Character Reel 2022
Sydney Duncan is a New York-based comedian, improviser, creator, writer, and actor. 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, Atlanta Ballet, 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 was featured on Comedy Central’s IG and TikTok for Black History Month and Women’s History Month, and just accepted The SNL Scholarship Award. You can catch her regularly performing in Comedy Theaters all over NYC including Brooklyn Comedy Collective, The PIT, and Asylum NYC’s MainStage 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, Guest Performer w/ North Coast Rachel Smith, Billy Soco
Dallas Comedy House - Jade Smith
Sketch Team: Grandma's Favorite (PIT Monthly show)