Archives: Guests

Tori Smith is an NYC-based game designer, writer, actor, and cosplayer. She performs at the Magnet with Musical Megawatt house team Gem and indie-team Freeze Frame and is a founding castmember of the Bad Guys & B-Sides DnD Podcast.

 

Mark is an NYC-based software engineer and sometimes performer.

Victor Varnado wrote all the good parts of the Bible.

Ed lives, breathes, and works (virtually) in Pennsylvania’s stunning capital city of Harrisburg. He was a founding member of Seoul City Improv and is a standing member of Tongue and Groove Spontaneous Theatre. He is also the co-host of the Prince focused podcast, “When Doves Podcast”.

Katie Hartman is a New York-based theatre maker. She is co-artistic director of the touring theatre company, the Coldharts, and the Producer of the 2022 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

Jonathan Mitchell is the producer of The Truth Podcast, an anthology fiction show that’s celebrating its tenth year. He has been an audio producer for 25 years.

Dejen Tesfa is a Brooklyn-based comedy writer / performer with a sketch and improv background from UCB Theater. He’s currently in an animation writing fellowship for PBS affiliate WGBH and their show “Work it Out Wombats!” premiering early 2023. He drops two sketches a month to his YouTube channel (Deja Deja Comedy, bit.ly/funnyreel) with over 5k subscribers, and he’s written two web series, two original pilots, and specs for Pen15 and ATLANTA.

Further back he had a software company in college that he sold in 2013, and has since worked at various tech startups and Microsoft while appearing in videos for Disney+, NBC News Digital, Bleacher Report and Cosmopolitan, and performing in the Toronto Sketch Fest, Philly Sketch Fest, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, NY Sketchfest and New York Musical Improv Festival.

Jamie Rivera is a performer and teacher at the Magnet Theater as well as an amateur toy photographer.

Performer in the jet-setting, nation-traveling improv group Crisis: An Improvised Comic Book. Doing dumb li’l skits with Matt & Austin (Youtube, Instagram, Facebook). Wrote some plays about superheroes, time travel, and Prince. Big fan of his wife, their cat, and the Twisted Metal video game franchise.

Kevin Tully has been doing Improv in NYC since 2008. He has been taught by the epically talented Rick Andrews, Russ Armstrong, Louis Kornfeld, Zach Woods and Curtis Gwinn. He has been on Armory and Magnet house teams and has appeared on The Colbert Report and College Humor. He is also one of the co-founders of “Crisis: An Improvised Comic Book” Outside of Improv, Kevin edits and shoots videos for local bands and comics.