Our People

🚌 FOUNDING MEMBERS 🚌

Tricia Kiely

Tricia is a Boston native transplanted to Nashua, NH. She gained her love as improv in Boston Public Schools - took a few decades off entertaining and recently returned to the craft by founding Strugglebus in 2022.

What Tricia loves about improvisational comedy is sharing truths about human nature and helps us find the funny in everyday life.

When she is not performing improv, she also performs stand-up comedy: sharing the puns with Southern New Hampshire and areas north of Boston.

Karl Schmitz

Karl is an actor, artist, and musician who has recently moved to Manchester, NH from Poughkeepsie, NY. His work has been shown throughout the Hudson Valley and he has performed in several productions of the Hudson Valley Performing Arts Lab. 

He enjoys creating something out of next to nothing, which is why he finds improv and devised theater to be the most satisfying forms of theater.  

Karl is a resident artist and maintains a studio at The Mosaic Art Collective in Manchester.

Andi Cass

Andi is a native of Southern NH with an extensive musical background,  including releasing their own album in 2017. They also perform with Queen City Improv as their musical improvisor on piano. They play many instruments and love to sing.

They were introduced to improv through Nashua Community College and have not stopped playing since. 

When they are not making music or improvising, Andi enjoys drawing, playing board games and catching up on pop culture via friend's TV and film recommendations.

🚌TROUPE MEMBERS 🚌

Victoria Young

Victoria is a passionate improv actor. A NJ native, she now calls NH home and immersed herself in the vibrant performing arts scene of the Granite State. Victoria currently performs with the New London Barn Playhouse’s Improv for Caregivers Program.

She enjoys the spontaneity of improv and the unexpected twists that each scene brings.

Off-stage, Victoria enjoys the fiery craft of blacksmithing where she hammers metal with the precision of an improv actor: forging unexpected twists into something unique and entertaining. 

Allison Lantagne

Allison Lantagne is a New Hampshire native who has been improvising for 8 years. She is a graduate of the Improv Boston Comedy School and founded her university’s improv team, Rhody Ridiculousness.

She loves the team-centric culture of improv and the opportunity it provides to find comedy in moments of vulnerability and emotional truth.

When she is not improvising, Allison is keeping up with all things Taylor Swift and binge watching Aaron Sorkin shows.


Strugglebus Improv also features other local improvisational comedians as part of our group. 

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