Staff and Volunteers
If you’re passionate about building positive spaces for comedy community, stay tuned! We’ll keep this space updated with opportunities to work with us, start new projects, and help run our events as they arise.
If you want to volunteer to help us out at future events, visit the Get Involved page.
For general questions, comments, or just saying hi, please email hello@bandittheater.org.
Our admin team is also joined by our amazing teachers, directors, and board!
Admin Team
Annie Barry
Founder & Artistic Director
(She/Her) Annie Barry is the Founder and Artistic Director at Bandit. She has been performing improv and comedy for over a decade. She is delighted to be performing on "Swipe Right" and "Gram Worthy". She loves playing make believe in a world that discourages it in adults. She currently directs, "The Reader" and teaches improv at Seattle Children's Theater in a partnership with Bandit. She is a vegan, please don't hate her.
Mary Stratton
Visual Brand Manager
(She/Her) Mary loves surprising and truthful reactions in improv. Though she is a fan of cleverness and details, she thinks the highest compliment you can give with laugh is “stupid”. Mary is part of the first graduating class of Bandit Theater’s core training program, and she now performs in Bandit’s tarot-based improv show, The Reader. She’s also a graphic designer and Bandit staff member. As Visual Brand Manager, Mary designs and determines what the brand looks like. She might be making that up as she goes along too —but the best performers AND brands are both strong and adaptable, right?).
Mary C. Parker
Education Lead
(She/Her) Mary believes we can all benefit from adding a little humor to our lives. She took her first improv class 10 years ago while seeking stress relief from work. Mary has performed with teams in Portland, OR, London, UK, Pittsburgh, PA, and now in Seattle on The Harld Next Door at Bandit. She has appeared at comedy festivals in Richmond, VA, Edinburgh, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA. Mary has taught improv at Kickstand Comedy, and she has been on the Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts. Mary looks forward to teaching at Bandit and having you in her class!
Ilana Degann
Social Media
(She/Her) By day, Ilana works in marketing and data analytics. By night, she is sleeping. She got her improv start 10 years ago with the ComedySportz High School League and continued throughout college doing both short and long form performances with Improv Revolution. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ilana recently left the life of air conditioning and traffic behind and moved to Seattle to experience real seasons. A recovering TikToker, Ilana now lives a more peaceful life tending to her cows in Stardew Valley. Ilana is also an actor, musician, and stand-up comic and is so thankful to Bandit Theater for her first stand-up and improv opportunities in Seattle!
Chris Zimmerman
Website/Blog/Marketing
(He/Him) Chris is an improviser, self-proclaimed DJ and backyard bar owner from Seattle. Starting in 2020, Chris has taken classes at Jet City and has now taken an unsolicited blood oath to all things Bandit Theater. You can find him behind a computer as the editor of the Bandit Bulletin, performing in The Reader or vigorously taking notes as the assistant director of Swipe Right. He's 5'9".
Aspen Kloe
Lead Showrunner/Volunteer Coordinator
(They/She) Aspen entered the improv world in 2023 after a Who’s High show, where the chaos and misfit energy was giving home. Bandit’s improv space sparked a creative side Aspen didn’t even know they had and flipped how they moved through daily life, owning it with confidence, curiosity, and some mischief. That spark whisked Aspen from corporate life into pastry school, learning the craft and chasing a café where coffee fuels a place for everyone. Now and then Aspen sneaks on stage, but they live for the backstage scene, making sure the lights flip and the music hits. When Aspen isn’t setting the table or the scene, they’re usually in the pit at gigs, getting new ink, or exploring the city’s hidden edges.