Anthony Atamanuik

Anthony Atamanuik has been performing, directing and writing for over 25 years, receiving his Bachelor's of Science in Film Theory from Emerson College in 1997. Anthony has also trained at Second City Toronto, Gotham City Improv and since 2002 and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre.

Anthony has studied under legendary acting and vocal coach Kristen Linklater during his Emerson College years. He has also had the opportunity to study improvisation with, UCB founders Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser. Anthony has also taken classes and been directed by, Seth Morris, Billy Merritt, Owen Burke, Kevin Mullaney, Dyna Moe, and Brian Huskey.

Anthony has been a teaching improvisation at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Training Center for over a year. He has directed UCB house team Reuben Williams and UCB Harold teams, Creep, 1985, fwand, Kill Your Darlings, Raynard, DeCoster, Beverly Hills, and Tantrum.

He wrote the film short “The Incredible Drunk” which won the Channel 102 Film Festival. Anthony also wrote web content for Jim Henson Interactive from 1996-1998.

Anthony performed the with the Gotham City Improv Main Company from 2000 to 2002. He has performed improv at he UCB theatre since 2003 with a variety of ensembles, “Creep”, “Grenade vs. Washing Machine” and “Trillion”. He currently performs with the house team “Death By Roo Roo”. Anthony is also a regular monologist at UCB’s flagship Sunday night show Assscat.

His Television credits include appearances on Conan O'Brian, The Caroline Rhea Show, and The Tony Danza Show. He has a recurring role as a Girly Show staff writer "Anthony Yannetti" on the Emmy Award winning NBC Sitcom "30 Rock" and plays various roles in the Adult Swim's "Fat Guy Stuck In Internet".

Anthony lives in Astoria with his girlfriend Flossie and their turtle, Turtle.

Neil Casey

Neil Casey has been performing at the UCB since 2002 after completing his training in long-form improvisation in 2001. He has studied improv with Armando Diaz, Michael Delaney, Kevin Mullaney, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts.

Neil has a B.A. in English with a concentration in Drama and a minor in Theatre from the University of Delaware and has studied medieval and classical theater as well as stage directing under Dr. Heinz-Uwe Haus, internationally renowned Brecht scholar and former director of the Deutsches Theater.

Neil has performed regularly at the UCB Theatre in shows including Your Favorite Thing (sketch), The After School Super Power Hour, Instant Cinema, GameFace (sketch), The 4/20 Show (sketch) and Krompf as well as on the weekend house teams Monkeydick and currently Death By Roo Roo each and every Friday Night. He has directed shows at the UCB including Slow Night, Buffoons, Katie Dippold's One-Woman Murder Mystery, That's My Booze, Sidecar Presents: Condiment City and God's Pottery Saves the World.

Neil has appeared in shows for Channel 102, Promos for Comedy Central, and in the upcoming Adult Swim series Fat Guy Stuck in Internet.

Neil has also worked as the one-man IT Department for the UCB Theatre since May of 2006, so if you have any questions about using this site, you can ask him after class.

Jackie Clarke

JACKIE CLARKE is a writer, actor and radio personality living in New York City.

Most recently Jackie was a writer for Season 2 of Logo's "Big Gay Sketch Show." She has written for television and publications including "Time Out New York," "Playgirl" and the Gawker book.

Jackie was a part of the now defunct FM Talk Station 92.3 FREE FM in NYC, first with the "Jake and Jackie Show" and with "The Jackie Clarke 3 Hour Radio Hour." A versatile talent, Jackie has worked with many diverse radio personalities such as Danny Bonaduce, Michael Graham, Sid Rosenberg, JV and Elvis and Nick Diapolo.

Jackie is also a television pundit and has appeared on "Hannity and Colmes" on Fox News in the role of "token liberal" and "woman."

Jackie is a regular performer at the esteemed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. She has written and performed two one-person shows, "Mail Order Family" (formerly "Big Vagina Monologues") and "Full Metal Jackie." Other credits include "George Bush is a Motherfucker," "Neo Tokyo Girl Crush 2040," "When Amish Attack" and the long running "Showgirls: The Best Movie Ever Made Ever!" which she also co-created.

