Ann Collett

Ann has been a Nashvillian since the age of 5. By day, Ann works for the state of Tennessee as an Assistant Director of Financial Reporting in the Department of Finance and Administration. She makes up new accounting terms, like "swoosh," to describe putting the financial statements together. Ann got her start in improv by taking classes at Nashville Tech, then joined the cast of One Hand Clapping.

Drew Hollowell

Drew grew up in Dallas, which means he's a man's man, which means exactly what you think it means. He acts in stuff, is a model and is very fit.

Lindsay Blackwell

Lindsay is a mystical being currently trapped in the body of a human girl. A lover of redheads and vegetables, she greatly appreciates the art of crocheting, intoxicating music, and a respectable schnoz. She aspires to always be both a minimalist and an unconditional lover, and tries to emanate these qualities whenever possible.

Tom Hippler

Tom invented the internet and wrote/performed the theme song to the Golden Girls. Since then, he graduated from Second City Los Angeles where he became a weekly performer. Tom has studied and performed on such stages as iO West, The Groundlings, and Upright Citizens Brigade. To further prove that he is funny, he’d like you to know that he also worked with National Lampoon and the Second City Las Vegas. He has never appeared on Dancing With The Stars. So what? Neither have you.

Liza Jordan

Liza's first starring role was in her first grade play as a number in a digital clock. She turned down her Tony nomination for said role citing "not enough good material" to be worthy of such an honor. Years later, she graduated from the University of So. California with a degree in theatre and studied at the British American Drama Academy in London. Liza is a graduate of The Second City Los Angeles and has performed on the stages of IO West and Upright Citizen's Brigade and has appeared on "The Tonight Show." She loves herself some improv and is excited to be playing with ImprovNashville. She's friendly, too. Say 'hi' to her.

Barry McAlister

Barry is a long-time local entertainer, known for his work in commercials (as an ice skating $100 bill), music videos (the dead guy in Joe Diffie's Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox), film, local TV, and stage (Juniper Junction). With over 15 years of improv experience, Barry has studied with Second City in Chicago and taught locally. He is also a puppeteer, collects PVC characters and is (not surprisingly) single.

Cindy Carter

Cindy is a Louisiana native who recently moved to Nashville from Alabama and Mississippi, where comedy is forbidden. There she performed illegal improv and sketch comedy with Capitol City Improv, founded the group Blue and wrote and performed with the sketch troupe, Happy Nowhere until guilt drove her to Tennessee. Currently you can see her reporting on FOX 17 by day and mocking her interview subjects in improv shows at night.

David Jones

David got his first acting role in the eighth grade as a grumpy old man. Though not in the script, his character was murdered in the second act. Today he plays the part of a husband, father of three and a grumpy old minister at Harpeth Presbyterian Church. So far none of them have killed him, yet.

Matthew Redd

Redd has spent the majority of his adolescent life explaining that despite the spelling, he is NOT actually the son of Redd Foxx - just an angry Viking. Now days he spends most of his time producing events for Gaylord Opryland and swearing he never saw Sheryl once while he performed with One Hand Clapping. He has the improv bug and is currently avoiding treatment.

Emily Volman

Managing Director

Emily is a transplant from Los Angeles where she trained at The Groundlings and The Second City LA, as well as with other hotsy improv people, blah, blah, blah. She has sung and performed in theatre, opera, improv and commercial jingles collectively for over 102 years. She is eagerly anticipating retirement.

Michael Bryant

Michael has been performing improv since 1999, most prominently with One Hand Clapping. A licensed CPA since 1982, he is the Chief Financial Officer for the NASBA Center for the Public Trust. He and his wife Sheryl improvise each day as they parent their two young children.

Scott Field

Artistic Director

Scott grew up in a small Pennsylvania town where schools closed for the first days of deer-hunting season and people showed up by the thousands for high school wrestling matches. He moved to Nashville from Boston where he performed for four years with Improv Boston. A former English and history teacher at an all-girls Catholic school, Scott learned that females confuse him. He is currently head teacher at East Academy, and mainly talks to the boys. Wait, that looks bad.

Sheryl Bryant

Sheryl has been a part of Nashville's improv scene for the past 14 years. She began with Cereal Killers, performed with Comedy Company, Musical The Musical and was a founder of One Hand Clapping, Inc. She is an improv junkie. Sheryl has worked as a legal secretary, a paralegal, an esthetician and is currently improvising daily as a stay-at-home mom for her two kids.

