Upright Citizens BrigadeImprovisation and Sketch ComedyTraining Center
Los Angeles Faculty
Eva Anderson Eva is a longtime member of the sketch group A Kiss From Daddy and currently coaches the Maude team "Oh, Brother" and the Beta team "Pantsuit." Other UCBTLA credits include Sketch Cram, CDR Sketch, Quick and Funny Musicals, We Wish you a Silly Spoofmas, and The Hot Seat with Wally George. Eva's comedy writing credits include The Onion News Network and Comedy Central's pilot This Show Will... Read More
Suzi Barrett Originally from Michigan, Suzi got her degree in theatre at Western Michigan University, then moved to Chicago where she studied improv at The Second City and io. From there, she headed to Amsterdam, and spent 3 years performing with Boom Chicago-- or as the Dutch often call it-- "De Chicago Boom Boom". A member of the UCBTLA community since 2006, Suzi has studied with Matt Besser and Ian... Read More
Susannah Becket Susannah Becket is a writer and actor in Los Angeles, currently performing on Monday nights with The Smokes. Before that, she was a member of UCBTLA Harold teams Panama and The Galleria and the UCBTNY Harold teams Beverly Hills, Killebrew and Havana Clambake.
While in New York, she performed in the UCBT shows "Now That's What I Call Rogue Elephant!," "Up Late! With Lord Voldemort," "Flux... Read More
Alex Berg Alex "Berg" Berg has been involved with UCBTLA since 2006, and has thankfully managed not to wear out his welcome since then. As a student, he's studied with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh of the Upright Citizens Brigade and many others. He's been performing with Sentimental Lady since their inception, and has been with three-man group Convoy since even before their Cagematch... Read More
Julie Brister Julie Brister is a performer, director and teacher living in Los Angeles. She has been a part of the UCB community since the dark ages of 1997 in New York City. She’s appeared in and directed dozens of shows including: her solo-show Fatparts, which also performed at Sketchfest in San Francisco, Showgirls! The Best Movie Ever Made! Ever!, Laid Up, and Put it in You! The Sex-Ed Musical.
She... Read More
Neil Campbell Neil Campbell is a comedy writer, performer, and Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Los Angeles. He has written and performed at UCBTLA since it opened in 2005 and has studied under Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Scott Aukerman and many others. Neil has written, performed in, and/or directed many shows at UCBTLA, including Neil and Paul: Growing Up is Tough and... Read More
Chad Carter Chad Carter is a writer and improvisor based in LA. He has performed in a lot of festivals and shows with silly names. Currently, you can see him in Facebook and ASSSSCAT at the UCBTLA. He has written for ABC's My Kind of Town, Comedy Central's Crossballs, Creature Comforts on CBS and currently Funny or Die.
Chad Carter is a trained physicist and tries his best. Read More
Brett Christensen Brett Christensen has been studying, teaching and/or performing with the UCB Theatre since 2001. Brett performed sketch and improv comedy beginning in the University of Arizona's Comedy Corner, then professionally in both New York and Los Angeles. He has worked in a variety of film and television projects, most memorably as a conspiring member of a vampire book club/sex cult on Law & Order:... Read More
Jackie Clarke Jackie Clarke is a writer and performer living in Los Angeles.
You can hear Jackie as "Courtney" in the upcoming Nick-at-Nite animated series, "Glenn Martin DDS." Her original animated series "Mail Order Family" which is based on the true story of her life, will air in mini-episodes as part of "Funny or Die" on HBO.
Jackie is a regular performer at the esteemed Upright Citizens Brigade... Read More
Sean Clements Sean has been studying and performing at UCB Theatre since 2005. He was a member of several Harold and Maude Teams in New York, but he's not there anymore, so stop living in the past! He has performed in the UCBTLA shows ASSSSCAT, Sketch Cram, Let's Do This, CDR Sketch and he's a cast member in the weekly improv show Shitty Jobs.