See her every Friday night at 11pm at UCBTNY improvising with her group "Death by Roo Roo." Jackie has been sued by both her stepmother and Eve Ensler. Visit her website at www.jackieclarke.net

Michael Delaney

Michael Delaney has been performing improv and sketch comedy in NYC for over 10 years including The Swarm, The Stepfathers, Gravid Water, Omelet Vision, Asscat, Delaney & Gausas, The Two Andys' Dyad Of Destruction, and Episode One (USCAF, Aspen), Killgore, Tracers, Piledriver, and Delaney & Dave's critically acclaimed Marooned and The Cadillac Of Nightmares, for which they received the 2002 Nightlife Award for best comedy group. Michael has directed UCB Theater shows such as Regina, Harmful If Swallowed, Respecto Montalban's When Amish Attack, The Naked Babies, John Ross Bowie's Paid To Stand Around, Peter Gwinn's The Confidence Ladder, and Rode Hard and Put Away Wet (USCAF, Aspen 2005). Michael teaches comedy writing at Columbia University, is a writer for The Onion's web videos, and is a regular performer on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

Dan Gurewitch

Dan Gurewitch is the head writer for CHTV, the original comedy video section of CollegeHumor.com. He has written many successful internet-based shorts and series including 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot, Urban Legend ER and Street Fighter: The Later Years. In 2007, CHTV was nominated for "Best Original Comedy Website" by the ECNY and Webby Awards. Dan studied television & film writing at Syracuse University, where he also performed stand-up and sketch comedy and was the director of a longform improv troupe. He has studied improvisation at the UCB Theatre under Billy Merritt, Anthony King, Chris Gethard, Jason Mantzoukas, Doug Moe, Jackie Clarke and others since 2004, and currently performs with the independent improv team Whisker Bliss.

Curtis Gwinn

Curtis Gwinn is a mainstay of the New York comedy scene. He has studied improv under Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Andy Secunda, and Armando Diaz.

His credits include writing for the Onion, Comedy Central and FOX Seachlight Pictures. He's currently starring in and producing a pilot with his partner John Gemberling for the popular Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.

Curtis can be seen in lots of other great comedy shows. He performs every Friday night with his improv ensemble, Death by Roo Roo, every month in the storytelling show, The Nights of Our Lives and every now and again with his sketch group The Brighter Side

Jeff Hiller

Jeff Hiller has performed and studied at the UCB Theatre since 2001. He has studied with many great teachers at the UCB including workshops with all four UCB members. Jeff has been teaching at the UCB since 2006 and has been coaching independent improv groups since 2004. Jeff was a member of harold teams Creep and Police Chief Rumble (2004 ECNY award, best sketch group) and has performed in many shows at the theatre including "Kilgore: The Musical", "A Ho Ho Horatio Christmas", "The Real Real World", and "Listen Kid". Jeff is a musical improviser and has played with "Baby Wants Candy", "I Eat Panda's and Friends", and "The Made Up Musical". He was the founding member of the all gay improv teams "Feathers and Flannel" and "Neely O'Hara". Jeff is also a regular performer in the NYC musical theatre scene withe credits such as: "Silence: The Musical", "Slut", "The Awesome 80's Prom" and "The Children" (NYMF Individual Performance Award). Jeff's TV credits are MTV's "Boiling Points" (Series Regular), Fuse's "The PA" (Series Regular), Some bits on Conan, VH1 Talking Head shows, the voice of Nano on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", several commercials, and as a gay prostitute on FX's "Starved".

Kevin Hines

Kevin Hines has studied and performed at the UCBT since 2000. In that time he has studied under teachers like Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Armando Diaz, Peter Gwinn, John Lutz, and TJ & Dave. Kevin can be seen performing with the UCB Harold Team, fwand or with his brother in The Brothers Hines. Occasionally he will make an online video. Before all of this he graduated from Cornell University where he wrote for the campus humor magazine the Lunatic. He has been coaching improv since 2003.

