Artistic Staff

Elyse Schuerman, Managing Director
Elyse has been performing with ImprovBoston Mainstage since the spring of 1999. In addition to Mainstage, Elyse has been a part of such showcase shows as Boston Creem, Writer's Block, Commedia dell'High School, and BackStory, and has performed and written for the Holiday Spectacular and GoreFest shows. She has performed in the Del Close Longform festival and The Scene, both in New York and at the Chicago Improv Festival. Elyse graduated with a BA in Theatre and Education from Flagler College in Florida. Directing credits include ImprovBoston's Micetro, UnNatural Selection, Radio Hour, and Misunderstood. She has also directed scripted theatre in Boston and in Florida. Elyse has taught adults at ImprovBoston and ImprovNashville, and young students throughout Massachusetts. Elyse has studied improvisation with Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Joe Bill, and Keith Johnstone.

Will Luera, Artistic Director
Will Luera joined ImprovBoston in 1997 as a member of the ImprovBoston Mainstage. Within two years he joined the TheatreSports cast and also became the director of Sitcom. In 1999, he left ImprovBoston to start his own improvisational theater company called Blue Screen, where he continued to direct Sitcom but also developed and directed Secret Society and Dropkick Bandito. In 2000, he rejoined ImprovBoston as Artistic Director, directing the Mainstage cast as well as premiere productions of Sitcom, Secret Society, Blue Screen, and Quest. He has appeared at the Chicago Improv Festival, New York Improv Festival, Greater Boston Improv Festival, and Toyota Comedy Festival and has studied improvisation with ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade, and Keith Johnstone. In addition to his work at ImprovBoston, Will has taught improvisation classes for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the National Fire Prevention Association, Northeastern University, Boston College and numerous regional, college, and high school improv troupes. Will continues to direct the ImprovBoston Mainstage, but has also worked with Improv Asylum, The Tribe Theater, The Alarm Clock Theater, and Another Country Productions.


Don Schuerman, Director of Programming
Don Schuerman has been performing with ImprovBoston since 1997, after four years with My Mother's Fleabag (Boston College). He is a member of ImprovBoston Mainstage and appeared in the original casts of Sitcom, Musical! the Musical, Election! and Secret Society. As Director of Programming, Don supervises all of ImprovBoston's in-house productions. He was also director of ImprovBoston's ongoing production of TheatreSports from 1999 to 2004 and directed ImprovBoston's 2001 showcase productions of The ImprovBoston Holiday Spectacular and Red Herrings, which was selected as a feature performance at the 2002 Chicago Improv Festival. He has appeared at the Comedy Connection, the Comedy Studio, the Chicago Improv Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival and Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. Don has studied improvisation with ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade and Keith Johnstone. In addition to his work at ImprovBoston University, Don has taught improvisation classes for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the National Fire Prevention Association, Northeastern University, Boston College and numerous regional and college improv troupes. He has been seen on Canadian television in the Comedy Network's World Improv Championships, where he was twice named Most Valuable Player.

David Totty, Technical Director
David joined ImprovBoston's TheatreSports cast as a full time member in 2004. A founding member and producer of the improv troupe Pants!, David has also performed as a guest player with UnNatural Selection and cast member with Spinprov. He has studied and performed improv, stand up, and sketch comedy in and around Boston since 1999. He is a member of the Boston Area Guild of Puppeteers and active in creating new puppets and new puppet theater. David is a founding member of MuthaF#$%&ing Puppets winner of the 2004 Bass Red Triangle Comedy Festival "Audience Favorite" Award. He puts his background in mechanical systems and industrial controls to work as the theater's Technical Director.

David Mogolov, Head of Writing Department
David Mogolov has been hanging around ImprovBoston in various capacities since 2002 when he performed his one-man show "One Night at T.F. Green." The show was selected to appear at Chicago's SINGLE FILE festival and was referred to by at least one attendee as "quite funny." Since then he has written and performed another one-man show, "I Got in a Fight", two oddball "Ameriprov" shows with Steve Kleinedler, and numerous other shows as part of the Sgt. Culpepper Jamboree and "The Artistic Director Presents..." He co-wrote and performed "Diptych" with Sara Faith Alterman in the fall of 2007, and is currently a writer and actor in IB's sketch troupe, "The Ruckus." He teaches in the ImprovBoston comedy writing program, and will occasionally be spotted performing standup.

Dana J. Bein, Head of Stand-up Department

Dennis Hurley, Head of Film Department

Jeremiah Jordan, Head of Harold Department