Four First Names
With More than 45 combined years’ experience acting, hosting teaching and coaching improv, Richard Paul and Chris Barry combine with a rotating cast of music directors to make up the troupe Four First Names out of Orlando, Florida. They perform a fully improvised musical long-form set inspired by details from audience members. Four First names has performed in more than 50 cities across 15 states.
Chris Barry is currently a player-coach with The Corner Gallery, half of the musical improv duo Four First Names, a founding member of Youtube show History Bluffs, and a founding member of the sketch/improv comedy troupe Gaggle Reflex. He has been an improviser, actor and host for 17 years with Four First Names, The Corner Gallery, Gaggle Reflex, SAK Comedy Lab, It’s Improvised at the 129! , Give Kids the World, Random Processes and Unity in Playback Theater. Chris has also done scores of public speaking engagements for a $10 billion NYSE-listed company and is a chocolate milk connoisseur.
Richard Paul has been an improviser, actor and instructor for more than 20 years at SAK Comedy Lab, Walt Disney World, Offsides Improv and was the founder of Unity in Playback Theater, Orlando’s first Playback Theater Troupe. His feature film acting credits include Keeping Up with the Jonses (2016) and GeoStorm (2017). He is a founding member of the sketch/improv comedy troupe Gaggle Reflex. Richard has also led dozens of innovation projects for Fortune 500 companies and is a master prepared of the Guyanese national dish pepperpot.