Will Hines

Will Hines has studied and performed improv at UCBT since 1999, current on the improv team The Stepfathers. Among his teachers: Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Matt Besser, Armando Diaz, and Sean Conroy. He's co-written, starred in and directed many sketch shows. He makes short videos and dabbles in stand-up like an arrogant swaggering dilettante. He's appeared in a few commercials as well as bit parts on Comedy Central, Conan O'Brien and Best Week Ever. He's taught at UCBT since spring of 2003.

Anthony King

Anthony King is the Artistic Director of the UCB Theatre. He has studied improvisation with the UCB Four, Armando Diaz, Bob Dassie, and others. He has performed at the Chicago Improv Festival and Piccolo-Spoletto Festival, and performed and taught at the Toronto Improv Festival, Dirty South Improv Festival, and Skidmore Improv Festival. He is also a member of the UCBT Touring Company and tours from time to time with "Horatio Sanz and The Kings of Improv."

Anthony's regional and NYC directing credits include: 1940s RADIO HOUR, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, MISTER (starring Anthony Rapp), A CHORUS LINE and many others. UCB Theatre directing credits include THE PATRIOTS (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival), AZIZ ANSARI PUNCHED A WALL, WHO'S YOUR DADDY (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), GOD'S POTTERY (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Best Newcomers"), LISTEN KID (NY Music Theatre Festival), and many more. He was also the Assistant Director of the Off-Broadway shows SUMMER OF '42 and THE WILD PARTY (Lippa). Anthony is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and a proud recipient of the Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Anthony co-wrote the Off-Broadway show, GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!, which also enjoyed a run in Off-West End in London and is now being performed all over the world. The show received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle & Drama Desk Award Nominations, and won a NYMF Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing (Book).

Stage performance credits include Anthony's solo shows, CHOSEN, which he performed as part of the NYC International Fringe Festival, and DAY 8: TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL, which played at UCBT. On the TV, Anthony has been featured on MTV's Human Giant, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn, and many commercials. He also played an appropriately middle-ages type in the Comedy Central Motherload show, All Access: Middle Ages, and voiced a scary bomber in Comedy Central Motherload's show, Window Seats.

Anthony is a member of the UCBT House Team REUBEN WILLIAMS, which performs on Saturday nights at 10:30pm in their show AS SEEN ON TV and can also be seen regularly at UCBT in GRAVID WATER, LET'S HAVE A BALL, and the monthly current events debate show, SHUT UP! I HATE YOU!

Porter Mason

Porter Mason has been performing improv since 1997 and has been performing at the UCBT since 2000. He was a founding member of Duke University Improv, and went on to teach beginner and advanced level improv classes at the DSI Theater in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as well as workshops at Duke University.

Porter began performing and directing at the UCBT in 2000, and has been involved in a variety of shows and groups, including My Kickass Van, Arsenal, B-Roll, and Anydayville. He currently performs with the Harold team, 1985, and a three-man group, T.J. Monkey's. Over the years, he's trained with a variety of great teachers, including Kevin Mullaney, Armando Diaz, Miles Stroth, Mick Napier and T.J. Jagodowski.

Porter's comic strip, "Bassist Wanted", appears in weekly newspapers across the country and online at http://bassistwanted.com. Porter is happy to have made your acquaintance.

Doug Moe

Doug Moe has been performing improv and sketch comedy in New York since 1998. He studied improvisation with Armando Diaz, Ian Roberts, Amy Poehler and Matt Besser among others. He performs every Saturday at UCBT with veteran house team MOTHER, and has been a member of many Harold Teams including Creep, Optimist International, Ice Nine, Dr. Awesome and Replace Toner. In addition he has performed and written many shows including his most recent solo show Dr. Doug Changes Your Mind. He has performed at the Chicago Improv Festival and appeared on Comedy Central's "Contest Searchlight" and NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