Brian Woz

Brian Woz is a self-loathing obsessive-neurotic with the delusion he’s funny. His minimal talent and lack of charisma make him Nashville’s most ineffectual comedy force. Despite his freakish height and limited vocabulary, this tall drink of water achieved mediocre success in Los Angeles with guest-starring roles on NBC’s American Dreams and FOX’s Head Cases as well as appeared in national commercials for Mercedes Benz, Bud Light and Jack-In-The-Box. He can currently be seen as a guest commentator on What I Learned From The Movies on The REELZ Channel. Brian is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and has impeccable personal hygiene.

Jill Mothershed

Jill had been doing improv against her will for many years. When she decided to give in and do it willingly, she lost her edge...but maybe no one will notice.

Katy Blakemore

While a swimmer at Stanford, Katy decided to take an improv class and got hooked. She then used her very expensive degree to earn $7.23/hour as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland. She continued her money making ways by joining the Peace Corps in Guatemala. During her two years there, she learned that when you are standing in front of a group of 8 year olds and are unable to speak more than 10 words in their language, there is only one thing to do: Improvise.

Deanna Bowden

Deanna began blazing a path toward financial success with a degree in Acting. Always looking for the big bucks, she later jumped to a 15 year career as a fitness instructor. Deanna is sure that she has finally found the golden egg in the lucrative world of improvizational theatre.

Stu Robinson

Stuart Charles Wolfegang Robinson has been doing improv for a while, for anyone, for any price. Now he does improv with us. He just showed up one day with a foul mouth and a two day beard demanding to perform -we reluctantly agreed. We believe he is a graphic artist by trade, but no one really knows. We actually have no idea what he is talking about most of the time. When not lurking around a stage you can most likely find Stu somewhere on the east side of nashville, lost and late, on a black scooter with red rims.

Blake Wylie

To Blake, improv is just another strange and eccentric chapter in his life, which has been a series of strange and eccentric chapters including hunting down and killing boll weevils for the Government and growing up in Alabama. Blake spends his time smoking pipes and catching up with the latest trade journals of fine British automobiling.

David Vaughan

Troupe 93

David is a San Antonio native who recently discovered that Texas is actually part of the United States and not its own country. He took his business degree from TCU and moved to Nashville in 2003, and now works in television production and travels as a freelance musician. You can see him drumming with Willie Mack and the Mack Daddies and three-time Grammy nominated polka artist, LynnMarie and the Boxhounds. Yes, I said polka artist.

Dylan Kinney

Show Manager

Dylan was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised... well... everywhere. He knew that comedy was the life for him when he was unanimously selected by his fourth grade class to be the court jester in the annual Medieval Fair. Seeing Dylan after improv shows is usually bad news -- he works the graveyard shift as an officer with the Metro Nashville Police Department. Troupe 93 is Dylan's first experience as part of an improv comedy group.

Ian Jameson

Ian is a SWM looking for SF that shares the same interests as him, though they can't be better than him in any aspect because he is self-concious. His interests are long walks, candlelight dinners, watching DVDs & Improv. If you would like to reach Ian you may call him - or most usually find him @ the Greyhound Bus Station, Men's Stall #5.

Daniel Bissell

Daniel Bissell is a local theater actor with a passion for all forms of artistic expression. He has directed, written, and edited two films shown in the Nashville Independant Film Festival, taught cartooning classes, lent his voice to a few radio spots, and was the lead singer of a death metal band, Key to the Downfall. So far, improv is the only artistic form in which he has allowed and accepted actual training.

Eric Quiram

Musician

Eric Quiram fixes houses and provides musicings for Improv Nashville's foolishness. When he's not playing for us, you can find him playing for Lemoncholy!

Martin Brady

Musician

Martin Brady is a free-lance writer and musician. He is best known, and sometimes best despised, locally as the theater critic for Nashville Scene. In the 90s, Martin was a touring pianist and resident musical director at Chicago's Second City, where he was privileged to provide piano accompaniment for a host of contemporary comedy figures, including Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Amy Sedaris, Jackie Hoffman and others. Playing for Improv Nashville is an equal privilege. Martin majored in theatre at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He has a secret life as a comic actor, having appeared as Dweeble Mahoney in two of filmmaker Glen Weiss' Thong Girl features.

Improv Nashville's Homunculus

Longform Improvisation

The Homunculus is unique to Improv Nashville as it incorporates the many philosophies and styles of improvisation of our cast members from all over the country. This long-form improv piece starts with a single suggestion from our audience and transforms into a one-act play or mini-movie right before your eyes. You'll be amazed! ...or confused.

Improv Nashville's Troupe 93

Shoft-form and musical Improvisation

Improv Nashville's Troupe 93 ensemble performs lively theatre games (similar to those seen on 'Whose Line is it Anyway?') and short-form improvisation, as well as musical improv comedy!