Sean worked as a staff writer for the MTV show, Popzilla, and... Read More
Sean Conroy Sean Conroy has studied improvisation with every member of the Upright Citizens Brigade as well as Armando Diaz and Kevin Mullaney. He has performed stand-up comedy on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Late Friday on NBC. His one-man show, Taught, was selected for the 2001 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He has written for Spike's Players,... Read More
Eugene Cordero Eugene Cordero is an actor/improviser who performs every Monday night at UCBTLA as a member of THE SMOKES. He also regularly plays in ASSSSCAT and the musical improv group Diamond Lion as well as touring around the country as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. In New York, Eugene was a member of REUBEN WILLIAMS and is 1/3 of the sketch group BUFFOONS. He studied under... Read More
Mel Cowan Mel Cowan began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2006, and has studied under Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, John Ross Bowie, Seth Morris, Sean Conroy and Owen Burke. He performs regularly with the long-running team Sentimental Lady and can also be seen in Rough Cut: The Improvised Movie. He has been seen in various shows at UCB including thirty:30, Smug Rock... Read More
Dominic Dierkes Dominic Dierkes is a comedian and writer based out of Los Angeles. He has been performing at the UCB Theatre since 2003 where he also serves as a teacher and director. Dominic is a member of the comedy group DERRICK whose videos have been viewed over one hundred million times online. Dominic co-wrote and co-starred in DERRICK's first feature film MYSTERY TEAM which premiered at the Sundance... Read More
Katie Dippold Katie is currently a writer for MADtv. She was a cast member of MTV's prank show Boiling Points and has made several appearances on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
A journalism major from Rutgers University, Katie was the writer of Mandatory Lame-Ass Staff Meeting, a TimeOut NY Critic's Pick noted as a "very funny sketch show". She was a member of Police Chief Rumble, awarded "Best... Read More
Jill Donnelly Jill Donnelly grew up in Rochester, NY and shuffled off to Ohio to study theatre and neuroscience at Oberlin College. She performed at UCBTNY for several years before heading westward, bringing along her long-running one-woman show, Amnesia.
These days, you can find her performing at UCBTLA with the Harold team, The Racquet, ASSSSCAT, and on the Maude team, Hot Mess. Read More
Colton Dunn Colton Dunn started comedy at the age of 15, working with Comedy Sportz, Minnesota. In 1997, Colton moved to NYC to study improv and perform with the Upright Citizens Brigade. He lived and performed in Amsterdam with Boom Chicago and pulled pranks on MTV's Boiling Points.
At UCBTLA, Colton performed in Crime Scenes (a selection of the 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival), Legal Weed and Hookers... Read More
Todd Fasen Todd Fasen has been performing and taking classes at UCBTLA since 2006. He's studied with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade plus Seth Morris, Billy Merritt, Sean Conroy, and many others. He started improvising in 2000 as a member of the Vassar College improv troupe boringly named Improv.
Todd currently performs weekly at UCBTLA with his groups Convoy... Read More
Casey Feigh Casey Feigh is a writer/comedian on the UCB Harold team John Velvet. He also writes and performs with the sketch group Cream, whose videos have appeared on numerous Comedy Central shows and received millions of views online.
Casey loves improv and is on a bunch of teams with wacky names including Hip Hop Penguin, whose written shows Hip Hop Penguin: Dropping Truth Bombs in Yo Earholes & Hip... Read More
David Ferguson Dave Ferguson is a writer and performer from Dayton, Ohio. A graduate of Ithaca College, Dave is a member of the sketch group The Birthday Boys, currently writing and performing a new half-hour sketch show every month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The group has been selected for a number of comedy festivals, including Sketchfest NYC, Seattle Sketchfest, the Los Angeles Comedy... Read More
Alex Fernie Alex Fernie has been performing and taking classes at UCBTLA since 2006. He's studied with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade plus Seth Morris and Chad Carter, among others. He started improvising in high school in Providence, RI. He continued to perform regularly while attending Vassar College until moving to Los Angeles in 2004.
He currently is a member... Read More
Brian Finkelstein Brian Finkelstein is a comedic writer / performer. He’s a regular at the Moth as well as The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. His last one-person show, First Day Off In A Long Time, was selected for the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and chosen “Best In Comedy″ by Time Out New York. The show was later developed as a sitcom for FOX.
Brian’s appeared in a variety... Read More
Curtis Gwinn Curtis Gwinn is a comedic writer and performer, as well as a teacher of improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. At UCB he's studied with Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Andrew Secunda and Armando Diaz. He’s been featured in dozens of films, sketch and improv shows and is renowned for his storytelling prowess. He was the co-star and co-creator of the Adult Swim... Read More
David Harris Since 2005 David Harris has been studying and improvising at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. He has studied with UCB founders, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh and continues to perform with the Harold team turned weekly show, Last Day of School.
David has also performed in Freak Dance: the Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, Sketch Cram, Dirtiest Sketch in LA Contest and Drug... Read More
Joe Hartzler Joe is an actor, writer, satirist born and raised in the fertile Tuscarawas River valley of Ohio’s Amish country. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2006, he spent three years touring America’s Hotels and Highways, performing improv comedy for churches, colleges, conferences, Christians, Texans, and Drunks.
