Improv 101
Rec League

Alex is a passionate educator who has been with Seattle Comedy Theater since 2016. As an instructor, he’s taught Seattle Comedy Theater ‘s 101 classes, CSz Rec League, Improv for Gamers workshops, Eat Seattle’s mixology and cooking classes, and ran University of Arizona’s Computer Science undergrad teaching assistant program. Beyond Seattle Comedy Theater, Alex leads the developer education program for Microsoft’s Office Platform and makes player-focused tabletop games under the publishing company Cherry Picked Games.

Improv 101
Summer Camps Ages 6-8

Hope Koon has a huge passion for play and believes deeply in its power to help all humans grow with confidence and joy. She has spent over ten years teaching preschool and has found the power of play not only in her work with young children but also through her love of improv. Hope performs regularly at Seattle Comedy Theater and, in recent years, launched her own small business running an afternoon drama program in the Seattle area. She loves being silly, thrives in classroom chaos and can’t wait to adventure with a new group of campers.

Improv 101
Loop Coach

Phoebe has been performing with Seattle Comedy Theater since 2012. Her love of theater started young and she discovered improv in college while attending Evergreen State College. Phoebe began teaching improv in 2017 and finds so much joy in spreading the positive lessons of creativity, team building, active listening and trust. Phoebe teaches the 101 at Seattle Comedy Theater.

Improv 201

Chloe joined the Seattle Comedy Theater cast in 2021. Her New Year's resolution in 2019 was to take an improv class, and she has been hooked ever since. Chloe loves the community, creativity, and joy that improv fosters. Outside of Seattle Comedy Theater, she has taught undergraduate biology and chemistry courses.

Improv 201
Improv for Anxiety

Danielle has been on the Seattle Comedy Theater Cast since 2017. She teaches the Improv 201 and Improv for Anxiety classes at Seattle Comedy Theater. She co-produced Dubious Advice for three years, has represented Seattle Comedy Theater in four Worldwide Championships and facilitates Improv & Anxiety Workshops for Improvisers. Danielle does it all -  perform, teach, referee, host, run the tech booth, photograph and bartend at Seattle Comedy Theater.  

Improv 301

Ian has been involved with Seattle Comedy Theater since 2016. He's been teaching the Improv 301 course since 2022. He has been known to sing, rap, do accents and beatbox. Sometimes all-at-once. Ian also helps coordinate events and facilitate logistics within the theater as Facility Manager.

Intro and Advanced Armando

Daniel Kinamon is a performer and instructor at Seattle Comedy Theater. He has been part of Seattle’s improv and sketch comedy scene since 2014 and joined the CSz mainstage cast in 2017. Over the years, he has performed and produced numerous indie and CSz-based sketch and improv shows. When he’s not teaching or performing, he enjoys building things, playing tabletop RPGs, and finding new and exciting places to hide Seattle Comedy Theater’s creepy ventriloquist dummy.

Unstructured Long Form

Drew Simchik started his improv career with CSz San Jose in 2002 and was traded to CSz Seattle in 2017. Over the years he's performed in a wide variety of short-form and long-form improv shows, from Armando-style montages like Full Disclosure and Dubious Advice to narrative long-form shows like Vision Euro and Much Improv About Nothing. He currently directs long-form shows B-Rated! and Tales of the Weird. Drew has taught scenework, long-form skills, and genre at CSz San Jose, CSz Seattle, and the ComedySportz World Championship. He co-developed and teaches the Unstructured Long Form course at Seattle Comedy Theater.

The Harold

Mark is a performer, coach, and teacher at Seattle Comedy Theater. He tried his first improv class back in 2016 and never looked back. Since then, Mark has performed in more shows than he can count, as well as coached and directed dozens of improvisers. He describes his improv style as "whimsical and highly caffeinated".

Summer Camps Ages 6-8

Josh is a teaching artist and educator in Seattle who specializes in improv, imaginative play, and the musicality of performance. He has worked with students for over a decade in various theatres and schools in the Seattle area. Josh received his BA in theatre arts from New Mexico State University where he caught the teaching bug at the Mesilla Valley Children’s theatre, and he hasn’t looked back since. When not teaching, you can catch Josh performing around Seattle.

