Alonya is an actress, improvisor, and writer from Mendocino, CA. Arriving in LA in 2007 with a scholarship to UCLA, Alonya earned her degree in history and simultaneously studied comedy. She has improvised across Los Angeles and the US – most notably with her popular all female improv group, Token Boy, and currently writes and performs for Westside Sketch Co. Alonya owns her own photography business, Jozu Photography, that specializes in birth, babies, and children. She also enjoys fancy cheese, traveling, and arranging flowers!
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Ted Evans
The son of a tuba player in the Marine Band and a singer in the Air Force Choir, Ted was born on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and raised in Woodbridge, Virginia. After graduating with a performing arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia, having performed in favorite roles such as Alferd Packer in “Cannibal! The Musical” and Frederick Treves in “The Elephant Man”, Ted also discovered his desire to pursue a career in voiceover.
After 6 years in Chicago honing his comedic skills on stage and behind a microphone, and shooting viral shorts like webseries Funemployed with his company Action Couch Productions, Ted decided to make the leap to sunny California. There, he creates and stars in Bighead Parodies with Zoran Gvojic of Low Carb Comedy, continues to develop his improv and standup skills at the Westside Comedy Theater where performs improv with house herald team Consenting Adults. A member of SAG-AFTRA, Ted is represented by DPN Talent (LA) and NV Talent (Chicago) for commercial and animation voiceover, and continues to pursue his career in comedy, VO, and whatever else may come his way.
Atul Singh
Atul Singh is an improviser, actor and writer who performs regularly at the Westside Comedy Theater with Mission: IMPROVable (Agent Name: Cowboy), Pretty Pretty Pony (1st Thursday of the Month) and the Westside Sketch Company (4th Wednesday of the Month).
Atul hails from the state of Texas and lived in New York City prior to arriving in Los Angeles.
He is commercially represented by The Osbrink Agency and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy. (Twitter and IG: @atultime / www.atulsingh.com)
Gillian Bellinger
Gillian Bellinger is an improviser, teacher, and corporate trainer. She’s played for Mission IMPROVable Tourco, Second City House teams in LA and Chicago, ComedySportz Chicago and Minneapolis, the Del Tones at IO West, and can currently be seen in Trump in Space, a Second City Hollywood Premium show, and at Westside with CountyLine. She teaches improv & acting at Westside Comedy Theater, The Second City Hollywood, and The Intentional Acting Studio and has been a guest teacher at Finest City Improv, All Out Comedy Theater, Alchemy Comedy Theater, and Curious Comedy Theater. She studied improv in Chicago at The Second City, IO, Groundlings, and The Annoyance Theater. Gillian is very fancy and attended The London Academy of Theatre and The National Theater Institute. www.gillianbellinger.com.
Joey Greer
Joey Greer, who just released his debut sketch comedy album Good Night, has been performing improv, sketch and standup in LA since 2010. He performs his solo comedy show In Conversation With Music (Dynasty Typewriter). Improv with Sister (UCB), Bear Supply (Westside Comedy Theater) and Pretty, Pretty Pony (Westside Comedy Theater). He is currently a featured comic on iHeartRadio’s weekly podcast Alchemy This. Joey Greer is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Theology.
Jonathan Zabel
Jonathan Zabel started his acting career with seven guest appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” as “Young Jay.” (Yes, he had a chin that large as a kid.) Since then, when he’s not making videogames, he’s been studying improv! These days he can be seen at the Westside with the team McCallister.
Holly Brown
Holly Brown has been performing improv in Los Angeles since 2004. She has performed on the stages of ComedySportz Los Angeles, Second City, UCB Sunset, iO West, ACME Theater, and more. Holly currently performs at the Westside Comedy Theater with their award winning short-form show, Mission Improvable, and long-form house team, Consenting Adults. Holly also performs with the all-female sketch ensemble, That’s What She Said.
Holly is pleased as Punch to be teaching and coaching as part of the Westside Comedy Theater faculty.
Holly is also a singer and ukulele player, enjoys a good fantasy book, and is always on the lookout for the next adventure!
Cole Stratton
Cole Stratton is the co-founder of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, a month-long annual event highlighting the best in improv, sketch, stand-up, TV and film comedy, which just celebrated its sixteenth year. Along with Janet Varney, he has written and performed downloadable comedic commentary to films for RiffTrax.com, an online venture helmed by “Mystery Science Theater 3000’s” Michael J. Nelson.
