Vermillion

Vermillion is an independent performer, writer and artist born in Transylvania who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS,The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, and Chashama. For several years she focused on her visual art, exhibiting work at the Outsider Art Fair, showing in galleries, publicly buried herself in bottles during her residency on Governors Island, curating internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 upcoming Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London. Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, successfully premiered at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival. Its various iterations are monthly performed at Under St Marks Theater. As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion will perform in the monthly Side-Coached show, an offshoot of improv East Village Performance Group. Vermillion is honored to be the new resident of this OBIE award winning theater, and she will give her all "boot camp" style and hopefully manifest another OBIE! During the first part of her residency, she will develop an evening of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat. As an improviser she is a graduate of UCB. Her good luck charm team is named Lovely Shoes.

Amy Jans

Amy Jans is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and voiceover artist with a specialty in quirky, surreal, and darkly funny characters. A graduate of UCB and the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Amy creates comedy that feels like a fever dream, but somehow relatable. Her work spans scripted TV, animation, podcasting (Good Afternoon, Planet Earth), and her own whimsical brand, Dream Nudge.

Ian Herrin

Ian Herrin is an actor, improviser, and teacher with over a decade of long form experience who has performed at PIT, Magnet, UCB, and festivals all over the East Coast. Ian is the host of the long running improv show The Ian Herrin Improv Hour (IHIH) which has featured Special Guests from Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Logo TV, E! Network, TLC, VH1, IFC, truTV, et al. But let’s face it, you really know Ian from that one Selena Gomez commercial he did years ago or from his podcast appearances on Kame House Party, Sigmund Fraud, Yes, Also, and more! Ian now teaches at the UCB and passionately cares about making scenework even more accessible to improv students of all backgrounds. He simply can't wait for you to be included in what would normally be a behind closed doors intimate improv experience at Side-Coached in the historic Under St. Marks Theater.

Evan Maxwell

Born in NYC, Evan Maxwell is an Emmy award winning photojournalist for CBS News. Apart from spending time behind the camera covering some of New York’s most impactful events over the years, he has also studied at Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design majoring in Film and Video.

Sharif Corinaldi

Sharif Corinaldi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. He used to do a bunch more Improv years ago, and is getting back into it. He has studied at UCB, Magnet and the PIT used to perform with Stomping Ground (RIP).

Scott Rogers

Scott Rogers is an actor studying at HB Studio and UCB. He has performed previously with the EVPG and been in plays around the city including Season for the Iowans, The Return of Ira, and Listen, Won't You. Thank you all for coming and supporting!

Aaron Tabackman

Aaron Tabackman is a comedian, actor, producer and a New York City Sightseeing Guide. Previous independent improv troupes include “Very Good Comedy Improv Players”, “No Further Questions” and “Improvodox”. He played the character “Dutch” for Nowaday Tours. He previously was “Red” in Tammany Hall at the SoHo Playhouse. He has taken classes at UCB, The PIT and Magnet theaters. He’s very excited about the prospects for the East Village Practice Group.

Karla Mellett

Karla Mellett is a filmmaker, stand up comedian, and improvisor. She's performed all over New York City, Atlantic city, Minneapolis, and Amsterdam. She runs a monthly confessional comedy show Father Forgive Me.

Bo Bae

Jean Bae is a New York–based actor and improviser, thrilled to join this show. Ever evolving, she explores the space between transformation, authentic expression and motherhood, with humor keeping her mostly sane.