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So far this month, the longtime CEO of The Second City has announced his resignation and asked the legendary Chicago theater to name a replacement from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) community, while the four co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in New York City and …
This just in from the UCB4 (aka, co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade: Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh), a mass email announcing the UCB Theatre is seeking nonprofit status, and once achieved, the UCB4 will cede operational control “to a diverse board.” The UCB already closed …
Matt Besser is known as one of the co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, which began as a sketch comedy group in Chicago, moved to New York City, got a TV series on Comedy Central, and opened up theaters and schools teaching improv and sketch comedy in both New York …
The Upright Citizens Brigade is opening up a Spanish-language comedy boot camp in Mexico City, thanks to a new partnership with Mexico-based Endemol Shine Boomdog. The production company in Mexico is looking to cast upcoming sketch and variety shows there. For the Mexico City boot camp, Endemol Shine Boomdog will …
The Beast took years longer than expected to open, but the Upright Citizen Brigade’s theater in the East Village will close with relatively short notice. Time’s up in a month, after shows on Saturday, Feb. 9. UCB-NY Artistic Director Michael Hartney delivered the bad news via email late Wednesday. The …
You probably could name at least one famous person who came out of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, if not several dozen. But everybody who performed at the UCB could tell you about Chuck Dauble. They’d describe Dauble as affable and irritable, sometimes at the same …
The Upright Citizens Brigade will produce 10 weekly hours of fresh comedy for Nerdist and its Alpha streaming network. The UCB’s Don’t Think Productions will make the as-yet untitled series, which will include sketch comedy and other short-form pieces — similar, perhaps to The UCB Show that ran on Seeso. …
Each summer going back 18 years, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has hosted improvisers from around the country — and now around the world — to celebrate the comedy form, and in particular the late improv guru Del Close. Close not only popularized the Harold form, but also taught and …
Nicole Byer first captured the comedy world’s attention as part of the improv group, Doppelganger, which also featured future Saturday Night Live player Sasheer Zamata. Byer co-starred in a late-night sketch show on FOX produced by The Lonely Island called Party Over Here. She’s also appeared on Lady Dynamite, Transparent, …
The Upright Citizens Brigade founders have a knack for announcing big news on the eve of their annual Del Close Marathon, and this year is no exception, as NBCUniversal today revealed it has expanded its working relationship with the UCB4 and their improvising minions to include at least five new …
