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MAIN STAGE CAST
Fridays & Saturdays

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ALLEN
KIM

Hooked since his first exposure to improv, Allen is pretty invested in it. He's studied short form in OC and long form in LA. Now you can see the payoff yourself at one of ImprovCity's shows!

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AMANDA
​PERONTO

Raised in OC. Came out of the womb performing for the doctors. Amanda Peronto came to be an improv player first at Irvine High in Comedy Sportz. While she did some improv during college, she hid her talents for many years until awesome Devin met her. Devin told her to come to an improv class and she just never left. Her interests include teaching, singing, watching mockumentaries, hiking, embarrassing her friends when she dances, looking for a soul mate, and eating tacos. ​

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ANDREW
LIVINGSTONE

After writing and performing for Cornell University’s Humor Us! sketch comedy group, Andrew departed his native East Coast for Texas, where he graduated from the improv conservatory at Station Theater in Houston and never once used the word “y’all”. Since relocating to California, Andrew has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, co-founded Orange County longform team Tan Sedan and ImprovCity house team StoryTime, and appeared on his grandmother’s favorite syndicated game show.

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ASIC
​KHATCHATRYAN

Raised in the San Fernando Valley and unable to whistle until the age of 21, Asic Khatchatryan found her way to improv obsession via the ComedySportz High School League, UC Irvine’s Live Nude People (With Clothes On), The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and South Coast Repertory. Her interests include writing, birds, fact-checking dubious claims, British panel shows, sour candy, Tony Shalhoub, and social anxiety.

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BEN
WETZEL

Ben loves food, nature, and entertainment. He is reciprocating by becoming an entertainer.

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BOB
​BURNS

Robert Burns has been part of proud member of ImprovCity since 2018. He has been acting for over 40 years, and enjoys every aspect of performing. He continues to audition for commercials, and especially loves comedy. He thanks IC for the opportunity not only to do improv, but to try his hand at stand-up comedy. Long live Bobby B!

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BOB
CRAIG

Bob Craig has been performing improv for many years. He has trained at The Second City and iO in Chicago and at Groundlings in LA. He published his first novel, Sportsmans in 2022 and is working on his latest work now. He is a teacher here at ImprovCity and thanks Devin, Gina and everyone here for welcoming him to the fold.

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BRIAN
MINTON

Brian Minton grew up in Westminster and graduated from UC Irvine. Brian has been a member of ImprovCity since July 2013 and is the creator of the monthly genre long-form improv show, The Wheely Funny Show. He has studied improv at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa and with Impro Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2015, Brian was a cast member of the monthly horror-themed improv show, Thursday Nightmare. He has also performed sketch comedy at both ImprovCity and The Second City Hollywood.

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BRYCE
ST. PETER

Bryce St. Peter is a music and acting guy. He's a performer at ImprovCity and accompanies for the musical house team, "We'll Adapt". Bryce is also the bandleader, singer-songwriter and saxophonist of The Sound Scientists, a new multi-genre jazz band.

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CLAYTON
JAMES

Clayton James is an Orange County based writer and performer. Besides ImprovCity, he has performed at Improv Collective and Westside Comedy Theater. He firmly believes three sentences is the perfect bio length.

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DEVIN
​DUGAN

Devin Dugan is the Artistic Director of ImprovCity's Main Stage cast and also a founding member. Devin has performed, taught and trained with numerous troupes across the country including The National Comedy Theatre, The Second City Hollywood, ComedySportz, ComedyCity, LA Connection, and Idiot Central. He is also one-half of the two-man improv comedy duo Coffee Break. Besides all that, he is also a published author and international award winning screenwriter.

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GINA
DUGAN

Gina Dugan is a founding member of ImprovCity and the Artistic Director of the ImprovCity Thursday/Sunday cast. Gina is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory and has studied at Upright Citizens Brigade. Besides improv, she is also a veteran of sketch comedy.

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JAMIE
DANA

Jamie Dana is an improviser who loves the stage. Not only did she perform musical theatre for over eight years, but she speaks internationally as an educator in the hair industry. She enjoys the challenge of making something out of nothing. Jamie is also a fan of thrift stores, where she can find unique pieces to add to her home decor. If you ever find vintage colored glassware or wicker furniture, let Jamie know because she'll probably want to hang out with you.

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JEFF
BUENO

Jeff Bueno has trained/performed at the Second City Conservatory, Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center, & performs Stand-Up. He also likes dogs & fitness.

