Jon Ulrich
Jon’s improv journey began in 2010. Since then he’s performed in 200+ improvised shows, plays, and musicals with the Baltimore Improv Group. He’s taken 25+ workshops with improv legends like Miles Stroth, Susan Messing, Craig Cackowski, Jill Bernard, Will Leura, Mark Sutton, Asaf Ronen, Paul Vaillancourt , Brian O’Connell, Rick Andrews, Peter McNerny, and Chris Trew. He completed iO Chicago's five-week Summer Intensive in 2011, and his improv festival resume includes Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, DC, NYC, and Providence. Since moving to Cincinnati in late 2015, Jon is the Executive Director and Team Building Director for Improv Cincinati. He is is over eight feet tall.
Robin Kap
Robin hails from Los Angeles, which is where his improv obsession began around 2012-ish. After graduating IO West, he continued his improv journey at UCB, where he was accepted into the Advanced Study program. He then went on to graduate from Second City, Nerdist and studied at the Miles Stroth / Pack Theater. He’s been on teams at IO West, Nerdist (for 4 years) and numerous indie teams with terrible names. Robin is a level 401 instructor at Improv Cincinnati and performs with Veracity, Fishkap, and Hot Mic.
Tatiana Godfrey
Tatiana Godfrey was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Tatiana has had a varied career in theater. She served as the assistant director of the off-Broadway premier of No Dog’s Allowed, by Sonia Manzano; she is a founding member of New York’s Pipeline Theatre Company and Atlanta’s Fabrefaction Theatre Company; she was featured in HBO’s David Mamet film Phil Spector; she co-wrote and produced Josh-n-Tati’s Racist Comedy Special. After graduating with an MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Tatiana worked as the Company Dramaturg for WAM Theatre in the Berkshires and as co-Artistic Director of Impro Theatre in Los Angeles. She currently works as Literary Manager at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
Tone Branson
Tone Branson is graphic designer, an improviser, a teacher, and a cuddly bear of a man. He played Santa in the Twi-Lit Zone, Gripshover in Luna, and he is the director of Live From Jabba’s Palace: The Star Wars Variety Show. He has been involved with every mainstage project at Improv Cincinnati, but he particularly loves his time on Hot Mic. He performs on the duos Wonder Twins and Two Tone. He teaches 301 at IC.
Colette Lindemann
Colette has studied the art of improv with legendary instructors from around the world: Susan Messing, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Rick Andrews, Louis Kornfeld, Adam Cawley, etc etc etc. She is one of IC’s most veteran performers and an instructor for Improv-101. When she’s not on stage with Hot Mic and Hambrosia, she is busy managing the theater.
Daniel Zimmer
Daniel is the musical director for HOT MIC. He has composed the music for several holiday shows and Fringe shows, including Sexy Sexy Mattress Time, Elfish, Holiday at Hopper’s, and The Butterfly Heist.
Colin Thornton
Colin Thornton has been performing, teaching, and directing improv for 24 years. He is founder of Kentucky’s longest-running improv troupe, HappyGAS. He has studied under several mentors including Keegan Michael Key (Comedy Central’s Key & Peele), Mick Napier (author, Improvise) and TJ Jagodowski (author, Improvisation at the Speed of Life). He is a graduate of iO and The Annoyance, Chicago’s premiere schools for long-form improv. In Chicago, his production company, Glowdark, created successful shows in a variety of styles: sketch, long-form, interactive parody, and improvised stand-up. Colin is the co-author of “Overcoming Fear: a guide for budding improvisers”, and the producer of the Improv Touchstones Podcast. He is the Artistic and Education Director for Improv Cincinnati.
Kelly Morton
Kelly Morton is the playwright of Know Radio Show “Almost Midnight, Almost Jazz” and 2021 Know Serials shows “Intramarital Affairs” and “Starbucks & Target”. She is the author of the award winning Fringe Festival play “The Butterfly Heist”. She’s a performer in the improvised musical troupe Hot Mic, the amazing duo Wonder Twins, and the mainstage team Veracity.
Brantley Goodrich
Brantley Georgia Goodrich has been with Improv Cincinnati since 2021. She can be found on both Mainstage and House Teams as well as with independent groups such as The Alphas. Originally from Bloomington Indiana, she was involved with The Bloomington Playwrights Project, The University Players, Indiana University Mainstage and other productions. Improvising since 2015, Brantley has trained with IO and Second City mainstage performers. She was a member of Awkward Silence Comedy, and a committee member for the Funtitled Improv Festival. Brantley also worked with The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community with Camp Yes, And… a camp with curriculum made for neurodivergent students and their educators to improvise together to build communication skills.
