A guest on a podcast.
Stephanie IsComedy is a comedian, actress and writer. She has both studied and performed at UCB on teams such as Woodson and Characters Welcome. She has been performing stand up since 2009 and has performed in venues all across the world. Stephanie likes fried bologna sandwiches and pickles.
Xavier (he/him) is an actor, improviser, teacher, character performer, and overall comedy loving producer born in the boogie-down Bronx. He has trained as an actor at USC and Mesiner studios in New York, as a comedian at The DC Improv, WITDC, Magnet, and UCB, and as a human being in Puerto Rico, Washington, DC, and South Carolina.
In NYC, Xavier has performed improv, characters, and sketch comedy regularly since 2016 for the UCB Theatre and the Magnet Theater. During the day he dons a tie (top button unbuttoned, of course) in Corporate Communications for the fed. But at night, the magic happens when he gets to work with brilliant teams of creatives — bringing cultural exploration and comedic ideas to life in a classroom and in front of an audience.
Xavier began his pursuit of passion in comedy while in SC in 2009 and, later in DC, he became a house performer and popular teacher with the Washington Improv Theater. He’s since gone on to teach and coach thousands of amateur and professional performers in classes or corporate settings up and down the east coast. Xavier has produced shows and festivals in DC, Jersey and New York since 2010 and loves the absurd and authentic life moments that comedy creates for audiences, students and performers alike.
Xave genuinely loves the people he gets to perform with like family. They include his Latinx improv team CHUCHO, his sketch comedy mates in The Executives (at Magnet) and The Bonus Features (at UCB) and his silly pals in the Chicago-created, NYC-refined storytelling/improv show “The Armando Diaz Experience,” on Saturday’s at the Magnet Theater. It goes without saying, but he’ll say it anyway, Xave loves Rubbish Comedy.
Xavier is also really into pro and amateur wrestling, BJJ, and movies — watching them, analyzing them in an academic sense, and even performing in them! He is currently represented by CESD.
Jillian Courtney is a dialect, speech and communications coach, an actor and all around human. She sometimes pickles things and has a number of real friends. https://jilliancourtney.com/
Robyn Chapman is an editor, a publisher, and (sometimes) a cartoonist. She is the proprietor of Paper Rocket Minicomics and has had many different jobs in comics. She spent five years at The Center for Cartoon Studies, initially as their first fellow and later as a faculty member. For a time, she worked at Brooklyn’s best comic shop, Desert Island. She is the editor of the nonfiction comics anthology American Cult, which she co-published with Silver Sprocket in 2021. Currently, she is an editor at First Second.
Comedian and game person on the internet. Rolling Stone once called her a “YouTuber.”
Family nurse practitioner and nursing educator. Denise works in public health and primary care and has a masters from Georgetown University and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to studying nursing and working in health care, she was a theater major.
Harvey Chipkin has been a freelance writer for many years specializing in travel and the travel industry, and performing improv for 20+ years including almost 20 years as a member of Lunatic Fringe, NJ’s longest running improv troupe. He grew up on the Lower East Side but has lived in NJ for many years.
Izzy Wolfson has been writing and performing comedy for the last 15 years. He’s performed all over New York and the country as part of many different groups and companies. Mostly, making people laugh and make-em-ups are just his favorite. Izzy is married and has an awesome cat named Hank and a dog named Motown.
Teacher, improviser, feminist, adventurer.