Sean Cowhig

Sean Cowhig is an actor, writer, and improviser living in Los Angeles, CA.  His is also the Technical Director of the world famous iO West theater in Hollywood.

Sean is a classically trained actor who used to spend every summer doing outdoor Shakespeare in Boston, MA.  He has played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, and  Sebastian in The Tempest.

Sean is a graduate of Emerson College (David Cross, Jay Leno, Denis Leary, Laura Kightlinger, Henry Winkler, Steven Wright, the Wachowski Brothers).  While at Emerson Sean was joined up with the all improv comedy troupe This is Pathetic.  He remained with the troupe for three years including his senior year when he was president of the troupe.  Sean spent the first 23 years of his life in the Boston area until 2003 when he move to Los Angeles to chase down his dreams.

Once in Los Angeles it didn't take long for Sean to find the iO West theater.  He began taking classes and started a internship as a lighting tech.  This lasted until James Grace, the Artistic Director of iO West noticed he was really good at what he did and hired him on full time to be the theater's Technical Director.  Sean can be seen performing iO West with Dr. God, Book Club, Top Story Weekly, the Mainstage Sketch Show and has guested in some of the country's greatest improv shows, Opening Night the Musical, Dasariski, and The Armando Show.

With Dr. God Sean has performed around the country doing shows in San Francisco, Boston, Providence, Austin, Phoenix, and even across the border in Montreal.

Sean got his first taste of the silver screen when he was cast as a featured extra in Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile.  His only scene in the movie was shared with Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, and Jake Gyllenhaal.  Based on the advice given to him by Mr. Hoffman alone Sean is ready to work in the industry for years to come... so call him... he's waiting.

Neil Garguilo

When he was 17 years old, Neil began writing/performing comedy at Manhattan’s New York Comedy Club. Since then Neil has graduated from The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York City and has completed the comedy programs at I.O. West and The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre where he has had the good fortune to learn from such comedy greats Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh

Neil has done dozens of national commercials including a Chevy campaign with NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long.  He has also appeared on The Bold and The Beautiful and done sketches for National Lampoon, CNN and Starz.

In addition to his on camera work Neil has written and produced many projects.  Included is his award winning script Welcome Back Tommy which has placed at The SoCal Film Festival and WildSound’s Screenplay Competition.  Neil has also won the USA Film Festival for his animated short The Adventures of Sargento & Tuggers.

Currently Neil has several projects in various stages of development.  In addition to the numerous television projects Neil is actively pitching, he has recently adapted the stage show MIDDLE SEAT into a feature length project.  Neil is currently producing MIDDLE SEAT with Hollywood Farms.

You can see Neil performing in the Los Angeles comedy scene several nights a week.  For any inquires please check out www.neilgarguilo.com

Justin Ware

Justin, like approximately half of the people reading this bio, works as a comedy screenwriter, director, and performer in Los Angeles.  He’s written numerous projects for major studios and television networks including THE WAKEUP CALL for Fox (Millar Gough producing) and BEST PLAYER, currently in postproduction, for Nickelodeon.

At the moment, he’s writing CLOUD NINE for Disney Channel, and his production company Hollywood Farms (a partnership with producer Kirkland Tibbels) is currently packaging his script THE ADRENALISTS with Radar Pictures producing and Kevin Connolly (ENTOURAGE) directing.

Since moving to LA, Justin has cut a swath across the rewrite circuit and developed projects with such Hollywood mainstays as Imagine Television, Warner Brothers, and MTV Films.  His script AMAZING GIRL is being packaged with producer Ian Bryce (SPIDER-MAN, TRANSFORMERS), and his projects range from a family-oriented musical about high school show choir for Nickelodeon (SPECTACULAR) to a raunchy rated-R comedy (AMERICAN SUMMER, starring Matthew Lillard and Efren Ramirez ) to a true story about the 1982 NFL strike and how it changed football (THE UNBROKEN LINE).

A native of Northern Wisconsin and a graduate of Amherst College, Justin trained and performed as a comedy improviser in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles, including at Second City and IO, where he trained with Del Close, the father of improvisation and the guy whose oil painting is on the wall at IOWest.

