About Us
Albany Improv is here to keep you up to date with all the area improv shows. The greater Albany area is home to over a dozen improv troupes! We know it's difficult to keep track of all of them, so we're here to help.

Who We Are
Albany Improv is comprised of two area improv players and teachers - Tom Brennan and Jackie Lorenz. The duo just can't get enough of improv, whether it be short form, long form, drama or comedy, and they want everyone to saturate their lives with it too.
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Tom Brennan - Artistic Director and Founding Member
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Jackie Lorenz - President
Tom Brennan has trained with some of the improv greats, studied at the New Actors Workshop and learned the techniques of the mamma of improv, Viola Spolin. He has worked for the Jersey City Children's Theater teaching improv to kids in the summer. Tom is currently starting a new adventure with Winkel Reid Folklore Theater.
Jackie Lorenz is a dreamer who fell into improv while studying theater. A Buffalo transplant, she was dragged to her first improv class by Tom. Soon after, she studied improv in Wisconsin with Carol Sills and Family at the Wisconsin Theater Game Center, which lead to repeated summers with Jersey City Children's Theater and the great Kathy Hendrickson and Cordis Heard.

Our Founding Members

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Adam O'Connor
Adam is a founding member of the long form improv troupe Sorry Not Sorry. Drawn to performing, Adam tried his hand at improv and immediately fell in love with it. He has studied with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC and The Mop & Bucket Co. in Schenectady. Adam's goal is to help spread improv throughout the world.  

​Adam and Laci have brought their talents to the Portland, Maine area and perform with Box of Wine.
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Laci Lee
Laci is a founding member of the long form improv troupe Sorry Not Sorry and an alumna of the short form troupe The Mop & Bucket Company. She fell in love with improv while she was attending College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She took her first improv class at COA with two former Second City performers who also own Improv Acadia in downtown Bar Harbor. Since then Laci has studied at the Second City Training Center in Chicago through their Comedy Studies Program, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC and with the Mop & Bucket Co. in Schenectady.