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JENNIFER
PIZZOLO

Jennifer began performing improv in the early 1990s with ComedySportz Philadelphia. She has performed longform improv with Farm to Table, Words of Wisdom and Snatch’d. In addition to improv, Jennifer is a trained Salsa dancer and also performs sketch and stand up comedy.

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JOSH
HOOVER

Josh is thrilled to be back on the stage acting a complete fool of himself as per the usual. Josh studied Theatrical Design and Production at Cal State Fullerton and is an advocate for pineapple on pizza. He measures in at a whopping 6ft. 8in, weighs around (wouldn’t you like to know), and is always ready to rumble. He would also like to thank his friends and family for their supportive banter including but not limited to “whoohoo!” and “you go girl!” Finally, Josh would like to leave you with this proverb, “I like my coffee like I like my women. . . I don’t like coffee.”

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JUAN
VELASCO

Juan is an Ecuadorian actor and improv teacher who graduated in theater and directing in Argentina. He moved to Los Angeles in 2009 and create his first improv team, E.S.L, while studying at Monkey Butler Hollywood. Juan graduated from iOWest and was part of the Harold team Cash for Gold. He performed at Second City Hollywood with his teams Day Job and Heraldo. He now teaches improv in both Spanish and English and performs at ImprovCity.

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KYLE
GOULSTON

Some people call Kyle Goulston the space cowboy. Some call him the gangster of love. Some people call him Maurice, because he speaks of the pompitous of love (Kyle doesn’t know what a pompitous is). You can find him on YouTube at goultube, which is not a typo, despite Google’s insistence that it is.

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LEE
​GODDEN

Lee Godden is the co-founder of Advantage Improv, an applied improvisation team building and education company. Years ago he produced and directed the improvised sketch comedy television program “Not Quite Right.” Also a musician, filmmaker and actor, Lee has appeared in feature films and national TV commercials. A U.S. Navy veteran, Lee later worked with startups and Fortune 100 companies, managing high technology sales teams. He’s the author of the internationally-translated book “ZenWise Selling.”

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MEGHAN
MANNING

Meghan has been doing comedy since she was 14 and it’s been an incredible journey full of laughs and joy. When she’s not doing improv comedy, you can catch her working with the character department at Disneyland where she gets to use her crazy improv skills to create magical memories for guests. Meghan also loves being outside, playing ukulele, and trying to convince her cat to audition for ImprovCity.

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MORGANNA
OCHOA

Morganna, also known as Mo, loves to make people laugh, almost as much as she loves to laugh (at inappropriate things of course). Finding a lack of creative outlet as a chemical engineer, she auditioned for an improv troupe, Cult of the Stage Monkey (COSM) over a decade ago and down the rabbit hole she went. Starting off as a performer with little to no theatre experience, she eventually came to direct the troupe, and is now a long-distance alumni coach. She has also performed in several festivals such as SO ILL Improv Festival, Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival (hosted as well), and the Tupelo Comedy Arts Festival. After leaving Louisiana for Orange County, Mo is happy to have been successfully re-homed with ImprovCity (after all her vaccinations of course). Her favorite things include candy, video games, and playing with her furbabies.

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NEIMAN
ARAQUE

Having starred in over 40 improvised shows for Comedy Sportz High School League, 4 musicals, 3 plays, 6 theater festivals, 1 research symposium, 2 school-wide conventions, 10 monologues, 1 choreographed Homecoming King Nominee number, 2 halftime show dances, 3 stand-up performances, 3 talent shows, 1 senior year cabaret, 1 short documentary, 1 artsy student film, and now shows with his wonderful friends at ImprovCity, Neiman still cannot schedule a doctor's appointment on his own.

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RYAN
​LEE

Ryan Christopher Lee is an aspiring storyteller from Irvine, California. He has been a part of the entertainment industry for 17 years, beginning his career as a child actor at the ripe, young age of 5 years old. He has portrayed principle and recurring roles on Disney Channel's "I Didn't Do It", Nickelodeon’s “Wendell and Vinnie", and most recently Netflix's hit comedy "Never Have I Ever". Ryan has been performing with ImprovCity since middle school and is excited to keep creating laughs with the main stage troupe!

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YASH
VYAS

Born and Raised in the City of Nagpur aka The City of Oranges, in India. Moved to Orange County, California in 2018. Got his first taste of improv comedy at the drop-in classes offered at ImprovCity and immediately fell in love with the art form. While performing in shows on stage, uses 99% of his functional brain to control the urge to blurt out "That's what she said".

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