TRIKE
TRIKE is a critcially-acclaimed improv duo from New York City. They will be appearing as the headline act for our Friday November 4th show at the 716 Selfie Museum!!
$20 at the door
"Reliably one of the best improv performances in the city."
- The New York Times
"Nick Kanellis & Peter McNerney's fantastic late night show is upbeat and impressively layered improv that is always worth checking out."
- Splitsider.com
"Improv duo Nick Kanellis and Peter McNerney meld playful physical transformation and careful scenework in a weekly show that delivers an impressively quick and detailed overlap of events in its conclusion."
- TimeOut New York
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Peter McNerney has been teaching improv for over 20 years. In that time he has served as both the Artistic Director and Head of Advanced Studies at the Magnet Theater in New York City. As an improviser Peter has been performing with the critically acclaimed improv duo, Trike, which The New York Times calls "reliably one of the best improv performances in the city," since 2010.
As an actor Peter can be seen on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, HBO's High Maintenance, TBS’s Search Party, The Science Channel’s Stuff You Should Know and in a whole bunch of commercials.
Peter also serves as the NY Artistic Director and Casting Director for the nationally respected education and media company The Story Pirates with whom he co-hosts and produces ‘The Story Pirates Podcast,’ a two time Webby Award and two time iHeart Radio Award winning podcast for Best Kids and Family Podcast.
Nick Kanellis is half of the critically acclaimed improv duo “Trike,” which the New York Times calls "reliably one of the best improv performances in the city." Nick is also one of the premier motion capture actors for pre-vis commercial animatics in NYC performing in over hundreds of animated spots for both 321Launch and Edit1, is a voice over artist for two of today.com's top 10 podcasts for kids (Story Pirates and Don't Break the Rules!), was featured in TIME for Kids as an "improv expert," was named one of the 25 best things at Comic Con by Rolling Stone, and is a two time New Yorker caption contest winner. He is a National Champion in Humorous Interpretation and four time National Finalist for the National Speech and Debate Association, and has acted in a variety of commercials for Pur Water Filters, Pace Salsa, Verizon, Senokot and more.
Nick has been teaching applied improv for roughly 12 years with the Magnet Theater, leading workshops for companies including Google, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, Syracuse, Fordham, The Howard Stern Show, and more, as well as instructing a Medical Improv course with NYU Langone's Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine and their Palliative Care team.