The Water Coolers

Biography

People like to talk about themselves. They also love to hear stories about experiences familiar to them. The famous theme song from Cheers said it best, "Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name." The Water Coolers take that concept, add hilarious comedy, original music and parodies of familiar songs, and use NYC comics and singers to celebrate the crazy, funny, maddening and yet somehow universally comforting insanity of every day life. The Water Coolers created the act originally for the meetings industry but, since our Off Broadway run in 2002, The Water Coolers has found an enthusiastic and devoted audience in the mainstream entertainment world.

Constantly updating our material is an ongoing process, since people approach us with ideas for songs at every show we do. The interesting thing is, say a song idea is given to us at a meeting or corporate event for senior management in Seattle. We`ll develop it and, when we perform it months later for a convention of sales reps in Boston, someone will run up to us exclaiming, "Hey! Thats my life!" It seems that by musically and comically celebrating what everyone goes through, The Water Coolers are providing, for a few minutes anyway, that place where everybody knows your name.

Based in New York City, The Water Coolers has become a working home for some of the finest and most exciting comics and singers in professional show business. Resumes among current cast members include performances at top comedy clubs like Igby`s, the Improv, the Comic Strip, and the Icehouse and either the Broadway or Broadway touring production of such shows as "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Spamalot", "Wicked", "The Lion King", "In The Heights", "Les Miserables", "Mamma Mia", "Grease", "Nine", "Fiddler On The Roof", "Saturday Night Fever", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Rent", and many more.

A unique combination of NY comedy writers and business people from around the country work together to create a funny, smart, authentic take on work and life.Actor / Writer Thomas Michael Allen who co-created "Tony and Tina`s Wedding" (the record-smashing, longest running comedy in New York theater history), voices the role of Peanut on the acclaimed animated comedy series "Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law" and appeared in hundreds of commercials (Thomas Michael Allen).