Mike Poole

Hey, I'm Mike Poole and I'd love to coach your improv team! I'm currently a teacher at UCB, and formerly a member of UCB Harold teams Game 7, Ice Cold Bev, and Lloyd team Statham. I'm also on the indie team My Momma’s Biscuits.

I've done a ton of narrative and musical improv with groups like Baby Wants Candy, North Coast, Your Town: An Improvised Musical, Shamilton, and Rumpleteaser, Off Top, No Chill, Improvised Gilmore Girls, and more.

I've travelled across the US and Europe performing and teaching workshops. I've also won UCB Cage Matches, UCB Indie Cage Match, Magnet's Inspired, and a pizza eating contest.

I've studied under James Dwyer, Silvija Ozols, Aaron Jackson, Nicole Drespel, Achilles Stamatelaky, Eric Gersen, and Lou Gonzalez.

Besides improv, I was also a staff writing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Amber Ruffin Show, and in my spare time I've written too many pilots.

If you want to have fun, we'll have tons of it. If you want to get serious, we'll get tons of reps! We can do basics, new forms, established forms, whatever. My rate is $40 an hour, but I do offer a discount to all POC or LGBTQ+ groups.