Character Reel 2022
Sydney Duncan is a New York-based comedian, improviser, writer, producer, and actor and is one of the newest cast members of Nick Cannon Presents Wild’NOut. She has trained extensively at UCB, The PIT, Magnet Theater, and Dallas Comedy House studying advanced improv, musical improv, and sketch. Before comedy, Sydney was a professional ballet dancer and trained at ABT, Alvin Ailey, Texas Ballet Theater, and Ballet West among others. Her credits include Regional Broadway shows such as Will Rogers Follies and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Solange Knowles’s music video When I Get Home. She has been featured on Comedy Central’s IG and TikTok, and is a recipient of The SNL Scholarship Award. You can catch her regularly performing in Comedy Theaters all over NYC including her monthly character show at Brooklyn Comedy Collective, teaching improv at The PIT, her one-woman show at Union Hall, and Asylum NYC’s MainStage weekly company show!
Sydney Duncan
Improv & Sketch Training
Upright Citizen Brigade NY: Core Curriculum Graduate, Advanced Sketch Program, Character, Musical Improv, TV Writing
Improv: Johnna Scrabis, Achilles Stamatelaky, Morgan Phillips,
Shannon O’Neill, Sarah Claspell, Alex Dickson, Eric Gersen
Sketch/TV Writing/Character: Achilles Stamatelaky, Stephanie Bencin, Sean Conroy, Jon Bader
PIT: Teacher, Improv Program Graduate, Performer
Chris Griggs, Dara Shulman, Patrick McCartney
Second City: Improv and Late Night Writing (1&2) Doug Karo
Magnet Theater: Performer, Improv Program Graduate
Armando Diaz, Michael Lutton, Billy Soco, Louis Kornfield
North Coast: Hip Hop Improv, Performer
Dallas Comedy House - Jade Smith
Indie Sketch Team: Grandma's Favorite (PIT Monthly show)