Bill Arnett
DIRECTOR OF THE TRAINING CENTER
Bill Arnett has been a popular teacher at iO since 2005 and was recently named director of the training center. He has traveled extensively teaching at improv festivals and in workshops around the country as well as in Canada, Australia and the U.K. His well-read improv blog, tackles hot improv topics and questions from readers. As a performer Bill has been at iO for 12 years. He has performed with award-winning sketch group Maximum Party Zone and the iO house team People of Earth. He can currently be seen in the hit shows 3033 and The Armando Diaz Experience. He attended the University of Florida where he wrote and performed with Theatre Strike Force, the theater department’s sketch and improv group. He studied electrical engineering.
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, 3033, Pro Football Tomorrow
Dave Asher
Dave Asher graduated with a BA in Drama from Northwestern University in 1999. At Northwestern, he performed in its sketch-improv group The Mee-Ow Show (1999) as well as in The Titanic Players troupe (1996-1997). While in school, he took the iO classes and then performed on the iO house team Valhalla from 1996 to 1999. After graduation in ‘99, he moved to Amsterdam in The Netherlands to perform improv and sketch in Boom! Chicago (1999-2004). In addition to hundreds of shows in the 300 seat home theater, he did Boom! shows at private events, music festivals, universities, and a week on the Second City main stage as part of the Comedy Swap in 2002. Dave returned to Chicago in 2004. He joined the company of Child’s Play Touring Theater and toured the country performing adaptations of stories and poems written by children (2005-2006). Dave has also worked in improv as a musician. He music directed with The Second City National Touring Company (2004) and has been the Music Director of The iO since 2006 (That’s over 2000 Harolds!). As an improv teacher, he has taught classes and workshops at iO since 2006. He coached the harold team The Republic (2007-2008) and is currently the director of the iO musical house team The Del Tones. At Northwestern, he taught improv to theater majors. In Amsterdam, he served as Boom! Chicago’s head improv instructor for two years, training improv hopefuls as well as businessmen and women having their first taste of improv presented as team building.
Tim Baltz
Tim started seeing shows at iO Theater in 1995 at the age of 14. He has seen the country with Second City’s National Touring Company, and he performs at iO with the Harold team Bullet Lounge, and the Armando Diaz Experience. His past credits include Traffic & Weather, TAG, Blatzberg, Promise Keepers, and the long-running two-person show Nogoodnicks, among many others. He is a graduate of Loyola University-Chicago with a double major in French and Communication.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, Family Tree House Boat Accident, The Scene, Pro Football Tomorrow
Joe Bill
Joe Bill is one of the co-founders of Annoyance Theater, where he performed in and directed over 50 productions from 1987-2000, including smash hits “Co-ed Prison Sluts”, “The Real Live Brady Bunch” and “The Screw Puppies”. Bill has coached and performed with numerous ensembles at iO from 1985-1987 and 1995-present. Highlights include Georgia Pacific and the innovative lights out long-form, “The Bat”. He currently performs with the improv supergroup Weasilicious and co-stars with fellow Annoyance co-founder Mark Sutton, in the nationally touring production “Bassprov”, which headlined the 2003 Chicago Improv Festival with special guest Fred Willard. “Bassprov” has toured the United States since 2002, and also was named one of the top 10 comedy shows in Toronto in that same year. Bill teaches improvisation for iO, the Second City Conservatory and Training Center, the Annoyance, the Playground and around the U.S., Canada, UK and Netherlands. He started doing improv in 1977.
Shows: The Deltones, The Armando Diaz Experience
Allison Bills
Allison has been on/performed with 25-30 harold teams and shows at iO, toured for years with the Second City National Touring Company and Second City Communications, and performed/taught improv, (and comedy inspired through improv) internationally for most of her adult life. She has written and performed show featured in the Chicago Improv Festival and in a showcase for the HBO Comedy Festival. At iO, currently, she can be seen sometimes with Armando and the Lindbergh Babies 2.0, or sitting in with whoever needs her. She can also be seen frequently performing at the Apollo, the Annoyance theater, the Playground, Comedy Sportz with the Hot Karl, and at the Second City.
