This week's Cast!
	Bill Arnett (i.O., 3033, Maximum Party Zone) Bill Arnett is a founding member of both Maximum Party Zone and the i.O. house team People of Earth. He attended the University of Florida where he wr...[More...]
	Tim Baltz (Second City Nat'l Touring Co.) Tim has been improvising in Chicago for the past 4 years and is proud to list such credits as "Stewtopia", "Traffic & Weather" (iO), and "TAG" (iO). H...[More...]
	Todd Edwards (iO) Todd can be seen performing at iO with the team Swanel. He's also America's Sweetheart....[More...]
	Meagan Flanigan (RagDolls) She graduated from the University of Toledo with a degree in mechanical engineering and performs as an engineer by day “making airplanes”. Meagan has...[More...]
	Noah Gregoropoulos (Writer, Dharma & Greg) Noah Gregoropoulos has been performing, directing and teaching improvisation for over eighteen years. He began teaching at ImprovOlympic in the late 1...[More...]
	Brett Lyons (i.O.) Brett Lyons is nothing but trouble. He also can be found most evenings at the poker table....[More...]
	Deanna Moffitt (i.O., ComedySportz) Deanna Moffitt is a veteran of Portland ComedySportz and is thrilled to now call Chicago home. She has trained with ImprovOlympic and The Annoyance, a...[More...]
	Rich Prouty (Host) Rich studied improv at The Second City, The Annoyance and i.O. theaters. Rich has performed with the i.O. House Team Valhalla (directed by Liz Alle...[More...]
	Tim Sniffen (Second City Nat'l Touring Co.) Tim has performed with Baby Wants Candy since 2001 and has been improvising since 1998. He studied at The Second City, ImprovOlympic, and The Annoyanc...[More...]
Rotating Celebrity Panelists!
	Rebecca Allen (Second City e.t.c. Alum) Rebecca Sage Allen is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Before joining the Second City e.t.c. cast Rebecca toured with the Sec...[More...]
	Dan Bakkedahl (The Daily Show; Second City Mainstage Alum) Dan was recently hired as a new reporter for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also is a former cast member of The Second City mainstage....[More...]
	Ike Barinholtz (MAD-TV) Ike can be seen weekly on Fox's MAD-TV. Before that he studied and performed at the ImprovOlympic in Chicago and Boom Chicago in Amsterdam....[More...]
	Mike Betette (SuperPunk) Mike Betette originally hails from upstate NY. He currently lives in Chicago where, as a graduate of the Second City program, he performs with his cri...[More...]
	Joe Bill (Bassprov) Joe is one of the co-founders of Annoyance Theater, where he performed in and directed over 50 productions from 1987-2000, including smash hits Co-ed ...[More...]
	Joey Bland (ComedySportz, Second City Nat'l Touring Co.) Joey Bland moved to Chicago from Richmond, Virginia in order to study improvisation. Since arriving, he has trained at ImprovOlympic and the Second Ci...[More...]
	Craig Cackowski Craig Cackowski is former SecondCity Mainstage, E.T.C. and Touring Company alumni. He has also appeared in the e.t.c. in the long-form improv shows "C...[More...]
	Frank Caeti (MADtv) Frank Caeti has joined the cast of Fox's MADtv for its 11th season. He was formerly a member of the Second City e.t.c. where he performed and wrote...[More...]
	Joe Canale (Second City Mainstage, Weaseliscious) Joe has been acting and improvising in Chicago for the past 10 years. Most of that time has been spent at ImprovOlympic. Joe was also a member of the ...[More...]
	Gregg Carey (CBS's "Survivor: Palau") Gregg Carey was born and raised in Ashland, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Ashland High School in 1995. While in school, Carey was active in s...[More...]
	Jason Chin (Whirled News Tonight) Jason was the ImprovOlympic Associate Director as well as the Director of IO's Training Center. He has directed several critically acclaimed improv s...[More...]
	Cayne Collier (Creator & Host of The Elevated) Cayne Collier was born, raised, and still considers his "home", in New Orleans (we'll get back to this). Some things Cayne is happy about working on: ...[More...]
	Matt Craig (Second City Mainstage) Matt is a member of The Second City mainstage cast. He began his improvisational career at Washington University in St. Louis with the troupe Mama’...[More...]
	Tara DeFrancisco (i.O., ComedySportz) Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Tara has lived the dream here for over four years. Currently an ensemble member of ComedySportz, she was a founding membe...[More...]
	Kevin Dorff (Writer/Performer, Late Night with Conan O'Brien) Kevin is an alumnus of the Second City Mainstage who currently writes and performs on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" most notably as "Coked-Up Werewo...[More...]
	Brendan Dowling (Second City Denver) Brendan most recently performed with Second City on board the M/S Norwegian Dawn, seeing the sights of the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Port Canaveral,...[More...]
	Debra Downing (Baby Wants Candy) Debra performs fully improvised musicals with Baby Wants Candy and also appeared in BWC's original production Moulin Scrooge. Deb also performed in T...[More...]
	Rebecca Drysdale (Second City e.t.c alum) Rebecca, a former member of The Second City e.t.c cast, recently won the Breakout Award at the 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado....[More...]
