Brad Barton is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gotham City Improv where he began his improv training in 1996. In addition to countless improv and sketch comedy shows in groups such as "Pod", "Gotham Beyond", "Happy Birthday From the Huntleys", "Lazy Susan", and "Camera Shy Seniors", he has appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, “One Life to Live”, MTV, The Food Network, Comedy Central, and in heaps of corporate industrial projects for clients such as AT&T, Bank of America, Pfizer, and American Movie Classics. He also appeared in a commercial for Allstate, and had the dubious distinction of co-authoring Star Wars Episode I Trivial Pursuit for Hasbro.
Lulu French
Lulu French has been improvising for the past ten years. She started improv taking classes at Gotham City Improv and has appeared in numerous improv shows at GCI including SurvivorProv, Gotham Beyond, Off the Top of Our Heads, The Strange Box of Dr. Oddbody, and Meet Market, and both performed and co-produced for Happy Birthday from the Huntleys, Pod, and Lazy Susan. Lulu has been on GCI’s teaching staff for seven years teaching all levels of improv and has directed several of Gotham’s performance ensembles. Lulu also teaches improv workshops to youths for Broadway Classrooms.
In addition to her study at GCI she has also studied with Upright Citizens Brigade members Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, and Matt Walsh, and various other Second City alumni including Armando Diaz, Kevin Scott, Todd Stashwick, and John Thies.
Lulu was a founding member of the sketch comedy group, Camera Shy Seniors which performed in venues such as Catch a Rising Star, Boston Comedy Club, Felber’s Frolics, and The Red Room Theater. TV credits include Yearbook:1983 on the Discovery Times Channel and various roles on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Corporate industrial credits include performing for companies such as Pfizer and Merck.
Before becoming an improviser, Lulu was a musical theater performer. She started dancing when she was six and danced with the Appalachian Ballet Company in her youth. She also received various voice scholarships while a Music and Musical Theater Major at The University of Tennessee and eventually graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. She has numerous stock and regional theater credits performing in musicals such as Into the Woods, Tomfoolery, Nunsense, and Karaoke the Musical and the national tours of My Fair Lady and She Loves Me.
Jeff LaGreca
Jeff LaGreca is a writer, director, teacher, actor and improviser residing in New York City. He has performed at Caroline's Comedy Club, The Bottom Line, Catch a Rising Star, The Bitter End, Symphony Space, the Duplex, Gotham City Improv and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He and his brother, Charlie are the recipients of a number of awards and prizes, among them: "Outstanding Musical Comedy Act " by BackStage magazine. First Place and Audience Favorite in the National Harmony Sweepstakes. "America's Funniest People" for ABC -TV and "Best of NYC" by CitySearch.com. He has performed with Minimum Wage in New York at the 2002 & 2006 FringeNYC festival where it received the Producer’s Award and two off-off Broadway runs at the Downtown Variety Lounge and Dillons. In Montreal, Minimum Wage was seen as part of the St. Amboise Theater Festival and in Dallas at the WaterTower Theater. For television, Minimum Wage has been seen on the Nickelodeon Channel, The Food Network, Comedy Central, Good Day New York and ABC TV. Directing credits include Little Cool Papa Little Bell and 95% Chance They’ll Wind Up Like Larva as well as numerous sketch groups and improv companies. With his brother, Charlie they are working on a slew of children’s books, "Roger and Eugene Both Gave Me Thumbs Down", "Milton’s Grabbers", "The Pesky French Fry", "The Gargoyle Garden" and the recently published "Hideously Heinous". He was commissioned by the Astoria Symphony to adapt a contemporary re-telling of (The Trial of) Peter and the Wolf and most recently he collaborated with his good friend and composer B Allen Schulz on an operatic adaptation of his children’s story, The Gargoyle Garden.
Tony Mennuto
Tony Mennuto is Casting Director for one of the country’s top commercial audio studios Sound Lounge. He casts union and non-union VO talent for many commercials including Coke, Pepsi, and Verizon. On average Tony auditions between 100 to 200 actors per week. Tony was also an advertising agency copywriter, a professional voice-over actor, a member of the NBC sketch group Live On Tape, and a former main company member of Gotham City Improv.