In 2008, Joe began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with the... Read More
Tim Kalpakis Tim Kalpakis is an American comedy writer and member of the Los Angeles sketch group The Birthday Boys. He has been writing and performing at UCBTLA since 2006 in shows such as Hotdoggin' (directed by Neil Campbell and Paul Rust), Comedy Death-Ray, The Not Inappropriate Show with Bob Odenkirk, Charlyne Yi's Music Box, and The Birthday Boys monthly sketch show. He has also appeared at the... Read More
Chris Kelly Chris Kelly is currently a staff writer and director for The Onion News Network, which won the 2009 Peabody Award, and earlier this year was a writer on a Comedy Central pilot created by Matt Besser.
Currently at UCB, Chris wrote, directed, and acts in his new one-act play "OH MY GOD, I HEARD YOURE DYING!". He is also the director of Michael Hartneys one-man show, "SO I LIKE SUPERMAN", and is... Read More
Anthony King Anthony King is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and performer currently living in Los Angeles.
He 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... Read More
Chris Kula Chris Kula has been performing sketch and improv at the UCB Theatre since 2001. He has studied with the top teachers at UCBT including Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh. He currently performs weekly with the UCBTLA house team The Smokes.
Kula has worked as a staff writer at MADtv, Funny or Die and most recently, Comedy Central's new Onion Sports Network show. Previous... Read More
Mike Leffingwell Michael Leffingwell began studying with the UCB in 2003. At UCBTNY, he performed in the Made-Up Musical, with the sketch show Gun Love, and co-wrote and performed in the sketch show Of Mice and Tara & Michael. He also spent several years as a teacher and performer in the Touring and Main Company of Chicago City Limits.
Michael co-created and was head writer of the fake news website FNN... Read More
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... Read More
Tricia McAlpin Tricia McAlpin is a writer and actress in Los Angeles. At UCBTLA she can be seen performing at Harold Night with her team The Racquet and sketches she writes with her team Bonafide can be seen at Maude Night. Other UCBTLA credits include TwiSchool Musical, Sketch Cram, Re-Gifted and 140 Tweets. She has written articles for Comedy.com, videos for UCBcomedy.com and created the blog... Read More
Will McLaughlin Will has been a perfomer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since the year 2000, before apes were our masters. He has appeared in several shows at the UCB Theatre including Anydayville, Crime Scene Improv and Piledriver, which he broke a rib for.
Will has performed with the NY Harold Teams Renegade 77, America!, Grenade vs. Washing Machine and Police Chief Rumble. The latter Harold... Read More
Allan McLeod Allan McLeod is an actor, writer, and comedian type living in Los Angeles. He attended the University of Alabama where he received a B.A. in Theatre and Film. At UA Allan wrote and performed sketch comedy for the Theatre and Dance Department's bi-weekly Guerrila Theatre show. Allan also won the opportunity to study filmmaking under Tom Cherones (director of Seinfeld, Newsradio) based on a... Read More
Johnny Meeks Johnny has been studying and performing with the UCB Theatre Los Angeles since its inception and has been trained by Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh of the Upright Citizens Brigade. His improv comedy experience began eons ago when he represented the Webster Groves High School Statesmen on its improv team. Johnny went on to found an improv troupe at Ohio Wesleyan University where he... Read More
Billy Merritt Billy Merritt has been with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since its inception, teaching, directing, and performing. He has performed in over 50 different shows at the theater including ASSSSCAT, Killgore, Harold Night, The Real Real World, Immortal Kombat, Robot TV, the Third Degree and Gigantic Man. He has developed such shows as Piledriver, The Sunshine Gang, Brain Town and Rat Radio.... Read More
Seth Morris Seth Morris is a stand-up, sketch and improv comedian from San Francisco and the former Artistic Director of UCBTLA. He began studying improv and sketch with the UCBTNY in 1997. Seth appeared in, directed and wrote for many shows at the UCB and has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, The Toyota Comedy Festival, The San Francisco Sketch Fest, The Chicago Improv Fest, The Telluride... Read More
Joe O'Brien Joe O'Brien has been improvising at the UCB Theatres in NYC and LA for the past six years. His sketch show Gun Love and two one act plays The De-Evolution Theory and Van Gogh's Path were performed at the UCB as well.
In addition to co-creating the fake news website FNN 24/7, Joe has written pilots for MTV and Animal Planet, was a staff writer on Comedy Central's Crossballs and The Showbiz... Read More
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... Read More
Kevin Pedersen Kevin is a writer and comedian who has been with UCB since 2005. A member of a UCB Harold Team for 4 years, he currently improvises off people's secrets with "Coming Clean". Kevin was a member of three Maude teams and is currently a Maude director. Other sketch show direction experience includes the monthly Sketch Cram, a show he's been with since it came to Los Angeles. He has studied with... Read More
John Reynolds Writer/performer, John Reynolds, is currently a staff writer for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. He has also written for such television shows as Starveillance (E! Channel), Comedy Central's Window Seats, Celebrity Deathmatch and Nick Cannon's Short Circuitz both for MTV to name a few.