Justin also got in the hot seat opposite Regis Philbin in Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?, but the audience led him astray on a question about organic food.

Bastards.

Dave Park

David was born and raised in Dallas, Texas where he graduated from Lake Highlands High School.

David then graduated from Colgate University in upstate New York where he performed in the improv group Charred Goosebeak.  After graduation, he worked in New York and then Mexico and finally settled in Los Angeles, California.

He has studied at IOwest, The Second City and at the Upright Citizens' Brigade Theater and performs regularly in such groups as Dr. God, The Lusty Horde, and the Friday Forty.

David was recently part of the Second City Tour Company on the high seas.  He has appeared on IFC, AMC, Comedy Central and the TV Guide Network.  He currently works as a writer/producer and sometimes on-air talent in television production.

David enjoys taking you on journeys to lands that never were and always are...

Brian James O’Connell

Brian James O'Connell is a working actor, writer, director, filmmaker and improviser in Los Angeles. Brian is a graduate of the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts (David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill,Ben Best, Peter Hedges, Mary-Louise Parker, Tom Hulce,Terrence Mann, Chris Parnell, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jeff Nichols) and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to follow his dreams of a career in filmmaking. His first feature film as writer/director, KILLER VIEW, was purchased by Fabrication Films/Grindstone Entertainment. KILLER VIEW is the first feature film in history to be shot exclusively on a disposable video camera. Recently, Brian was the Director of the 35mm feature length comedy, ANGRY WHITE MAN (Scoot McNairy, Matt Berry, Mary Birdsong, Steve Agee) as well as the Director of the animated comedy series ZOMBIE GRANDMA starring Guillermo Diaz (read Guillermo talk about ZOMBIE GRANDMA here.) Brian (or BOC as his friends call him) is now deep in development on his next feature directing gig, MIDDLE SEAT, and beginning work on writing his next feature length script, a Dr. God action comedy vehicle set in 1987 Hollywood. Brian has been with the iOWest Theater since March of 2003. Invited by a friend from college to see her improv troupe, Tigerpants, Brian had never before seen nor heard of long form improvisation. The show was so good, Brian can still recite 70% of it from memory. Brian was in Level One a few weeks later.  He celebrated his 10 year anniversary at the theater with Dr. God on March 2, 2013. A regular performer ,coach and teacher at the iOWest Theater in Los Angeles, Brian derives most of his approach to improv from The Deconstruction, the form created by iO's legendary team, The Family (Miles Stroth, Neil Flynn, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Adam McKay, Ali Faranahkian, and Pete Hulne). Brian currently teaches Improv Forms at The Miles Stroth Workshop and performs in The Teacher Show with Miles. With his internationally touring improv duo Billyhawk and iOWest's legendary improv group Dr. God, Brian has performed and taught in festivals in Denver, Phoenix, Toronto, Philadelphia, Austin, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chapel Hill, NC. Well-respected as one of Los Angeles's premier improvisers, Brian is famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of minutiae and his insane recall ability and memory. Brian can be seen performing at iOWest currently with Dr. God, The Armando Show, garguilO’connell, and, of course, Tigerpants. Upon completing his studies and receiving his BFA in Film Editing from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Brian became the first-ever former student hired by the SOF to oversee the school’s production department as Production Coordinator. At the ripe age of twenty-one, Brian oversaw 600 film and video productions a year and 250 undergraduate and post-graduate filmmakers. Brian reported directly to Dean Sam Grogg (Academy Award-winning KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN) and then later to Dean Dale Pollock (THE MIGHTY QUINN with Denzel Washington, HOUSE OF CARDS with Tommy Lee Jones, and SET IT OFF with Queen Latifah.) A member of the Screen Actors Guild, Brian’s on-screen credits include the festival favorites THE GIRLS’ ROOM (with Soleil Moon Frye and Wil Wheaton), RED DIRT RISING, and in the internet television series, Mr. Wrong and MODEL BALL. Brian looks forward to working with you. When are you free?