
Haymaker

Courtney Paige Barnett is originally from Dallas, Texas and started stand up in the intimate Austin scene before heading west after college. She has a BS in Radio-TV-Film from University of Texas at Austin and has trained at UCB, Second City Hollywood, The Pack Theater, and Westside Comedy Theater, where she also directs sketch. Her iO sketch team Duke has been on the main stage for over two years and was featured at the San Francisco Sketchfest. Courtney also writes for feminist satire website, Reductress, and is a voiceover artist represented by Solid Talent. Turncoat is her favorite.
Niv Brook is a writer, actor, and filmmaker. He is a graduate of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, He’s been writing and performing sketch comedy since 2013. He was a member of the house team Raffle at iOWest, and now performs monthly at the Pack Theater as part of 100% Stuff, a team he has helped bring to festivals such as Austin Sketch Fest, SF Sketchfest, Sonoma Laugh Fest, and the LA Scripted Comedy Festival. Also featured at the Pack, Niv is a producer on the biographical sketch show Bio-Dome, and is a producer, co-host, and co-creator of the movie screening series Almost Midnight Movies and the collaborative theater experiment Collaborabortion. You can follow him on Twitter @nivbrook if he ever bothers to start using it.
Jeff Davidson is a writer and performer from Sacramento. He moved to L.A. in the late 90s and has a B.A. in film production from California State University, Northridge. He has performed on stage at UCB, The Clubhouse and The Pack. In addition to writing comedy, Jeff has also written comic books, including a graphic novel named best indie comic of the year for 2006 on Ain’t it Cool News, as well as several novels that will likely never see the light of day. He lives in Highland Park with his partner and 27 cats.
Nick Gligor is an actor, writer and comedian originally from Western Pennsylvania who has been performing in sketch comedy for over a decade. He recently co-wrote & acted in the to-be-released feature Saturday at The Starlight starring Abigail Breslin and Michael Madsen. He has voiced many animated characters and/or appeared in projects from Fox ADHD, AOK, DreamWorks TV, SYFY, Funny Or Die and in national commercials. Nick previously hosted the Pack’s long-running spectacle SPEEDFACE; and has been a member of many now-defunct sketch teams including Haymaker, Dumbshit Mountain, Local Business and iO West’s Jet Jaguar. He has appeared on stages all across LA’s comedy scene, in the Hollywood Fringe and also at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Nick resides in the Valley (by choice) and watches a lot of pro wrestling.
Commercial Rep: Mavrick Artists Agency
Socials: @nickgligor
Website: nickgligor.com
Elizabeth Hayhurst is an LA native and graduate of both UCBs: UC Berkeley and Upright Citizens Brigade—one of which was funnier than the other. She’s performed sketch comedy and improv at most of the major comedy venues in LA along with festivals around the country. Her voiceover work includes campaigns for Netflix and NatGeo, as well as cartoons for AOK. She has been a regular personality and host on Legendary Entertainment’s Geek & Sundry and written/produced/co-hosted for HyperRPG. As a vocalist, Elizabeth has sung on soundtracks for films including The Nightmare, Ice Age 5, and Lucha Mexico. She’s also provided backing vocals for the rap/noise group Clipping’s debut album (featuring Daveed Diggs of Hamilton fame) with Sub Pop Records. Previous shows at the Pack include co-producing/writing/performing for Sam Brown’s (Whitest Kids U’Know) Biodome, the controversial panel/comedy show The Line, and house sketch teams 100% Stuff, Haymaker, and Cool Gary. Socials: @elizhayhurst
Dominique Johnson is a writer, improviser, standup, actor, and bon vivant. You can see him Every third Wednesday performing with his sketch team Haymaker and probably a bunch of other stuff any given week! He wrote and starred in the web series Mustache Murder, hit short play Whatshername. He does voices for AOK videos, You can see him with much more famous people in ABC Digital series Boondoggle and the Reggie Watts episode of IMDb.com’s series Unmade. The mustache is real…and it’s spectacular!
Jesse Klein is a graduate of The Portland Actors Conservatory and a Performer/writer who has been in the live comedy scene for ten years. In that time he has been on house teams at The Pack, IO West, and Second City Hollywood. He has also performed sketch comedy at The Kirk Douglas Theater, The Groundlings, UCB, SF Sketch Fest, Chicago Sketch Fest, and Austin Sketch Fest. He was a staff writer for This Day in Useless Celebrity History Starring Olympic medalist Adam Rippon, writer/co-creator of Sci-fi weekly on popcorn talk, and writer/performer for Test Tube: Funny Or Die original programming. He has made various TV appearances recently he was George Washington in an episode of Shark Tank, and Larry the upset wedding guest on an episode of Punk’d.
Mike is a Michigan native whose handwritten artwork you may have already seen online. He has voiced cartoons for AOK and directed dozens of sketch comedy shorts at the PACK including the viral hit “CELL BLOCK MANSPLAINGO” with over 2.6 million views on Facebook as well as ‘I Showed My Girlfriend The Doctor Strange Trailer’. He performs the third Wednesday of the month at The Pack Theater with his sketch team, Haymaker.
You can follow him on twitter and instagram @mikematola
For inquiries email: [email protected]
Katie is from Washington, DC. Heard of it? You may have seen her on TV as Karyn the delivery lady on Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn on Nickelodeon or Kathy the bartender on LOOSELY EXACTLY NICOLE*. She has written and voiced cartoons for AOK and has been a consultant on shows for MTV and Defy Media. She has also self produced music videos such as “Pumpkin T*ts”. Look it up. It’s good. She performs the third Wednesday of the month at The Pack Theater with her sketch team, Haymaker. For ice cream recs, follow her @eatitkatie.
WEST COAST REPS
MANAGER: Advanced Management
Gary Ousdahl: 424-333-1500
THEATRICAL: Metropolitan Talent Agency
Lauren Gibson: 323-857-4591
COMMERCIAL: Robertson Taylor Agency
Matt Taylor: 707-529-7060
EAST COAST REPS
THEATRICAL: BYSB Talent Agency
Tay Smith: [email protected]
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