WRITERS

Joe Kwaczala (Host/Writer/Producer) likes to stay busy. As a stand-up, he performs all over Chicago (The Lincoln Lodge, Zanies) and has opened for comedians like Eugene Mirman, Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, and Joel McHale. Also, he occasionally makes stupid videos, but you’ll have to find those on your own. Joe is a big fan of sandwich cookies.

Joe McAdam (Sidekick/Announcer/Writer) When he’s not keeping The Late Live Show’s couch warm, Joe McAdam can be seen throughout Chicago and the Midwest, performing at The Lincoln Lodge, Chicago Underground Comedy, Zanies and the Just For Laughs Festival. With a background in stand up, sketch, and video production McAdam has cultivated his own brand of irreverent and absurd humor unlike anything currently in Chicago. Oh, and sometimes he grows a beard.

Andrew Smreker (Writer/Producer) A proud alumnus of the Second City Comedy Studies program, Andrew has been a performer and producer of both The Lincoln Lodge, and Comedy at Don, and has performed at Chicago Sketchfest with Carpeted Afterhours, Jumbotron, and The Late Live Show. Andrew enjoys combining his talents of writing, performing, and producing videos for The Late Live Show, and continues to be absolutely astounded by the boundless talent and dedication of his fellow staff and crew.

Daniel Kibblesmith (Writer/Producer) began experimenting with video at an early age after being exposed to the behind-the-scenes meta-works of artists like Mike Jittlov and Jim Henson. A graduate of Columbia College of Chicago’s Film & Video program, he is currently employed as a humor writer for Groupon.com, and divides his free time between an inadvisable number of independent video and stage projects in Chicago’s lively comedy community. He also enjoys making music videos, and (paper) comics. 

Christina Boucher (Writer) is a writer and performer who is pleased as punch to be a part of the Late Live Show. Currently she can be seen improvising with Sears Tower at iO and Bella at the Playground. She was a contestant in Impress These Apes and has written and performed in several original productions at the Annoyance Theater including American Lit and the three woman musical, Kink. She also likes to make short videos with her friends at Variousart.org.

A.J. Conover (Writer) needs to update his bio.

Cullen Crawford (Writer) writes sketches, plays, essay-jokes, and erotic puzzles. He currently writes coupon comedy as a humor writer for Groupon.com, finding the lighter side of everything from dead dogs to dying dogs. He is also breaking into Chicago’s slightly above-average stand-up scene. “I enjoy it,” says Cullen.

John Eisenrich (Writer) is a recent transplant hailing from the fair city of Minneapolis. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he has been involving himself in all things comedy since he can remember. You may recognize him from The Brave New Workshop, The Yellow Tree Theater, Comedy Sportz or the Lowry Lab. An improviser, writer, juggler, fist fighter and wife-lover, John is more than excited to be finally working with The Late Live Show.

Chris Stephens (Writer) is one of the fresher faces of Chicago comedy. Breaking into the city’s stand up scene his freshman year in college, Chris competed and won a spot on Columbia College’s traveling team in Rooftop Comedy’s National College Stand Up Competition two years in a row. Soon after, he branched out to sketch writing, which led to being brought on as the assistant head writer for the kid oriented web show Fridaynitebytes and, more recently, performing in the Chicago Sketchfest. Seriously man, what a fresh face.

Timothy Giuliani (Graphic Designer) has been creating graphics for comedy shows in Chicago for the past three years. A former employee of the late, lamented Lakeshore Theater, he was responsible for all of its posters in its final two years. Since then he has created promotional artwork for several local shows, and has helped visualize ideas for The Late Live Show staff since the show began. In addition to designing the upcoming book Comics’ Comics, which features impromptu drawings done by a who’s who of stand-up comedy, he’s also guilty of unleashing the wildly unpopular Offaldrome Podcast on a world far better off without it.

Sarra Jahedi (Production Assistant) is a comedian and writer in Chicago. She is also a girl writing this. She is also a girl that helps out with The Late Live Show!

Nick Johnson (Stage Manager) hails from Rochester, NY and has worked onstage, backstage, above-stage, in the orchestra pit, on camera, behind the camera, in the editing room, in the writers room and in his bedroom, asleep.  An improviser since 2004, he can be seen in Potential Boyfriends at Studio Be, Raygun Reagan at the Mayne Stage with One Group Mind and performing with a multitude of other improv teams including Bricknet, Phil And Will, Ben Franklin Presents and RPP.  Nick joined The Late Live Show in its second season, but is no stranger to talk shows, honing his skills producing the talk show webseries BRICKNiTe with Bricknet.

Aziz Oz Lalani  (Art Director/Photographer) has been working on the show for two seasons.  He has worked in theater and on films for several years and brings his collective knowledge to the stage of The Late Live Show. Besides working in comedy, he is a working artist and founded an art gallery in the West Loop.  Right now he is taking some time off before applying to grad school for his MFA.  He also makes a living buying gold.

Greg Sorkin (Production Assistant) was born and raised on the couch in the north Chicago suburbs. He’s lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles, where he participated in Columbia College Chicago’s Semester in L.A. sitcom writing program. After graduating from Columbia with a B.A. in Television Writing & Producing, he stayed out in L.A. to break into the business… and did so by working on such quality programming as VH1′s Celebrity Rehab Season 2, and DirecTV’s Meatloaf-hosted game show, Rock and a Hard Place. Since moving back to Chicago, he’s continued the tradition on shows for NBC, Fox, TLC,  Oxygen and OWN. In between all the reality TV work, he writes TV pilots, comics, webcomics and just about anything anyone will pay him for. He uses his Television degree to justify all the TV he watches, both American and British. Check out P.I. Jane, his weekly webcomic and Monkeys + Typewriters for writing samples.

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