Bobby Moynihan

Bobby is a graduate of the B.F.A. Acting program at the University of Connecticut. He has studied Improv at UCB with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Michael Delaney, Billy Meritt, Kevin Mulaney, Sean Conroy, Jaime Denbo and others. He has been seen in such shows as Secret Slut, Tick. Tick. Tick., Sith in the City, Wake up with Buff Trumuscle, Sketch Cram, The Dogs of St. Christopher, Real Real World, Sketch and Awe, Nights of our Lives, Cracked Out, Five Dudes, and Showgirls at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Bobby is a proud member of the UCB house team The Stepfathers. Bobby was also a member of the harold teams, The Shoves and Police Chief Rumble. PCR won the 2003 ECNY award for best sketch group, for their work on A Piece of Bullshit Pie. Bobby was also a co-founder of the sketch group Buffoons with Charlie Sanders and is also a writer and performer for the UCB Touring Company. Bobby can be seen on any computer at youtube.com in the short films, Bro Rape (by Derrick) and Other Music (by Human Giant). Bobby has also been seen on VH1's Heartbreakers Hall of Shame, I Love the 30's and I Love the Middle Ages for Comedy Central Motherload, Law and Order: SVU and as the voice of Rabbit on Fuse's Empire Square. Bobby was also a head writer and co-host of Vidiots Live and has been seen on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Bobby also recently had a blast touring with Horatio Sanz' Kings of Improv Tour.

Shannon O'Neill

Shannon O'Neill is a veteran performer at the UCB Theatre. She has studied improvisation and sketch comedy under a plethora of teachers including, Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Billy Merritt, Kevin Mullaney and Armando Diaz to name a few. You can watch her Friday nights with The Stepfathers, or at various college campuses with the UCB Touring Company. Shannon has no shame.

Silvija Ozols

Silvija has studied and performed at the UCB Theatre since 2002 and currently performs with The Stepfathers on Friday nights. Her other UCB improv credits include the Harold team Creep, the long-running improvised-movie show Instant Cinema, and stints with the UCB Touring Company. She has studied with Billy Merritt, Michael Delaney, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Peter Gwinn, Sean Conroy, and Bob Dassie, among many others, and is a founding member of the sketch and improv group Rogue Elephant, with which she has performed in numerous venues around town, at Chicago's IO Theatre, and in the sketch show "Now That's What I Call Rogue Elephant."

Adam Pally

ADAM PALLY sold a TV show called We Are Internet Millionaires (W.A.I.M.) to ABC, and produced a show called SELL OUTS for Endemol productions, both with his production team CHUBBY SKINNY KIDS PRODUCTIONS. In addition to this, CSK (Chubby Skinny Kids) are also writing feature films for Universal Studio's/Imagine Entertainment, and Endemol. Adam has written and performed in two long running sketch comedy shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with his Sketch Comedy group HOT SAUCE. In addition to this Hot Sauce (HOT SAUCE) was an official selection and performer for the Montreal Just for Laugh's Comedy Festival in 2007. Adam also has acted in the film THE SOPHMORE with Bruce Willis and Mischa Barton. In addition to this, Adam (ADAM PALLY) also has acted in pilots for both MTV and Comedy Central and the CW's prank show Schooled. In addition to this, (IN ADDITION TO THIS) Adam can be seen many nights at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre in NYC. BLLADDOWW!!!

Lennon Parham

Lennon Parham is currently a member of the UCBT Touring Company and the house team, Reuben Williams. In recent months, you could find her flailing about as Nomi Malone in the hit stage show, Showgirls: the Best Movie Ever Made. Ever! or as Sandy Michaelson, Solid-Gold Dance Understudy in the improvised Real Real World. She is also co-creator and performer of The Adventures of Lock & Kay, a two-woman show about the rise of a Pop Superstar Duo. Previous New York Improv and Sketch credits include Kill Your Darlings, The Shoves, Dillinger, We Built This City on Rent Control (Second City NY) and Blindspot. NY Theatre credits include Crepuscule, Hold the Fat, Until We Find Each Other and many other workshops with the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and MCC's young playwrights group. She holds a BS in Theatre from the University of Evansville in Indiana and taught French for 2 years at TL Weston High School in Greenville, Mississippi with Teach for America.

