Andy
Andy Sarouhan is a Bay Area native. His improvisation training began in 1992, when he joined his high school improvisation team. That event started a chain reaction that eventually resulted in a BA in Theatre from UC San Diego and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. Since 2003, Andy has improvised professionally with Flash Family and the Un-Scripted Theater Company, joining the Un-Scripted ensemble in 2013. In 2015, he and fellow Un-Scripted ensemble member created Andy & Jerry are The Trifecta, a popular improvised show that has been featured at the San Francisco Improvisation Festival and has included some tremendous guest improvisers. Andy has also been a busy improvisation coach since 2001, leading courses for ImprovWorks, UC Riverside, American Conservatory Theater, Cal Shakes, BATS Improv, Un-Scripted Theater Company, and some incredible high school improv troupes in San Mateo. Andy is a frequent director for Un-Scripted Theater Company, including the improvised formats Beloved Strangers, Life in SF, and The Short & The Long of It.
David
David Boyll has appeared in over one hundred improvised plays and musicals with Un-Scripted Theater Company since 2013. He’s performed at numerous improv festivals and at SF Sketchfest with the critically acclaimed Improv Lab. Recent theatre credits: Felix in The Odd Couple (Ross Valley Players), Partition (Indra’s Net), Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night (Custom Made). David lives in San Francisco with Molly, his wife of over 25 years.
Ian
Ian was first exposed to improv as an eleven-year-old in a class at Walnut Street Theatre! Since then, he's performed in numerous sketch and improv groups in Philadelphia and the Bay Area, including the Stanford Fleet Street Singers and Stanford Improvisors. His favorite gig has been teaching improvisational theater at Hillsdale High School with the most talented group of teenagers he's ever met. When the sun's out, Ian does marketing for GreatNonprofits and serves as the chair of the Advisory Board for Camp Kesem at Stanford.
Karen
Karen got her improv start with Pan Theater, Oakland, in 2013 and has been a musician most of her life, playing drums, keys, guitar and singing with various bands from synth pop to 60’s go-go to prog rock. She’s a member of the indie troupe Jurassic Pope and coaches and facilitates corporate improv gigs throughout Bay Area. Karen is also an associate producer for both the San Francisco Improv Festival and West Coast Musical Improv Fest and can sometimes be seen performing with the stand-up/improv combo YES, stAND Up! In her free time, Karen is honing her musical chops to become an improv accompanist — super fun!
Shara
Shara Tonn is an improviser, actor, clown and teacher based in San Francisco. She has been an ensemble member at Un-Scripted Theater Company since 2015. An alumna of the Stanford Improvisors and San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory, Shara also performs with her duo Mona and Shara Do Improv as well as a variety of Bay Area comedy shows. When not bathed in stage lights, she works with the Medical Clown Project of San Francisco, acts and clowns in local gigs, does freelance science writing and teaches with a number of organizations including Stagebridge, Circus of Smiles, Aragon High School, and BATS Improv.
Susie
Susie Sargent discovered and fell in love with improv over 20 years ago and enjoys sharing her passion through training, teaching and performing. She has taught the skills of improvisation to students aged 3 – 80. Susie is an ensemble and staff member of Un-Scripted Theater Company and loves surprising the audience and creating rich and diverse characters. Her ideal evening at home is a dinner party with improvisors who are likely to break into interpretative dance at any moment.
Mona
Mona Thompson performed with Un-Scripted Theater Company since 2014 and officially joined the ensemble in 2015. She began improvising in high school in Washington DC, continued in college as a member of the Stanford Improvisors (SImps, for short), and never looked back. She currently lives in San Francisco and teaches improv to theater students and professionals all over the Bay Area. Learn more at monajthompson.com.
Olivia
Olivia Puerta first discovered improv at age 9 as a student of First Stage Theater Academy in her hometown, Milwaukee, WI. A dedicated theater kid, she continued to study and perform theater and vocal music in all her formative years. Olivia has been studying and performing improv in San Francisco since 2012, training primarily with Endgames Improv, where she now teaches. She performs weekly with San Francisco Tonight.
Aaron Saenz
Aaron is a wandering thought. He was a founding member of WHJ in Austin, starting the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. Then he was in IGP at Harvard. Then he sort of did physics for a while. Then he was in American Standard in NYC. Then Start-Trekkin NYC, the Star Trek themed improv masterpiece. Then he was in San Francisco interviewing robots...no one is quite sure why. But he does seem happy to be working with such wonderful people.
