The Uncommonwealth Sketch Comedy

Meet the Uncommonwealth...


Tom Roy

Tom Roy

Tom Roy is an actor, writer, producer, director and propulsion engineer. Tom has continued his 15 years of acting on stage to film, having lead roles of two feature-length independent films (Rutalnd USA and Disc), been associate-producer of the award-winning feature Burning Annie, and has written/directed numerous short films. Recently Tom wrote, produced and directed the new mock-documentary, Cappella!. Tom is the co-creator/writer of the tri-weekly online comic strip, Life of Fred.



Dave Sawyer

Dave Sawyer

Dave Sawyer is an actor, writer and improviser living in Boston. Although technically a Chicago native, Dave grew up mostly on Martha's Vineyard. There he was a longtime cast member of the Island's popular WIMP Comedy Improv Troupe. On the Vineyard he also performed in various productions at the Vineyard Playhouse including The Laramie Project and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as in their children's theatre troupe, The Fabulists. He was also a regular host at the Atlantic Connection Stand-Up Comedy Night. After moving to Boston, he joined The Tribe as a writer and performer in their film & sketch troupe, Comedy Bronze and peformed regularly in The Rumble. Now he makes improvised movies with the Neutrino Video Projects, he writes and performs in his two-man sketch group, Sawyer & Hurley and performs regularly as a cast member of the ImprovBoston Main Stage. He is a graduate of The Second City conservatory.


Alumni & Friends


Cathleen Carr

Cathleen Carr

Cathleen Carr is one half of the critically-acclaimed Two Girls for Five Bucks by People’s Theater (NYC), and has acted/written/directed with Improv Asylum, Cramer Productions, Element Productions, Mark Chapin Productions and Jet Pack Productions.



Maria Ciampa

Maria Ciampa

Maria Ciampa has been writing, performing and directing stand up, sketch and improv for over 6 years all over the Northeast including Improv Asylum’s Mainstage and her self-produced solo show, Family Shmamily. www.mariaciampa.com.




Sue Constantine

Sue Constantine

Sue Constantine has performed in various improv and theater venuues in Boston and New York including: Improv Asylum; Improv Boston; Jimmy Tingles; The Cantab Lounge and The Tribe Theatre. She starred in the film “Cappella!”



Jake Given

Jake Given

Jake Given started improv and sketch comedy at WPI with Kilroy and Guerilla Improv and Tribe Theater. Jake acted in the independent film ”Disc” and ”Cappella!”




Eric Pope

Eric Pope

Eric Pope began working in sketch comedy and theater at WPI and was in the cast/crew for Kilroy's feature film, ”Disc”. Eric worked in Boston in improv comedy with Tribe Theater and appeared in Tom Roy's ”Cappella!”.



Neil Reynolds

Neil Reynolds

Neil Reynolds has performed with The Tribe Mainstage, ImprovBoston Mainstage, and is one half of the colonial improv comedy Code Duello: Hamilton & Burr,which was featured at the 2006 Providence Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, and Toronto Improv Festival, and the 2007 Chicago Improv Festival. He hopes that you find him perfectly charming.




Calvin Swaim

Calvin Swaim

Calvin Swaim has been performing improv and sketch comedy in and around Boston for over five years. Starting with Kilroy at WPI he co-wrote and directed a feature length film, “Disc”, then worked with The Tribe in their mainstage cast. Calvin currently performs at ImprovBoston as part of TheatreSports.



Matt Tucker

Matt Tucker

Matt Tucker attended WPI where he was a founding member of an improv comedy group called Guerilla Improv. He has performed in a variety of Boston-based improvisational comedy groups including The Tribe Players, ImprovBoston and Code Duello, an critically-acclaimed original colonial two-person improvised show. Matt performs with Bastards, Inc andNeutrino.




Robert Woo

Robert Woo

Robert Woo has performance work that includes ImprovBoston and The Tribe, and he directs a Boston-based short form improv group Flaming Awesome. He writes, films and acts in video sketches with his production company Hard Left Productions.



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