Charlie Sanders

Charlie Sanders was raised on the mean streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. He started doing comedy at Comedy Sportz in Minnesota. Later he moved to New York where he joined the Chicago City Limits Touring Company. He has been performing and writing at UCB since 2001. You may have seen him in such shows as "Charlene Figures it All Out", "Proceed With Honor"and "Buffoons." He was a proud member of the award winning sketch and improv group Police Chief Rumble. He is a member of the UCB Touring Company and a frequent actor on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

Eric Scott

ERIC SCOTT is a performer and writer at the UCB Theatre. He has studied improv under Sean Conroy, Michael Delaney, Billy Merritt, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and many others. Eric is a member of the UCBT team, Reuben Williams, and can be seen every Saturday night at 10:30 in their show, "As Seen On TV." He can also be seen every Thursday in CageMatch, which he has co-hosted for the past 4 years. Other UCBT shows include: "Bored Silly," "UCBW" (as ringside announcer T.T. Billingsworth), "The Dark Side of the Moon" show, "Jackpot!," and "Retraced." He is currently a writer for FOX's "Viva Piñata," and is head writer for MTV's new series "Anton & Crapbag." Past writing credits include: E! Network's "Starveillance," Comedy Central's "Window Seat," and MTV's "Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz."

Gavin Speiller

Gavin has been writing, performing and directing shows at the UCB Theatre since 2002. He 's studied under a number of fantastic teachers including Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Billy Merritt and Kevin Mullaney. Gavin currently performs improv with the UCB house team 1985 as well as improv and sketch with the independent group Rogue Elephant. He can also be seen in a number of video projects, commercials and as a member of the UCB Touring Company. Gavin loves college basketball and Yoohoo.

Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer has been writing and performing at the UCB Theatre since 2002 and has studied under numerous teachers including Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Billy Merritt, Armando Diaz, and many more. She is a member of the UCBT House Team Reuben Williams, and can be seen every Saturday night in their show “As Seen On TV”. A member of the UCB Touring Company, Kate has been featured in numerous shows at the UCBT, including: NeoTokyo Girlcrush 2040, The Nights Of Our Lives, Found On Craigslist, B Roll, North American Sketch Championships, and The Documentary. Kate writes for Collegehumor.com and has contributed essays and articles to METRO newspaper and the upcoming book from Gawker.com. She has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and UPN’s Get This Party Started. Kate knows for a fact that the Red Sox are the best team in baseball, no matter what anyone else says.

Betsy Stover

Betsy Stover has been improvising for 13 years, 10 of which have been with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota and has a background in both short-form and long-form improv. She attended NYU were she studied directing and dramatic acting. Betsy has appeared on NBC, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, NPR and has also starred in numerous TV and radio commercials. She has performed in a zillion shows and Harold teams at UCBT. Betsy lives with her husband and fellow UCBT teacher, Ari Voukydis, and their dog, Walter, in the Lower East Side, where they like to pretend that they are more bad ass than they actually are. Betsy likes to curse. A lot.

Erik Tanouye

Erik Tanouye has been improvising and performing in New York since 2001. He has studied with Michael Delaney, Armando Diaz, Kevin Mullaney, Billy Merritt, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and many others. He is currently a member of the UCB house team 1985; he has previously performed in Proceed With Honor, Dillinger, The Shoves, Red Christmas, and The Mosaic NYC. His directing credits include I Eat Pandas and T.J. Monkeys, and he has taught workshops at colleges and high schools up and down the East Coast. Before moving to New York, he improvised with the Dog Day Players at Dartmouth College, where he got a degree in English and creative writing. He also worked for the Telluride Film Festival and has written for and appeared in pilots for Comedy Central and HBO.

Charlie Todd

Charlie Todd has been performing, directing, and writing comedy at the UCB Theatre since 2001. He has studied improv under UCB founders Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, among others.

