Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has affordable, comedy shows seven nights a week in NYC and LA. Watch the best improv, sketch and standup in the country. Our original comedy video productions have garnered the national spotlight. We also run the first nationally accredited improv and sketch comedy school in the country. For information on our courses, visit the Training Center.

Abbi Crutchfield

Abbi is listed among 18 Funny Women You Should Be Following on Twitter by Huffington Post Comedy (@curlycomedy). Her work can be read on Witstream.com. She has been featured on VH1 and MTV as well as in national commercials. When she is not touring as a stand-up, she produces two live comedy hours in NYC, "The Living Room Show" and "Positively Awesome" and has a ball performing monthly on Maude Night with the UCB house team Gramps.

She began training at UCB in 2006, studying improv under Ari Voukydis, Doug Moe, Charlie Todd and Michael Delaney and sketch writing under Leila Cohan-Miccio, Erik Tanouye and Caitlin Bitzegaio. She is scholarship recipient from the UCB Training Center Diversity Program.