Main Stage

Alan Ng has been doing improvisational comedy in San Diego and Orange County since 1996. He performed with Just Us Improv and Secret City Comics Society. He has been Main Stage cast member since 2002. Alan is the managing editor and the lead film reviewer of FilmThreat.com, where he works with former G4 Attack of the Show host Chris Gore. You can read his reviews at Film Threat and on Rotten Tomatoes.

Alex Badham has been doing improv since 2003. He started at his high school, performing in the NCT High School League. During college, Alex eagerly joined the improv club at Colorado State University, Improv Acting at CSU. His senior year, he became the vice-president IA@CSU. With a few of his friends, he helped start the experimental improv group Massive Arcana, wrote a musical called “Zombie Apocalypse: The Musical”, and became a member of the longest running improv group in Fort Collins, Co, the Clownbox. Upon returning to California, Alex decided to return to his roots, the National Comedy Theatre, where he happily performs all he can.

Alex started her improv journey in NCT’s high school league. She was a member of our house staff, college team, house teams, Sunday Company, and now performs with the Mainstage cast. In her spare time she works with our Connections program for teens on the Autism spectrum and also teaches at our workshops for kids and teens. Though she lives close by in Mission Hills, Alex considers the theatre a second home, and is incredibly grateful to be part of the NCT family.

Alison Milardovich has been performing at National Comedy Theatre since 2011. In addition to the NCT Mainstage Cast, she has performed with Lipshtick, an all female team who have performed at multiple improv festivals on the west coast, and AChording to Us – a musical improv team that has performed at NCT as well as the Cygnet Theatre in San Diego. She specializes in space work, strong characters and relationships and uses improv every day at her job as an entertainment travel coordinator.

Betsy is a San Diego native who started at National Comedy Theatre with the Level 1 workshop in 2015. She was a proud member of the OC/DC house team before joining SunCo in 2018 and then MainStage in 2022. Betsy is a 6-12 substitute social studies teacher who dreams of one day making it big with her own classroom.

Chris Daily has been performing with National Comedy Theatre since 2006. He has been performing improv since 2003, performed with Comedy Sportz, San Jose, and also trained with Upright Citizen’s Brigade, New York. He is the former director of the Sunday Company, NCT’s alternative improv group, and also teaches improv workshops at NCT. Chris was also a performer and writer in the sketch groups Wimbly Humor Institute and 7th Grade. He holds a B.A. in Theatre and Art from the College of William and Mary, and an M.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design. Chris is also the artist of two popular webcomics: Punch an’ Pie and Striptease.

Corey Husted started performing with National Comedy Theatre’s High School League for Point Loma High School in 2009. After high school Corey attended SDSU to study Finance and continued his performance career doing stand-up comedy at local open mic nights. After college Corey decided to return to his roots with NCT and started performing with NCT’s house Teams in 2015. National Comedy Theater has provided Corey with a stage and an audience to pursue his artistic passion. When he is not performing with NCT Corey enjoys surfing, volunteering, and hiking. Thank you for coming to Corey's Ted Talk.

Daniel got his first taste of acting in a diet pill commercial that aired nationally in '11-'12. Dan began taking improv classes at NCT in '14 and was hooked. After completing classes he got his start on stage with the iconic house team, Inside Joke. Improv gave Daniel an itch to take on other live performance roles. He became Character Tour Guide, Wyatt Earp, in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, a cast member of Dinner Detective and 'Sugar Hammertoe' in the podcast 'Ahoy There'. In 2022 Daniel became a proud member of NCT's Main Stage cast

Daniel started his improv journey as the president of his high school's improv league. He then took some workshops at NCT before auditioning for House Teams. After preforming on the OC/DC House Team for a couple years, he moved up to the Sunday Company in 2019 and the MainStage cast in 2022.

Dave George has been doing improvisational comedy in San Diego since 1990. He performed with Comedy Codependents, TheatreSports, and Sub-Atomic Jenkins Clan (SJC) before joining National Comedy Theatre in 1999. Dave was the multimedia show director for and traveled around the world with Tony Robbins for many years producing seminars. He took a variety of drama classes throughout his education and first starred as Jerry Flynn in his ninth grade production of “My Client Curly”. Dave graduated UC Santa Cruz with a double degree of computer science and sociology. Now he refuses to work or look for work, but does enjoy teaching improv at NCT.

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Ernie was a fan of NCT and a regular audience member for a few years before taking his first class at NCT in 2014. He started in 2015 as Mr. Voice and then began performing on NCT House Teams. After a year, he was promoted to Sunday Company where he honed his skills for 3 years before being moved to the Main Stage cast. Ernie is a professional voice actor. You can hear him daily on KPBS radio delivering the recorded spots between the shows and also at Sea World San Diego where his recorded narration plays several times per day during the live show, Orca Encounter.

Elysa began taking improv workshops at National Comedy Theatre in 2013, and was very quickly hooked. She continued to take classes at NCT, and the following year, Elysa joined the theatre’s inaugural house teams. After a few months performing with “Business in the Front,” Elysa auditioned for NCT’s The Sunday Company and performed with that cast until 2017, when Elysa was thrilled to join the Mainstage cast. Elysa has also trained at Upright Citizens Brigade and The Groundlings School in L.A. She is very grateful to have found her theatre home and family at National Comedy Theatre.

Gary Kramer is the Artistic Director of the National Comedy Theatre. He has performed throughout the country, as well as internationally in places such as Iraq, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and Spain. Gary has directed and performed with ComedySportz in Santa Barbara and has been a member of the sketch and improv groups Rough Cut and Wits End. Gary has been a morning radio personality, appeared in a handful of commercials, and was shot by cyborgs in the brilliantly awful movie Cybernator. Television: Law & Order, Totally Hidden Video. LA Stage: Hamlet, Wall of Water, Elaine’s Daughter, Bouncers.