He is the founder of Improv Everywhere, a New York prank collective that has been profiled by The New York Times, SPIN Magazine, Rolling Stone (Hot List), and both This American Life's radio and television programs. In 2007, Charlie executive produced and starred in a pilot for NBC based on Improv Everywhere.

Charlie has created many shows at the UCBT including PAID PROGRAMMING, FOUND ON CRAIGSLIST, and THE MP3 EXPERIMENT (all of which were Time Out New York critic's picks). He has been a part of many long running UCBT shows including RETRACED, MANDATORY LAME-ASS STAFF MEETING, THE REAL REAL WORLD, and CAGEMATCH NYC, for which he created the ridiculous wrestling league UCBW. He has made appearances on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, BEST WEEK EVER and VH1's 40 GREATEST PRANKS.

Charlie is a member of the UCBT House Team Reuben Williams. He has taught and performed at many festivals including the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and The Comedy Festival in Vegas. He was recently named one of the "10 Funniest People You've Never Heard Of" by New York Magazine.

Ari Voukydis

Ari Voukydis has been performing improv, sketch and standup comedy in New York City for just over a decade, and has been teaching at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2001. He is regular on all those VH-1 shows your niece watches, like The Best Week Ever and All Access, and has played a number of small (but, according to his family, memorable) roles on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and the Upright Citizens Brigade's eponymous Comedy Central show. Indoctrinated into the UCBT by the four original members (Ian Roberts, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser and Matt Walsh), Ari also owes much of his improv training to Armando Diaz, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Mick Napier, and Rebecca Sohn. He has also had the opportunity to learn from Tony Greco, and from Robbie Butler and Anya Saffir at the Atlantic Theater Company. Ari's been working with his comedy partner, Mark Sarian, since 2001. Their most recent show, LOFT, was a Time Out Critic's Pick, and last year their sketch "Small World" was shot and directed by the legendary John Landis, and featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (www.markandari.com) Ari is a member of the UCB Harold team DeCoster, and has performed in countless shows at the UCB Theater, from Robot TV to ASSSSCAT to "Wicked F*ckin' Queeyah," the annual wicked-pissa salute to his native Boston. Ari was introduced to New York through a mutual friend, SPY magazine, where he worked from his arrival in New York in 1997 until SPY's untimely death in 1998. Since then he's written for GQ, Esquire, Jane, Entertainment Weekly, Brill's Content, Modern Humorist, Salon Radio, and others, but will always be a SPY guy at heart. He lives in the Lower East Side with his wife (and fellow UCBT teacher) Betsy Stover, and their dog Walter.

Joe Wengert

Joe Wengert has been improvising for over ten years. After performing as a founding member of the first improv troupe at the University of Delaware, he came to New York City and studied at the UCB Training Center under Michael Delaney, Armando Diaz, Kevin Mullaney, Billy Merritt, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and many others. He has been a regular performer at the UCB Theatre since 2002 in shows such as Game Face, Your Favorite Thing, the Dark Side of the Moon Show, Krompf, Instant Cinema, Dillinger, and more. He can currently be seen performing every Saturday night at the UCBT with house team Reuben Williams. He has also performed at improv festivals in Chicago and Toronto, and he currently tours the country with the UCB Touring Company. He has appeared on VH1 and in national commercials. He is currently a writer for the Onion News Network.

Zach Woods

Zach Woods is a regular performer and director at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Trained in improvisation at the UCB Theater, he has also studied at the Atlantic Theater Company. Zach has been featured in numerous improv and sketch shows at the UCB and is a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. He has appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and has been featured in a number of national commercials. A popular improv coach/director in New York, Zach has also conducted workshops at Columbia University, Duke University, New York University, and Lincoln Center. He currently performs every Friday night with UCB team The Stepfathers.

