Characters Welcome

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Juggernaut comedy festival Just for Laughs presents the best damn character show on the planet! Every Wednesday at 8pm EST, Eric Feurer, Michael Hartney, Sarah Smallwood Parsons, and Justin Tyler host a rotating stable of guests to bring you a new crop of hilarious original characters and impression

Michael Hartney is an NYC-based writer and performer. He co-created IFC’s digital sketch series Unique New York and was a staff writer on TV Land’s Throwing Shade. As an actor, Michael has appeared on 30 Rock, The Break with Michelle Wolf, and the upcoming season of The Politician. He also originated the roles of Stanley and Mr. Williams in School of Rock The Musical on Broadway. Michael was one of 2016’s Comedy Central Comics to Watch and in 2018 performed in the New Faces - Characters showcase at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.

Justin Tyler is a writer, director and performer. He is currently a Supervising Field Producer and director for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Recently, he was a staff writer on The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central and Head Writer for Comedy Knockout on TruTV. As an actor, he recently appeared in the LionsGate feature Most Likely to Murder and the Wyatt Cynac digital series aka Wyatt Cynac on Topic.

Eric Feurer is a character writer and performer based out of Brooklyn. He has a bunch of credits and is happy to talk too much about them if you ask (Blue Man Group is the weirdest). www.ericfeurer.com

Sarah Smallwood Parsons is a writer and performer in NYC. Her characters The Song [In Every Musical] That No One Likes and Woman With A Tit Out have over 1 million views on YouTube. Sarah was a Just For Laughs New Face, a resident writer/performer at Above Average, and created the series FUCKING and Personal Business. Sarah is currently in post-production on her pilot Forgotten Animals which features exclusively female-identifying performers.