Christy Bonstell
Christy L. Bonstell graduated from Wayne State University with a BFA in theatre before becoming an understudy and teacher with Second City Novi and cast member and teacher at the Improv Inferno. She moved to Chicago where she studied at the Annoyance and iO, where she now teaches. Christy performs with Baby Wants Candy, the Hot Karl and ComedySportz, as well as in many original productions at the Annoyance Theatre.
Paul Brittain
Paul has been performing improv and sketch comedy at the iO Theater and elsewhere for the past 7 years. His credits at iO include Rattlesnake High School, TOPAZ, The Late Night Late Show, Ted and Melanie, Shotgun, Mike Helicopter, and The Pilot. He also created and performed his solo show Sex Ed. With “Sex” Ed Vincent at the Chicago Sketchfest, the L.A Comedy Festival, and the TBS Just For Laughs Festival. He’s performed all around Chicago in productions including Mr. 1,000 Miles Per Hour at the Stage Left Theater, Jacoby’s Promise at The Annoyance, The Midnight Hellhouse at The Playground, No Place Like Home at The Neo-Futurarium, and was an ensemble member for thei Second City Theatrical El Show Mas Funny performing in Miami.
Teams: Mike Helicopter
Shows: Challenger, Jim Paul Jet Paul
Andy Carey
Andy Carey has studied improvisation with iO Chicago, The Second City and the Annoyance. After receiving his B.F.A. in Theater Arts from the University of Idaho he worked as an actor and teacher for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. He can currently be seen performing with Quincy and The Improvised Shakespeare Company at iO, and also with Chrysalis Clark, The Big Yellow Bus, Homey Loves Chachi and The Beatbox.
Shows: Improvised Shakespeare
Jim Carlson
Jim Carlson has been improvising, directing, and acting in Chicago since 1995. He was on the iO house team Valhalla and currently plays in the Armando Diaz Experience on Monday nights. Jim directed over 15 shows at the iO including The Awesome Show, The Goodtime Hour, and The Awesome Show 2 ‘Still Awesome.’ He directed Disposable Nation and Immaculate Deception on the Second City etc. stage, Second City Las Vegas, Bobble Heads of State at Second City Detroit, two Second City touring companies, Second City’s Lollapalooza show, The Second City Political Show, and has spent some time at sea directing cruise ship comedy. Jim has taught improvisation at Columbia College, The Second City and Writer’s Theater.
Shows: Middle Age Comeback
Erin Davidson
Erin Davidson discovered improv while studying writing at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She moved to Chicago to study at iO Chicago, where she performed with The Placebo Effect and Jihahad; currently she performs every Wednesday night in the Cabaret with Carl & The Passions. She has also been performing independently for the past seven years with her best friends, the ladies of Cheetarah.
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Tara DeFrancisco
Tara DeFrancisco was awarded “Funniest Person in Chicago” by the Free Press, “30 Under 30” in the Windy City Times, and “25 Funniest Females 2009” in Curve Magazine for her ventures in stand up, sketch, and improv. She teaches improv courses and workshops to people of all ages and backgrounds across this nation, and that’s about the most rewarding thing ever – traveling to elementary and high schools, colleges, and offices all over the country as both an introductory instructor and a professional Comedy Consultant. Tara has taught for all three theatres (CSz, iO, and SC) in town, both in-house and on location. Tara is a 3-year veteran of Second City Touring Company, a decorated ComedySportz 3-time MVP, and an iO teacher, coach, house performer, and enthusiast. There are no words for how very thankful she is.
Shows: The Deltones, The Armando Diaz Experience, Powerball
Colleen Doyle
Colleen Doyle grew up in Cleveland, where she wrote greeting cards and performed with The Second City. Since then she has had the good fortune to play with ImprovAcadia in Maine, The Second City aboard the Norwegian Dawn, and the ensembles Chairs and Showpony at the Chicago Improv Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, DC Comedyfest, Del Close Marathon, Out of Bounds Austin and Dirty South Improv Festival. Currently she performs with Mountain Dawn, Dummy, Babymakers, and The Diplomat Motel. She is very happy to be teaching at iO and grateful for all those who’ve gently shoved her along the way.
