Planet Ant
Board of Directors

  • President

    Caitlyn is an improvisor, writer, actor, director and teacher at the Planet Ant. Caitlyn has been apart of the Planet Ant community since 2016 when she started taking classes. Since then, she’s never looked back. Caitlyn was a part of the inaugural first Farm Team and performed with them for 3 years, and has been in many Planet Ant productions. Caitlyn is also a part of the Planet Ant Home Team. Additionally outside of the theater Caitlyn is a Community Manager for a commercial interior design company.

President

  • Secretary

    Chris Fortin has been a member of the Detroit Improv Community since August 2014, and from then has been a dedicated member of the scene.

    He has written and directed several shows on the Go Comedy! stage, as well as being a member of Go’s Resident Company and the Director of the All-Star Showdown. Chris graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Electrical Engineering and from Wayne State University with a master’s in Alternative Energy Technology, currently working as a high voltage battery engineer for electric vehicles.

    He is excited to serve on the board of Planet Ant and bring its unique mission to life, letting people know it's normal to be weird.

Treasurer

  • Scott has been involved in Detroit’s theatre community since the late ‘90s as part of Second City Detroit and the Fox Theatre. He has worked with 313 Presents, The Gem & Century Theatres, Planet Ant, Go Comedy, Shakespeare Royal Oak, Detroit Public Theatre, and is currently the Director of Sales & Marketing Broadway In Detroit.

Secretary

  • Tony Augusty has been involved with Planet Ant as an improviser, actor, director and writer for a decade. Born and raised in Metro Detroit, Tony is a member of the Planet Home Team, a graduate of Wayne State University and works as a writer and editor. 

Syeda Davidson

  • Syeda Davidson is an attorney, activist, and aerialist. She brings experience from multiple nonprofit boards to Planet Ant, and believes that improv classes are the reason that she is able to capably and confidently wear multiple hats.

  • Dave Davies is a professional improviser/actor/instructor with over 25 years of experience. He has performed professionally on several stages throughout the Detroit Metro area, and internationally from Canada to Puerto Rico.

    He also has extensive experience teaching improv at several different venues. His teaching has additionally extended to include several corporate workshops throughout the United States and to many Detroit Public School children through the YMCA and the Detroit Creativity Project.

    Additionally, he is an adjunct instructor at WSU, where he teaches different theatre and acting classes. Dave is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and can be seen in movies including A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Restitution, Needlestick, Detroiters, and Lifetime channel’s Last Man Standing.

  • Kristy Nolen began her career in Chicago, where she trained, performed and taught improvisational comedy at legendary venues such as The Second City (National Touring Company), Annoyance Theater, iO Theater, plus in Amsterdam with Boom Chicago. Theater credits include: Arcade Comedy Theater, Shakespeare in the Arb, Pasadena Playhouse, Bricolage Theater, Bailiwick Theater and Carnegie Mellon Studio Theater. Ms. Nolen trained with The Marymount College London Program, The La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory and received her BFA in Acting from Ohio University.


    A proud member of SAG-AFTRA for over 20 years, her television credits include One Dollar, Castle Rock, Those Who Kill, ER and Early Edition. Film credits include A Man Called Otto, Sweet Girl and The True Adventures of Wolfboy. Now in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area, appearing at many venues, including Planet Ant Theatre, Go Comedy Improv Theater, Civic Improv, Hear.Say Theater, and Washtenaw Community College. Check out her improv comedy duo, Nolen & Nolen.

  • Treasurer

    Andi grew up in Hamtramck, MI just a few blocks from Planet Ant Theatre, and now resides in Midtown Detroit. She is an actor, writer, director, producer, and art educator.

    Andi has completed training programs at the renowned Improv Olympic (iO) and Annoyance theaters in Chicago, and locally at Go Comedy and Planet Ant. She teaches improvisation at Michigan Actors Studio and the Planet Ant Training Center. She is a mainstage cast member of Comedy Sportz Detroit and a co-founder of the Detroit Women of Comedy Festival.

    Andi is also a small-business owner, entrepreneur, and attorney. She holds degrees from Michigan State University Detroit College of Law (JD), Pepperdine University School of Law (Straus Institute Master of Dispute Resolution), University of Santa Monica (Master of Psychology), and MSU James Madison College (Bachelor of Arts in International Relations).

Ericka Warmack

  • Executive Committee

    Ericka is a Certified Public Accountant, Six Sigma Green Belt and an experienced Malcolm Baldrige Award Examiner. She is the National Lending Director at First Children’s Finance, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), with a mission to lend money to low-income and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) child care providers. She has over 28 years of experience in finance and business operations. Ericka's most recent roles were Chief Financial Officer (CFO), V.P. of Transformation, Interim V.P. of Corporate and MBE Services and V.P. of Events at a multi-million-dollar, minority-focused economic development organization.

    Prior to those roles, Ericka was a Malcolm Baldrige Award Examiner, with a focus on leadership and strategy. The Malcolm Baldrige Award assessment is a highly collaborative consensus-driven team approach to assessing and improving world class and aspiring world class organizations based on current business best practices. She was the Director at DWH, a business advisory firm, guided by a full-stakeholder/community-based approach to distressed business consulting, company liquidation management and turnarounds, working with banks, investors, funders, business owners and communities. Ericka began her career at Arthur Andersen. In her public accounting career, she worked with publicly and privately held companies, high-net-worth families, and nonprofits. She received her B.S. in Accounting from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

    She is currently on the Board of Directors of Planet Ant, a nonprofit professional and community theatre, in Hamtramck, MI and on the loan credit committee of ProsperUs, a Detroit-based CDFI, with a mission to lend to low-and-moderate income business owners. She’s been a Board Chairperson, Treasurer and Quality Committee Chairperson for a Detroit-based community health center and a Board member of a Detroit-based community mental health center.

    Ericka loves Michigan, especially Detroit, its people, architecture and river. Ericka has a passion for old and historic buildings, structurally and aesthetically. She came to Detroit to rebuild, restore and improve the City through her professional and volunteer work. She appreciates Nature and is enjoying living on the Detroit River.

Our Mission

Planet Ant is a 501c(3) non-profit professional theatre and performance venue that seeks to build community by facilitating artistic expression and collaboration in theatre, music, film and other visual and performing arts; to promote artistic freedom and expand stage access; and to enrich individual artists through training, coaching and networking.