Mary Carpenter has been with CSZ Philadelphia since 1992, where she has worked as a performer, teacher, Education Director, Business Manager, Artistic Director, and Executive Director. She holds degrees in theatre from Northwestern University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Her improv training began at The Second City in Chicago and continued with Mick Napier, Keith Johnstone, Joe Bill, and Jill Bernard. In addition to ComedySportz, Mary’s improvisation experience includes City of Nutterly Love with The Second City, It Doesn’t Matter, ‘Til Death Do Us Part, Wisdom Teeth, Choopy & Me, and 3M. She has directed I’ll Have What She’s Having, The SINsation, and co-created/directed Improvised Star Wars. Recently, she has appeared in Detective Improv, Odd at Sea, and Frankenstein’s Body. She has performed her solo improv show What If  both locally and nationally, taught at Improv Utopia, and published a book: Do Or Do Not: How To Improvise Like A Jedi. 

Michael O’Bryan is the founder and CEO of humanature, a management consulting firm with a mission of putting humanity at the heart of every organization. Additionally, he founded The Wealth + Work Futures Lab. The lab focuses on humanity-centered economic development including explorations into the futures of work, asset building, and life-sustaining income. Michael lectures at UPenn’s Weitzman School of Design and serves on philanthropic boards in Philadelphia.

Tia Mathisen is the Playworks Pennsylvania Executive Director. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, and mom to three, Tia has lived in Philly for well over a decade, and has planted intentional roots to call this city home. Tia was the executive director of the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District, the managing director for the Philadelphia Citizen and most recently the executive operations manager for B Lab Global. As a co-founder of the Philly’s Children’s Movement, she is a social justice advocate, and facilitator. She has a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership. She is an advocate of civic engagement as a vehicle to expand minds and improve society, and an optimistic believer in the common good. Her favorite childhood game was Duck, Duck Goose!

Dr. Dan Taylor is a professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and a general pediatrician at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where he directs several community outreach programs. Dr. Taylor founded Cap4Kids, an online resource connecting families to community services and providers to address social determinants of health.