John has acted in many commercials and writes and performs comedy on a regular basis at the... Read More
Lee Rubenstein Lee Rubenstein has been writing, performing and studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2006. He has written for ABC, MTV, the UCB house sketch teams 27 Kidneys and High Treason, as well as The Hipster Show, The 4/20 Show, LOST: The Dharma Initiative Company Picnic and Dusty Springfield: Live In Heaven. He also performs stand-up and storytelling all across NYC.
He keeps a... Read More
Hal Rudnick Hal has been doing improv for over ten years. At UCBTLA he has studied with Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, and Sean Conroy among others. He is currently on the UCB Harold team, The Great War. His sketch group, The Midnight Show, performs monthly at UCB. Other shows he has enjoyed being a part of at Upright Citizens Brigade include Tournament of Nerds!, his one man sketch show Adventures... Read More
Charlie Sanders Charlie Sanders is a comedian/actor/writer that has been performing at UCB Theatre for the past 8 years. He currently plays with "Shitty Jobs" and has appeared with such groups as "Reuben Williams", National Cagematch champions "C,C+C Improv Factory", and the art changing "Police Chief Rumble". He is a founding member of the sketch group "Buffoons", which appeared at the 2007 Montreal Comedy... Read More
Eric Scott ERIC is a writer/performer at the UCB Theatre. He's been a member of the UCB NY improv team, Reuben Williams, since 2004, performing in their regular Saturday night shows "As Seen On TV" and "Reuben Williams Attacks!" Eric has also been one of the hosts of CageMatch since 2003, the last 5 as TT Billingsworth, the ringside announcer for UCBW. Other UCBT shows include: "Beneath Gristedes,"... Read More
Ben Siemon Ben is an improviser/writer/actor pleased to be a writer for UCB Maude Team "Bonafide." Ben's UCBTLA credits also include Freak Dance: The Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, The Midnight Show, and the UCBTLA Harold teams "Elroy" and "Hey, Uncle Gary!" Ben frequently performs at UCB with his two man improv team, "Small Town Sheriff" (with Mike Leffingwell), with which he won the 2010 March Madness... Read More
Josh Simpson Josh Simpson has been studying and performing improv and sketch comedy at the UCB Theater since 2004. You can see him improvise with the UCB Harold team Flap Jackson, perform sketch comedy with his group MiddleKid and play adorable music with The Lousy Apples. Josh has written for and/or performed in MiddleKid: The End of the World, CDR Sketch, UCB Mixtape, Sketch Cram, Maude Night, UCB Prom... Read More
Amanda Sitko Amanda Sitko is an actor/writer/improviser who started performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2006. She is a proud cast member of Coming Clean and can be seen in ASSSSCAT. Amanda has studied under Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and more. She is a member of the UCB Touring Company and currently teaches for the UCB Training Center.
Amanda has been seen in various shows at the... Read More
Joel Spence Joel has been performing improvisational and sketch comedy at UCBTLA since 2005. He's a member of the harold team Sentimental Lady, as well as the improvised movie team Deep Focus, and Soundtrack. He's also appeared in ASSSSCAT, America's Best Comic, Dirtiest Sketch Contest, Cleanest Sketch (winner!), Gallery Of Evil, Fucked Up and Illegal Videos, and Freak Dance at UCBTLA. He studied improv... Read More
Mike Still Mike Still is an actor and improvisor who has been performing in New York City since 2004.
Mike is a member of the UCBT weekend house team, Death by Roo Roo. On Harold Night, Mike performed with the teams Badman, Bangs and Twelve Thousand Dollars. He was a guest perfomer on Mother, one of UCBT's most-beloved and venerated teams. Mike is one of the creators of the long-running... Read More
Gregory Tuculescu Greg Tuculescu is best known as that guy who farted in the movie "I Love You, Man." He has also appeared in the independent TV pilot "Oh! Be Joyful!" and the NBC hit series "30 Rock." Recently he landed the role of Kevin in the up-coming comedy feature "Bridesmaids" starring SNL's Kristen Wiig.
Greg joined the UCB Theatre in 2004 where he has performed with the house teams Tantrum,... Read More
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... Read More
Nick Wiger Nick Wiger (rhymes with "tiger") is a writer, comedian, and video game designer. A frequent performer at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, Nick is an original member of Last Day of School -- UCBTLA's longest-running improv team -- and the sketch group A Kiss From Daddy. He's also written, directed, and performed in many other live shows and videos.