Maggie Carey

Maggie Carey is a writer, performer and director who makes short films in New York. Carey co-created THE JEANNIE TATE SHOW, a web series for Warner Bros. Studio 2.0, which follows a soccer mom who hosts a talk-show from her minivan (stars Liz Cackowski, SNL). The show was named one of the “Top 20 Web Series” by New York Magazine and recommended by McSweeney’s. Carey’s other directing credits include SUN RIVER HOMESTEAD (aired nationally on PBS and won a Regional Emmy), LADYPORN (winner of the SXSW Audience Award), DANCE CLUB (winner of the Austin Film Festival Audience Award) and SMITHLIN (comedy shorts for ABC Family). Carey holds a BA in English Literature from The University of Montana and earned her MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas – Austin. Carey studied improvisation at Improv Olympic West in Los Angeles and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. She currently performs with Bastian at UCB Theatre NYC. You can see Carey in the web series HEAD IN THE OVEN at headintheoven.net and watch her other shorts at jeannietate.com.

Jonathan Gabrus

Gabrus has been studying at the UCB since 2003, and performed there in a slew of shows including: UCBW, Hot Sauce: 4th Floor Walk-up, The Documentary, Glue Trap Theatre. Harold Night (Mailer Daemon and fwand). He is one half of the duo Tybrus whose show, You're Out Too Far ran at the theater and abroad for over a year. Gabrus has written for The Spike Video Game Awards and an upcoming Spike sitcom in which he is also starring. Jonathan has written for the web too! Credits include: College Humor, Friendspacebook, Heavy, and a web sketch show entitled El Vacio. Gabrus has appeared on Late Night with Conan O' Brien, Best Week Ever, The Video Game Awards, Luncbbox on IFC.com and a number of commercials and web videos usually as the slacker, or shirtless slacker. He has a BA in film production from Marist College.

Julie Klausner

Julie Klausner is a writer, actor and comedian who lives in New York City with a fantastic cat. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Time Out New York, and in OpEds on The Huffington Post. She recently sold a memoir to Gotham Books, a division of Penguin, tentatively titled I Don't Care About Your Band and scheduled for release in Spring 2010. Julie 's TV writing credits include The Big Gay Sketch Show on LOGO, Robert Smigel 's TV Funhouse on SNL, and the internet shorts Welcome To Our House, Mommy Time, and Cat News. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in McSweeney's Future Dictionary of America, The Stranger, Heeb and the New York Dog Magazine. Julie's on-air credits include stints on various VH1 clip shows, Jon Glaser 's Adult Swim show, Delocated, Starveillance on E! and bit parts on SNL , Conan, and Strangers With Candy. She's appeared in many shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, including Free To Be Friends and The Chipperton Family Vocal-tainers' Shooby-Dooby-Dooby Hour, an official selection of the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and she played "Abortion Girl" in Les Freres Corbusier's Drama Desk Award-nominated production of Hell House. Currently, Julie co-hosts the monthly live show, OBSESSED with Julie and Jackie at UCB, and stars alongside David Rakoff as Daryl Van Hampton in Wasp Cove, a live soap opera she writes with Rachel Shukert that appears in episodic installations at Comix. She also sings with Losers Lounge, NYC's venerable tribute concert series, and blogs regularly on her own site, which is, predictably, julieklausner.com.

Gil Ozeri

Gil Ozeri is a comedy writer from New York City as well as a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Gil recently starred as the host of the TV show Starveillance on the E! Network. Gil can be seen performing alongside Adam Pally and Ben Schwartz in their sketch and improv group, Hot Sauce, who just came back from the 2007 Montreal Comedy Festival where their sketch show was directed by Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Their performance was written up about in the Hollywood Reporter - "Also, young New York sketch trio Hot Sauce attracted some attention Thursday night, with agents and others lauding their offbeat skits…" TimeOut NY also has said that Hot Sauce "likely has a future in late night." Both their sketch shows, 4th Floor Walk-Up and Hot Sauce Sells Out, were TimeOut NY 'Critic's Pick'. Their digital short "Ysketball" also won Timeout NY's 2006 Short Film of the Year.Check them out at hotsauceacademy.com. Gil is a member of the UCB House/Harold Team fwand. His sketch and improv performances at UCBT also include the harold team Killebrew, The Real Real World, Cagematch, host of the Dirtiest Sketch Show in NYC, Sketch Cram, as well as many other shows. He has studied improvisation under Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Armando Diaz, Billy Merritt, Michael Delaney, Anthony King, TJ Jagadowski, Dave Pasquesi and others since 2002. He has a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Studio Art from Binghamton University. He's also appeared on Saturday Night Live and Late Night w/Conan O'Brien.

