The Astronaut City Team
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Teresa Lo, Owner
Teresa Lo is a WGA Award-nominated comedy writer and performer. She turned into an entrepreneur after experiencing a violent attack by a stalker. The traumatic incident inspired her to create Astronaut City—a safe place where artists can connect, perform, and thrive. Through her work, Teresa turns personal challenges into opportunities to build a positive and sustainable community.
Teresa has a MFA in Screenwriting from USC and a BA in History from the University of Kansas. She has studied writing with acclaimed creatives such as Kevin Willmott (Academy Award winner for BlackKklansman) and Jack Epps (Top Gun), and she was the winner of the Script Pipeline Contest. Her bestselling book series The Red Lantern Scandals was adapted for TV by 20th Century Fox. For almost nine years, she wrote popular content for Larry Flynt Publications.
As a standup comedian, she has performed all over the country, including at LaughFest, the Boston Comedy Festival, and the Burbank Comedy Festival where she was named Best of the Fest.
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Alex Durazzo, House Producer of Cosmic Circus
Alex Durazzo is a comedian from the San Gabriel Valley who has been producing comedy shows for the past 3 years. His comedy is anecdotal and mainly focuses on his relationships with his family. When not doing comedy Alex enjoys skateboarding, trying new beers and watching Dodgers baseball.
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Erick Esteban, House Producer of Karaoke Comedy Allstars
Erick started his comedy career at Chicago's Improv Olympic studying with the Godfather of American Comedy, Del Close. Erick has performed sketch comedy and improv at Improv Olympic-Chicago, with Second City- Chicago's BizCo, Improv Olympic-West, UCB-Sunset, and The Groundlings. Erick has performed and produced standup comedy shows across the country which lead him to produced The Crazy Funny Asianz Showcase in 2019 where 40 of the best AAPI Comedians from all across the country got an opportunity to perform in front of an AAPI casting producer Naela Durrani of American's Got Talent & Bring the Funny. Erick was recently named an ensemble member and writer for Model Majority Comedy in New York City and also regularly as one of the ensemble members on the comedy sports segments for FOX NFL SUNDAY and recently appeared as the 'Karaoke King' on I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE on FOX. Erick most recently was a featured performer for the Big Pine Comedy Festival at the House of Comedy in Phoenix AZ and headlined FILFEST 2021 in Virginia Beach VA.
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Caledonia Wilson, House Producer of Caledonia Wilson
Caledonia Wilson is a songwriter, actor, and mathematician from the Midwest based in LA. She explores alternate tunings on the guitar and writes introspective love songs dealing with hope, grief, and a metric ton of anxious attachment. Someone she recently tried to date put it best: "You write all that sad guitar music." Most days you can find her sitting in traffic, eating string cheese.
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Hayden Wideman, House Producer of Tuesday Night Mythos Mic