Jeremy Weinreich really likes watching Romantic Comedies. If you don’t come to a “There Will Be Snacks” show, Jeremy hopes that it is because you are watching a Romantic Comedy. Preferably, any of them. Jeremy thanks you for your time and he wants you to know that you had him at hello, or any other greeting.
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Sheherazade Delaney
Sheherazade Delaney is an actor, writer and comedian from Chicago, IL. She has been trained at the UCB in LA and NY, Groundlings, and in Meisner Technique as well as at WCT and appeared in commercials for Virgin Atlantic and UNIQLO. You can find her at WCT on the House Team Gravity.
Olivia Hill
Olivia Hill is a California Native who spends her time attempting to woo the neighborhood cats into being her companions. When her four-legged friends aren’t out, she works as a writer of short stories, humor pieces, and sketch scripts. She is an enthusiastic co-founder of the production company Try Harder Sometimes, where her skewed vision of the oddities of reality come alive.
Olivia can be seen performing stand-up all over Los Angeles and is a co-producer of the variety charity show Philanthropy TBD. She can also be seen improvising with Westside Comedy Theater’s House Team, Air Force Fun.
More about Olivia can be found on Instagram @FreeSampleOlivia and on Twitter @OliviaaaaaH.
Michael Heiman
Michael Heiman is a Los Angeles native and holds a BA in Theatre Arts from University of the Pacific in beautiful Stockton, CA. Upon graduation Michael moved back to LA and immediately started performing as much theatre as possible for various companies and theaters. Eventually, with a group of other dedicated theatre professionals, Michael started The Red Brick Road Theatre Company with the mission to produce new and challenging works. RBR has produced works from playwrights Neil LaBute, Suzan Lori Parks, and Edward Albee to name a few, as well as premiere productions of the full length original plays Snowbound and Shaking The Dew From The Lilies. As Literary Manager Michael developed and produced Shorts!, a short play festival dedicated to showcasing the best short plays by local playwrights.
The past several years saw Michael shifting focus to the comedy scene. Graduating from the iO West Improv Training Program and the Lesley Wolff Fresh Faces Comedy Workshop. You can now see Michael performing stand up and improv all over town with the teams Jerk Chicken, Charles The Second (Former WCT Alley Team), current WCT Alley Team Kitty Glitter, and The Feel Good Not Bad Death Laser.
Aside from performing Michael is the Staff Director of Monarch Camps in Valley Glen, and he loves working with children. He is also very fond of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 90s alt-rock band Barenaked Ladies, and Dungeons & Dragons. He is an unapologetic nerd, a self proclaimed oddball, and a hopeless romantic. Enjoy the show.
Gene Dutz
Gene’s appetite for improv was kindled at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa. He then discovered Spectacles Improv Engine in Fullerton run by Josh Nicols. After immersing himself in their training program, he auditioned/was asked to be a member of numerous teams: “#Likeable”, “IFL”, “Skeleton Key” and “Ryan Reynolds Live”. Additional improv training included a three-week intensive at IO West (RIP) and an extra Level 3 Class with Craig Cackowski, before moving over to Westside Comedy. (A big thanks to Westside for accepting students from the IO program.) After completing Westside’s 701 Class, he was overjoyed to learn he had been selected to perform on one of Westside’s Alley Teams, “Take Five”, twice a month on Sundays.
Greg Udchitz
Greg is a Los Angeles based improviser, performer and writer with a funny looking last name (it’s pronounced YOU-Ditch), currently performing with the Alley Team, Kitty Glitter.
A Chicago native, Greg was a theater kid and an active performer on-and-off the stage dabbling in improv workshops at Second City and iO in high school. Years later, Greg has recently yes and-ed his way back into the improv world full-swing completing the Westside Comedy Theater program and is thrilled to be continuing to grow his silly muscles with the awesome WCT community and around L.A.
When not acting a goof on stage, Greg likes to pretend he is a jack-of-all-trades marketer (ranging from brand marketing, copywriting, & social media content to producing events & experiences to team building & coaching…and more), having worked in the shopping center and radio broadcasting worlds in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Greg is a graduate of Illinois State University with a major in Mass Communication – Radio.
Also, Greg really enjoys pickles and dirty martinis. You can follow Greg on Instagram and Twitter at: @gregoryu
Patrick Rowland
Patrick Rowland is a writer/performer/teacher from Chicago. He has trained at The Second City and iO Chicago. Patrick is a recipient of 2014 Bob Curry Fellowship, is an alum of the Second City House Company, and has performed as an understudy for the Second City mainstage, aboard the NCL Gem, as well as two revues with Diversity and Inclusion Program. He has performs with his independent sketch/improv troupe, 3Peat whose video with Comedy Central, “The Blackening”, has over 15 million views. In Chicago Patrick was a regular cast member with, The Deltones, Armando, and Musical Armando. His solo sketch has been featured in the 2013 TBS Just For Laughs Festival. Patrick also wrote and performed a late night talk show called “Barack All Night” which received 3 stars from the Chicago Tribune. As an instructor Patrick has taught the improv, conservatory, writing, and long form improv programs at Second City Chicago, and the improv program at the iO Theater. His workshops have sold-out across the country as well as London. www.patrickrowland.net
Craig Cackowski
Craig Cackowski is an actor, improvisor and teacher based in Los Angeles. He has been involved with the iO and iO West (RIP) theaters since 1992, and was the three-time winner of the Del Close Award as Teacher of the Year at iO West. He has played numerous improv festivals around the country with his long-running three-man troupe Dasariski (with Bob Dassie and Rich Talarico) and his duo Orange Tuxedo (with his wife Carla!). While in Chicago, he appeared in and co-wrote 5 revues for The Second City, and helped create such improv forms as JTS Brown and Close Quarters. As an actor, he has been seen in recurring roles on such shows as Community (as “Officer Cackowski”), Bajillion Dollar Properties (as “Todd the janitor”), Veep (as “Cliff”) and as part of the ensemble cast of Drunk History. Other film and TV credits include The Mayor, Son Of Zorn, Girlboss, Comedy Bang Bang, Newsreaders, Welcome To The Family, The Mindy Project, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Year Of The Dog, 21 And Over, The Kings Of Summer, Murder Bury Win, and Wine Country. He may be heard frequently on such podcasts as The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Spontaneanation and his own podcast Craig’s List, in which he makes Carla watch his 100 favorite movies.
Hunter Patterson
Bio: Hunter Patterson is an improviser and writer from Los Angeles. He graduated from USC’s screenwriting program and writes sci-fi novels and comedy scripts, and has done improv at UCB and a half-dozen little theaters across the city. You can catch him talking in an ill-advised accent on an alley team at Westside Comedy Theater.
Sean Grant
As a standup comedian Sean was named Funniest College Comedian on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was featured on Season One of Lafftracks on Tru Tv, Won the Joshua Tree Intl Comedy Festival, and has toured in over 30 states and 5 different countries. His album Sean Grant: First of His Name debuted at number one on Amazons Comedy list and streams everywhere comedy is available. As an actor he has made guest appearances on Maron on IFC and TBS’ Meet the Browns. He was Head Writer on King Bachelors Pad TV and Dead House on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network. He also is the host of the hit improv podcast Coo Coo Town.