Stormchaser Presents: The Shakeytown Shakedown Cast

Holly Laurent is the creator and host of the hit podcast MEGA, she’s the co-host and producer of the podcast It's a Wonderful Lie, and she’s a featured contributor on the nationally syndicated radio variety show Live From Here (APM). She is an alumnus of the Second City main stage in Chicago where she wrote and performed three critically acclaimed revues. She toured with the Second City national touring company and was a featured performer at the TBS Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Holly is also a founding member of the longstanding improv group The Reckoning, which you might hear us talk about a lot. You can also watch her on Tacoma FD (truTV), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Key & Peele (Comedy Central), and The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS). instagram: @hollylaurent @megathepodcast

Jet is an artist and clown that has spent the last two decades creating and producing live theater. Jet is the artistic director of The Highland Park Clowns, an ensemble that explores new angles on postmodern clowning. Jet created the show, Clowns in the Dark, recently called "A wondrous, purely absurd hour of high level clowning," making The 100 Best Things in Comedy (Despite a Pandemic) of 2020 by The Comedy Bureau. Jet created and performed a role in the cirque show Absinthe, called the greatest show in Vegas history by Las Vegas Weekly. Jet is a founding member of The Reckoning at the iO Theater and performed in Adsit & Eveleth for the past decade. Jet also wrote the original comedies, Cafe Noir, Roseville, Touched, and I Live Next Door To Horses (Winner of Del Close Award for Best Scripted Show). Jet toured Europe performing physical theater with The Second City and was listed as New City magazine’s "Top 50 Players" in 2010 and 2012. Jet has collaborated with Paola Coletto and Philippe Gaulier and were the former artistic director of the Chicago Improv Festival. Jet taught physical theater at Columbia College where Jet had also received her Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts.

Andrew has been improvising regularly since 2009 when he was lucky enough to study with the amazing teachers at the Hideout Theater in Austin, TX. He then moved to Los Angeles, and started performing at iO West where he produced and performed in the long-running mainstage show Doctor Who Live with his wonderful castmates. Andrew has been improvising with Stormchaser since 2013 and is known, by everyone who has seen them perform, as “the soul of Stormchaser - and we wouldn’t just say that, we mean it 100%.” With Stormchaser, he has performed in over 600 shows, and teaches improv workshops where he blends improv, clown, and mindfulness. Andrew loves comedy and is “so ready” to throw away all his self-respect to score some cheap laughs and become famous. instagram: @andrewpishhh

Travis is by far the tallest member of Stormchaser. By far. It’s important that you know that. If you see him please compliment him on how tall he is. Especially if Andrew is within ear shot. Travis first performed improv with his friends at the age of 12 playing games from ‘Who’s Line’ to a video camera in his families basement. (The tapes have since been burned.) Years later he went on to study & perform (for actual humans) with Off the Cuff Comedy in Cedar City, Utah & eventually in LA at iO West. He’s been with Stormchaser since 2013 &, all bits aside, he considers playing & working with these tiny creative geniuses a huge honor. Along with being the tallest member of Stormchaser (by far) Travis is a working actor & has enjoyed success on the stage & screen. - instagtam: @TravisLCox