Matt Young

Matt Young is an actor, improviser, producer, director, and writer currently living and working in the greater Chicago area. Born and raised in Illinois, he has spent the last several years in Chicago focusing on performing, coaching, and teaching improvisational comedy.

Matt Young is an actor, improviser, producer, and writer based in Chicago. In addition to playing Usidore the Wizard on Hello from the Magic Tavern, Matt is also a proud member of the world-renowned Improvised Shakespeare Company. He leads the crew of the U.S.S. Sisyphus as Captain Baxter in the Improvised Star Trek podcast, and he’s also one of the co-creators and talents behind of the podcast-news-magazine parody The Probe (think Serial meets Waiting for Guffman). He is a founding member of Whirled News Tonight; the long-running improvised satire at iO Chicago. He frequently lends his skills to commercial and voiceover work and has appeared in the independent films, Fools and Speed Dating. He is currently represented by Paonessa Talent. You can follow him on Twitter: @morepeoplehappy and follow Usidore: @usidoretheblue.