, Washington DC, Phoenix, Tucson, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami and Chicago.

For more information, please visit www.jasonshotts.com

Clayton Moore

Clayton has been doing improv all over Orange County and LA since he was 17. Now you can catch him at the Westside Comedy Theater playing with McCallister every first and third Monday at 8 pm. If you do, come say hi. He’s very polite.

Trevor Tevel

Trevor Tevel (rhymes with bell) has been in a relationship with improv for over 11 years, and started at this very theater! He has trained at the Westside Comedy Theater, Groundlings, UCB, iO West, and The Improv Space. Trevor also completed the sketch programs at Groundlings and UCB, which gave him the tools to develop pilots for A&E and Comedy Central. Trevor has toured the country performing improv and more. You can catch him performing regularly with the award-winning short form troupe – Mission Improvable.

When Trevor is not performing he likes to hang with his wife and little brother in the Big Brother/Big Sister program, roots for the Dodgers, reads comic books, listens to jazz, and coaches multiple improv teams around town including the house team – Gravity.

Ryan Cohen

Ryan is a writer and improviser originally from the Bay Area. He wrote his first big story in the 5th grade, which was very derivative of Star Wars, Episode I (a movie that Ryan admittedly loved as a child but openly loathes as an adult).

He went on to get a really useful degree in Creative Writing from UC San Diego. One of his favorite memories from that time is when his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry professor asked him to tutor her lower division students; she then rescinded the offer after he turned in a serialized poem entirely about toilet seats. “Your poetry is too funny” felt like an insult, but he chose to take it as a compliment.

After that ringing endorsement, Ryan decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a starving artist. Most of the time, he’s still pretty hungry.

Ryan can currently be seen performing at The Westside Comedy Theater with Air Force Fun, and once a month at The Pack Theater with cult-favorite sketch team Nightchurch.

Jacklyn Uweh

Jacklyn Uweh is a Stockton-bred writer & performer. Since discovering her comedic voice as a mime – she’s studied improv & sketch at the Second City Hollywood, UCB , Groundlings and UC Irvine. She’s performed in the premium shows Live Rude Girls, 177Fox, Trump in Space and the inaugural Bob Curry Diversity Fellowship Showcase. Most recently, she went on tour with Second City Theatricals and mounted her one-woman sketch show, I Dreamed A Dream. If you run into her, say hi! She promises not to talk in the 3rd person. IG/TW: @blkjack76 | www.jacklynuweh.com

Matt Ippolito

Matt is an improviser and film producer based in Los Angeles. He has trained at The Westside Comedy Theater and UCB in Los Angeles, and The Annoyance Theater in Chicago. He proudly performs with Westside’s Alley Team ‘Take 5’ and indie team ‘Scarbard.’ If this bio is boring it’s because he also enjoys building Excel spreadsheets.

Mychael “Hawk” Brown

Hawk is an LA Native who has dreamed of being an entertainer since his earliest memories of recreating music videos in his room as a child. Inspired by early greats such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Hawk found himself falling in love with the stage through theatre performances in high school and then again in his adult life as an Improv/Sketch performer.

Alisa Fathi

Born in Marin County too early for her love of Harry Potter to be judged “age-appropriate” in the eyes of society, Alisa has long been a student of all things weird and awkward. Her studies drew her south to UC Santa Barbara where she found a parallel interest in modeling (financial modeling) that naturally drew her to Los Angeles to work in the glitzy and glamorous world of corporate finance.  Rejecting the draws of both the posh accountant nightlife scene and Harry Potter video on demand, Alisa spends her evenings as a vigilante improvisationalist and watchful guardian of the awkward, drawn by the credo “with great awkwardness comes great responsibility.

Colleen Doyle

Colleen Doyle grew up in Cleveland where she wrote greeting cards and was a part of the cast that opened The Second City Cleveland. She has made appearances in the indie features Close Quarters and Open Tables as well as Fresh Off the Boat and the NYTVF Best Comedy Pilot, Shrink. Colleen taught at iO Chicago (Teacher of the Year 2014) and iO West, where she also served as Artistic Director and Training Center Director. In Chicago, Colleen performed with the lovely ladies of Virgin Daiquiri, Babymakers, and in the first sketch revue at the Mission Theater, Trap. In LA, Colleen teaches at Westside Comedy and performs with the ensembles Dummy and The Village Bicycle. For more info, please visit thecolleendoyle.com.

Josh Jones

Ever since his first starring role in his grade school’s play Nick Tickle: The Fairy Tale Detective as the eponymous gumshoe Josh caught “The Bug.” He has since tried his hand at a variety of types of performance on stage and the small screen. The one that he gravitated towards most was improv, having inadvertently made his first foray into the field when he forgot the lines of the aforementioned play. His ad-libs were met with a surprising amount of success, which gave him the confidence in his fledgling comedic abilities to strive to be the quick witted and somewhat inscrutable man he is today. Recently he went through the program at the Westside Comedy Theater and performs with the house team Big Kids every other Monday at 10:00 PM. His hobbies include spending way too much time playing video games, and making up D&D characters that he won’t have a chance to play anytime soon. Oh, he got a degree in Comparative Literature from San Diego State University, and his love for literature informs a lot of his comedic sensibilities.