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Rebekah Bentley
REBEKAH had her first taste of long-form improv at the University of Virginia where Baby Wants Candy offered a series of workshops and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) graciously told her she was funny. What may have been a throw-away statement to him planted a seed in her mind that wouldn’t bloom until... -
Gary Berard
GARY has studied long form improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 2008 with several teachers including Anthony Atamanuik, Gavin Speiller and Neil Casey as well as with former UCBT artistic director Anthony King and founder, Matt Besser. Outside of UCB he has been trained and coached by Rebecca Drysdale (Second City, Baby Wants Candy), Kevin Mullaney (iO Chicago, UCBT) and Will Storie (UCBT). In addition to improv, Gary has completed the... -
Danielle Trzcinski
DANIELLE was first introduced to improv comedy at Florida State University by the NYC-based sketch team Murderfist who, not only encouraged her to study improv, but to pursue sketch and stand-up comedy as well. She was immediately hooked and has now performed her stand-up act in Tallahassee, Tampa, Chicago and... -
Russell Feder
RUSS sure does love The Garys. He grew up in Long Island, sandwiched between the towns in which Jerry Seinfeld was born and the town in which Sonny Corleone was shot. He joined The Garys in 2009 after studying improv at UCBT with such teachers as Kate Spencer, Neil Casey, Gavin Speiller, and Rebecca... -
Michael Kuplic
MIKE got his start improvising with Georgetown University’s long form improv troupe GPIG. He has studied improv at UCB since 2009. In addition to musical improv and sketch writing at UCB, Mike has also studied sketch and long form improv at The Second City in Chicago. He is excited to... -
Jonathan Marballi
JON has studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade since 2007 and has trained with Anthony Atamanuik (30 Rock), Gavin Speiller, Doug Moe, Betsy Stover and Brandon Gardner. Jon has also studied with Bina Martin and Craig Uhlir as part of a sketch and improv intensive at The Second City... -
Anjeanette Stokes
ANJEANETTE’S first taste of improv was in her high school days (where she formed her first improv team) and while apprenticing with ‘Fools Play Improv’ in Tacoma, Washington. She studied theater and theology at the University of Dallas and played with the improv team named ‘Yes &’ (she’s not kidding). ... -
Martin Sugar
MARTIN grew up in suburban New Jersey and lived in Houston, TX for over 10 years before returning to the Northeast in 2004. He now calls Brooklyn home. He has studied both sketch writing and improvisational comedy at the UCB Theater since 2007 under teachers Charlie Sanders, Betsy Stover, Curtis... -
Will Storie, director
WILL grew up around Austin and developed his interest in acting at Sam Bass Community Theatre. He moved to New York for school (NYU ‘08) and began his studies at the UCBT in Fall 2005. Will performed on Harold Night with Raynard and more recently, The Bishop. He’s played a...
