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PAM VICTOR is the Founder and Head of Happiness of Happier Valley Comedy. She has been improvising professionally since 2003 when she founded The Ha-Ha's, who continue to perform as The Ha-Ha's & Friends. Pam has improvised and done her live interview show at numerous festivals, such as The Women in Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Arts Festival, Detroit Improv Festival, and Chicago Improv Festival. Pam Victor is a nationally-touring improv teacher and co-author of "Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ & Dave Book" along with TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi.
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SCOTT BRAIDMAN is our General Manager and Artistic Director. Scott started improvising in 2002 with Mission: Improvable at UMass Amherst, and since then he has studied and performed at The iO Theater and One Group Mind in Chicago, The UCB Theatre in New York, and ImprovBoston and Improv Asylum in Boston. He was also an instructor with the ImprovBoston Comedy School. Scott produces all of Happier Valley Comedy's shows as well as teaching Advanced Improv classes and performing with The Understudies, The Happier FAMILY Comedy Show, The Happier Valley Championship, and The Majesters. However, his 3-year old Amelia will always be funnier than him.
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SALLY EKUS is a Literary Agent by day, and improv enthusiastic by night. When not securing book deals and sponsorships for culinary talent at The Lisa Ekus Group, she can be found joining improv jams and taking classes. Sally is the producer and a supporting cast member of The Happier FAMILY Comedy show, which performs on the third Saturday of every month, as well as a member of the improv troupes Josie's Magical Flute and Not in Charge. Sally also serves on our board as the "Organizer of Joy," aka the "Joyganizer," where she can put her love of lists and Type A follow up to good use. She loves spicy food, tacos, and following her foot.
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KELSEY FLYNN is the Resident Optimist of Happier Valley Comedy where she facilitates professional development events in the THROUGH LAUGHTER program, teaches short form classes, spearheads the standup/storytelling branch of the Training Program, and performs regularly with The Happier FAMILY Comedy Show and The Happier Valley Championship. Over these past almost 30 years, Kelsey has performed improv in clubs and festivals and studied across the Great Comedy Map of the United States (GCMUS-pronounced ‘gick-moose’) including places like Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Sayre, Pennsylvania. Kelsey's stand-up journey has included sets at Catch a Rising Star, Gotham Comedy Club, and Caroline’s in New York City, the Comedy Studio in Cambridge and at the many Elks Lodges and Chinese restaurants in between. Offstage, Kelsey has steadily plied her trade of comedy across many platforms including as a morning-show radio host at 100.9, WRNX, and 93.9 WRSI, where she was awarded “Best Local DJ” two years in a row by the Valley Advocate. Check out Kelsey's website: www.kelseyflynn.com.
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Happier Valley Comedy, Inc. is 501c3 non-profit organization.
