TCIF Headliner: 2 Square

Third Coast Improv Festival is proud to welcome 2 Square (John Lutz & Peter Grosz) as our 2025 headliners!

Peter Grosz began his theatrical and improv training in Chicago where he performed regularly at Improv Olympic, lived in Amsterdam working for Boom Chicago, and wrote and performed in four reviews on The Second City’s ETC stage. Films include The Menu, Stranger Than Fiction, Rough Night, Things Heard and Seen and Here Today. TV credits include a recurring role as Sidney Purcell on Veep, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fleishman Is In Trouble, Key and Peele and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Writing credits include At Home With Amy Sedaris (WGA Award), Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Colbert Report (Emmy, Peabody and WGA Awards). He was also the Executive Producer of and played Mike Pence on The President Show. New York stage credits include Goodnight, Oscar at the Belasco Theater on Broadway and A Kid Like Jake at Lincoln Center. He can be heard as a frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me and was the guy sitting in the driver’s seat in a long running series of commercials for Sonic Drive In.

John Lutz has been acting, improvising and writing for over 30 years. You may know him best as Lutz from 30 Rock. Other screen appearances include: Loot, Chicago Med, The Good Wife, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Film credits include The Comedian, Sisters, Sleepwalk with Me and Friends with Kids. He wrote for Saturday Night Live from 2004-2010 and is currently in his 11th year writing for Late Night with Seth Meyers. For 3 years, he toured the world from Bangkok to Rockford, IL with The Second City National Touring Company. He recently wrote and produced the NY Times bestselling audiobook Escape from Virtual Island. He created, co-wrote and produced the series Mapleworth Murders with Paula Pell, which is streaming on Roku. He is currently featured in the 3rd season of Girls5Eva on Netflix. Check out his website www.john-lutz.com and follow him on Twitter at @ShutupLutz and Instagram at @shutup_lutz.

Rating: PG-13

Intermission: No

Length: 45 min