MAIN STAGE CAST
Fridays & Saturdays

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!

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 she was told 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. ​

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.

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.

Ben Wetzel

Ben’s adventures into the entertainment industry started by taking voice acting & acting classes in 2016. This quickly led him to ImprovCity where he has been a troupe member since 2017. He enjoys nature, video games, movies/tv, books, and being introverted.

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!

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.

Brian Minton

Brian Minton grew up in Westminster and graduated from UC Irvine. Brian has been a member of ImprovCity since July 2013 and was the creator of the 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.

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 multi-genre jazz band.

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.

Dan Scheinberg

Dan is a writer, actor, and producer. He adores the magic of storytelling…whether it be planned, sketched, or improvised from the ether.

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. He is also a published author and international award winning screenwriter.

Elana Vlodaver

Elana Vlodaver studied musical theater and vocal performance throughout high school and her time at Bowdoin College but fell off the wagon in pursuit of some science degrees. She went to UPenn for veterinary school, but was saddened to learn that cows do not care for improvised musical numbers during their rectal exams. In a desperate whim to revive the right-side of her brain, she studied improv at the Philly Improv Theater. The science thing brought her to SoCal and ImprovCity, where she found community, laughter, and great snacks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 teaches improv in both Spanish and English.

Katie Nocerino

Grab an introvert with a moderate addiction to cheese; mix in a Lisa Frank folder and a dash of Frank’s Red Hot; fold in two heaping scoops of sarcasm; blend ingredients together on a stage in front of a live audience for about 15 years; finally, garnish with gibberish and pair with a chilled bottle of frizz-control mousse. Et Voila! You’ve got yourself a recipe for one heck of a middle child.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Holden

Michael's improv journey started through an online meetup group "Community Improv LA"...and look at him now! Michael's thought to get through life situations, you just need fried chicken and/or cake and a little humor.

Morganna Ochoa

Morganna, aka 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 eventually came to direct the troupe, and is now a long-distance alumni coach. She has performed in several festivals such as SO ILL Improv Festival, Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival, and the Tupelo Comedy Arts Festival.  Her favorite things include candy, video games, and playing with her furbabies.

Naz Haririnia

Naz dabbled in theater back in high school and even got to perform off Broadway. She also had the opportunity to play at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland before moving to Southern California. Once she got to Fullerton College she took almost every acting class and performed in several small productions. She found ImprovCity and is excited to be a troupe member. She enjoys the basic millennial things: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, the MCU, Star Wars, avocado toast, iced coffee, and carrying around her emotional support water bottle covered in stickers.

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.

Tim Magoun

While Tim Magoun is a graphic designer by profession, acting and the performing arts is where his heart lies. Whether it's acting in a scene study class, a community theater play, a TV commercial, or even doing live improv (wink)...entertaining people is always the thing that brings the most joy to his heart. Other things he enjoys beyond performing: video games, iced coffee, horror movies, singing, and quietly enjoying his eclectic taste in music.

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.