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Jon Bander
Jon Bander is a 16-year veteran improv comedian and actor living in New York City. He teaches and performs improv, musical improv and characters at both the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and Magnet Theater in NYC, and at theaters/festivals internationally. Jon has also performed at the prestigious "Just For Laughs" Montreal comedy festival and worked for The Second City aboard a cruise ship. His television credits include TBS's "Search Party" and the Netflix shows "Master of None" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and too many digital videos. Jon's been lucky enough to study with improv royalty like TJ Jagodowski, Dave Pasquesi, Armando Diaz, Mick Napier and Susan Messing to name just a few.
Most people call him Bander. Feel free to do the same.
Woody Fu
Woody is a comedic actor based in New York. He’s been featured by Vulture, Comedy Central, FX, and The New York Times. He's performed musical improv with Rumpleteaser (UCB) and Baby Wants Candy (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). His one-man characters show Too Many Asians! ran at UCB NY+LA.
Katy Berry
Katy Berry is New York based comedian, writer, singer, voiceover actor, and freestyler. She studied writing at The New School in New York City, improvisation at The Magnet Theater, and sketch comedy at the UCB Theater. Over the past six years Katy has traveled the world performing with musical improv legends Baby Wants Candy, and New York's premier hip-hop improv team North Coast. Her comedy videos and writing have been featured on Vulture, VH1, Reductress, Studio360, Bustle and more. Her voice has been heard on Nick Jr. and in commercials for hair dye and sandwich chains. You can currently catch her performing at UCB every Saturday night, and in her completely insane monthly cabaret show, Katy Berry: ELECTRIC BITCH, at KGB Bar’s Red Room.
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Nikita Burdein
Born in the USSR, Raised in Chicago, and now in NYC, Nikita Burdein is an improviser, filmmaker, and writer of film, tv, and theater.
He has trained at the Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade since 2011 and has performed with Magnet house teams Wonderland (musical improv), Bodywork (non-musical improv) and Premiere (musical improv). He was a member of UCBT Lloyd Team Seventeen, indy darlings Fancy Man, and Karaoke based musical improv with Happy Karaoke Fun Time. When he’s not teaching musical improv at Magnet Theater, you can see Nikita performing throughout NYC the world with Baby Wants Candy and Empire.
Alyssa Davis
Alyssa Davis has been studying and performing improv more than a decade! In Chicago, she improvised with the musical team the DelTones, her Harold team “Daffodil”, the Spanish language team “Heraldo”, and her all-ladies team “Ms. Mistoffelees”, as well as stepping in with both the non-musical and Musical “Armando”! In early 2019, she took a two month tour of Adelaide, Australia with the Musical group Baby Wants Candy and Thrones! the Musical.
She formerly worked with “Chaos Theory”, “Nightingale”, and “Emergency Sleepover” at iO. She is the co-creator of the video group “Cedarville Comedy” and performs in XVP Comedy Shorts. She is an original cast member of “Improvised Mythology”, “Will You Accept this Rose?”, and “Fan/Fiction”. She performed in the Directing Showcases “A Bit Too Far” and “Doom and Gloom”. Some of her favorite former roles include Helen of Troy in Trojan Women, every character in Midsummer, and Iphigenia in Agamemnon and his Daughters, an Emmy-Award Winning Documentary about the Dah Theatar in Serbia. Be kind to each other!
Adrian Frimpong
Adrian "Frimmy" Frimpong is a NYC-based comedian by ways of Houston, TX. When he’s not performing stand up, he regularly performs improv in New York and sketch with Kids These Days. His work has been featured on NBC’s Bring The Funny, Comedy Central, and Bleacher Report. But Frimmy is most renowned for being the only improviser in NYC with money, as he works as a talented software developer by day.
Kiki Mikkelsen
Kiki Mikkelsen is an improvisor, actress and musician living in Queens. She has been studying and performing improv in New York City since 2012. Kiki holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University. She performs with Baby Wants Candy (Edinburgh Fringe Fest, Adelaide Fringe Fest, UCB), Blank! The Musical (Green Room 42), Vern (The PIT), and Premiere (Magnet). She also performs with Happy Karaoke Fun Time! and her indie team Tall Boys.
Patrick Noth
Patrick Noth is an Emmy nominated comedian working in New York City. He began his comedy career studying at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade where he now teaches and performs regularly. His television credits include appearances on Comedy Central, MTV, IFC, TV Land, NBC, Nickelodeon, and countless digital platforms. Similarly, writing credits include Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and many digital platforms. Moving to New York as a teenager, he’s worked as a freestyle rapper, composer, music producer, but after studying improvisation and comedy he was hooked. Patrick is also a director and has worked for Comedy Central, many self-produced projects and the Gizmo ASP at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He also teaches at the world renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre Institution in New York City. Patrick graduated from the City College of New York with a B.F.A in Music
Raquel Palmas
Raquel Palmas is an actress, comedian and improvisor. You can catch her performing improv at the UCB Hells Kitchen (BABY WANTS CANDY), PIT (North Coast, Havisham) and Caveat (various shows). She is proudly focusing her theatrical /comedic energies on f$&3ing up the status quo and being black as hell. She is a member of many indie improv teams such as Off Top, the all-black King Zebra and even has the audacity to perform with her father on a two-prov team called Daddies Issues. She is overjoyed to be able make theater that consists of two things that always make white men question their privilege: blackness and laughter.
Mike Poole
Mike Poole is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer who has travelled the world doing comedy. Currently he is the host of his live show “Mike Poole’s Pool Party”, a member of Cipha Sound’s “Take It Personal”, Baby Wants Candy’s “Shamilton”, and is an original member of “My Momma’s Biscuits”.
Previously a performer and teacher at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, he was a performer on a plethora of shows including “Harold Night”, “Focus Group”, “Diversity jam”, and more.
He has performed long-form improv at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Off-Broadway, across Europe and throughout the US. He has been in many festivals including IMPRO Amsterdam, New York Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketch Fest, Del Close Marathon and many more.
He has appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, Disney+, Food Network, A&E Network, and UCB Digital.
Adrien Pellerin
Adrien Pellerin is an actor, writer, and musical comedian. Comedy Central released his digital series, Night Crew, in 2019. Adult Swim released his short, STAYDIUM, in 2020. Adrien starred in TikTok’s 2019 ad campaign, Challenge Accepted. He started Terms Of Service, a half-hour sketch show on Public Access TV in NYC. His work has been featured by Vulture, Mashable, and Funny Or Die. He’s written and performed in 3 musical sketch shows. He also plays piano for a bunch of improvised musicals including Baby Wants Candy, Blank! The Musical, and Broadway’s Next Hit Musical. You can see him perform sketch and musical improv regularly at The PIT.
Ali Reed
Ali Reed is an actor, improviser, and singer originally from Louisville, KY. She trained at The Magnet Theater and The Upright Citizens Brigade under many wonderful teachers including Tara Copeland, Frank Spitznagel, Shannon O'Neill, Will Hines, and Anthony Antamanuik. Ali currently performs with her house team Honeymoon at Musical Megawatt and with Premiere: The Improvised Musical at The Magnet Theater. She can also be seen in Blank! The Musical, at The PIT with her beloved team Royals, and around town in Happy Karaoke Fun Time. Ali has performed Off-Broadway with New York City's Transport Group in Once Upon A Mattress and regionally in many wonderful productions including Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit), Reefer Madness (Sally), They're Playing Our Song (Sonia Walsk).
Dan Reitz
Dan Reitz is one the world's most in-demand musical directors for comedy shows, and is an award-winning composer whose credits include Netflix and NPR.