Improv 201
Improv 301
Musical Improv 101
Rec League
Teen Summer Camps

Erika is the Owner and Artistic Director at Seattle Comedy Theater. She holds an M.A. in Education with over 15 years of experience teaching improv from the west to the east coast. Erika’s improv performance career spans 25 years of experience. She’s the co-director of Vision Euro Söng Contest, Something Great Sketch Comedy and producer of Full Disclosure at Seattle Comedy Theater, as well as the founder of the Musical Improv Jam and co-founder of the Outside the Lines BIPOC jam and show.  Improv team building experiences she's led with Seattle Comedy Theater include clients such as the Washington Department of Services for The Blind, Amazon, X-Box, Google, and Microsoft.

The Loop Head Coach
BIPOC Jam

Mary is Head Coach for the Loop at Seattle Comedy Theater. She has a decade of performing improv comedy in Portland, OR, London, UK, Pittsburgh, PA, and currently in Seattle, WA. She has appeared at comedy festivals in Richmond, VA, Edinburgh, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA. In addition to her performance experience, Mary has taught improv comedy at various improv theaters and has been on the Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts. 

Improv 101
Armando
Teen Summer Camps

Ben has been teaching and performing improv since 1998. He teaches the 101 and Armando, as well as Teen Summer Camps. He has a particular love for working with teens for their exuberance and sense of humor. He founded and has been coaching the Garfield High School improv club since 2012. Go Bulldogs!

Musical Improv 101
Musical Improv Jam
Outside the Lines

Megan joined the Seattle Comedy Theater cast in 2023 after migrating from Colorado. With a background and degree in musical theatre, she enjoys spreading her love for music, improv, and performance. When she’s not performing or working at her day job(s), she can often be found snuggled up in a corner cuddling her cat and reading a romantasy book.  

The Improv Jam

Rachel is an instructor for The Jam and a Seattle-based improviser, director, producer, and creative organizer who loves building weird, joyful, ambitious things with other people. With a background in business operations, she brings a mix of big-picture thinking, collaboration, and “let’s figure it out” energy to every project she works on. Rachel performs with Seattle Comedy Theater and spends most of her time directing, producing, supporting artists, and helping create spaces where people can do brave, playful work together.

The Improv Jam

Jeremy is an Improv Instructor with over 14 years of experience in improv and sketch comedy. Specializing in leading high-energy improv classes for beginners and advanced players alike, he also writes and performs as the musical artist Leaf Colors.

Improv 201

John is an improv performer, instructor, and technology leader who loves helping people discover confidence, creativity, and connection through comedy. When he's not on stage, he works as an engineering manager, wrangles family life with a young child, and enjoys diving into games, puzzles, and other opportunities to solve interesting problems. His teaching style blends encouragement, curiosity, and a belief that the best scenes come from supporting your scene partners and embracing the unexpected.

Pass the Mic Jam
BIPOC Jam

CeCe is originally from Atlanta, but has found a place to laugh out loud with the Seattle Comedy Theater. She started her improv career by taking classes here, and now she co-directs Boom Bap, Seattle Comedy Theater’s improvised rap and comedy show and hosts the Pass the Mic and Outside the Lines jams.

The Loop Coach

Tyler has performed in a wide variety of improv shows and formats since 2019. After moving to Seattle, he found his improv home at the Seattle Comedy Theater where he took Improv 101-301 classes and participated in The Loop before joining the cast in 2023. He loves applying the creative and playful nature of improv to his other interests through an ever-growing list of side projects.

Improv for Novel Writing

Jess is an agented author, who specializes in fantasy and romance novels with a healthy dose of comedy. She is also a performer with Seattle Comedy Theater.

Loop Coach
BIPOC Jam

Nathan is an improviser and aspiring retiree. He's performed in and around Seattle with indie groups, Bandit Theater, and now Seattle Comedy Theater. He probably left his water bottle backstage, please keep an eye out and let him know if you see it. Thanks!

The Improv Jam

Ponch is the Creative Director of Wednesday Jam and an instructor and cast member at the Seattle Comedy Club. Ponch loves improv and teaching, believing that life is improv and improv is life—we’re just doing it in front of an audience.

Improv 201
Shakespeare

Gordon is an improvisor, director, technician, playwright, producer, composer, and sound designer. He has been making improv and scripted theatre in and around Seattle for over a decade with Seattle Comedy Theater, Jet City Improv, Split Second Improv, Ghost Light Theatricals, Theater Schmeater, Dacha Theatre, and Left Blank Productions. He is the tech director for Seattle Comedy Theater, where he also directs Sound & Fury: an improvised Shakespeareance, and co-directs Vision Euro Söng Cöntest.