Nick has contributed writing for a number of... Read More
Eva Anderson Eva is a longtime member of the sketch group A Kiss From Daddy and currently coaches the Maude team "Oh, Brother" and the Beta team "Pantsuit." Other UCBTLA credits include Sketch Cram, CDR Sketch, Quick and Funny Musicals, We Wish you a Silly Spoofmas, and The Hot Seat with Wally George. Eva's comedy writing credits include The Onion News Network and Comedy Central's pilot This Show Will... Read More 
Suzi Barrett Originally from Michigan, Suzi got her degree in theatre at Western Michigan University, then moved to Chicago where she studied improv at The Second City and io. From there, she headed to Amsterdam, and spent 3 years performing with Boom Chicago-- or as the Dutch often call it-- "De Chicago Boom Boom". A member of the UCBTLA community since 2006, Suzi has studied with Matt Besser and Ian... Read More 
Susannah Becket Susannah Becket is a writer and actor in Los Angeles, currently performing on Monday nights with The Smokes. Before that, she was a member of UCBTLA Harold teams Panama and The Galleria and the UCBTNY Harold teams Beverly Hills, Killebrew and Havana Clambake.
While in New York, she performed in the UCBT shows "Now That's What I Call Rogue Elephant!," "Up Late! With Lord Voldemort," "Flux... Read More 
Alex Berg Alex "Berg" Berg has been involved with UCBTLA since 2006, and has thankfully managed not to wear out his welcome since then. As a student, he's studied with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh of the Upright Citizens Brigade and many others. He's been performing with Sentimental Lady since their inception, and has been with three-man group Convoy since even before their Cagematch... Read More 
Julie Brister Julie Brister is a performer, director and teacher living in Los Angeles. She has been a part of the UCB community since the dark ages of 1997 in New York City. She’s appeared in and directed dozens of shows including: her solo-show Fatparts, which also performed at Sketchfest in San Francisco, Showgirls! The Best Movie Ever Made! Ever!, Laid Up, and Put it in You! The Sex-Ed Musical.
She... Read More 
Neil Campbell Neil Campbell is a comedy writer, performer, and Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Los Angeles. He has written and performed at UCBTLA since it opened in 2005 and has studied under Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Scott Aukerman and many others. Neil has written, performed in, and/or directed many shows at UCBTLA, including Neil and Paul: Growing Up is Tough and... Read More 
Chad Carter Chad Carter is a writer and improvisor based in LA. He has performed in a lot of festivals and shows with silly names. Currently, you can see him in Facebook and ASSSSCAT at the UCBTLA. He has written for ABC's My Kind of Town, Comedy Central's Crossballs, Creature Comforts on CBS and currently Funny or Die.
Chad Carter is a trained physicist and tries his best. Read More 
Brett Christensen Brett Christensen has been studying, teaching and/or performing with the UCB Theatre since 2001. Brett performed sketch and improv comedy beginning in the University of Arizona's Comedy Corner, then professionally in both New York and Los Angeles. He has worked in a variety of film and television projects, most memorably as a conspiring member of a vampire book club/sex cult on Law & Order:... Read More 
Jackie Clarke Jackie Clarke is a writer and performer living in Los Angeles.
You can hear Jackie as "Courtney" in the upcoming Nick-at-Nite animated series, "Glenn Martin DDS." Her original animated series "Mail Order Family" which is based on the true story of her life, will air in mini-episodes as part of "Funny or Die" on HBO.
Jackie is a regular performer at the esteemed Upright Citizens Brigade... Read More 
Sean Clements Sean has been studying and performing at UCB Theatre since 2005. He was a member of several Harold and Maude Teams in New York, but he's not there anymore, so stop living in the past! He has performed in the UCBTLA shows ASSSSCAT, Sketch Cram, Let's Do This, CDR Sketch and he's a cast member in the weekly improv show Shitty Jobs.