Amanda Monyhan
Amanda Monyhan loves to bring joy and laughter to everyone. She teaches the intro workshops and the 101 classes, coaches the team John’s Place, and performs with Veracity. She is a clown at Healthy Humour, a non-profit designed to lift the spirits of hospital patients. She performs with the duo Scissor Set.
Chance Kilgour
Chance is a human cartoon who is known for being a bundle of energy and playfulness. He has played a house elf, a demogorgon, and Jabba The Hutt’s jester. Chance performs with Hot Mic, coaches Blitz, and teaches 101 and 301.
Dylan Shelton
Dylan Shelton is the founder and Artistic Director of River City Puppets and previously served as the Artistic Director of Madcap Puppets. Dylan graduated from Wilmington College with a BA in Theatre and received an MFA in Acting from Ohio University. As an actor, Dylan has performed in theaters across the country including the La Mirada Theatre in Los Angeles, the Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod, The Know Theatre of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and has appeared in national and local commercials. Dylan is a founding member of the comedy troupe OTRimprov and teaches corporate improvisation workshops as well as classes at Xavier University.
Theo “Teddy” Shivers
Teddy is the director of sketch education for Improv Cincinnati. Since 2010, Teddy has been studying and performing improv and sketch comedy at the Magnet Theater under the awesome instruction of (and in no particular order) Armando Diaz, Rick Andrews, Peter McNerney, Alex Marino, Russ Armstrong and Louis Kornfeld, just to name a few.
*This is Teddy 10 years ago. He looks even better now.
Featured Players…
Christopher Filippi
Christopher attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts where he studied theater for 9 years. He spent time in Los Angeles pursuing a career in acting. While in LA he formed a short form improv troupe called "Deez Nuts" that ran for two years. Christopher has been with Improv Cincinnati since September of 2021. He has been a part of Blitz!, Hammerspace, and Top Secret. Chris also works behind the scenes to help expand IC's footprint by setting up satellite shows around Cincinnati. Chris has performed in the inaugural season of CNL in 2022, as well as starred in "Clickbait Christmas" for Improv Cincinnati.
Joe DiSalvo
Joe is a graduate of Improv Cincinnati where he honed the art of being delightfully weird and deeply vulnerable. Now he is the 501 teacher for Improv Cincinnati. Joe likes to challenge himself with performance styles that push the boundaries of expectation. He produced “Entangled”, a show filled with personal stories about memory. His performances will sometimes have the audience in tears, which may or may not be tears of laughter or tears of empathy, and may or may not be from the fumes of an onion that he is eating raw. You can see him as one half of the glowing dreamscape known as Uranium 235.
Delmar Davis
Delmar Davis is an entrepreneur, wellness coach, and former HR exec who took classes at Improv Cincinnati for professional development, then got bit by that infernal improv bug. He completed the IC academy and studied further in workshops and at festivals. He also had a former life as a jazz artist and is a founding member and Musical Director of Hot Mic—The Improvised Musical. He has taught Musical Improv and co-created and taught the Improv for Life class at IC. He also assists with Team Building and Applied Improv workshops.
Mary O’Connell
Mary O’Connell is a writer and lover of comedy. She began learning the art of improv at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 2014, and went on to complete improv and sketch writing intensives at Second City Chicago, and sketch writing workshops with comedian/writer Kevin McDonald. Mary has been involved in Improv Cincinnati since its origins. In addition to performing, coaching, and teaching at IC, Mary wrote and directed, “The Twi-Lit Zone” holiday show, and wrote material for the variety show, “Live at Jabba’s Palace.”
Tracy Connor
An actor/writer/improviser, Tracy Connor has lived in Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles (20 years) and Cincinnati. Tracy has a degree in theatre from Emerson College in Boston and has received additional theatrical training at Second City, Steppenwolf Theatre, Loose Moose Theatre with Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Alberta and the British-American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.
A veteran improviser and performer, Tracy spent a dozen years as a company member of Los Angeles Theatresports now known as Impro Theatre. TV Credits include Huff; Push, Nevada and In Living Color. Film credits include Home Alone, Dutch, and indie For Pete’s Wake. Her monologue e-book, I GREW UP IN A NURSING HOME is available on Amazon.