The AJC covers the arrival of Dad’s Garage Theatre’s new artistic director:

On Jan. 2, Kevin Gillese sat at the Toronto airport all day, sidelined by the bad weather and waiting for a plane to Atlanta. The minute he touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson he went straight to Dad’s Garage to do an improv show. The 10:30 p.m. performance, he says, perked him up like a hot shower.

This is how the Edmonton, Alberta, native spent his first “day” on the job as the new artistic director of Dad’s Garage Theatre. Gillese’s energy, his stage-lust, his “just-one-of-the-guys” approach to life and work are part of why he was picked to run the 15-year-old Inman Park comedy group, which has built a national name brand through a combination of gonzo theatrics, smart management and legitimate artistry.

A 29-year-old with a scruffy beard and jeans-and-T-shirt wardrobe, Gillese (pronounced “guh-LEECE”) caught the improvisational theater bug as a teen, performed in a Dad’s improv tournament at 19, left college to pursue his craft and came up through the ranks of Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre, an improv group where he was artistic director from 2008-2009…

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