Wry vs. Dry feat. Puppet Party

A Bay Area comedy show featuring improvisors, stand-ups, and most importantly... puppets.

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.

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.

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.

David is the founder of Spats Improv in Berkeley CA, and teaches improv across the Bay Area at Provocation Theatre, All Out Comedy, and on occasion Improv Central. David delights in introducing folks to the joyful and rebellious nature of improv, and knows that with the right tools anyone can shine on stage. David has had dueling obsessions with UCB style game, and Second city short form, which has led him to performing at SF Sketchfest and the premier queer comedy festival of the Bay Area: Yas! And Fest in 2025 and 2026.

Tom Dunlap is a stand-up, improviser, sketch performer, improv coach, and former Swedish professional baseball player. He's been performing since 2007, performing stand-up all over the country, with appearances on Sirius Satellite Radio, New York 1 TV, The Boston Chronicle, The Comedy Studio's Comic-in-Residence Program, the Women in Comedy Festival, Chicago Sketchfest, the Rochester Comedy Festival, and the Hoboken Comedy Festival. He co-created Grandma's Basement, a four-night-a-week comedy venue behind Fenway Park that was voted Boston's Best Alternative Comedy Showcase and Best Open Mic.

Tom is currently thrilled to have played with many Bay Area improv teams, including Improv Circus, After Bedtime Stories, No Brakes, A Lot To Unpack, House Party, and Cattywampus! Before landing in the Bay Area, Tom performed on Wonderland — the Magnet Theater's longest-running musical house team — and sketch team Baby Shoes which performed in multiple festivals, and many indy teams in NYC. Tom was trained as an improv instructor by Armando Diaz, has coached narrative musical house teams, long-form improv teams, and studied under Will Hines, Jordan Klepper, Craig Cackowski, Tara Copeland, Neil Casey, Rick Andrews, Peter McNerney, Amy Goerlich, Michael Lutton, and many more.

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

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.

Ming is an improviser, singer, teacher, coach and sketch writer. He teaches musical improv at All Out Comedy, where he also plays on the mainstage cast of the Sitcom, and Knockoff Broadway: the Improvised Musical. He trained at All Out Comedy, Leela, Provocation Theater, and Endgames. He currently coaches the All Out Comedy musical house team, House Party, as well as a number of independent teams. He has also performed improv at festivals including SF Sketchfest, Bay Area Musical Improv Festival, Yas And Fest, and recently at the first ImprovCon in San Diego. He was a founding member of the Fledglings, a musical improv team that is undefeated at Thunderdome!