Ed and Brooke met as part of the improv comedy and sketch troupe, HISTORY OF THE FUTURE. For over 3 years they performed as a house team at the Sea Tea Comedy Theater and elsewhere around the Northeast US. During that time they decided they liked one another enough to get married and start their own comedy/theater duo WRY BRED to achieve their dreams, and deliver bad puns unbidden.

Brooke Ferguson has a BFA in acting and has a long background of performing, directing, and producing. She has starred in key roles in productions of Boeing-Boeing and Steel Magnolias, among others. In addition to History of the Future and Wry Bred, Brooke added Sea Tea Touring Company to her improv resume. Other pre-pandemic successes include two recurring shows at the Windsor Art Center in Windsor, CT: Wacky Comedy was a monthly stand-up comedy show and Stillness in Motion was a collaboration that created performance art based on the Center’s rotating galleries. Brooke is currently up to her eyeballs in student loans while she studies drama therapy through Lesley University’s low-residency program. Her bills are paid through her position as an Artist Instructor at the Greater Hartford Arts Academy, teaching, what else? theater.

Ed has been performing on and off since High School. In 2015, he began training in improvised comedy with Sea Tea Studios in Hartford, CT. Ed has also taken a number of workshops put on by performers from around the US and the world! In addition, to History of the Future, and Wry Bred, Ed performs at the Sea Tea Comedy Theater with his improv troupe Robot Love. Ed has produced and hosted many comedy shows throughout CT over the last 5 years, including building a comedy club in his basement. The monthly Reginald Kingsley Open mic lasted over 18 months, and can boast that some people who performed there are now touring around the country. Ed is a certified CPA in the state of CT, but enough about that. Ed is also a previous Managing Director of the No Boundaries Youth Theater in New Britain, CT. Currently Ed works as a creative writing Artist Instructor for the CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and is a producer at Hartford’s Got Talent!