SPECIAL PALS:     Red Light District Juliette Storace, Alex Burke & Shok. Extraordinarily gifted musicians and Ten West's musical partners in crime!   Richard Levinson A brilliant humorist, lyricist and composer. Check him out!   Alyssa Ravenwood Master mask maker, physical comedian, actor, director and a dear friend of ours.   Alexander Burke The world's next musical genius has arrived in L.A.!!!   Andrew Amani An incredible choreographer, dancer, stunt man, actor, martial artist...   Russell Jones If you don't know who Russ Jones is then you have made a grievous error. Correct it by Clicking the link!   Thomas Tedesco Incredibly talented jazz musician, composer & improviser. Jon's Uncle & Godfather, too!   Robb Padgett LA. Washington State is missing a brilliant humorist (maybe our next Will Rogers?)   Poubelle Twins LA. Les deux belle filles extraordinaire!   Velvet Hammer Burlesque LA. The classiest burlesque shows West of the Mississippi! Now based Berlin...Germany!   The Sound of Young America The bums will always lose. It's true. Tune in. It's the best radio show in America!   The Perfect Gentlemen One of the country's premier vocal groups!         THEATERS & VENUES:     Sacred Fools One of LA's BEST theater companies! AND the official HOMEBASE for Ten West!   Son of Semele Daring artists all!   24th Street Theater 24th St. Theater's Saturday Explorer Series is the most sophisticated family series in L.A.!   Nighthawks i.e. a creative explosion of theater, music, art and more!    Zoo District Award winning theater company with performances at Inside the Ford on Cahuenga in Los Angeles.   Artel The premiere L.A. based physical theatre ensemble. Ten West studies Commedia here!  Also check out their blog!   Morgan-Wixson Theater     No Shame Theater Then: Iowa, 1986 in the back of pickup Now: weekly open performance venue having launched careers of John Leguizamo & Camryn Manheim. Check it out!   Gotham Public Works The coolest Batman comics performance group on earth!   OOPS Guys! America's favorite alternative lifestyles (see QTV above) comedy lounge act. They are hilarious!   The Coming The #1 RATED blog-magazine about news and gossip in the LA comedy world.   JibJab The famed comedy website invited Ten West to participate in The Great Sketch Experiment with comedy director John Landis!         OFFICIAL TEN WEST PHOTOGRAPHERS: Tracey B. Wilson (NYC)   Clare Scarpulla & Blake Gardner (LA)         SKETCH COMEDY PALS:     Sketch Center Sketch comedy headquarters!   Bucket Vancouver's dynamic duo. Very literate and VERY FUNNY!!! And one is an Asian!   Troop! One of LA's premier sketch comedy groups...Brilliant!   Boiled Wieners The answer to why the US has always wanted to colonize Canada. Too funny for their own good!   Meat NYC. A powerhouse all-female comedy team! Each an amazing performer!   Animal Club Chicago via Pittsburgh, PA. Talented, funny and really nice people, too!   The Cupid Players Chicago. Wonderfully funny musical sketch comedy.   Elephant Larry NYC. They make the funny (VERY funny) in a high-energy way fueled by oaty-crisp bars.   Competitive Awesome Mychal Utrecht & Aaron Gingrich are Competitive Awesome!   The Cody Rivers Show Bellingham, WA. An exhilarating, whirlwind of a show! Class act and nice guys, too!         FESTIVALS:     sfsketchfest.com San Francisco sketch comedy festival headquarters!   sketchfest.com Seattle's amazing sketch comedy festival. The nation's first!   chicagosketchfest.com The largest sketch comedy festival in the US!   sketchfestnyc.com NYC. An amazing sketch comedy festival held in the heart of Manhattan!   bestofthebestsketchfest.com Portland, Oregon's sketch comedy festival features hand-picked groups!   torontosketchfest.com Canada. Comedie Excellente!   4Lafs.com The LA Fest of Sketch held at the Lillian Theater   Sketchingham The Cody River's Show brings a real life sketch comedy festival to Bellingham, WA.         MISC:     Leslie Hall Jon is in LOVE with her & wants a pair of gold pants NOW!