Sean worked as a staff writer for the MTV show, Popzilla, and... Read More 
Sean Conroy Sean Conroy has studied improvisation with every member of the Upright Citizens Brigade as well as Armando Diaz and Kevin Mullaney. He has performed stand-up comedy on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Late Friday on NBC. His one-man show, Taught, was selected for the 2001 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He has written for Spike's Players,... Read More 
Eugene Cordero Eugene Cordero is an actor/improviser who performs every Monday night at UCBTLA as a member of THE SMOKES. He also regularly plays in ASSSSCAT and the musical improv group Diamond Lion as well as touring around the country as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. In New York, Eugene was a member of REUBEN WILLIAMS and is 1/3 of the sketch group BUFFOONS. He studied under... Read More 
Mel Cowan Mel Cowan began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2006, and has studied under Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, John Ross Bowie, Seth Morris, Sean Conroy and Owen Burke. He performs regularly with the long-running team Sentimental Lady and can also be seen in Rough Cut: The Improvised Movie. He has been seen in various shows at UCB including thirty:30, Smug Rock... Read More 
Dominic Dierkes Dominic Dierkes is a comedian and writer based out of Los Angeles. He has been performing at the UCB Theatre since 2003 where he also serves as a teacher and director. Dominic is a member of the comedy group DERRICK whose videos have been viewed over one hundred million times online. Dominic co-wrote and co-starred in DERRICK's first feature film MYSTERY TEAM which premiered at the Sundance... Read More 
Katie Dippold Katie is currently a writer for MADtv. She was a cast member of MTV's prank show Boiling Points and has made several appearances on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
A journalism major from Rutgers University, Katie was the writer of Mandatory Lame-Ass Staff Meeting, a TimeOut NY Critic's Pick noted as a "very funny sketch show". She was a member of Police Chief Rumble, awarded "Best... Read More 
Jill Donnelly Jill Donnelly grew up in Rochester, NY and shuffled off to Ohio to study theatre and neuroscience at Oberlin College. She performed at UCBTNY for several years before heading westward, bringing along her long-running one-woman show, Amnesia.
These days, you can find her performing at UCBTLA with the Harold team, The Racquet, ASSSSCAT, and on the Maude team, Hot Mess. Read More 
Colton Dunn Colton Dunn started comedy at the age of 15, working with Comedy Sportz, Minnesota. In 1997, Colton moved to NYC to study improv and perform with the Upright Citizens Brigade. He lived and performed in Amsterdam with Boom Chicago and pulled pranks on MTV's Boiling Points.
At UCBTLA, Colton performed in Crime Scenes (a selection of the 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival), Legal Weed and Hookers... Read More 
Todd Fasen Todd Fasen has been performing and taking classes at UCBTLA since 2006. He's studied with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade plus Seth Morris, Billy Merritt, Sean Conroy, and many others. He started improvising in 2000 as a member of the Vassar College improv troupe boringly named Improv.
Todd currently performs weekly at UCBTLA with his groups Convoy... Read More 
Casey Feigh Casey Feigh is a writer/comedian on the UCB Harold team John Velvet. He also writes and performs with the sketch group Cream, whose videos have appeared on numerous Comedy Central shows and received millions of views online.
Casey loves improv and is on a bunch of teams with wacky names including Hip Hop Penguin, whose written shows Hip Hop Penguin: Dropping Truth Bombs in Yo Earholes & Hip... Read More 
David Ferguson Dave Ferguson is a writer and performer from Dayton, Ohio. A graduate of Ithaca College, Dave is a member of the sketch group The Birthday Boys, currently writing and performing a new half-hour sketch show every month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The group has been selected for a number of comedy festivals, including Sketchfest NYC, Seattle Sketchfest, the Los Angeles Comedy... Read More 
Alex Fernie Alex Fernie has been performing and taking classes at UCBTLA since 2006. He's studied with Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade plus Seth Morris and Chad Carter, among others. He started improvising in high school in Providence, RI. He continued to perform regularly while attending Vassar College until moving to Los Angeles in 2004.
He currently is a member... Read More 
Brian Finkelstein Brian Finkelstein is a comedic writer / performer. He’s a regular at the Moth as well as The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. His last one-person show, First Day Off In A Long Time, was selected for the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and chosen “Best In Comedy″ by Time Out New York. The show was later developed as a sitcom for FOX.
Brian’s appeared in a variety... Read More 
Curtis Gwinn Curtis Gwinn is a comedic writer and performer, as well as a teacher of improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. At UCB he's studied with Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Andrew Secunda and Armando Diaz. He’s been featured in dozens of films, sketch and improv shows and is renowned for his storytelling prowess. He was the co-star and co-creator of the Adult Swim... Read More 
David Harris Since 2005 David Harris has been studying and improvising at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. He has studied with UCB founders, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh and continues to perform with the Harold team turned weekly show, Last Day of School.
David has also performed in Freak Dance: the Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, Sketch Cram, Dirtiest Sketch in LA Contest and Drug... Read More 
Joe Hartzler Joe is an actor, writer, satirist born and raised in the fertile Tuscarawas River valley of Ohio’s Amish country. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2006, he spent three years touring America’s Hotels and Highways, performing improv comedy for churches, colleges, conferences, Christians, Texans, and Drunks.