Teams: The Diplomat Motel
Kate Duffy
Shows: Felt
Todd Edwards
In 1999 Todd W. Edwards moved from Richmond, Virginia to Chicago to study at the famed Improv Olympic Training Center. A decade after that move he is happy to join the faculty. Dreams do come true if you are tenacious enough. Todd can be seen downstairs in the cabaret space playing with Classic Thunder.
Teams: The Diplomat Motel
Mike Enriquez
Mike Enriquez took his first step on the iO stage as a performer in 2000 after completing the iO Training Center, as well as The Second City Conservatory and the ComedySportz Training Program. He had the privilege of being an original member of the former iO house team, Fox Force Five, during its entire five years but now enjoys performing with the amazing team The Signatures. Enriquez is currently an ensemble cast member and an assistant artistic director for ComedySportz Chicago. He has coached several Harold teams at iO, including the wonderfully talented Revolver. His only known flaw is that he uses the word “NICE!” way too much.
Teams: Henrietta Pussycat
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, Powerball
Jet Eveleth
Jet understands her fortune to play and travel with The Reckoning. She also performs in The Armando Diaz Experience and in the scripted show Jet and Holly Present. She currently teaches level 4 at IO and level 3 at The Second City Conservatory. She also works with the Theater of the Oppressed to create a fusion between dance and theater. She is in the process of getting her masters to teach movement and improv at a university level.
Teams: The Reckoning
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, The Reckoning, Jim Paul Jet Paul
Sarah Gee
Teams: Deep Schwa, Virgin Daiquiri
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience
Noah Gregoropoulos
Noah Gregoropoulos has been performing, directing and teaching improvisation for over eighteen years. He began teaching at iO in the late 1980’s, and in 1999 he took over the Performance Level workshops when his predecessor, Del Close, passed away halfway through a class session. Gregoropoulos has also taught improvisation at iO West, Second City and Columbia College, as well as free-lance workshops throughout the U.S. and Europe. As an improvisational performer, he has played on several house teams at iO including his current team, Carl and the Passions. He was a founding member of the critically acclaimed troupes Jazz Freddy and Atlantis, toured much of the English speaking world with “Modern Problems in Science” and was part of the original cast of iO’s “Armando Diaz Experience”, in which he still performs every Monday. As a director, Gregoropoulos mounted “Lois Kaz” the first-ever long-form improvisation show at Second City, “Close Quarters” which has become a standard form for advanced improv classes and troupes, and the first Atlantis show, along with several other lesser efforts that don’t warrant mentioning. he directed the revue “If the White House is a Rockin’, Don’t Come a-Knockin’” at Second City’s e.t.c., as well as two of The Second City National Touring Companies. Gregoropoulos has appeared in films, plays and on television and radio (big whoop), and was a staff writer on the ABC sitcom, “Dharma and Greg.”
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience
Paul Grondy
Paul Grondy has been improvising for 15 years. While performing each Wednesday night at the iO, with Carl & The Passions, Paul can also be seen improvising on Monday nights in The Armando Diaz Show.
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience
Lyndsay Hailey
Lyndsay Hailey is proud to add depth to the Virginia contingent at iO. She is a graduate of the iO Training Center, the Second City Conservatory Program and the Second City Music Program. She recently closed Love is Dead at the Annoyance Theater, and can currently be seen in the Annoyance Production, Space Future. The Pegasus Players Theater Company, Beverly Arts Center, and After School Matters apprenticeship program enable Lyndsay to teach improv to any human in the Chicago Public School system who will listen. Teaching Level 2 for iO is one of her greatest successes. Lyndsay owes all of those successes to her incredible, patient and supportive friends, family and iO family. GO HOKIES!
Shows: The Deltones
Charna Halpern
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE iO THEATER
Charna Halpern has been teaching performers how to work together for more than 25 years. Having founded the world famous iO in Chicago and Hollywood, Halpern’s theaters are the meccas of training in the art of improvisation and act as a recruiting stop for television shows like Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and MADtv, supplying Hollywood with writers and performers. She is the author of the improv training manuals Truth in Comedy and Art By Committee.