	Doug Elfman (Chicago Sun-Times) Doug is the Television Critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Before that he was a Rock Critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal....[More...]
	Ithamar Enriquez (Second City Mainstage) Ithamar was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, and has a B.A. in music theatre from ASU. Ithamar comes to the Mainstage cast after performing with the...[More...]
	Molly Erdman (Second City Mainstage) Molly is currently a member of The Second City's mainstage cast and has performed with such notable improv groups as The Lindbergh Babies (Directed by...[More...]
	Jennifer Estlin (Annoyance Theater) Jennifer has appeared in many shows with The Annoyance Theater and Second City as well as performing in The Vagina Monologues at the Apollo Theater an...[More...]
	Alex Fendrich (Second City e.t.c.) Alex Fendrich was born in Beloit, Wisconsin and grew up in Bethesda, MD. He had the good fortune of seeing the country as a Met Life blimp crewman in ...[More...]
	Tom Flanigan (i.O.) Tom Flanigan is a founder of the Galileo Players and has been their Artistic Director since 1998. Originally from Buffalo, NY, Tom attended the Univer...[More...]
	Brian Gallivan (Second City Mainstage) Brian is a member of The Second City mainstage cast. Before that, Brian travelled the country with the wildly talented members of Second City’s Nat...[More...]
	Dave Gaudet (President - ComedySportz Chicago) Dave is the President/Executive Producer of ComedySportz Chicago, where he also performs. His list of theatrical credits includes several performance...[More...]
	Sarah Gee (I.O. West) Sarah Gee has studied improvisation in Chicago at the Annoyance, The Second City Training Center, and ImprovOlympic where she performed with the long-...[More...]
	Jeff Griggs (Author - Guru: My Days With Del Close) Jeff is the author of "Guru: My Days With Del Close", about his time taking care of one of the most influential men in the history of comedy. "Guru" ...[More...]
	Paul Grondy (i.O., Second City BoatCo) Paul Grondy has been improvising for 15 years. In addition to traveling the world with Second City on Norwegian Cruise Line, while in town Paul can be...[More...]
	Peter Grosz (Sonic Commercials, Second City e.t.c. alum) Peter is a former member of The Second City e.t.c ensemble and can be seen nationally in commercials for Sonic Drive-In....[More...]
	Peter Gwinn (Writer, The Colbert Report) Peter Gwinn was trained by Charna Halpern and Del Close at Chicago's iO Theater. He is the founder of the troupe Baby Wants Candy, and half of the ske...[More...]
	Don Hall (WNEP Theater) Don is the founder of WNEP Theater and has produced over fifty original productions in Chicago and designed sets for three. Additionally, Don is a...[More...]
	Charna Halpern (Owner - i.O.) Charna Halpern has been teaching performers how to work together for more than 20 years. Having founded the world famous ImprovOlympic Theaters in Chi...[More...]
	Steve Heisler (Comedy Editor, TimeOut Chicago) Steve is the Comedy Editor for TimeOut Chicago....[More...]
	Jack Helbig (Chicago Reader) Jack is a theater critic for the Chicago Reader and The Daily Herald as well as a playwright....[More...]
	Greg Hess (Improvised Shakespeare Co.) A native of Virginia and a graduate of William & Mary, Greg Hess moved to Chicago to study at the Improv Olympic and The Second City. He has performed...[More...]
	Dave Hoekstra (Chicago Sun-Times) Dave Hoekstra is a Features Reporter and the resident Country and Folk music expert for the Chicago Sun-Times....[More...]
	Hans Holsen (Second City National Touring Company) Hans is in commercials for online poker and the Illinois Lottery....[More...]
	Susanna Homan (Chicago Sun-Times) Susanna Homan covers nightlife in a column called "Susanna's Night Out" in the Chicago Sun-Times. A pioneer of "reality" journalism, for the last fo...[More...]
	Darel Jevens (Chicago Sun-Times) Darel is the Entertainment Editor for the Chicago Sun-TImes....[More...]
	Nick Kanel (Baby Wants Candy) Nick is a member of Baby Wants Candy and with BWC has performed fully improvised musicals all over the world....[More...]
	Tim Kazurinsky (Saturday Night Live) Tim performed with The Second City in Chicago and is best known for being a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1981-1984 and from appearing in th...[More...]
	Colin Kerr (Cruise Director, Star Cruises) Colin Kerr is the former Cruise Director for the Norwegian Dawn and is currently Cruise Director for Star Cruises....[More...]
	Shad Kunkle (Second City Nat'l Touring Co.) Shad performs with the Second City national Touring Company as well as at i.O. with Carl & the Passions each Wednesday at I.O. Shad is also an ensembl...[More...]
	Niki Lindgren (Second City e.t.c.) Niki Lindgren found her love for the stage in London, England, where she grew up as a military brat. She came to Chicago to study improv with a BA in ...[More...]
	John Lutz (Writer, Saturday Night Live) John Lutz is writer/actor/improviser. He began his career in Chicago performing at ImprovOlympic. He then got his first "real" job at the famed Second...[More...]
