It all started back in 1990 when the GW theatre community did a production of The Marriage of Bett and Boo .
Four students from that production, Chas Mastin, Billy Portman, Rob Cohen, and Andrea Shreeman, decided to create the first-ever improv-sketch comedy troupe in GW history.  They called themselves

The No Time Players

The quartet made history on October 5, 1990 when they held their first comedy show in the lisner downstage at midnight.  There they continued to prosper and turned such topics as gay gangsters and bongs, into comedic fodder for the masses.  They adopted this as there logo:

  For the first and last time in GW history, three of the four members of GWs comedy troupe graduated from this fine university and in September of 1993, seeking fame and fortune, they set off for New York City and took the name, "No Time Players" with them.  The remaining members, Chas Mastin, helped to fertilize a new comedy embryo at GW.  In January of 1993, the embryo became a fetus and adopted the name,

"Recess"

Click here to read Volume II of Recess: The Complete History