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Joey Bland is a Los Angeles–based writer/performer who hails from Virginia, where he attended the College of William and Mary. He spent many years in Chicago where he performed with ComedySportz, the iO Theater, and The Second City.

For two years, Bland traveled the world with The Second City Touring Company, and in 2009, he played the title role in The Second City’s hit original musical Rod Blagojevich, Superstar. Television credits include Game Changer (DropOutTV), Um, Actually (DropOutTV), Teachers (TV Land), and Forever (Amazon Prime). Bland is also a two-time Jeopardy champion.

Ross Bryant is a writer/performer from North Carolina. Bryant is a performer on Dropout.tv and can be seen regularly at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in Los Angeles.

Bryant also tours the country and performs monthly at The Largo in LA with The Improvised Shakespeare Company®. Braynt began performing in Chicago where was a member of the resident cast of The Second City Mainstage. Bryant is a writer for Mystery Science Theater 3000, and has cowritten original television pilots for Pop TV, Warner Bros, and the Showtime network. TV credits include The Good Place (NBC), Crashing (HBO), and I Think You Should Leave (Netflix). Bryant is also a cartoonist. Many of his original animations have been featured on Comedy Central Digital. Check them out on his Instagram

Brendan Dowling is an actor and writer whose recent credits include writing for and appearing in Showtime’s Work in Progress.

Stage credits include Baby Wants Candy, The Second City National Touring Company, and The Second City Denver’s How I Lost My Denverginity. Film credits include It’s All Good and the award-winning short Curtains. Follow along at @berndandooling.

Randall Harr is an actor based in Los Angeles, California. He has performed and improvised at the iO, Annoyance, and Second City theatres in Chicago.

Harr also spent two years in Amsterdam performing at the BOOM CHICAGO comedy theatre. Some of Harr’s Second City credits include American Mixed Tape (Garner Galleria Theatre Denver); Sex and the Second City (National Tour); Rod Blagojevich Super Star (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Peach, Drop, Stop and Roll (Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre); #DateMe (UP Comedy Club); and Louder! Longer! Wagner! (Chicago Lyric Opera).

Blaine Swen is the creator and director of The Improvised Shakespeare Company®. He is a Nashville-based writer/actor who has performed for many years in Chicago where the Chicago Reader named him the “Best Improviser in Chicago.”

His iO Chicago credits include the two-person group Blessing with Susan Messing, The Armando Diaz Experience, and the one-person improvised musical BASH! Additional Chicago stage credits include the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pegasus Players Theatre, The Back Room Shakespeare Project, and The Second City. Television credits include Game Changer (DropOutTV), Um, Actually (Dropout TV), Crisis (NBC), and The Odd Couple (CBS). He has developed original pilots with NBC, Universal Cable Productions, and Pop TV. You can hear him as Arnor the Warrior and Barnor the Lawyer on the podcast Hello, from the Magic Tavern. Blaine also has a PhD in philosophy from Loyola University, Chicago.