We are Improv Little Rock.
Who the heck are you idiots?
Improv Little Rock is the only weekly improv comedy show in Arkansas, and has been performing continuously for over 20 years.
Fans of "Second City" or "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" will love this show, which combines scenes, games, music and more in a variety of formats, every Wednesday at 8pm at The Joint Comedy Theater in Argenta.
Meet the cast
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Brett Ihler
Director /
Founding MemberHailing from the mountains of Utah to the humidity of Little Rock, Brett has been an improviser and actor for over 25 years and is a founding member of ILR.
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Clayton Aronowitz
The Biggest Horn
Clayton plays a buttload of instruments and has been ILR’s musical director for over 11 years. He is a founding member of The Big Dam Horns.
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Gordy Brave
The Shaggiest Sweetheart
Once a member of Arkansas’ only pro teen improv group, Armadillo Rodeo, Gordy manages BRAVE NEW RESTAURANT, plays music, acts, does stand-up and performs weekly with ILR.
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Ashley Ihler
Shenanigans Wench
Ashley brings wit and laughs to everything and everyone she touches, from working in IT during the day, to ILR and stand-up comedy, her long-running podcast The Articulate Coven or her marriage to Brett. He’s lucky.
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Rivka Kuperman
Purveyor of Enthusiasm
A proud Little Rock native and member of ILR since 2009, Rivka can also be found puppeteering on the Emmy-winning ARPBS show Blueberry’s Clubhouse.
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Leigh TruEmper Marlow
Full-Time Cat Mom
to ShamuThe newest victim… er, member of ILR, Leigh’s perfect day starts with a breakfast sandwich, includes an afternoon nap, and wraps up with a silly evening of performing improv.
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Maddy Meigs
Manager of
Comin’ in Hot LLCMaddy is livin la vida improv, or How to Succeed in Business Without Really… Thinking.
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Peter Petropoulakos
The Straightest of Mens
Besides a 13-year break for marriage and kids and divorce, Peter has been performing improv for, like 25 years. I know, he looks great.
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RC Ragsdale
Arcane Trivia Wizard
The precious cinnamon roll of the group; you know, if cinnamon rolls could bite back – with the facial acting skills of Lucille Ball & the Smooth Hairless Visage of Gimmly Son of Gloin. He is both a hoot AND a holler.
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Michael Scott
The Original Michael Scott
Michael enjoys photography, board games, teaching, and saying yes to stuff. He was recently recognized in Foreheads Quarterly Magazine’s Foreheads to Watch list.
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Andy Smith
Technomancer /
Master of BeatAndy has been the “man in the booth” for over 6 years, and has performed with groups from The Big Dam Horns to the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra since 2012 – but that’s not nearly as funny as his weekly ILR appointment.
Meet the family
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Indigo Anderson-Moore
Historian / Photographer
Indigo is the team photographer and holder of exquisite blackmail. If you've seen a great (or concerning) photo of this team on the internet, Indigo probably took it.
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Raven Duda-McMurry
Comedy Cat Nurse Person
Raven always gives an amazing performance, both as a registered nurse, and a cat impersonator on the comedic stage.
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Mei Travis
The Bouncer
Mei is a science teacher who unwinds with yarn and needlecrafts, houseplants & an acoustic guitar. She can solve a Rubik's Cube in just a few minutes. By night she runs the door at ILR shows and keeps the riff-raff out.
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Brook Scalzo
The Semi-Retired One
Brook is the Simulation Coordinator for UAMS, College of Nursing, and a long-standing member of Improv Little Rock.
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Jackson Shelton
Recorder… Not the Instrument
Jackson is married to someone in the cast, has two hands, can hold a camera with either of them, and is either 6’ 5” or 4’ 2”. He is honest to a fault about being a pathological liar.
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