Former FoHi Faculty
Heather Konoski
Heather’s improv journey started at a young age playing improv games with friends and family. She discovered her teaching vocation in college, and she’s taught kids aged 9-13 in classrooms for over a decade. As a classroom teacher she shared her love of performance arts with students by helping direct and choreograph school plays, and teaching improv games to kids as an after school program. Since then, she’s rekindled her love of improv, performing with FoHi teams and house team Queens of Anarchy. She’s so excited to meld her lifelong passion for improv with her love of teaching; it’s a dream come true!
Mel Rubin
Mel Rubin is an improviser, beatboxer and Philadelphia Eagles fan based out of New York City. Mel has been rhyming since she could speak, beatboxing since 2005, improvising since 2015, and dog-momming her pride and joy, Milo, since 2017. You can catch Mel performing weekly with the New York City based hip-hop improv group North Coast.
Samuel Muscinelli
Samuel is a pianist and a neuroscientist who lives in Manhattan since 2019. Before arriving in NYC, he played as an improv accompanist in Lausanne, Switzerland, performing on a regular basis with the improv group Catcave9 (http://catcave9.thecatalyst.ch). While his main background is physics, he studied piano and musical composition as well. In his free time, he also experiments with movie-making and screenwriting.