Caeriel Crestin is most at home directing and teaching improv: he teaches 2 – 3 improv classes to adults a week and is prepping to direct two shows this year, Queering the Sequel and What They Do In The Shadows.

We’ll be seeing Caeriel perform for 48 hours straight, though, “surfing the chaos” as he says.

When he’s not teaching all the classes and directing all the things he’s streaming online and grinding for subscribers here.

Frank Sánchez’s child-like sense of play onstage is no coincidence. He teaches improv to kids in a wide variety of settings (Story Wranglers at The Paramount and summer camp at The Hideout to name a few)

In Frank’s 3.5 years of improv he’s performed at every improv theater in Austin as well as the New York Musical Improv Festival and the Del Close Marathon in NYC.

Jessica Von Schramm has been improv since 2012. She hit the ground running and hasn’t stopped since. She’s directed 5 shows in that short time, co-created the B. Iden Payne Award winning, Austin Critics Table Award getting Speak No More. Plus she has a weekly show with her troupe Garage at Fallout Theater.

When she’s not doing every show, she’s writing screenplays and submitting/crushing screenplay competitions.

Jordan T Maxwell is a highly prolific improvisor and director. In his 21 years of improv he’s directed many many shows (such as Lonely Star and How I Saved The World Over Summer Vacation), he was in Austin improv OG troupe The Well Hung Jury and is currently in Indigo Shift, a musical cabaret-style troupe that is heading to San Francisco to perform later this year!

This is Jordan’s second marathon (his first was in 2011). When he’s not improvisor he reads, writes, is a masseur and he streams his Star Trek-themed RPG called Heroes of Awesome: Constellation with The Weirdlings here  and here.

Lisa Jackson is a third time marathoner (2011 & 2013) and a 12 year improv veteran. She’s a member of local Austin troupe Echo Lake and performs with Austin Secrets at the Hideout and Stool Pigeon at ColdTowne Theater.

When she’s not improvising she dances with her hip hop dance crew The UltraViolets, writes and feeds crows at cemeteries. 

Megan Sherrod is a professional singer and voice teacher who also is a prolific improvisor. Or she’s a prolific improvisor who’s also a professional singer and voice teacher. Either way, that’s a lot of talent.

Megan has been improvising for 5 years, is in critical darling musical troupe Rook and most recently was in Austin Secrets, Mischief Managed and directed Happily Ever After and Wonderland for Hideout Kids. 

Monica Martinez Maher is just looking for the grown-up version of a lock in and now she’s finally found it in the 48-hour marathon. Sort of kidding, not really kidding?

Monica’s 5 years of improv experience include co-directing Small Town Girl and Meat Cute, troupes Gal Pals and The Known Wizards and teaching at Merlin Works and The Hideout.

When not improvising/teaching/directing Monica is doing activities she describes as “super casual”: fumbling around on bass/guitar/harmonica for a V low key music project called Raptor Dancer, part of a super casual D&D group as a gnome sorceress and cuddling her doggo, watching bad TV shows.

Michael Yichao, or just Yichao as his friends call him, has been improvising for 13 lucky years. He hails from Los Angeles, California where lives with his dog and he writes video games for money and writes and produces plays for passion. 

He’s a founder of improv troupe Tall Grande Venti (2014 National College Improv Tournament winner) and has a solo show he takes around the world called Pint of Life.