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.

Don Fanelli

Current Shows

Don performs with Salmon Diane on Harold Night and in Sandino: Unsolved Mysteries at the UCBeast.  He also spends most of his weekends traveling across the country with The Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company.

Don has studied improv under many solid folks at the UCB and is also a graduate of the William Esper Studio, having studied with Bill Esper in the two year acting intensive.

UCB Theatre credits include The Chris Gethard Show, ( ), Sketch Cram, Death Wears Stilettos, The Movie, Cops & Robbers,The Brooks Brothers Clambake, and A Harry Potter Musical.

Former Harold Teams include: Sandino, The Opera, dybbuk, Standard Oil, Still Mike. Former Maude teams: Gramps and Dinner.  Don can be seen performing often with his indie teams: Fuck That Shit! (A Comedy Team), Dreadnought, and Sabonis (winner of the 2011 & 2012 3x3 Tournament).

Don has appeared on NBC's 30 Rock, as well as The Late Show with David Letterman, SpikeTV, Comedy Central, TruTV, and in various College Humor and LandlineTV videos. Don has also performed at the NY Sketchfest and Chicago's Just for Laughs Festival. His pilot, Trying, which he co-wrote with Laura Willcox, was winner of the Creative Control Web Series competition.

Diddy personally gave him the nickname, Luther, with no explanation. So he will answer to that now.