What If Theatre's
House Ensemble

Colin Iago McCarthy enjoys reading, basset hounds, and Star Trek. He began acting as soon as he could remember what he was supposed to say, and began improvising so he would never forget his lines. Ask him about his views on Escape (the Pina Colada song): they are strong. He hasn't read as many books this year as his amazing wife, but who has?

Joy lives and breathes improv. She trained at Improv Asylum (Boston) and  has been a guest artist with ImprovBoston and Un-Scripted Theater Company. Joy was the founder of Pure Moxie Players, a Bay Area home for narrative improv. After moving to Denver, she served as the director for Bent Improv and Education Director at Voodoo Comedy Playhouse before co-founding What If Theatre with her husband, Colin Iago McCarthy.

Devan is hard to pin down, she’s been an Outdoor Education Instructor, Indoor Education Instructor (cough, teacher), high ropes facilitator, low ropes facilitator, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Then she face-planted into improv in 2013, and has been gloriously stuck ever since.  She can’t seem to get enough of this stuff, performing, teaching or just zipzapzopping into the sunset.

Harrrison is a solar cell physicist who has dabbled in improv since 2018. What started as a desire to inject a little levity and spontaneity in his life blossomed into a deep and abiding love of collaborative storytelling.

Dre Ford has been involved in improv for the last 9 years, it has changed his life and pushed him to do things he never thought he’d be able to. One of his favorite things about improv is the ability to create a fun, weird, wacky world that we all get to play in. The improv community has also instilled family values and the sense of belonging. Dre has taught various levels of improv, directed his own show, and has played on numerous teams (On The Spot, Improv Cabaret, Marvelous Method, and The Complaint Department). Improv taught Dre to follow the fun and to trust his instincts. 

Reverie (she/her) graduated from the Bovine Metropolis Theater in The Before Times (2018) and enjoyed playing Zoomprov with Streaky Bacon during lockdown. She’s played on teams as epic as Significant Otter and Carfish Starnival, and has been with the even more iconic Streaky Bacon since its inception. She also enjoyed assistant directing “5280: Denver A-Z,” the Bovine Summer Sketch show in 2018. Despite enjoying long walks through daisy-strewn meadows, she is a master of the villain archetype and plays them at every opportunity.

Chloe Liz has been doing theater and improv since the ripe old age of 7 when she first saw the monkey show at Casa Bonita and proceeded to make her cousins recreate it in painstaking detail over that seminal summer. Chloe has performed in the San Francisco Fringe Fest, the Dramatic Improv Fest, and the Denver Improv Fest, and produced film and theater on both coasts for over a decade. She loves writing but hates finishing things so improv is perfect because she can be forever iterating! When she's not on stage at What If, she's a cosplayer and a flow artist and loves to dance and explore weird corners of Denver with friends and chosen family.  

Clayton Smith has been studying and performing improv since 2015. He was a finalist on Denver’s Next Improv Star: Season 9 and a developmental cast member of “Fake Network News” and “Peril on the Prairie.” He created and directed “The Marvelous Method: An Improvised Tribute to Stan Lee” with the immensely talented Lucky Johnston. Clayton taught and coached at the Bovine Metropolis Theatre until its closing in 2020. He loves improv and believes applying improv principles to daily life allows for more collaboration, kindness, understanding, and happiness. Clayton’s greatest applied improv partners are cats, Comrade and Ruby as well as the brilliant human, Abby Smith.