Our Team
Saurabh Pande
Saurabh Pande is a native Houstonian. He started improvising when he was 14 at his high school's improv club. After high school, he performed with his college team, Glaundor, who won the National College Improv Tournament in 2013. He was also performing with ComedySportz Houston at this time.
In 2014, Saurabh moved to Chicago to pursue the craft further. A recipient of the prestigious Bob Curry Fellowship eventually led him to being cast on their National Touring Company. He was also on a house team at the iO theater and a main company member of the critically acclaimed Improvised Shakespeare Company.
After Chicago, he moved to Los Angeles to continue improvising and pursue a film career. Appearing on Chicago Med, The Chi, Paper Girls, as well as a handful of commercials.
In 2021, he moved back to Houston with the goal of opening a theater for sketch and improv. In June 2023, the doors of The Coronation Theater finally opened.
AlLison GIles
Allison Giles is an artist based out of Houston, TX. She recently graduated with a BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Acting & Directing and Highest Honors with the completion of a creative thesis project from Sam Houston State University. Always the performer from a young age, Allison has experience on stage and film.
Most recently, she has performed as Mother/Ensemble in "365 Days/365 Plays: HOLE Cycle" by Suzan-Lori Parks and The Nina in "Airness" by Chelsea Marcantel at SHSU (which was also an invited production at the 2023 Region 6 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.)
Jonathan Fleissner
Jonathan Fleissner started bartending in San Fransisco in 2012. Since moving back to Houston, he’s been fascinated with making beer and comedy. He helped open Under the Radar brewery in 2015 and has helped manage Rec Room Arts (where he met Saurabh) since 2017. He’s excited to be managing the bar at The Coronation.