Timmy Tamisiea – Executive Director
Timmy Tamisiea is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actor, and director who has worked in the entertainment industry for over two decades. He was a professor at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles for seven years and is currently the Tour Producer for M.i. Productions, touring some of the most successful comedic and educational programs to colleges and military bases around the world. Some of his most notable credits include Conan, Amazon Productions, and the nationally renowned comedy team, Mission Improvable.

Dylan Rohde – Co-Artistic Director

Dylan Rohde founded the Omaha Comedy Fest back in 2013, and The Backline Comedy Theatre in 2011. As an intern video editor (UCB/iO West) in L.A. and early indie improv scene member he often edited, wrote, and acted in videos featured on the front page of FunnyOrDie.com before moving to Nebraska. Now he travels the nation (and world) teaching/performing improv, and you can catch him here in Omaha doing standup, sketches, karaoke competitions, and his record-holding improvised hip-hopera team “Zip-Zopera”!

Cameron Logsdon – Co-Artistic Director

Cameron Logsdon is a comedian, writer, and educator. He is an alum of the NBC Late Night Writer’s Workshop and was a writer/actor on WOWT-NBC’s Omaha Live. He regularly performs stand up comedy at the Omaha Funny Bone and has over a quarter of a million followers on social media. Cameron works as a Senior Lecturer and is the Public Speaking Coordinator at UNO.

Brittany Mascio – Communications Director

Brittany Mascio is an award-winning social impact strategist and writer. Previously, she was the founding Event Director for Big Omaha, the innovative national conference. Inc. Magazine and CNBC compared it to a “TED or South by Southwest (SXSW)” but with a remarkable “lightness or buoyancy.” From Serial Investor Gary Vaynerchuk to triple-threat talent, Eddie Huang (creator of ABC’s Fresh off the Boat), she’s coached talent late into the night to perfect keynote stories and punch up lines for them.

Chris Bottum – Operations Director

Chris Bottum is a nationally touring improviser and award winning sketch comedian with a passion for teaching. Part of Mi Productions TourCo and the Omaha comedy duo King Louie, he has performed on six different house teams at the Backline Comedy Theater, and performed in four Omaha Comedy Fests. He has coached house teams at the Backline and taught improv workshops for first generation college students.  An Omaha native, you can find him performing in shows across the city as part of the production team 1031 Bison. 

Will Meinen – Education Director

Will Meinen is a performer and writer living in Omaha. He has trained at the iO, Second City, and Annoyance Theaters in Chicago. Will performed on a house team at the iO Theater, produced the storytelling show “Death of the Cool,” and was an improv teacher and coach at the iO and Under the Gun theaters. Will currently teaches and coaches improv at the Omaha Community Playhouse and Backline Theater.

Austin Dunham – Social Media Manager

Austin Dunham is a comedic writer, actor and producer based in Omaha, Nebraska. After getting his degree in Comedy Writing and Production from Columbia College Chicago, Austin returned home to continue following his passion for comedy and used his experiences as a comedian to branch into social media management. Austin has performed at Second City, Annoyance, The Backline and Backswing Brewing. Currently you can see him perform in shows around Omaha with 1031 Bison, Zip Zopera, The Tardy Boys, SPAM, and Babyfaces.