In 2008, Joe began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre with the... Read More 
Tim Kalpakis Tim Kalpakis is an American comedy writer and member of the Los Angeles sketch group The Birthday Boys. He has been writing and performing at UCBTLA since 2006 in shows such as Hotdoggin' (directed by Neil Campbell and Paul Rust), Comedy Death-Ray, The Not Inappropriate Show with Bob Odenkirk, Charlyne Yi's Music Box, and The Birthday Boys monthly sketch show. He has also appeared at the... Read More 
Chris Kelly Chris Kelly is currently a staff writer and director for The Onion News Network, which won the 2009 Peabody Award, and earlier this year was a writer on a Comedy Central pilot created by Matt Besser.
Currently at UCB, Chris wrote, directed, and acts in his new one-act play "OH MY GOD, I HEARD YOURE DYING!". He is also the director of Michael Hartneys one-man show, "SO I LIKE SUPERMAN", and is... Read More 
Anthony King Anthony King is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and performer currently living in Los Angeles.
He 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... Read More 
Chris Kula Chris Kula has been performing sketch and improv at the UCB Theatre since 2001. He has studied with the top teachers at UCBT including Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh. He currently performs weekly with the UCBTLA house team The Smokes.
Kula has worked as a staff writer at MADtv, Funny or Die and most recently, Comedy Central's new Onion Sports Network show. Previous... Read More 
Mike Leffingwell Michael Leffingwell began studying with the UCB in 2003. At UCBTNY, he performed in the Made-Up Musical, with the sketch show Gun Love, and co-wrote and performed in the sketch show Of Mice and Tara & Michael. He also spent several years as a teacher and performer in the Touring and Main Company of Chicago City Limits.
Michael co-created and was head writer of the fake news website FNN... Read More 
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... Read More 
Tricia McAlpin Tricia McAlpin is a writer and actress in Los Angeles. At UCBTLA she can be seen performing at Harold Night with her team The Racquet and sketches she writes with her team Bonafide can be seen at Maude Night. Other UCBTLA credits include TwiSchool Musical, Sketch Cram, Re-Gifted and 140 Tweets. She has written articles for Comedy.com, videos for UCBcomedy.com and created the blog... Read More 
Will McLaughlin Will has been a perfomer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since the year 2000, before apes were our masters. He has appeared in several shows at the UCB Theatre including Anydayville, Crime Scene Improv and Piledriver, which he broke a rib for.
Will has performed with the NY Harold Teams Renegade 77, America!, Grenade vs. Washing Machine and Police Chief Rumble. The latter Harold... Read More 
Allan McLeod Allan McLeod is an actor, writer, and comedian type living in Los Angeles. He attended the University of Alabama where he received a B.A. in Theatre and Film. At UA Allan wrote and performed sketch comedy for the Theatre and Dance Department's bi-weekly Guerrila Theatre show. Allan also won the opportunity to study filmmaking under Tom Cherones (director of Seinfeld, Newsradio) based on a... Read More 
Johnny Meeks Johnny has been studying and performing with the UCB Theatre Los Angeles since its inception and has been trained by Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh of the Upright Citizens Brigade. His improv comedy experience began eons ago when he represented the Webster Groves High School Statesmen on its improv team. Johnny went on to found an improv troupe at Ohio Wesleyan University where he... Read More 
Billy Merritt Billy Merritt has been with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since its inception, teaching, directing, and performing. He has performed in over 50 different shows at the theater including ASSSSCAT, Killgore, Harold Night, The Real Real World, Immortal Kombat, Robot TV, the Third Degree and Gigantic Man. He has developed such shows as Piledriver, The Sunshine Gang, Brain Town and Rat Radio.... Read More 
Seth Morris Seth Morris is a stand-up, sketch and improv comedian from San Francisco and the former Artistic Director of UCBTLA. He began studying improv and sketch with the UCBTNY in 1997. Seth appeared in, directed and wrote for many shows at the UCB and has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, The Toyota Comedy Festival, The San Francisco Sketch Fest, The Chicago Improv Fest, The Telluride... Read More 
Joe O'Brien Joe O'Brien has been improvising at the UCB Theatres in NYC and LA for the past six years. His sketch show Gun Love and two one act plays The De-Evolution Theory and Van Gogh's Path were performed at the UCB as well.
In addition to co-creating the fake news website FNN 24/7, Joe has written pilots for MTV and Animal Planet, was a staff writer on Comedy Central's Crossballs and The Showbiz... Read More 
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... Read More 
Kevin Pedersen Kevin is a writer and comedian who has been with UCB since 2005. A member of a UCB Harold Team for 4 years, he currently improvises off people's secrets with "Coming Clean". Kevin was a member of three Maude teams and is currently a Maude director. Other sketch show direction experience includes the monthly Sketch Cram, a show he's been with since it came to Los Angeles. He has studied with... Read More 
John Reynolds Writer/performer, John Reynolds, is currently a staff writer for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. He has also written for such television shows as Starveillance (E! Channel), Comedy Central's Window Seats, Celebrity Deathmatch and Nick Cannon's Short Circuitz both for MTV to name a few.
