Staff

Meet the Team

Andrew Lotz, Ph.D.

Interim Executive Director

Mindy Cooper

Creative and Community Manager

Mindy Cooper has been bopping around town performing on improv teams and producing sketch shows for well over a decade. She started her Arcade journey in 2014 as a student and box office intern and quickly fell in love with Yes And, as well as the supportive and endlessly creative comedy community in Pittsburgh. Today she is a Co-Producer of Sketch Comedy Lab and a performer with long-form improv team Well Known Strangers. Rumor has it she is a software developer by day. But I actually heard she’s making a bid to be a full-time Dropout TV watcher. What do I know though? I’m just a blurb in an email *sigh* if only I were a sketch, then I’d really be some– Err..*ehem* as I was saying: Mindy likes the local comedy scene a whole lot and wants to hear your opinions and feelings about it all. Feel free to email her anytime at mcooper@arcadecomedytheater.com and she’ll answer your questions about programming, submissions of show ideas, house teams, and the new creative committees, among other things.

Connor McCanlus

Academy Director

Connor McCanlus is a Pittsburgh native and proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. McCanlus studied acting at Clarion University and received his comedy training at Steel City Improv Theater. He was an original member of Well Known Strangers and spent many years under the tutelage of the late Woody Drennan. Comedy highlights include being half of the duos Hipsterpotamus, babyGRAND, and The John Connor Chronicles. McCanlus has coached numerous comedy teams including Point Park University’s improv club from 2014-2016 and has taught workshops for Philly Improv Theater, Coalition Theater, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, University of Pittsburgh, and the 2025 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. McCanlus has directed theatrical productions for Front Porch Theatricals, Throughline Theatre Company, Uncumber Theatrics, and is currently the Resident Director of the Sketch Comedy Lab at Arcade Comedy Theater.

Carly Nordaby

Site and Operations Manager

Carly Nordaby is a theatrical and live event technician by trade but a lover of all things art and performance by nature! Proudly from Pennsylvania, but she’s worked in New York for the last three years and is now giving her time to another big city community by joining the team here at Arcade Comedy Theater. She’s done work with her idol, Weird Al Yankovic, as well as several musicals in the regional theater and national tour circuit. Her personal favorite and proudest work has been designing the lighting for a seasonal drag and cabaret event put on by her fellow queer theater technicians on Long Island. More than anything she is excited to bring her skills to Arcade Comedy Theater, and of course, to work with everyone in the Arcade community! She’s available at cnordaby@arcadecomedytheater.com to confer about tech for shows or usage of the building for rehearsal space.

Megan Reimer

Box Office Manager

Megan Reimer started as an intern at Arcade three years ago while taking improv 101. She enjoyed it so much that she interned the next two sessions and then became a house manager. After being in that role for more than 2 years, and then serving as Interim Senior House Manager, Megan is very excited to have the opportunity to make big impact at Arcade by stepping up into the Box Office Manager role. She’s available at mreimer@arcadecomedytheater.com to answer questions about ticketing, Arcade merchandise, and renting the theater for private events (she can help you put on a heck of a party at Arcade!).