	Ve Magni (International Fashion Model) Ve has modeled high fashion all over the world and has a lot of stories....[More...]
	Nicky Margolis (Second City e.t.c.) Nicky Margolis currently performs with the Second City e.t.c. Previously she traveled the world with the incredibly talented Second City Touring Compa...[More...]
	Sandy Marshall (Schadenfreude) Born in Missouri, Sandy has lived in Chicago since 1996 and is a founding member of Schadenfreude. He also performs with The Second City, directs show...[More...]
	Beth Melewski (Second City Denver) Beth returns to dry land (with an allergy to buffet lines) after recently ending an eight month sea stint doing shows with The Second City on Norwegia...[More...]
	Tony Mendoza (Annoyance Theater) Tony wants to get out of this terrible sandwich shop....[More...]
	Susan Messing (Second City Mainstage alum) After graduating from Northwestern in 1986, Susan studied and performed at the ImprovOlympic, where she created the Level 3 curriculum and continues t...[More...]
	Matt Miller (Barrel of Monkeys) Barrel Of Monkeys Member Since: 1999 Favorite Food: Thai food Superpower: napping Animal That Describes My Acting Style: a deer (mostly the h...[More...]
	Maribeth Monroe (NBC's "Thank God You're Here") Hailing from Detroit, MI, Maribeth co-wrote and performed in four original revues on The Second City-Detroit mainstage as well as in several alternati...[More...]
	Phillip Mottaz (SuperPunk) Phillip Mottaz holds a writing degree from Knox College and has studied improvisation at ImprovOlympic and ComedySportz. He is a founding member of th...[More...]
	Mick Napier (Annoyance Theater, Second City) Mick is founder of the Annoyance Theater and Annoyance Productions, and also works as a director and artistic consultant for Second City. Some of his...[More...]
	Dave Pasquesi (Curb Your Enthusiasm) David is a former member of The Second City and has appeared in such films as "Groundhog Day", "Father of the Bride" and "The Fugitive." He has also b...[More...]
	Celeste Pechous (GayCo) Celeste Pechous has been performing comedy in Chicago and elsewhere from Kankakee to Vienna. Originally from Iowa City, Pechous moved to Chicago to st...[More...]
	Jonathan Pitts (Producer - Chicago Improv Fest) Jonathan, an improv veteran, teaches improvisation around the country as well as at The Second City Training Center and Very Special Arts Chicago. He ...[More...]
	Dave Ries (The Beatbox, ComedySportz) Dave Ries is originally from Ohio. He moved to Chicago by way of North Carolina where he helped found The Idiot Box Comedy Club. He can also be seen ...[More...]
	Rance Rizzutto (i.O., ComedySportz) Rance has studied and/or performed improv at ComedySportz (Chicago and Portland, Oregon), ImprovOlympic and the Annoyance Theater. Currently he can be...[More...]
	Phil Rosenthal (Chicago Tribune) Phil is the Media Critic for the Chicago Tribune....[More...]
	Tami Sagher (Writer - MAD-TV) Tami performed at the ImprovOlympic and on The Second City mainstage, before moving to L.A. to be a staff writer for "MAD TV." She is also collaborati...[More...]
	Al Samuels ( Al Samuels can be seen as "Al Click" on "Sports Action Team" and also performs with "Baby Wants Candy" doing fully improvised musicals. Google him....[More...]
	Brian Shortall (Second City Las Vegas) Brian performed with Second City Las Vegas before heading to Los Angeles to appear in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous. He is also the co-host...[More...]
	Heather Simms (ComedySportz, Triplette) Heather Simms has been improvising in Chicago for the last five years. She performed with Northwestern University improv group The Titanic Players and...[More...]
	Andy St. Clair (Second City Nat'l Touring Company) A native of Missouri, Andy received his B.F.A in Theatre from Southwest Missouri State before moving to Chicago. Since then he has performed at the Im...[More...]
	Jason Sudeikis (Performer, "Saturday Night Live") Jason Sudeikis joins the "Saturday Night Live" cast in May 2005 as a featured player. He joined the show as a staff writer in the 2003-04 season. A...[More...]
	Sam Super (ComedySportz) Sam Super studied acting in Oregon and London before making Chicago his home. You can catch Sam improvising with ComedySportz, in The Hot Karl (CSz) ,...[More...]
	Mark Sutton (Annoyance Theater, Bassprov) Mark Sutton is a founding member of The Annoyance Theater and has been performing, teaching, writing, and directing comedy in Chicago for the past 15 ...[More...]
	Blaine Swen (Improvised Shakespeare Company) Blaine is the director of the Improvised Shakespeare Company as well as a member of the i.O. team "Bullet Lounge."...[More...]
	Steve Waltien (iO, Whirled News Tonight) Steve can be seen improvising around town with great ensembles like Whirled News Tonight, Bullet Lounge, Miss Hawaiian Tropic, Powerball, The Late Nig...[More...]
	Ron West (Third Rock From the Sun, Whose Line Is It Anyway?) Ron is an alumnus of the Second City where he has performed and directed. He has appeared in the feature film Backdraft as well as numerous televisio...[More...]