Nate Herman
Nate Herman is from Chicago and wrote for “Saturday Night Live” for four years. He won a Jeff Award for directing a show in the Second City ETC called “America Lite,” which both reminded Second City of its potential and helped to introduce that institution to the use of long form improv in a 22 minute sketch called “The Last Liberal.” Nate also performed on the mainstage of Second City. He is an accomplished musician having, in an earlier life, played piano for Second City (not to mention National Lampoon’s “Lemmings”), and recorded several albums with his band Wilderness Road on Columbia Records (there are some that credit him with helping to create country rock). He invented fast forward, powdered milk and “the pause that refreshes.”
Greg Hess
Greg Hess is a Virginian: born, bred, and educated. After graduating from the College of William & Mary, Greg moved to Chicago to study improvisation at iO and Second City. He has performed with such groups as Show Pony, Athens, Sturgis, Shecky Kulhan: Theatre of the Mind, and Mission:Improvable. Currently, Greg is an ensemble member of Baby Wants Candy, the Improvised Shakespeare Company, the incomparable Cook County Social Club and Second City’s National Touring Company. He is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf.
Shows: Cook County Social Club, Improvised Shakespeare
Barry Hite
Barry hails from tiny, pastoral Mechanicsville, Virginia. He has been learning, performing and directing at iO for the last few years. A founding member of the house team Bullet Lounge, he has also been lucky enough to perform in smaller, scrappier outfits with names like Swim Buddies, Black Ted Williams, Tha Weave, Davey DickRocket and Traffic & Weather. He has also performed at The Chicago Improv Festival, The Del Close Marathon, The Toronto Improv Festival and Chicago Sketchfest. He was most recently involved in a remount of Close Quarters and is proud enough of that fact to place it at the end of his bio.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: Improvised Shakespeare, Close Quarters, Family Tree House Boat Accident, Pro Football Tomorrow, Triple Header: Loudmouth, Sit On My Lapse & Black Ted Williams
Brian Jack
Teams: Deep Schwa, The Reckoning
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, The Reckoning
TJ Jagodowski
TJ Jagodowski used to perform, teach, and direct at Chicago’s Second City. Now he performs, teaches, and directs at Chicago’s iO Theater. He’s originally from Massachusetts. Go Red Sox!
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: TJ & Dave, The Armando Diaz Experience, The Scene
Jordan Klepper
Jordan Klepper has been involved with iO for the past six years. He currently plays with Carl and the Passions and Armando Diaz. In the past, he has been a member of Whirled News Tonight, Cougars, The Late Night Late Show, Shared Property and others. In addition to iO, he has toured with the Second City Touring Company and was a correspondent on the show Friday Night Tailgate on the Big Ten Network. He has taught at the Second City Training Center, and has directed the Harold team Sturgis and the two-person group, Nogoodnicks.
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience
Shad Kunkle
Shad Kunkle performs with Carl & The Passions each Wednesday at iO, where he also coaches The Reckoning. He has also played with The Placebo Effect, 5 Chinese Brothers and The Rooftop Players.
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience
Holly Laurent
Holly Laurent is a writer and actor hailing from Michigan. She is a member of the improv group The Reckoning, with whom she recently completed the pilot Ditch Mitchem: Writer Detective. Film credits include The Strip, Bicentennial Curious and American Legacy, and writing credits include I Live Next Door to Horses and Sitting at the Grown Up Table. She has been featured as part of Serendipity Theatre Collective’s Second Story series. She understudies the Second City Mainstage, e.t.c., and touring companies. Holly holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College and her BA in Acting from Anderson University. She has trained in the Second City Conservatory, iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theater.
Teams: The Reckoning
Shows: The Reckoning
Lisa Linke
Lisa Linke has studied at The Second City, The Annoyance and The iO Training Centers. She performs with Cougars at iO, and elsewhere with Mustang Repair, Double Date, Big Yellow Bus, and occasionally with DSI. In 2007 she co-wrote and performed in Flawed as Rain, and wrote and performed in the weekly scripted show Ink. She has previously performed with The Baritones & Sex In The Suburbs with Noble Fool Theater, Indra’s Net, Improvidate, LEAP, and Corporation, Inc., which performed at the Chicago Improv Festival as well as the dc comedyfest.
