UCB’s New York theater expands Maude sketch roster to eight teams for 2011. Meet the new casts! Zoinks!

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC recently held auditions for its "Maude" sketch teams, and via mass email, let everyone know they'd decided to expand Maude nights on Mondays to include eight teams come January 2011.

Before you think this post is too NYC-centric, just remember this: the UCB's sketch teams already and continue to include writers and performers that you also can see wherever you have a TV on shows such as, oh, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, as well as plenty of commercial advertisements.

Here are the new rosters, with notations as described from the UCB's mass email. Also note that several new teams have been given "starter names" straight out of Scooby-Doo. Welcome members of Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma!

(NEW MAUDE NIGHT WRITERS/PERFORMERS ARE IN ALL-CAPS)

(**Maude Night Writer/Performers Who Changed Teams Are Starred**)

THUNDER GULCH – FIRST SHOW 1/10/11

WRITERS:
**Celeste Ballard**
Kerry McGuire
Matt Pavlovich
Chris Schell & Alex Scordelis
Brett White
Christopher Wilkes

ACTORS:
Rob Cuthill
Cody Lindquist
Michael Martin
Leslie Meisel
Shannon O'Neill
Zhubin Parang

VELMA (starter name) – FIRST SHOW 1/10/11

WRITERS:
JASON FLOWERS
MARY IAMPIETRO
ANDREW LAW
DAN MCINERNEY
ALISON RICH
MATT STARR

ACTORS:
NICOLE BYER
AMY HEIDT
**John Milhiser**
ALISON RICH
STEPHEN SOROKA
ABRA TABAK

GRAMP'S – FIRST SHOW 1/17/11

WRITERS:
Jesse Acini
Damian Chadwick
Alex Kane
Rachael Mason
Rory Panagotopulos
Eli Terry

ACTORS:
Jen Bartels
Eddie Dunn
DON FANELLI
Kate McKinnon
Rory Panagotopulos
Noah Plener

FRED (starter name) – FIRST SHOW 1/17/11

WRITERS:
EMILY ALTMAN
BENJAMIN APPLE
FRANK HEJL
DRAKE MILLER
JASON SAENZ
MIKE SCOLLINS

ACTORS:
**Lauren Adams**
**Sue Galloway**
**Fran Gillespie**
FRANK HEJL
**Corey Johnson**
**Ben Rameaka**

STONE COLD FOX – FIRST SHOW 1/24/11

WRITERS:
Evan Greenspoon
Jocelyn Guest
Chris Kelly
**Owen Parsons**
**Leila Cohan-Miccio**
Mike Trapp

ACTORS:
D'Arcy Erokan
Jonathan Fernandez
Brandon Scott Jones
Chris Kelly
Molly Lloyd
John Murray

SHAGGY (starter name) – FIRST SHOW 1/24/11

WRITERS:
**Stephanie Bencin**
**Alison Bennett**
**Eric Cunningham**
JON GUTIERREZ
MICHAEL HARTNEY
**Ben Stadler**

ACTORS:
ALISON BENNETT
**Marcus Bishop-Wright**
**Devlyn Corrigan**
**Michael Hartney**
MARCY JARREAU**
**Pam Murphy**

SCOOBY (starter name) – FIRST SHOW 1/31

WRITERS:
**Beth Appel**
**Ramsey Ess**
**Geoff Garlock**
**Brandon Gulya**
**Matt Moskovciak**
ROB WEBBER

ACTORS:
**Sarah Claspell**
**Tim Dunn**
**Mary Grill**
**Amber Nelson**
**Davram Stiefler**
**Rob Webber**

DAPHNE (starter name) – FIRST SHOW 1/31

WRITERS:
SARAH BENNETT
DAVID BERNSTEIN
COLIN ELZIE
PATRICK O'BRIEN
SHERRY PARNES
BEN WIETMARSCHEN

ACTORS:
DAN BLACK
ZACH BROUSSARD
DAN CHAMBERLAIN
MAMRIE HART
TABITHA LEE
**Veronica Osorio**