DC Pierson

DC Pierson is a writer/performer in the comedy group DERRICK, whose sketches have been viewed over 40 million times online. He has appeared on MTV, G4, and on NBC's "30 Rock." He has written for, performed in, and directed numerous shows at the UCB Theater, and was a member of the Harold team DeCoster. He was a member of the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz, which won the ECNY award for Best Sketch Comedy Group in 2005. He graduated from NYU's Dramatic Writing program in 2007 with a degree in writing for television.

Ben Rodgers

Ben Rodgers has been performing at UCB for several years and has been in hundreds of shows there. He has improvised with such teams as Mailer Daemon and 1985. He has also acted in several shows with the word sketch in them like Sketch and Awe, and Sketch Cram.

Christina Gausas

Christina Gausas studied improvisation with Del Close and Charna Halpern, and performed and taught at IO Theatre in Chicago before moving to New York City. Christina has appeared regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Colbert Report, and The Al Franken Show. New York Magazine also named Christina “One of the 10 Funniest New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of” in 2005. Improv shows include: Dorff & Gausas, Chicago Style, Gravid Water, Delaney & Gausas, and directing the Mosaic NYC.

Ryan Karels

Ryan has been at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 2001, performing with KROMPF and on Harold night with Decoster, Creep and Filth. He is an Artistic Associate of Les Freres Corbusier (HELL HOUSE, HEDDATRON, BOOZY and THE FRANKLIN THESIS), was in the original off-broadway cast of GUTENBERG, THE MUSICAL!, and might be seen around the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Ryan teaches improvisation at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and directed I STALK YOU ON FACEBOOK at Long Island University, CW Post. He holds a film degree from Yale University, where he stopped worrying and learned to love linear editing machines.

Margot Leitman

Margot Leitman regularly appears as various characters on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien," in addition to appearances on VH1's "Best Week Ever," ESPN's "Cheap Seats," AMC, the Style Network, E!, Comedy Central and NBC Broadband. Most recently she can be heard as the voice of "Fox" on the new Spike Tv cartoon "The Team." Her monthly sex-themed storytelling show "Stripped Stories" (co-hosted by Giulia Rozzi) has a cult following has been called "Fresh, honest and raunchy? by BUST Magazine and was a featured Village Voice choice and Time Out NY critic's pick. Her critically acclaimed solo show "Just Here For the Day" had a six month run at the UCB Theatre (both NY and LA) in addition to her follow up piece, "Slow Night" (co-written by Sarah Burns) which also ran for six months at the UCB Theatre and was a New York magazine critic's choice. Margot has been featured in Glamour magazine, and the books "Fifty Dates Worse Than Yours" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes." She has written online for the Lifetime Network, College Humor.com, EHow.com and in print for Playgirl Magazine. Her stories will appear in three different anthologies slated for publication in 2008/2009. http://www.margotleitman.com http://www.strippedstories.com

Eliza Skinner

Eliza began her career as a musical theater performer, building a solid background in performance, music theory and vocal training. She has since appeared in many improvised musicals, including Baby Wants Candy, The Next Big Broadway Musical, UCBT's Made-Up Musical, and I Eat Pandas (an audience favorite and 2005 ECNY nominee for Best Musical Act.)

She has taught musical improv all over the country, including workshops for BBC America, and on Bravo's Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. She has directed several improvised musicals, including "The Pearl Brunswick", and "Holiday Spectacular" & "Extravaganza" which she co-directed with Billy Merritt, and "Cafe Verge" which she assistant-directed with Peter Gwinn of Baby Wants Candy, both at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.