Summer nights are full of adventure. Mike, Shannon, and Bander are back to bring your past summer adventures to life! Come watch as your beach days and lake nights are spun into a musical journey before your eyes. Join us as we interview one audience member and take their summer fling and turn it into a show. Bring your friends for a night of completely unplanned entertainment with three musical improv veterans.
Jon Bander is a Character and Sketch teacher at UCB, and a current/former member of Betty night/Characters Welcome. Jon has also performed at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival and worked for The Second City aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines. Otherwise, he performs/teaches standup, musical improv, sketch, and characters nationwide. TV credits: MAX’s Search Party, Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Master Of None, and The Characters. Most people call him Bander – you can too!
Shannon Krowicki is an actor, singer, and comedian based in NYC. She currently performs on Magnet Theater’s musical improv house team: Secret, Secret! Shannon also performs with EMPIRE, a "super group" featuring NYC’s best veteran musical improvisers. As an actor, her performance highlight credits include many off-Broadway and regional theater productions, local commercials and TV/Film, most notably: Nickelodeon, The History Channel, Starz!, Amazon, and the Investigation Discovery Channel.
Mike is a comedian, actor, singer and writer who calls Columbus home. A current member of TBD the improvised Musical. He spent over a 10 years performing in NYC at the Magnet Theater, People’s Improv Theatre, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He has performed locally at Hashtag, The Nest, and Natalie’s. Mike has had the pleasure of studying improv with the likes of Frank Spitznagel, Will Hines, Gil Ozeri, Chris Gethard, Amey Goerlich, Jordan Klepper, Bobby Moynihan, and more.