About Us
Kurt Braunohler has been performing improv, sketch comedy, and stand-up in New York for the past 8 years. He traveled to the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen with the Neutrino Video Projects, which he helped create, as well as to the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland, and was awarded “Improv Ensemble of the Year” by the Chicago Improv Festival in 2004. He co-hosts the monthly variety show, Hot Tub, at Comix, which was voted “Best New Variety Show” by Time-Out New York’s readers poll. His creations include: which was voted by the Village Voice as “Best Hilarious Insane Guerilla Theatre”, and which has served as a handy nickname. He teaches improv at New York Film Academy, the PIT, and runs corporate improv workshops; he improvises every Wednesday night in The Faculty with the PIT’s other improv teachers. You can see him on various commercials and TV shows, especially on VH1, where talks about celebrities. He also created a sketch comedy show for kids on the Noggin Network.
Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal recently won “Best Alternative Comedian” at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. She is also the winner of the 2nd annual Andy Kaufman Award hosted by the New York Comedy Festival and the winner for Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York. In October she was included in New York Magazine’s Ten Funniest New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of. She co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub at the People’s Improv Theatre, which was voted “Best Variety Show of 2005” by Time-Out New York’s readers poll. She performs on the P.I.T.’s house team Big Black Car, that was awarded best improv troupe of 2005 at the Emerging Comics of New York awards. Between her improv and comedy shows she’s also the founding member of the theatre company Striking Viking Story Pirates which adapts stories kids write into sketches and songs. Film and television credits include Conviction, Ugly Betty, Cheap Seats, Kate and Leopold, Adam and Steve, Delirious, Law and Order: SVU, The Education of Max Bickford, and Comedy Central’s Contest Searchlight. You can reach Kristen at