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SAK Comedy Lab
2025 Sarasota Improv Festival
SAK Comedy Lab
SAK Comedy Lab
2025 Sarasota Improv FestivalSAK COMEDY LAB (Orlando, FL) Nowhere else in Florida will you find a place like SAK Comedy Lab. Since 1991, their professional ensemble of improv actors has entertained audiences with their unique brand of live improvised comedy. SAK Comedy Lab takes your suggestions and makes up characters, scenes, and songs on the spot. Their comedy is fun and edgy for adults, but also widely enjoyed by our younger fans.
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LISA GLAZE
AMANDA WIRTZ
EMILY FONTANO
LISA GLAZE
Lisa has been improvising and loving it for some time now. She’s been an ensemble member at Disney’s Comedy Warehouse, SAK Comedy Lab and Mama’s Comedy in good ol’ Orlando, FL. She’s dabbled in commercials and film as well. Ooh la la! Lisa is a full time actor at Walt Disney World. She also has BA in Business Administration and a MS in I/O Psychology … and uses neither. Good times!
AMANDA WIRTZ
Amanda has hosted and performed on the SAK stage for over a decade as part of the professional ensemble. She also has hosted stages across the country at comic conventions including Star Wars Celebration, New York Comic Con, Emerald City Comic Con, C2E2 and more.
EMILY FONTANO
Emily has been performing since childhood—first in Massachusetts, then at Dr. Phillips Highschools Visual Performing Arts program in Orlando. She studied at The Boston Conservatory before spending a decade as a singer-songwriter touring the East Coast.
Improv brought her back to Orlando, where she became a core performer, teacher, and creator at SAK Comedy Lab. In 2018, she made history as SAK’s first female Artistic Director, championing diversity, gender-neutral casting, and LGBTQ+ visibility.
Beyond improv, Emily has created, directed, and performed in multiple award-winning Orlando Fringe shows. She currently serves on the Orlando International Fringe board of Directors.
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Our offerings allow you to learn from the experts with intimate trainings led by Festival artists from across the country and around the world. Featuring workshops in a wide range of improvisational styles and techniques, there is something for improvisers of all experience levels at the 2025 Sarasota Improv Festival. All workshops take place Saturday, July 19.