The Astronaut City Crew
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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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Vince Cusimano, Host and Bartender
Vince is all about good vibes and making sure everyone feels welcome the moment they walk through the door. A professional actor with over 20 years of experience on stage and screen, he’s no stranger to keeping a crowd entertained — now he gets to do it with a beer or glass of wine in hand. When he’s not hosting at the bar, Vince can usually be found boxing, hanging with friends, or diving into a new creative project. Come say hi — he’ll make sure your night starts off right.
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Alex Durazzo, House Producer of Makeshift Comedy
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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Andrew Fahey, Host
Andrew Fahey is a comedian, comedy writer, and comedy producer from Salinas, CA. Since moving to LA, he’s written for YouTube’s “A News Show,” and Discovery Digital. He hosts a myriad of comedy shows including Bear Knuckles Comedy, CanTiki Comedy, Hellbent for Laughter, and more. He was named Best of the Fest at the 2024 Burbank Comedy Festival and was listed in the Top 101 Comedians at the 2025 World Series of Comedy. He likes metal, cats, and Pokémon.
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Greg Sanchez, House Producer of Makeshift Comedy
An up and comer from the San Gabriel Valley, Greg Sanchez regularly performs at shows all along the west coast.
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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
Hayden Wideman was born in Southern California and has remained there because of the pleasant climate and in his own words, a lack of success. He is a massive fan of Greek Mythology and studies it in his free time along with Norse, Vedic, Celtic, Egyptian and Modern American (Comic Book) Mythologies.
In an attempt to keep Oral Tradition alive Hayden Wideman goes out to were people are trying to do Standup and instead tells Ancient Greek Myths. It is for this reason he doesn't consider himself a Standup Comic, he instead prefers to be known as LA's only Epic Comedian.
If you wanna hear a Greek Myth or have a story of your own to tell come on down to the Tuesday Night Mytho-Mic.
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John Yabes, Host
John Yabes is a Filipino-American Navy veteran and former submariner turned award-winning stand-up comedian and actor. Known for his sharp wit and self-deprecating humor, John has performed across Los Angeles with The Murder Mystery Company as an immersive actor. His acclaimed half-hour comedy special, Thanks, Diabetes!, has earned multiple awards and festival features for its honest, hilarious take on identity, health, and growing up Filipino-American.
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Stanko Zovak, House Producer of Astronaut City Showcase Mic
Stanko Zovak is a comedian, musician, and writer who performs all over Los Angeles, the U.S. and even internationally. Born and raised in LA, he often jokes about his crazy Croatian family and the cultural differences that go along with them. When he's not doing standup, he makes comedy sketches and produces a music competition YouTube series called The Last Band Standing.