SketchFest Seattle is the world's original sketch comedy festival and has established a reputation for presenting the best and most original comedy from around the globe.SketchFest Seattle Staff
| Clayton Weller – Artistic Director Clayton started with SketchFest in the summer of 2010 as a production manager and has been working on fostering a unified sketch comedy community in Seattle. He has been a member of Ubiquitous They in some form since 2005 and has directed 4 shows and written more sketches than he can count (<-so, more than 10). He also acts with regularity at Annex Theatre and is the Producing Director of whizARTbang! Oh and during the day he is a preschool teacher. clayton@sketchfest.org |
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Kate Montgomery – Managing Director As a rabid supporter of Seattle’s performance scene, Kate Montgomery has set up more chairs and sat through more comedy shows than most people would care to. She has been with SketchFest since 2009. When not being one of Seattle’s favorite audience members, she works at a very grownup job and spends time with her overly facial-haired husband and her 20 lb. cat. kate@sketchfest.org |
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Ben Laurance – Media Director Ben has been performing with Paul Gude every month at Annex Theatre’s late night variety show “Spin the Bottle” since 2003 and has a spreadsheet to prove it. film@sketchfest.org |
| Ryan Schmidt – Creative Director Ryan is a Seattle-based graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, writer and performance artist. A University of Washington graduate, Ryan acts as Creative Director at MoonRock Creative. See Ryan perform with local comedy troupes Jet City Improv and Ubiquitous They. Oh, and he’s also a great hugger. ryan@sketchfest.org |
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Natasha Ransom – Education Director Natasha is a Seattle native who graduated cum laude with a BA in Theatre Arts (emphases in Acting and Theatre History/Dramaturgy) and with Minors in Musical Theatre and Religious Studies from Santa Clara University. She improvises full-length plays with Wing-It Productions and short-form as a company member of Jet City Improv. Natasha is the Performing Arts Program Director at the Stroum Jewish Community Center, and teaches with Seattle Children’s Theatre. education@sketchfest.org |
| Jaz Okura-Youtsey – Technical Director |  |
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Megan Wilson – Development Megan Wilson has been a member of SketchFest since being discovered in the bathroom while volunteering at a SketchFest show in the Spring of 2010. She will be working as a Marketing/Fundraising/Volunteer Coordinator Assistant. When she is not writing sketches in her head, and spreading the word of SketchFest to millions, she wears other hats that include: a Child & Family Therapist Intern, Waitress, and Record Store gal. megan@sketchfest.org |
| Nikki Lounsbury – Digital Outreach Coordinator Nikki writes down words. She first volunteered with SketchFest at the show in 2011 and loved the idea of supporting the comedic arts in Seattle. She currently writes the blog and does other random digital stuff. When not imagining what would happen if all the senior citizens’ hearing aids suddenly turned them into laser-shooting cyborgs, she is a copywriter at a marketing agency and writes debatably funny stuff for Cheezburger Networks. blog@sketchfest.org |
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