Amy Bury was born along the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. Never knowing whether she was a Wisconsinite or Minnesotan, she never knew a day without inner conflict. Does she like cheese curds or hotdishes? Is she a Brewers fan or a Twins fan? She decided that to find the answers to these important questions she would make a post-collegiate move to Los Angeles — a city she has decided to love. It turns out she can’t have either cheese curds (dairy) or hotdishes (gluten and dairy), and she is meh about baseball. But the move to Los Angeles helped her find improv, which allowed her to stop asking so many questions. Instead she just had to say yes and make up the answers. It was perfect. After training in the art of not asking questions at Westside Comedy Theater (levels 1-6), UCB (101-401), and Groundlings (Beg-Advanced), she learned that you do need to ask questions, just not to your scene partner or aloud. Finally it hit her that the answers are inside each of us, and, paradoxically, none of us have the answers. You can see this conflict in all of her sketch and improv “work”, which takes place on the Westside Comedy Theater stage the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 8pm, and the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 10pm.
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Matthew Block
Matt is an improvisor, actor, and writer from Santa Monica. Matt performs at the Westside Comedy Theater with his house team The Dallas Liars Club every second and fourth Monday
Kristen Cook
Kristen Cook is a full-time musician and educator who has been performing since she was a young, east coast, theater-loving kid. She is currently a proud member of the house team, McCallister, at M.i.’s Westside Comedy Theater, and is a founding member of the musical improv team, Rose´. Find her family-friendly side on Spotify or iTunes Music by searching Kristen Cook, Move n Play Music.
Sammy Glicker
Sammy Glicker is a comedy writer/improviser based in LA. She performs Monday nights with long-form house team, Gravity, and first Wednesdays during the Women Crush Wednesday hour she produces in a show called WOW!, a long-form improv show featuring the Women of Westside. And last but not least, she’s a member of Thought & Sweetful, a super nice indie team who loves you a bunch.
Samantha Heilig
Samantha Heilig is a recruiter for the movie trailer industry placing editors, producers, and more at various agencies in Los Angeles and New York. She is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and moved to Los Angeles eight years ago to work in the entertainment industry. While running her own business, she has been pursuing comedy as a creative outlet. She’s been doing improv for a couple years with her Indie team Frottage and is now on one of the Westside Comedy Theater’s Alley Teams called Pucker.
Ami Clover
Amelia (Ami) Clover is an improviser and voice over actress. She began her improv career at M.I.’s Westside Comedy Theater at the theater’s inception in 2009. Graduating from their program, she continued her training at UCB, iO West, and with Miles Stroth. She’s performed internationally at numerous improv festivals including Improvaganza in Hawaii and Mount Olymprov in Greece. Currently, Ami not only teaches both improv and voice over at M.I.’s Westside Comedy theater, but also performs on the house team, Gravity and coaches the alley team, Kitty Glitter. As a voice over actress, Ami’s voice has been featured in commercials for GNC, Target, Nintendo, and GooglePlay and video games such as Contagion II and Heroes of Newerth. For more information, please visit www.ameliaclover.com
Patrick Tamisiea
Patrick is a writer and performer from Omaha, Nebraska. After finishing up his degree in Theater Arts a Marquette University in Milwaukee, he wondered around Chicago and Los Angeles where he trained and performed at Second City, iO, UBC and Comedy Sportz, He is now in Los Angeles where he does what he does when he does it. That means, writing and performing. He also works in advertising as a writer and creative. By the way, this is Patrick writing this. He’s writing this in the third person. What a goof!
Tommy DuRoss
Tommy performs improv with Consenting Adults, and writes/performs sketch with Back Alley Racket Club. He is a practicing attorney.
Niyant Krishnamurthi
Niyant Krishnamurthi is a jack of a few trades and performs every other week with Dallas Liars Club at Westside Comedy Theater. He is mostly an improvisor, who if asked will tell you that he intends to start writing regularly. Niyant was formerly on Mean Little Lawyer, and Smooth Pluto.
Kevin Shroyer
Kevin Shroyer is a Comedian/Actor hailing from Michigan City, IN. Shortly after graduating from Ball State University he moved to Chicago to pursue comedy. There he would study at The Second City and Chicago IO, along with performing stand up and improv at varies locations and bars. From there he moved out west to Los Angeles where he studied improv at Westside Comedy Theater and performs regularly with his improv troupe Thought & Sweetful and also on his YouTube Sketch page Astronaut Soup.