Gordon Fitzgerald has been performing with the National Comedy Theatre since 2007. In addition to performing weekly, he is currently director of the NCT Sunday Company. His main passions are writing, photography, video-editing, & organizing group events.

Greg is originally from Silver Spring, MD and has lived in San Diego since 1998. He began taking improv workshops at NCT in 2007 and became a member of the Main Stage cast in 2008. He considers himself very lucky to be a regular performer and contributor at NCT. When he is not at NCT, he can be found at home hanging with his awesome family.

Jennifer is a San Diego native, graduating high school from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and college from SDSU. While her first performance love was musical theatre, she quickly fell in love with the freedom and variety that improv affords. Having worked in entertainment at both Disneyland and Seaworld, she joined the mainstage cast at NCT in 2012.

Jessica joined NCT’s Sunday Company in the fall of 2012. After almost a year of performing with SunCo, Jessica was thrilled to become a member of the Main Stage Cast. Jessica performs regularly with the all-female group, Lipshtick. Prior to moving to San Diego, Jessica performed improv at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and with the Baltimore Improv Group. Jessica graduated with a B.S. in Mass Communications and Theatre from Towson University and holds a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Formerly a student, staff and SunCo member, John-Michael happily joined the main-stage cast in 2012 and has since used his Ithaca College music degree to create and maintain NCT’s Musical Improv program. He has appeared in numerous national commercials and a handful of unrecognizable low-budget films. Some past television credits include “That 70’s Show”, “Passions”, as well as a recurring role as Deputy Lloyd on NBC’s “Heroes”. Michael also works a Standardized Patient Educator with the UC-San Diego School of Medicine where he successfully teaches an Improv Course to medical students helping them better their communications skills.

Jonah originally joined the cast of NCT San Diego in 2000. After a decade-long hiatus, during which he performed with improv groups in the Bay Area, Cleveland, and Minneapolis, Jonah returned to NCT’s mainstage in 2018. In between making things up, Jonah has been the executive director for several nonprofit organizations, including the Northeast Ohio Hispanic Business Center, and the Autism Society of Minnesota. These days Jonah likes to help other nonprofit organizations improve and develop their programs.

Marc is a graduate of SDSU’s Film program and while not producing and editing marketing videos for his ‘adult job’, he does freelance and passion projects on the side. NCT was Marc’s first introduction to improv. After completing the workshops he made his debut in SunCo’s Comic Con ‘Super Hero’ themed show and was instantly hooked. He joined the mainstage cast in 2012 alongside Jen who he married in 2016.

Matt McDonald has over 20 years of improv experience and was the founding director of the NCT in 1999. Working in both northern and Southern California Matt has taught students of every age and experience level.

Melissa joined NCT in 2011 as part of the College Team. She eventually moved her way up to Sunday Company and was asked to join the Mainstage cast in 2015. She has performed with various Mash Up groups on Thursday nights over the years and loves spending time with the cast on and off stage. She recently graduated with her M.A in Marriage and Family Therapy from Chapman University and works as an MFT intern. In her spare time, Melissa enjoys singing Karaoke, hot yoga, planning her next vacation, and being a dog mom.

Steve started his improv training in 2011 at the urging of a close friend. After moving from New Jersey to San Diego a year later and taking several NCT workshops, he became a founding member of NCT’s house team, Inside Joke. He soon joined Sunday Company, where he rocked their signature yellow tie until being added to the Mainstage cast in 2019. He spends his off-stage time entertaining his wife and son with dad jokes and bad puns, obsessively planning his family’s next trip, repeatedly re-watching Marvel movies, looking for excuses to catch an improv show in LA or Chicago, and masquerading as a podcaster as part of the RedBush duo.

Originally from Chicago, Patrick trained at The Second City, where he was part of the Conservatory and Writing programs. Upon moving to San Diego in 2012, Patrick immediately found his tribe when he enrolled in classes at National Comedy Theater. A member of the inaugural NCT house teams, Patrick enjoyed his time on the Sunday Company team before joining the Main Stage cast in 2017. Patrick met his amazingly talented and beautiful wife, Elysa, at NCT....where she is also part of the Main Stage cast. When not at NCT, he can be found all over San Diego spending time with her and their sons.

After seeing a show with his wife (and volunteering), Richie signed up for level one workshop. He completed levels 1-4 before joining our Sunday company despite not having any prior performing experience. He was promoted in 2017 to MainStage and has become a regular since. When he isn't performing, Richie is program director for our Connections program for teens on the autism spectrum.

Sacha first started professionally improvising in the late 20th century, but her “real” job is in the commercial construction industry. She spends a great deal of her free time arguing with her husband and daughter about who is the funniest Volek.

Sharon got inspired to try improv after listening to “Bossypants” and happily discovered NCT workshops in 2012. She auditioned for and joined the Sunday Company cast in 2013 and was invited to join the Mainstage cast in 2016. Sharon grew up in Silicon Valley, was a dancer her whole life, and continued training and performing in several dance theater productions while attending UC Berkeley (BA, Philosophy) and UC San Diego (Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy). She currently works as Senior Director of Clinical Operations for a local biotechnology company.

Summer began her improv career taking a class at NCT in 2016. She then joined house teams originally on Business in the Front and then became a founding member of Joke & Dagger. She joined Sunday Company in 2018, and the MainStage cast in 2022. As much as she loves being laughed with, she prefers being laughed at and hopes you laugh at her soon.

Victor began doing improv in 2013 when he started taking workshops at NCT. He has since performed regularly at the theater, starting as a founding member of the House Team "Business in the Front" and then as part of the Sunday Company. Outside of improv, Victor is a mild mannered engineer with a bald head and thick glasses.