Shows: Close Quarters
Charlie McCrackin
Teams: The Reckoning
Shows: The Reckoning
Beth Melewski
Beth has been performing and teaching improv in Chicago for ten years. You can currently see her in the Jeff Award winning production “Studs Terkel’s Not Working” at The Second City e.t.c. Beth was a member of The Second City Touring Company and Second City Denver, performing the original review How I Lost My Denverginity. She also improvises with the ladies of Virgin Daiquiri at iO and Baby Wants Candy. Beth is one half of the improv duo Dual Exhaust who was named by The Chicago Sun-Times as one of the "top 10 comedy duos of the past 10 years”.
Teams: Virgin Daiquiri
Susan Messing
Messing, a New Jersey native, is a graduate of Northwestern University. She has performed for over eighteen years with Chicago’s iO Theatre, and created and teaches their Level 2 Curriculum which is used in Chicago and LA’s iO West. At the legendary Second City, Messing wrote and performed in two mainstage revues and directed their National Touring Company. Messing is a founding member of the infamous Annoyance Theatre where she has created roles in over thirty original productions, including Co-Ed Prison Sluts, The Miss Vagina Pageant, and Your Butt. In addition, she conceived, co-adapted (with Mary Scruggs) and directed the critically acclaimed What Every Girl Should Know…An Ode to Judy Blume for the Annoyance stage, where she also continues to teach. You can see Messing’s critically-acclaimed show, Messing with a Friend, now in its third year, every Thursday night at The Annoyance. Messing is an adjunct professor for Loyola University, DePaul University’s Theatre School, and The University of Chicago. Her standup act with her puppet, Jolly, has been featured at the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and NBC’s Late Fridays. You can hear her voice on radio and tv ads. Susan has been cut from several blockbuster films, but her recent movie role in Let’s Go to Prison! as a bad stripper in a halo brace, made her very happy. Her daughter, Sofia Mia, is very four, very ridiculous, and very awesome.
Colleen Murray
Colleen Murray has been performing improvisation and sketch comedy in Chicago for the last 8 years. Currently she performs with veteran groups like the iO Chicago house team Deep Schwa, the world-renowned Cheetarah and a lady crew called Virgin Daiquiri. This February, Colleen’s sketch ensemble, the Ragdolls, were selected to perform their critically acclaimed sketch show “Moist” at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. In addition, Murray is honored to be an iO Chicago Level 2 Instructor and has a great time working with the business division of Second City Communications facilitating corporate workshops. And she is a commercial real estate mogul. No joke. She can do it all, so don’t be surprised if you see her dressed as Wonder Woman flying across the skyline of Chicago in a local car commercial. For real!
Teams: Deep Schwa, Virgin Daiquiri
Pat O'Brien
Teams: The Reckoning
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, The Reckoning
Katie Rich
Katie Rich is so proud to be a part of the iO Chicago faculty! Katie has performed all over the world with The Second City on their National Touring Company and on the MS Norwegian Jewel. You can see her in commercials for Sonic Drive-In and for 2.5
seconds in The Ice Harvest. Katie would be nowhere without all friends and her Fella, and worse than nowhere without her family.
Teams: Carl & The Passions
Shows: The Deltones, Powerball
Jessica Rogers
Jessica Kelley Rogers is an alumnus of the University of Florida where she began studying improvisation while teaching theatre and improv to young adults through the Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts and All Children’s Theatre. While in Gainesville, Rogers co-created and performed with A.C.I.I., an improvisational comedy troupe that specialized in short-form, long-form and original sketch material. After graduation she moved to Chicago to study improvisation. She has had the opportunity to study at the Annoyance Theatre and play with the ensemble Trigger Finger, in addition to performing with several ensembles at the Playground Theatre. Rogers is a devoted company member of WNEP Theatre where she co-produces and performs in Angry White Guy Reads the Paper. She has also had the pleasure of performing with and directing several iO ensembles.