John has acted in many commercials and writes and performs comedy on a regular basis at the... Read More 
Lee Rubenstein Lee Rubenstein has been writing, performing and studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2006. He has written for ABC, MTV, the UCB house sketch teams 27 Kidneys and High Treason, as well as The Hipster Show, The 4/20 Show, LOST: The Dharma Initiative Company Picnic and Dusty Springfield: Live In Heaven. He also performs stand-up and storytelling all across NYC.
He keeps a... Read More 
Hal Rudnick Hal has been doing improv for over ten years. At UCBTLA he has studied with Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, and Sean Conroy among others. He is currently on the UCB Harold team, The Great War. His sketch group, The Midnight Show, performs monthly at UCB. Other shows he has enjoyed being a part of at Upright Citizens Brigade include Tournament of Nerds!, his one man sketch show Adventures... Read More 
Charlie Sanders Charlie Sanders is a comedian/actor/writer that has been performing at UCB Theatre for the past 8 years. He currently plays with "Shitty Jobs" and has appeared with such groups as "Reuben Williams", National Cagematch champions "C,C+C Improv Factory", and the art changing "Police Chief Rumble". He is a founding member of the sketch group "Buffoons", which appeared at the 2007 Montreal Comedy... Read More 
Eric Scott ERIC is a writer/performer at the UCB Theatre. He's been a member of the UCB NY improv team, Reuben Williams, since 2004, performing in their regular Saturday night shows "As Seen On TV" and "Reuben Williams Attacks!" Eric has also been one of the hosts of CageMatch since 2003, the last 5 as TT Billingsworth, the ringside announcer for UCBW. Other UCBT shows include: "Beneath Gristedes,"... Read More 
Ben Siemon Ben is an improviser/writer/actor pleased to be a writer for UCB Maude Team "Bonafide." Ben's UCBTLA credits also include Freak Dance: The Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo, The Midnight Show, and the UCBTLA Harold teams "Elroy" and "Hey, Uncle Gary!" Ben frequently performs at UCB with his two man improv team, "Small Town Sheriff" (with Mike Leffingwell), with which he won the 2010 March Madness... Read More 
Josh Simpson Josh Simpson has been studying and performing improv and sketch comedy at the UCB Theater since 2004. You can see him improvise with the UCB Harold team Flap Jackson, perform sketch comedy with his group MiddleKid and play adorable music with The Lousy Apples. Josh has written for and/or performed in MiddleKid: The End of the World, CDR Sketch, UCB Mixtape, Sketch Cram, Maude Night, UCB Prom... Read More 
Amanda Sitko Amanda Sitko is an actor/writer/improviser who started performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2006. She is a proud cast member of Coming Clean and can be seen in ASSSSCAT. Amanda has studied under Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and more. She is a member of the UCB Touring Company and currently teaches for the UCB Training Center.
Amanda has been seen in various shows at the... Read More 
Joel Spence Joel has been performing improvisational and sketch comedy at UCBTLA since 2005. He's a member of the harold team Sentimental Lady, as well as the improvised movie team Deep Focus, and Soundtrack. He's also appeared in ASSSSCAT, America's Best Comic, Dirtiest Sketch Contest, Cleanest Sketch (winner!), Gallery Of Evil, Fucked Up and Illegal Videos, and Freak Dance at UCBTLA. He studied improv... Read More 
Mike Still Mike Still is an actor and improvisor who has been performing in New York City since 2004.
Mike is a member of the UCBT weekend house team, Death by Roo Roo. On Harold Night, Mike performed with the teams Badman, Bangs and Twelve Thousand Dollars. He was a guest perfomer on Mother, one of UCBT's most-beloved and venerated teams. Mike is one of the creators of the long-running... Read More 
Gregory Tuculescu Greg Tuculescu is best known as that guy who farted in the movie "I Love You, Man." He has also appeared in the independent TV pilot "Oh! Be Joyful!" and the NBC hit series "30 Rock." Recently he landed the role of Kevin in the up-coming comedy feature "Bridesmaids" starring SNL's Kristen Wiig.
Greg joined the UCB Theatre in 2004 where he has performed with the house teams Tantrum,... Read More 
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... Read More 
Nick Wiger Nick Wiger (rhymes with "tiger") is a writer, comedian, and video game designer. A frequent performer at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, Nick is an original member of Last Day of School -- UCBTLA's longest-running improv team -- and the sketch group A Kiss From Daddy. He's also written, directed, and performed in many other live shows and videos.
Nick has contributed writing for a number of... Read More