Wry vs. Dry

Dan’s been doing improv since 2001, though not continuously — he occasionally wandered off to do other things, as one does. He’s performed both competitive short form and long form on teams at ComedySportz and All Out, mixing character voices, crisp game play, and the dry British/Canadian humour you get from growing up on Monty Python and Kids in the Hall. He’s also known for "challenging" his teammates with surprise songs, improvised poetry, or whatever else seems amusing in the moment. They love it. They do.

Dylan is a comedian, educator, and musician in the Bay Area. His offbeat sense of humor can be seen in his improv, standup and often absurd sketches. And while he now spends his days producing and coaching, his past is marked by a stint as a tsunami hunter – a job that was as unpredictable as his shows.

Christian has lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and gets disoriented if not around mountains or large bodies of water. He began his formal improv education at All Out Comedy Theater in 2021 and has performed on AOCT House teams since 2022. From working “in the booth” for dozens of shows in the theater since 2023, to teaching, hosting open jams to performing standup, Christian has been standing in front of the improv/comedy firehose full blast. When he’s not going down some other rabbit hole, you can find him wrangling a feral teenager and learning how to cohabitate with an apex predator named Moose.

Comedian doing improv for too long to be able to use it as a midlife crisis

Kari Noelle is an improviser and Meisner trained actor with experience in films, indie content, and live performances. She studied and performed at Leela and Endgames Improv, and learned under a variety of coaches from BATs, UCB and Second City. She’s collaborated and produced with diverse teams in the Bay Area, and you can see more of her work on the web. Just google her! Kari has other hobbies too, but she is mostly having a blast with All Out Comedy's Main Stage and her indie team Juicy Fruits.

Mary Matabor got her improv start with Pan Theater’s Awkward Face and has dabbled with an array of troupes and side projects ever since. She has not yet quit improv, it’s just been lazily on her to-do list. Chick Flick, which she co-founded, is a true love so that makes it hard. She also likes Puppet Party pretty good. Ms. Matabor has mc'd and performed with troupes Ragged Wing, Wondertown and Puppette Party, among others, at assorted festivals for the snacks, and is formerly of the main stage troupe at All Out Comedy Theater. She contains a deep and abiding desire not to engage with people, which she undermines monthly by inventing entire relationships — marriages, rivalries, decades of unresolved tension — with strangers, from scratch, on a spotlit stage. She will vacate the theater immediately after the show ends.

Mike has performed improv shows across the SF Bay Area since 2022. He’s been told on numerous occasions by unrelated individuals that he reminds them of Chevy Chase. Mike resists this comparison at all costs, and if pushed will shout a silly absurdism and attempt to storm out before slipping and comedically falling.

Grant (He/They) has been an active performer and director in the Bay Area for over 20 years. He currently directs the Theatre Arts Program at Newark Memorial High School, most recently producing a musical production Alice in Wonderland and StarKid’s new Sstone age musical; “Firebringer” and Noël Coward’s improbable farce “Blithe Spirit”. In addition to directing and teaching, Grant regularly performs with Made Up Theatre, Worlds Collide, Flash Mob Musical, B.A.T.S., and Phasers on Stun as a musical director and performer.