House Improv Night - Mama Bird & Pleather! Cast

Christina Anthony is a Los Angeles-based writer, comedian, and actor. From 2017-2020, she performed weekly with Saturday Night House Team Overlook, Harold Team Fan Club, and all-POC comedy troupe NYTEShift at the Philly Improv Theater, where she also taught and directed improv. Chrstina co-hosted and co-produced the monthly bilingual comedy show ¿Cómo Se Dice…? at Good Good Comedy Theatre, where her all-Spanish speaking improv and sketch comedy group ¿Qué? headlined each show; the variety show successfully retired after 18 months in October 2019. She has performed at festivals nationwide including: Del Close Marathon (NYC), Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Philly), and North Carolina Comedy Festival (Greensboro, NC). After being awarded scholarships, she studied at The Second City, Chicago and Magnet Theater (NYC). You can see her performing at The Pack every 2nd and 4th Wednesday with house team Pleather. When not writing or performing, you can find Christina playing basketball, snacking, or improving her chess game online. See more of her work at www.christinavanthony.com or follow her on Insta @bballslayer24.

Cam Gavinski is an actor, writer, artist, and a heeheehaha silly joke boy. Cam is super talented and super humble. 99k+ Followers on TikTok: @camgavinski He makes comics on Instagram: @camthefartist Cam performs on the road with Todd Glass. Cam has animated shorts for Comedy Central, The Jim Jefferies Show, and his animated short Frank was made the Student BAFTA shortlist. He was also on Euphoria once. camgavinski.com

Loring Griggs is an actor, comedian, and musician from Westerly, Rhode Island. He studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. Since moving to Los Angeles, Loring has worked alongside some of Hollywood’s best & brightest including George Clooney, Noah Baumbach, and Laura Dern (twice!) He studied improv at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles, and is currently a co-host of Kaleidoscope, an improv show consisting of all mashup teams, every second and fourth Thursday of the month at The Clubhouse. Aside from acting & comedy, Loring performs and records music under the moniker Ciao Roma, which can be heard on Spotify or Apple Music, and is an avid wild bird photographer. His work can be seen on his Instagram, @loring.g

Kati O’Hearn is a writer/performer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is super pumped to join the Pack Improv Team: Pleather the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month! She's been a featured performer at places like UCBTLA, SF Sketchfest, Laugh Riot Grrrl Comedy Festival, Birdland Jazz Club (NYC) & The Duplex (NYC). She is also a proud member of Story Pirates.   In addition to Pleather, she has a weekly show Fridays at WE Improv with her team, STEM Kidz. Her solo comedy, Pretty Fat, is currently playing in Los Angeles. Her Mom said it was really good, and a guy she casually dated said that he, "should do a one person show, too."  Kati has also been working with her writing partner, David Zwick, and composer Zach Pyke, on a completely unauthorized, fictional, musical about the origin of the Rosie O’Donnell Show, called “The Rosie O’Donnell Show: The Musical.” Kati will be playing Rosie. A literal dream come true. Find out more at katiohearn.com!

Katie is a comedian, copywriter, and other c-words, hailing from the warm-hearted comedy tradition of Austin, TX. Her queer sketch comedy team Martini Ranch has performed at San Francisco Sketch Fest, her stand-up has been featured at festivals across the country, and she has been nominated for both best comedic director and best comedic ensemble by Austin's theatrical council. Katie is an ADHD perfectionist, so she loves comedy that moves quickly and keeps the audience engaged. During the daytime, she sells her skills to major brands as an agency copywriter. Her comedic podcast "Yeah, But Are You Happy?" aims to address the ways comedians sometimes fear mental wellness.

Corey has studied with The Pack Theater, UCB, and Monkey Butler. Performed improv with Camerashrapnel, ShopKeep, Wretched Hive and Pleather. Graduated from Cal State LA with a degree in Scriptwriting. Saved some money and met some great people going to Palomar College for general ed. Even earned an AA degree in Communications. Competed in four years of Speech and Debate. A taurus with AB negative blood. Never missed a shot he didn’t take. And he’s pretty good at the stuffed animal claw machines, too.  

Aidan Watt is a writer and performer from Nashville, TN. He is an alumni of Emerson College in Boston and The Second City’s Comedy Studies program in Chicago. Aidan has studied improv and sketch at The Pack, UCB, iO (Chicago), Groundlings, and in numerous other workshops with individuals around the city. You can find Aidan lost in a haze of existential dread around the East Side of Los Angeles or performing with his other improv group, Bad Kid Jail. Aidan is very psyched to be a part of The Pack’s House Improv Team, Pleather, and wants to thank his friends and family for all their support. Let’s hang after the show!  —seeking representation—

Minda Wei is a queer, Chinese American comedian, actor, and screenwriter from Houston, Texas. After quitting a job building the world’s #1 supercomputer, she now writes about messy, complicated protagonists making bad decisions with whip-smart humor and compassion. She used to say "my characters blow up their lives so I don't have to," but then she got a divorce when everyone in Texas almost froze to death in a week-long preventable climate disaster. Her writing and comedy explores themes of freedom, love, and the choices we make when anything is possible. Minda has won the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin” Comedy Critics’ Pick, performed at SF Sketchfest, Del Close Marathon, NYC Sketchfest (and more!), and her writing has been featured in Slate, Bon Appetit, and GEN Magazine. She trained at ColdTowne Theater in Austin where she performed with Y’all We Asian and Prayer Circle. She currently serves as a script editor on Spotify Studio’s Fear of Going Outside podcast and is a co-director of Austin Sketch Festival. She is managed by Bryan Brucks at 831 Entertainment. mindawei.com

MP is an LA based comedian and Twitch streamer all the way from the site of JFKs death (and maybe resurrection?…jk), Dallas. TX. She performed improv across the country during her time at the University of Missouri, where her all female improv team Tit Punch placed second in the 2016 National College Improv Tournament. She is a graduate of the Upright Citizens Brigade training program and performed improv around Los Angeles with her indie team DALE. She daylights as a digital marketing strategist who is pretty much always faking it until she makes it. MP is, at her core, a lover of absurdist and surreal comedy, as well as a pet parent and podcast junkie. She is beyond excited to join the talented, hilarious and very sexy ensemble that is Pleather.