Alyssa Alizor is a comedian, actor, singer, and model. She has performed stand-up comedy, characters, sketches, and improv all over NYC. She received the 2023 NBC SNL Scholarship at The PIT, studying all forms of comedy and performing as a cast member of the PIT’s Foolharmonics.
Alyssa has caught the attention of the Just For Laughs Festival Montreal, Warner Bros Discovery, and NBC. She has modeled for brands like L’Oreal Paris and It Cosmetics. She is a jazz-trained singer, who loves singing bossa nova in both Portuguese and English. She loves Cats (2019) and dogs (the species).

An actress hailing from Miami, Florida, Andrea Fabiola made her way to New York City, landing gigs in commercials shoots & indie shorts. Beyond the scope of a traditional actor, Andrea is bilingual with experience in screenwriting and stage comedy. She’s been performing with Lateral Comedy, and is excited to break into the film industry. She’s currently working on producing, writing, and starring in her own short film, projected to come out at the end of 2025.

Like this bio, Andrew Bossone is a work in progress. He spent a decade working in the Middle East and traveling the world as a journalist for news outlets including National Geographic and The Economist before returning to US to produce for PBS and later NBC. He fell in love with comedy in his first improv class and has studied improvisation, acting, sketch, writing and clown at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, The PIT and Second City NY. He holds two masters degrees and speaks multiple languages at varying levels. . He loves animals, hugs, telling people how special they are, and most of all, his daughter Jackie. Andrew is the producer and founder of Lateral Move.

Daniel Oakes is a Manhattan raised actor, comedian, dancer, singer, and aspiring songwriter. He has lended his talents to various dramatic roles such as Robert in Betrayal by Harold Pinter, Mr Antrobus in the Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America by Tony Kushner. He has also been writing sketches and performing improv for half a decade and is proud to be directing an absurdism sketch comedy show at the PIT NYC throughout 2026. He is very excited to be performing for the first time at Second City, and is pumped  to share the stage with his hilarious and talented friends in Lateral Move. You can reach him at danieloakes.org

Julian Green is a Brooklyn based actor, theatrical teacher, and writer out of San Francisco
California, Julian has studied at the American conservatory theater, and has performed at the
California Shakespeare company, in such plays as “the glass Menagerie”& “the black odyssey”
he also has preformed with the three girls production company out of the Bay Area. Julian is
currently a stand up comedian writer and improv performer in New York City. He brings passion
and humor to ever roll and is excited to be apart of lateral move.

Julian Hargrove is an actor, writer, singer, and improviser based in Westchester, NY. He has appeared on stage in several productions at Westchester Collaborative Theater. He studied improv at the People’s Improv Theater in Manhattan where he was apart of a house team. He studied acting at The Barrow Group in Manhattan. He is currently a proud member of an all BIPOC indie improv group called The Black Coalition that performs in the NYC area. When he is not performing, he enjoys watching movies and listening to music. He is very excited to be a part of Lateral Move, his very first sketch team.

Lysia Mogford is an actor, improviser, writer, director, and comedienne who loves all
things kitschy, inclusive, and bizarre. She, along with her production company, puts on
cabaret variety shows, concerts, short films, and so much more! She’s rather new to
the city, originally hailing from just outside Philadelphia she cannot wait to see what
the city has in store. She studied Acting at Temple University and while there played on
the competitive improv team, performed in their sketch group, worked for the student
lead theater group, and worked with the Philadelphia Improv theater. Since coming to
New York, you can see her performing in John Waters or David Lynch inspired caberets
at The RAT, telling jokes at Grenwich Comedy Cellar, or in Wigs! The Improvised Play
every Friday at The Pit! She is so excited to be a part of Lateral Move and see all the
wacky stuff we make!

Madeleine Witmer is an NYC based actress, singer, songwriter and comedian-ish from Broadway, Virginia and according to her headshot she is 23. She studied musical theatre & dance at Christopher Newport University, but was forced to take Physics 101: How Things Work, yet still hasn’t the slightest idea “how things work”. If anyone has any information on literally anything please let her know. Mads has toured the country with Virginia Repertory Theatre, workshopped various new works as part of the New Musicals Lab at the Ferguson Center for the Arts- including the world premiere of Drew Gasparini’s “We Aren’t Kids Anymore”, and was a featured singer/songwriter in Gasparini’s “New Voices” series. Last year she performed in the New York Theatre Festival where she had the honor of violently throwing up and dying on stage. When she’s not teaching the children with Creative Stage Collective or frolicking through chaos you can catch her at various venues throughout the city playing her original music with her band Sirena Radio Club. She’s passionate about everything she is passionate about. Love and blinding light! <3

Patrick Darwin Williams is an actor, improviser, instructor, and comedian based out of Queens, NY. Patrick holds a BA in Acting from the University of South Carolina with a cognate in Dance, as well as an MFA in acting from The New School for Drama. Film and TV credits include Bobby Fischer in Mysteries of the Museum, Cinemax’s Girl’s Guide to Depravity, Archaeology of a Woman starring Sally Kirkland, Civic Duty starring Joe List and Tommy Pope, and the Goon in Pulling Wool (Winner Best Screenplay Manhattan Film Festival). He is an active commercial actor/voice over artist, skilled at impressions, and proud to be represented by BBR. Patrick has taught and performed comedy across the US, Canada, and Europe and is presently a performer and instructor at the People’s Improv Theater in Manhattan. He has appeared as a host at Joe’s Pub and at benefit auctions across New York. Patrick is happy living in Queens with his wife, son, and two cats @patrickdarwinwilliams and patrickdarwinwilliams.com

Payton Georgiana is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and teaching artist. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Central Florida and made her Off-Broadway debut in Ode to Wasp Women opposite Sean Young. Her screen credits include Law & Order: SVU, with her first role in a major studio film set to release soon. She is also preparing to star in the upcoming feature A Better Place. In addition to her work on stage and screen, Payton collaborates with The Poetry Society of New York and has been published in Alfaaz and AMAN. She is passionate about the artistic process and brings that love to her teaching practice. As an educator with Creative Stages, she is committed to fostering creativity and imagination in young artists. She is endlessly grateful to her soul tribe, whose love and support make everything possible.

Susan Burns is a comedy writer and performer who specializes in dark comedy, the mystical,
magical, and macabre. Susan’s work has been featured at comedy institutions including the
People’s Improv Theatre, Upright Citizens Brigade, the Magnet, Brooklyn Comedy Collective,
Q.E.D., and Stand Up NY. Her short films have screened at the Seattle International Film
Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, NYC Sketchfest, NYC Short Comedy Film Festival, and
the Krampus International Film Festival.
Susan was an artist-in-residence at Can Serrat (Spain) and Residencia Corazón (Argentina). Her
pilot “Serious Rec” was a semi-finalist for the Sundance Episodic Storytelling Lab.
A founding member of the sketch comedy group Sunday School Dropouts, Susan was a 2024
performer with the BoogieManja sketch collective and a 2025 writer for the PIT’s musical sketch
team Foolharmonic. She currently writes and performs with the sketch comedy group Your
Father and I and is happy to be joining the talented people of Lateral Move.
Originally from Seattle, Washington, Susan holds a BA in Theatre from Occidental College.