ZACHATHERTON

Zach Atherton is a Utah-based comedian, improviser, and comedy writer known online as The Improv Guy. Blending spontaneous scenes, musical comedy, and audience suggestions, he builds performances around the unexpected and occasionally turns it into a song.

He founded ImprovBroadway in Provo in 2014, creating a home for family-friendly improv that has grown through thousands of live shows and a substantial online audience. He also performs with Musical Monday, where audience ideas become songs and scenes from musicals that have never existed before.

Away from the stage, Zach brings his comedy instincts to advertising as a lead writer at Harmon Brothers and director of The Writers Room. His background combines professional writing, music, and theatre with graduate degrees in law and public administration. It is an unusually extensive education for someone whose job often involves making things up.

Whether performing, writing, or teaching improv, Zach connects his work through a love of collaboration, surprise, and finding the funny in the moment.