Alan Goy
Alan is an improvisor, actor, director, and internationally produced, award-winning playwright. He's worked with many theater companies, from the Kokopelli Theater Co. in Anchorage to the Three Wise Monkeys Theater Co. in San Francisco, to Teatro del Navile in Italy. Alan's play, Il Lago, was performed in Bologna, Italy in May 2005. He performed with BATS Improv from June of 2000 to January 2003 and is proud to be a founding member of The Un-Scripted Theater Company. During the day, he no longer works for a small toy company.
Amber
Amber Dyson has worked in educational theatre for thirteen years. A Bay Area native, she is currently directing BACT's Advanced Performers production of Legally Blonde Jr., which will compete at Junior Theatre Festival West in February. A recent recipient of the Freddie G. Fellowship for excellence in musical theatre education, Amber doesn’t believe for one second that you can’t sing.
Bryce Byerley
Bryce has been working in improv and theatre for 30 years this year. Bryce has graduated from actor training programs at a lot of three letter theater companies. He started doing shows with Un-Scripted in 2004 and joined the company in 2008. He also performs around the bay area with other theatre companies. His stand-out role was the title role in the world premiere of Zippy the Pinhead in Fun: The Concept.
Christina
Christina is very happy to be performing with Un-Scripted. An Arizona native, she is also glad to be experiencing a big California adventure. She has improvised with National Comedy Theatre Phoenix and The Charles Darwin Experience. Christina recently performed via script at Altarena Playhouse and Actors Ensemble of Berkeley. When not busy with theater, she is usually doodling, dabbling, or eating.
Clay
Clay Robeson has been improvising for nearly 20 years now. Starting out in Boston he studied, then performed and taught with the Improv Asylum, the Improv Foundry and Third Grade Trick. Since returning to the West Coast, Clay has worked with the Jesters of Yes, been a producer for the San Francisco Improv Festival (2006 to 2009), and most importantly, a longtime member of Un-Scripted. When not making things up on stage, you can find him wandering the city taking photographs or working on a puppet sci-fi web drama. You can also see him walking away from the camera in two different scenes (about 7 seconds worth) in High School Musical 3.
In his copious spare time, he volunteers with City Grazing, a non-profit goat sanctuary out on Hunter's Point.
Dave Dyson
Dave Dyson (Salinas, CA) is a working actor, improvisor, voiceover artist and writer. Since finding improv in 1996, he’s worked with East Bay Improv, BATS Improv, co-founded The Fibbs, and joined Un-Scripted shortly after it formed in 2003. Check him out in Unflinching Triumph (now available on dvd), and look for a staged “sing” next spring of his zombie-themed parody sequel to Jesus Christ Superstar (www.3dayslater.net)...
Dave was once snowed on in the mountains of India -- in the month of August.
Greg Shilling
Greg lives in Portland where he continues to perform. He is a member of the mains stage company at Curious Comedy and a core ensemble member at the Funhouse.
Sarah
Sarah JK Shoemaker taught at Leela Theatre where she also performed with their Armando Company. She is a founding member of the all-female ensemble Peach Pit and guests with Kari and Company. In 2015, Sarah guested with The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Improv for a cave match at BATS. Her duo troupe, Tall Grande Venti, has been touring the improv festival circuit.
Mandy Khoshnevisan
Mandy Khoshnevisan is an improvisor, actor, teacher, singer, and all-around Working Artist. She directs productions and teaches acting, music, and dance in schools and throughout the Bay Area. Further, she has composed and performed original music for shows including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Mother Courage." She is also a puppeteer, a graphic designer, and Master Electrician for the SF Playhouse; she designed lights for the SFPH production of "The Sunset Limited." In her fifteen-year improv career, she's been a performing member of Spontaneous Generation (SponGe), the Stanford Improvisors, Scenic Root Longform, and BATS Improv—and The Un-Scripted Theater Company.
Scott
Stacy
Stacy is awesome.
Trish Tillman
Trish Tillman is the Director of Artistic Learning at California Shakespeare Theater, as well as being an actor and theater arts teacher in the Bay Area. As an improvisor, she has worked with Bay Area Theatersports here and Paul Sills in New York City, has founded two improvisational theater troupes and was very proud to be an Un-Scripted ensemble member. She’s been seen in lots of scripted work as well, including the upcoming The Importance of Being Earnest at The Town Hall Theater in Lafayette.
Susan Snyder
Susan Snyder is in her second decade of improvising. She is proud to be a co-founder of the Un-Scripted Theater Company. Susan holds a MA in Psychology/Drama Therapy and specializes in teaching both the joys and practical applications of improv in trainings, workshops and classes. In addition to performing, Susan manages Un-Scripted's Corporate Programs. Susan blogs about improv and parenting at www.improvamama.com.