David Koechner

Actor writer and producer David Koechner grew up in Tipton Mo. working for his father in the family’s turkey coop manufacturing business. He studied political science at Benedictine College in Atchison Kan and then transferred to the University of Missouri. After college Koechner moved to Chicago where he studied improvisation at the IO (formerly the ImprovOlympic) with Del Close and Charna Halpern. He went on to become an ensemble member of Second City Theater Northwest.