Chris and Tami – The World’s Greatest Tag Team

““Chris and Tami live and breathe the art form and have built their own language of improv, a style characteristic of the New Movement.” – The Austin-American Statesman

“A fiercely enjoyable brain warp of a time”…”wildly talented and relentlessly inventive” – The Austin Chronicle

Chris Trew and Tami Nelson are nationally touring comedy performers and instructors. The duo met, trained and began performing together in New Orleans at the Comedy Conservatory. After Hurricane Katrina they relocated to Austin, Texas where improv became life. After attending nearly every comedy festival in North America performing and studying the art form they returned to Austin, opened their first theater and taught all over the city. Chris and Tami were at the forefront of an improv revival and played a major role in exploding the burgeoning Austin improv scene.

After years of teaching students the basics of improv, winning numerous local awards and becoming notable festival performers, Chris and Tami heightened. They now tour professionally and run their own mobile comedy training center, The New Movement, which has seen stops in Asheville, Cleveland, Muncie, Baltimore, Jackson, Atlanta, New Orleans, Covington, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Austin, Minneapolis and Myrtle Beach.

With various projects over these years we’ve performed at the following festivals:
Baltimore, Toronto, New Orleans, Chicago, Southern, Dirty South, Phoenix, Tucson and Oberlin Improv Festivals / The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, New Orleans Comedy Arts Festival, Dallas Comedy Festival, Megaphone Marathons, DC Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds, Del Close Marathon and Out of Bounds West.

Chris and Tami split their time between Austin and New Orleans where they run The New Movement and Los Angeles where they work on various sketch comedy projects with Studio8.net.