Duke University Improv

Wesley Peacock

Class:  Trinity ’12

Hometown: lil’ ole  Boerne, Texas

Likes: 90′s pop music, NBA Jams, Good Morning Campers at alpine

Dislikes: Vegetables, Hippies, people who say the San Antonio Spurs are a boring team to watch.

 

Wes currently has the fourth most friends on Facebook of the members of the group.

 

Kyle Glackin

Class:  Trinity ’12

Hometown: Cincinasty, Ohio

Likes: Acting, Painting, Hanging out, Music

Dislikes: Grammar, Being cramped into airplane and car seats designed for someone a foot shorter than him

Kyle was petrified of the stage for a long while due to a fourth grade production of James and The Giant Peach where he flubbed his one and only line of the play.  Since then, he has emerged from his shy chrysalis and metamorphosed into a (deniably) beautiful (but very manly) butterfly.   In this new state he took to the stage and, despite protestation, has not left it since.

Robert Zaleski

Class: Trinity ‘13

Hometown: Wheeling, WV

Likes: Doodling, hiphop, dancing alone in his room, hoho’s. Awkward moments where he can play the awkwordian and get out his awkward turtle. Polishy wordsy.

Dislikes: Having a chapter of my life stolen by the guys who made “Superbad.” 80 drawings later and I still haven’t seen a royalty check.

Cutest pet’s name: WoolyBob (my old hampster)

Somewhere in northern West Virginia’s tar-stained foothills, Wob was born to sibling parents Brad Zaleski, a 400 pound manbeast with the wit of a 6 year old, and his deranged sister Tani who spent her childhood in a closet. Wob was the name that Robert’s imagination gave itself upon birth. Robert’s real parents recognized his creative qualities and gave him plenty of space to become something… unique. Ever since seeing “Up!” Robert’s wanted to be an animator at Pixar or a cantankerous old man with a floating house, whichever comes first.

Julianne Kolb

Class: Trinity ‘13

Hometown: Los Angeles

Likes: green cake from the marketplace, tina fey, family guy, tv in general, singing in the shower, talking to inanimate objects (such as my laptop or other cars on the road) while angry

Dislikes: long papers, people who push over bell tower’s bench

She’s been involved in drama since conception, and because she went to an all-girls high school, she had the opportunity to play all sorts of characters, including a flamboyant gay actor, an obsessive-compulsive stage manager, and a kinky 70 year-old housemother. And there are so many more to come! She can’t wait to explore on this voyage of discovery with all of you

Hunter Douglas

Class: Pratt ’13

Hometown: Wellington, New Zealand

Likes: Films by Hayao Miyazaki, jasmine tea, microbreweries, and Oxford commas.

Dislikes: Paradoxes, salad dressing.

Despite being born and raised in New Zealand, Hunter was not a shepherd growing up. He and two friends did once try to catch a sheep, though. Hunter dabbled in theatre throughout primary and high school, playing roles as varied as: Gollum, a leper, a singing drug addict from Liverpool, and the god of the forest. He also played Underwater Hockey for 5 years in high school. Yes, that’s a real thing, and no, he wasn’t held back a year. Aroha to the whanau.

Jonathan Wilkins

Class: Trinity ‘14

Hometown: Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Likes: Wilkins family, Veronica, Suburbia, Chicago, Corey Patterson, Tarvaris Jackson, lacrosse pinnies, mash-ups, and hitting a 4-5-6

Dislikes: Brett Favre, people that think everything is awkward, and hitting a 1-2-3

Upon moving to New York City in the early 1920’s, Jonathan quickly became friends with his rich and lavish neighbor. His neighbor’s fortune however was gained only in the hopes of winning the heart of a former lover: Daisy Buchannon. Eventually his scheme fails within the context of the era’s overly hedonistic materialism and consumerism. As his neighbor is eventually murdered, Jonathan returned to the Midwest, a disillusioned man. And now, 90ish years later: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Devon Cottle

Class: Trinity ‘14

Hometown: Wheeling, WV

Likes: T.S. Eliot, Music no one has ever heard of, Familiarity, Finding one’s own cousins attractive

Dislikes: Wet socks, The Man, Baldwin-Felts detectives

Born down a country road in a holler somewhere in the green hills of West Virginia, Devon Cottle managed to escape the Ohio Valley with only minimal exposure to the carcinogens from the steel mills and coal mines. Having been improv-ing every second of every day for the last eighteen years, he is excited to get to do so at Duke and on stage with DUI. Together he and Rob are showing the world that West Virginia has birthed more than coal and Stonewall Jackson.

Keegan Cotton

Class: Trinity ‘15

Hometown: Herndon, VA

Likes: Long Walks on Short Beaches, The Notebook, Grape Fanta, Stargazing, Space Jam, The Rap Music, Your Mother

Dislikes: Hipsters, Doors that look like I’m supposed to pull them when I’m actually supposed to push them and there’s a cute girl behind me who I was gonna impress by being all chivalrous and holding the door for her but now I just look like an idiot who can’t open doors right, Run-on Sentences

Keegan Cotton was spawned from the depths of the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 1993 when the Cocos and Caribbean tectonic plates collided along the coast of Mexico. Legends were told throughout the country of the “Chupacabra” – Spanish for “extremely good-looking Irish boy” – that alarmed the Mexican government. His superpowers were locked away within his body and now Keegan lives his life as an above average teenage boy studying at Duke University. He has joined DUI in hopes that they may be able to assist him in regaining his abilities, realizing his full potential, making people laugh, and getting his revenge against the Mexican government.

Lawrence Nemeh (Rence)

Class:  Trinity ’15

Hometown: West Philadelphia, born & rayzed

Likes: Int’l relations, Jerry Lewis, Dr. Pepper and Scramble w/ Friends

Dislikes: Time, redundancy, negative auras and Keanu Reeves and redundancy

Every improv troupe has that one superstar that brings the team to a whole new level of comedy.  Lawrence is not that guy.  But this one time he made that guy laugh… and it felt awesome.

Nick Chilson

Class: Pratt ’15

Hometown: Doylestown, PA (the 215)

Likes: Muggle Quidditch, Easy Mac, Blizzard Man, Noodletools, The Jigger Shop, Youth Against The Pants

Dislikes: Raw Tomatoes, Team Al Gore, The Seinfeld Series Finale, The Pants

Bio: Having grown up on the hardened streets of Doylestown, Nick has always run with a pretty rough improv crowd. But after singing and dancing his way to the top of some of the most prestigious improv troops based in his own bathroom, Nick finally felt the need to expand his enterprise. Luckily he’s found a home with DUI, and comedy will never be the same.

Or maybe it will, whatever.