He’s co-host of the popular Pop My Culture Podcast, which just ended its seven year run and is available on iTunes, their official website and nerdist.com. The podcast was named the #2 Best Comedy Podcast of the Moment by Rolling Stone; one of the 20 Best of 2013 by Paste Magazine; and appeared on Top 10 Lists by IFC.com and Mashable.com. He has also guested on other podcasts, such as Sklarbro County, Jordan Jesse Go!, The Wahlberg Solution, Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, Totally Laime, The Long Shot Podcast and James Bonding.
Due to planet alignment, he has appeared on TV’s “Nash Bridges,” re-enacted on “America’s Most Wanted,” played with puppies and Betty White on the Animal Planet original “The Retrievers,” thrown-down like the sarcastic white boy he is on Wilmer Valderrama’s “Yo Momma,” and was a cast member on NBC’s competitive comedy show “Comedy Colosseum.” He’s appeared in the films “Around the Fire,” “Dead Man on Campus,” “Callback” and the festival hit horror/comedy “The Selling,” where he plays obnoxious office gossip Ed, a role which he reprised in the end-times comedy “Diani & Devine Meet The Apocalypse.” He’s also hawked wares in national commercials for Verizon, Popeye’s Chicken, a Wilco-scored VW spot, and a five-spot campaign for Group Health.
As an improviser, Stratton tours with the Theme Park Improv Show, featuring a rotating cast including Scott Adsit, Ian Brennan, Rachel Dratch, Oscar Nunez, Danny Pudi, Simon Helberg, John Michael Higgins, Jessica Makinson and Janet Varney. Theme Park has performed at SF Sketchfest; The Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, TX; The Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, OR; The Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO; The Vancouver Comedy Festival; and the Bentzen Ball in Washington, D.C. He performers regularly with MI’s Westside Comedy Theater’s house improv team Cobranauts and their flagship show Mission IMPROVable, and runs his own monthly improv show called Pretty, Pretty Pony, which was named one of the Best Things in Comedy of 2013 by The Comedy Bureau.
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Twitter: @colestratton Instagram: @strattoncole
Amey Goerlich
Amey is the only female in the 18 year-old UCB indie quartet known as KROMPF. She teaches her KROMPF classes independently in NYC & in LA. She has taught her game workshop at many improv festivals around the country, The Tampa Bay Improv Festival, The Torch Theatre, The Pocket Theatre, Omaha Improv festival, San Diego Improv Festival 2017, Improv Utopia East and West and more.
Currently she is living in Los Angeles and teaching/performing at M.I. Westside Comedy Theatre. She also runs The Improvisation Training Hub for independent Improv teachers in NYC & LA. She co-created an improv card game called ‘Humans Being an Improv Card Game’ available on amazon.com.
She hosted and Coordinated Indie Cage Match at UCBeast for 5 years 2011-2016. She was the Artistic Director of the virtual theatre E-MPROV. A long form improviser from 2001-2016 at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC and she has coached over 400+ long form improv teams (some virtually like from Bali).
She has studied under Armando Diaz, Ian Roberts, Kevin Mullaney, Michael Delaney and many others. Directed/Coached UCB NY Maude Teams, Harold teams, Killgore The Musical (asst. director/art director), The Documentary UCB class (co-teacher w/ Billy Merrit). Her improv teams in NYC – Spoiled Space Monkeys, Fart Police, Chica go-go and at DCM every year with KROMPF and Wicked Fuckin’ Queeah.
In LA her improv teams Lucy (Faculty Team) at Westside Comedy Theatre and current team Women Aren’t Funny you can see every first Wednesday of the month 10p at Westside and Improv Famous every first Thursday of the month. Check out her web series Best Cupcakes in the World on YouTube and coming soon The Best Pickles in the World.
You can also hear her talk improv on Jimmy Carrane Improv Nerd Podcast taped at The Steelstacks Improv Fest 2014, Improv Resource Center podcast with Kevin Mullaney and many more.
Levin O’Connor
Levin is the Director of Education at the Westside Comedy Theater. He has been fascinated with improvisation since it first crossed his path in Chicago in 2001. He is a passionate teacher that has embraced improv as a life philosophy, no simply a tool for comedy.
He is currently performing weekly as a member of The Dipsticks. He can also be seen regularly in NOW? w/ Annie & Levin.