Michael Pollock is musical director of The Second City Los Angeles and Company Comedy Company. His credits as a composer/arranger, piano conductor and orchestrator include The Drew Carey Show, The Tonight Show, Evening at the Improv, Columbia Pictures’ Punchline and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle at Universal Studios Hollywood. He has played keyboards for a diverse collection of performers in concert, including Chuck Berry, Jason Alexander, Sandra Bernhard, Roseanne and Kitty Carlisle Hart. Michael is the author of Musical Improv Comedy: Creating Songs in the Moment and the upcoming (Spring 2005) Musical Direction for Improv and Sketch Comedy.