A Main Company Member of the venerable Groundlings Comedy Troupe Born in Aurora Illinois a suburb of Chicago as Timothy Abell Took the name Brennen when joining the Screen Actors Guild Began performing while attending college in Colorado with a touring modern dance troupe Later moved to Boulder with a scholarship to The Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre It is there he began studying and performing improvisational comedy with a group called Head Games which he later directed Moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and began studying at the renowned Groundlings School He performed there in the Sunday Company for a year and a half before being asked to join the Main Company in 2002 IMDb Mini Biography By mza