UPCOMING EVENTS
Bluff City Liars is back with a new monthly improv show! Join us the 1st Thursday of each month in the small room of the HiTone so we can perform improv comedy the way it was meant to be produced — in an small room in the bottom of a punk rock club.
– Competitive short form games with trophies for the players AND the audience
– Experimental long form sets
– An open-to-all improv jam to close it out
Doors at 7:00p
Show at 7:30p
Recommended 18+ for content
Concessions available
(upcoming dates: January 2nd, February 6th)
Watch “Live Entertainment: A Pre-Recorded Special”
MEET THE LIARS
Zephyr McAninch
Director, Producer, Player since 2017
Zephyr started doing improv in college and sadly became addicted. After graduating they moved to Memphis and joined MISC (Memphis Improv & Sketch Collective) and later formed Bluff City Liars, where they’ve been desperately trying to make you laugh ever since. Some of Zephyr’s favorite BCL shows include the annual Liar’s Ball and the monthly Small Room Improv. Come to both!
Mike Degnan
Producer, Player since 2018
Mike has been doing comedy for Memphis Audiences for almost 15 years and thinking he’s funny for almost twice as long. Starting in standup, Mike joined The Wiseguys Improv Troupe in 2009 and then would go on to co-create and star in WKNO-TV’s “Professor Ghoul’s Horror School”, becoming Memphis’s first “horror host” since Sivad. While he is thankful for the laughs of audiences and the work he’s been a part of, what he is most thankful to have gotten from doing improv is his relationship with his wife Ashley, who first saw him on stage in 2009 and started dating him in 2014. He wishes this bio had jokes in it too.
Michelle Mathewes
Producer, Player since 2019
When Michelle was little, she wanted to be a soccer champ, reality TV star, and Big Bird. It is now only through improv that she can hope to achieve these dreams. Michelle joined the group (and the improv stage) in June 2019.