Mehdi Barakchian

MehdI currently teaches for the PIT and coaches for the 10,000 hours program. You can catch him performing weekly with PIT house team HOLIDAY. He was born in New York City and currently lives in New Jersey — and doesn’t care for your opinion on the matter. He has studied sketch and improv at The UCB and The Peoples Improv Theater.

Mehdi is co-producer and sidekick on the critically acclaimed late night talk show Brunch Night! with Jamie LeeLo. He also produces and hosts the cross-theater improv show No Affiliation which brings improvisers from different theaters to play on one stage. He regularly performs improv and sketch all over NYC with his indie teams and co-hosts the weekly improv jam Base Jam. Mehdi hopes to one day own a fridge that makes its own ice.