Meet The Cast

Co-Directors

Zach Atherton

Zach is the owner, founder, director, and regular main stage cast member of ImprovBroadway. He has improvised for over a decade and his improv credits include ComedySportz, The Thrillionaires, and BYU-Idaho's Academy of Comedy and Comic Frenzy. He also has his Juris Doctorate and Masters of Public Administration, which makes him the most over-qualified comedian in the universe.

Instagram & Twitter: @ImprovBroadway

Brady Amundson

Brady is a founding member and co-director of ImprovBroadway. Brady reached his prime when he was featured on Fox 13 and Utah Valley Magazine because he resembled someone famous. His improv credits include ComedySportz Utah and Crowdsourced Comedy.

Instagram & Twitter: @yankimer

Gabe Ericson

Gabe is co-director of ImprovBroadway as well as a championship kick boxer from New Zealand that gave up his promising athletic career to focus on comedy. His improv credits include ComedySportz Utah and Crowdsourced Comedy.

Instagram: @getsomegabriel
Twitter: @getsomegabe

Maddy Triggs

Maddy has been performing improv since high school, which brings her total experience to 14 months. Her improv credits include ComedySportz Utah and Crowdsourced Comedy.

Insatgram: @therealmaddytriggs
Twitter: @maddytiggs

Alex Arnold

Alex Arnold is a regular main stage improv pianist artist extraordinaire. Don't EVER watch his fingers when you see him perform live because you may just go blind with awe.

Instagram: @alexarnoldig

Sam Wright

Sam is known for his impeccable impression of an old woman with an unbeatable smoking habit. His improv credits include Laugh Out Loud at BYU.

Instagram: @samueljameswright

Sam Forsey

Writer at Studio C, MainStage Cast Performer at ImprovBroadway and ComedySportz, is there nothing Sam can't do?

Twitter: @Sam4C

Adam Broud

Adam Broud is not only a phenomenal improv comedian, but also Utah's greatest up-and-coming stand up comic and comedy writer! Catch him on the MainStage cast or laugh at his viral tweets on twitter!

Twitter: @AdamBroud

Christian Schmutz

Known as Doctor Giggles, Christian has been diagnosing the comedy needs of audiences at BYU's Laugh Out Loud and ImprovBroadway for years.

David Padeken

The poster child of The ImprovBroadway School of comedy, David took the Utah comedy scene by storm in 2017.

Ethan Young

Only 19, but his mind is older.
Or so he thinks as he's getting bored-er?
A pianist for 11 years and a songwriter along the way. He is currently working on some original musicals. When he came to his first ImprovBroadway show, he suddenly had a new "big dream" of playing piano for the group. That dream came true. Now, Ethan is looking for a new dream and is currently accepting applications.

Hannah Bayles

Improv pianist and ImprovBroadway's resident vocal coach, Hannah spends most of her time training tomorrow's generation of rock stars and Broadway darlings.

Website: www.hannahbayles.com

Jacob Brown

Hailing from the green fields of Canby, OR, Jacob has sung from the womb (ask his mom) and played piano since age 8. He grew up appreciating lots of musical genres, from Stevie Wonder to Glenn Miller to Mozart, and enjoys singing and performing onstage as well, as seen with the BYU Young Ambassadors and Jazz Combos. If you're looking for a wedding singer or background accompanist, or someone to throw a frisbee with, look no further. Jacob loves his wife, Kyla, and plans to complete a PhD in Organizational Behavior soon in preparation to becoming a business professor.

David Cleveland Brown

David started improvising in 2007. He's performed long and short form improv for Comedy Sportz Utah, Comedy Sportz New Orleans, Sketchy Characters Improv, Funny Bones (improv shows for hospitalized children), and most recently with Improv Broadway. He's a full-time actor working out of New Orleans, Utah, and Los Angeles. He has four children and one wife.

YouTube.com/DavidBrownActor

Kelli Dougal

Kelli first suspected that she should pursue comedy when she was 9 years old. Unfortunately her portrayal of an alien wearing pants on its head was not well-received by audiences, and she shelved her dream for 18 years. ImprovBroadway is her first venture into the comedy scene.

She is the producer and host of the This is Provo podcast and is currently working on a comedic webseries of the same name.

Instagram: @pocketfulofkelli
Website: provopodcast.net

Bryson Alejandro Frehner

For someone who lives and breathes comedy, Bryson should really be much funnier than he is. He can be seen as an actor on the internet and TV, appearing in several commercials and short films, one of his favorites being Oregon Trail, a comedy web series. He is a regular player at ComedySportz and a member of In On The Joke. Back in his college years, he wrote and performed with BYU's Divine Comedy and Humor U. Each summer, he teaches comedy to the youth of the world at the BYU Sketch Comedy Camp. Who knew comedy could be so lucrative! (It's not...)

Instagram: @brysonalejandro
Twitter: @BrysonAlejandro

Lauren Johnston

Lauren and her husband are the parents of four beautiful children. Anywhere outside of Utah, that’s a lot of children. Lauren has improvised with BYU’s Garrens Comedy Troupe, L.A.’s Improv Factory, Alchemy Comedy, ComedySportz Utah, and is a founder of Utah’s all-female improv troupe the SHEnanigans.

Allen Bentley

Allen is a nice guy, with some decent features. He enjoys long walks on the beach and short runs at the gym (nothing over a mile, let’s not get too crazy). The human embodiment of mediocrity, Allen has often been described as “punctual” and, “who are you talking about?” by his co-workers. He is a self-taught musician and long-time improv comedian with years of experience teaching improv at BYU’s Laugh Out Loud.