Kevin Sciretta
Kevin Sciretta has been improvising, writing and performing in Chicago for 6 years. In the past he’s performed with pH Productions, DSI’s The Beatbox, Ghettoblaster and for The Second City abroad the Norwegian Pearl. Currently, he improvises with The Deltones, Bullet Lounge and the New American All-Stars, while writing/performing with the Cupid Players and Hot Toddler. He is very happy to teach here.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: The Deltones, Challenger, Pro Football Tomorrow, Triple Header: Loudmouth, Sit On My Lapse & Black Ted Williams
Jason Shotts
Jason Shotts has been studying long-form improvisation at the iO Theater for the past seven years. He’s been lucky enough to perform with the groups Henrietta Pussycat, Willie Nelson Slept Here, Cougars, The Lindberg Babies 2.0, Brad Renfro and FELT. He has also performed at the Chicago Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, the Raleigh Longform Improv Festival, the Dirty South Improv Festival, and Chicago Sketchfest with the ensembles Dummy, BirdDog, OTIS, Sketchcore and International Stinger.
Teams: Henrietta Pussycat
Blaine Swen
Blaine comes from California where he performed at iO West, ComedySportz and Ultimate Improv. He can be seen here at iO performing with The Improvised Shakespeare Company (which he also founded and directs), Bullet Lounge, and The iO Musical featuring The Deltones. He also enjoys performing with The iO Road Show. He is a member of The Second City’s Education Company and a long time performer with the Pegasus Players Outreach Program. He recently completed a run of vaudeville theatre at Live Bait with Ugly House, performed in Sondheim’s The Frogs at Pegasus Players Theatre, and is a founding member of The Second City House Ensemble, Lordosis Effect.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: Improvised Shakespeare, The Deltones, The Armando Diaz Experience, BASH! The One-Man Musical, Powerball
Craig Uhlir
Craig Uhlir has been learning/playing at iO since 1996. He was on teams with names like Varmit and Spank until becoming an early member of the house team Deep Schwa and later a member of the house team Valhalla. Craig still plays on Deep Schwa and also in a two man show called Middle Age Comeback on Sundays. Craig toured with the Second City for over two years culminating with a tour of Kuwait and Iraq for the USO. Craig spent the last two years in Las Vegas performing for The Second City at the Flamingo, as well as teaching there too. Craig also played with ComedySportz Chicago in the 2000’s, and has hosted iO’s Jam on at least three separate stints starting all the way back in ‘97. Jam.
Teams: Deep Schwa
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, Middle Age Comeback
Steve Waltien
Steve Waltien began improvising and acting at Middlebury College in Vermont where he majored in Philosophy and Theatre. He is a graduate of the iO Training Center and the Second City Conservatory Program and has taught many classes and workshops for both institutions as well as independently. He can be seen performing at iO with the house team Bullet Lounge, Whirled News Tonight and The Armando Diaz Experience. Steve also performs at The Second City and has appeared in plays such as Amnesia and Other Means of Escape as part of the Potomac Theatre Project in Washington, DC. He is proud to be teaching at iO.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, Improvised Shakespeare, Whirled News Tonight
Seth Weitberg
Seth Weitberg began studying improvisation with Duke University Improv and is thrilled to now call himself a Chicagoan. In addition to creating iO’s current Level 1 curriculum, Weitberg performed for three years with The Second City Touring Company and has been seen at iO in The Armando Diaz, Bullet Lounge, Family Tree House Boat Accident and Gravid Water, with the two-man powerhouse Nogoodnicks and he was the creator and co-host of The Late Night Late Show. He has written and performed three one-man shows, the john doe project, a 2004 Single File Festival selection, America Gives Itself A Hero’s Welcome, and Without Intermission, as well as the production, A Moment Alone, a collection of monologues, slam poetry and 60s-era soul ballads, which he also directed. He has performed at the Chicago Sketchfest with Family Freud and Hooray For Fun, as well as in the premiere casts of The Second City’s Barack Stars and Jewsical The Musical. He recently co-wrote the Second City Theatricals shows Peach Drop, Stop and Roll for Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, and One if by Land, Late if by T for the Virginia Wimberly Theater and Improv Asylum in Boston. Weitberg has served as co-head writer for 104.3 Jack FM and has also been heard and seen on Mancow’s Morning Madhouse, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and performing poetry at The Green Mill. His writing is published regularly by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The Chicago Tribune. He thinks you should check out the best podcast that ever was on the planet, The Chicago Sessions, then get all your reading done at The Week In Rebuke and The Week in Dubuque.
Teams: Bullet Lounge
Shows: The Armando Diaz Experience, Family Tree House Boat Accident, Goodbye, Monster, Pro Football Tomorrow