Adam Sabados

Adam started performing improv and sketch comedy in college in Ohio in 2003. Since then he’s performed with various groups including the touring group Isaac improv, and the LA based sketch and improv group Spats & Cane. Adam’s first loves are playwriting and musical theatre, but he finds the allure of the improv stage irresistible. You can see him on the Westside stage as a part of the Unwritten Works of William Shakespeare.

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Brandon Cheney

Brandon has been doing improv since 2004, when he joined the Wheaton College improv troupe Imaginary Friends. Prior to joining Westside, he and the rest of Circus Police performed for several years at Open Source Improv; and before that he was a member of the Unwritten Works of William Shakespeare and the Titanic Players at University of Illinois. He loves road trips, nonfiction, and the Dallas Cowboys.

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Brian Sebby

Brian Sebby has been studying improv since 2011, when he bought a Groupon for a class at ComedySportz Chicago. He quickly fell in love with improvisation, and after finishing the program at ComedySportz, went on to study at The Annoyance, iO, and in the Players Workshop right here at Westside Improv. He also performed for three years with the One Group Mind team Kelly Machiavelli.

When he’s not improvising, Brian works in IT for the government, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of Otherworld Theatre Company.

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Caleb Sjogren

Caleb Sjogren has been in the improv game since 1997. He has played corporate gigs, touring shows, and experimental improv–both short and long form–in venues ranging from Piper’s Alley to church camps, from comedy cabarets to the county farm barn. Caleb is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in addition to training with iO and Under the Gun. He has taught and coached improv at elementary, high school, and college levels.

In 2012, Caleb founded Open Source Improv, a suburban improv co-op. OSI disbanded in 2015, as its teams and players are now featured in many shows on the Westside stage.

He is also a proud founding member and director of the tragicomic team known as The Unwritten Works of William Shakespeare.

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Christi Koehl

Christi Koehl is a fan of Shakespeare, comedy, and making things up while pretending to know a lot. So she is a natural fit for the Unwritten Works of Shakespeare team. She has studied drama and been involved with theatre since 1992. Christi worked for three years at the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship and was a student and intern for the Masterworks Festival theatre program. There she received training from acting coach John Kirby and producer Ken Whales among others.

Christi is wife to Barry and mother to Haven and is grateful to them for allowing her the time to come be silly at Westside Improv Studio.

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Yolanda G. Waddell

Yolanda loves improvising at Westside. She feels a great sense of community here, which has helped her grow as an improviser. Yolanda discovered improv comedy in late 2010 at the tail end of a postpartum depression. The laughter and creativity she found in improv helped end that dark time. She is also a recovering perfectionist, for which improv continues to provide the best treatment!

Yolanda has studied improvisation at Westside Players Workshop, The Annoyance, Jimmy Carrane’s Art of Slow Comedy, iO, ComedySportz and The Second City. She has performed at various venues in Chicago with Kelly Machiavelli, a former house team for One Group Mind Improvisers Guild. She is a former actor with The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Show in Schaumburg.

She is so grateful to her biggest cheerleader, her husband, Michael. His loving support (and childcare!) has made studying and performing improv possible!

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Lucy LaPlaca

Lucy is an improviser at Westside Improv.

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Josh Hepler

Josh Hepler has been performing Improv ever since he stumbled upon it in High School. He is a graduate of the Second City Training Center Conservatory, and formerly performed with Frank Frank at One Group Mind in Chicago. He also teaches Youth Theater Acting and Improv classes.

He enjoys film, attempts to write a novel every November, and has completed several Pokédexes.

Josh directs BOINK!.

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Derek Buikema

Derek Buikema is a performer at Westside Improv.

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