Willa Barnett

The Projects.

Skip Skip

Writer + performer, one fourth of the group

Writing group and improv team. Our pilot All Four One was selected for the Just For Laughs Shorts + Pilots Program, 2026 (Montreal).

2M+ likes on IG and TikTok BCC house team 2025 JFL 2026

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The four members of Skip Skip lying on a bed, heads together in a circle — the cast of All Four One

Skip Skip tucked into one giant bed, four pairs of colored socks sticking out — our big bed we all sleep in

Skip Skip, Willa, Kaela, Sasha, and Justin, deadpan in an office set, with the Just For Laughs Pilots Official Selection 2026 laurel — Willa, Kaela, Sasha, Justin. officially selected

Data Leak

Co-creator, producer, director

A man-on-the-street Instagram series by Mad Realities about what is actually inside strangers' phones. Pitched it, produce it, direct it.

feat. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Watch on Instagram

Celebrity Mumble Challenge

Director + editor

Independent Instagram series hosted by Maggie Olmsted.

Watch on Instagram

Yes, No, Maybe

Co-host, with my brother Ryan

A Malcolm in the Middle rewatch podcast, signed with Gotham Productions. Guests include Bryan Cranston, series creator Linwood Boomer, and director Ken Kwapis.

Apple Podcasts Spotify

AI Avenue

Head writer + field correspondent

Cloudflare's flagship YouTube series about all things AI. I head wrote the show and reported from the field.

Full playlist on YouTube

On Stage (and off).

Live performance

Brooklyn Comedy Collective
House team, Skip Skip 2025
The Magnet, The PIT
Improv performer 2024-2026
iO, The Annoyance (Chicago)
Improv performer 2022-2023
Fun and Dumb Improv Festival 2024, 2025, 2026
Peer Revue, Caveat NYC
Improviser 2026

Acting

All Four One, web series
Actor, co-writer 2026, JFL Shorts + Pilots Program
Sisterhood Gore-Ever, staged reading at UCB
Actor 2025, written by Chloe Bivona
Out There, staged reading
Actor 2024, written by Liv Drury
Making Friends, short film
Actor, co-writer 2023, LA Shorts selection 2025

Training + school

Northwestern University
BA Computer Science, BS Theatre 2017-2022
Advanced Improv Lab
Taught by Peter McNerney 2025
One Group Mind, Artisan Level
Coached by Mike Abdelsayed 2017-2023
The Blackout, "Quarter Update"
Writer, performer 2019
College Television Award winner
Mee-Ow Show, Northwestern
Writer, performer 2018-2021

Willa seated on a chair mid-improv-scene in a Skip Skip t-shirt — improv: chair, scene partner, no plan

Hosting.

Host + MC, weekly and monthly

Warm Regards, my standup show at The Crown Inn in Brooklyn: I host it, I run it, I do time on it.

Trivia at The Crown Inn, every Tuesday night at 7:30pm. With a band of loyal regulars.

standup crowd work every single tuesday

Willa on stage at Caveat NYC with a microphone, a projected slide reading Caveat and Willa Barnett behind her — name in lights (they spelled it right)

Willa holding a microphone on a city street as Field Correspondent for Cloudflare's AI Avenue — on assignment: field correspondent, AI Avenue (Cloudflare)

Willa doing standup at Warm Regards, mic in hand, under string lights — Warm Regards, my standup show