Indie Cage Match round 7: 7:30 PM, Sunday, December 18th - UCB East

This Sunday, folks, it’s time for Indie Cage Match UCB East to destroy your brains with comedy. Lots of comedy. In UCB East Indie Cage Match’s exhilarating seventh show, North Coast is back for their third round against two big, funny teams. This is our last show of 2011, and let me tell you, this is a show to watch (I mean, they all are, but this one will be really good). This Sunday, December 18th, 7:30 PM at UCB East, the Beast.

Our Distinguished Weekly Panel (and some fun facts about them)

This week our distinguished comedy vet is Don Fanelli

Don graduated from Lehigh University with a BS in Industrial Engineering in 2005. After a couple of years of hating life in the real world he decided to throw that expensive degree right in the garbage and pursue a career in acting and comedy. 

UCB Theatre credits include The Chris Gethard Show, ( ), The Movie, Cops & Robbers, The Brooks Brothers Clambake, A Harry Potter Musical, and former Harold Teams, The Opera, dybbuk, and Standard Oil, and current Harold Team Still Mike, and Maude Team Gramps. Don can be seen performing often with his indie teams: Dreadnought, Fuck That Shit! (A Comedy Team), and Sabonis. 

Diddy personally gave him the nickname “Luther” with no explanation. So he will answer to that now.

Our hilarious indie darling this week is the brilliant host of The Kaleidoscope, Cathryn Mudon


Cathryn myoo’don is from Fruita, Colorado. 

Before moving to NYC, she received a B.S. from Regis University and worked for the U.S. postal service. Cathryn is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has studied at UCB since August 2007 with Bobby Moynihan, Joe Wengert, Neil Casey, Zach Woods, Michael Delaney, Chris Gethard and others. 

Cathryn is a pianist, a ceramicist, a Joan Baez doppelgänger and all around hippie-dippie. 

Our incredible indie teams (and some fun facts about them)

#Klepper

This giant team from UCB’s Advanced Study Program is mini a who’s who of established and up-and-coming players at UCB. 

What does #Klepper have to say for themselves?

“We Fancy.”

#Klepper is Lauren Adams, Jon Bershad, Joanna Bradley, Anna Callegari, Ellena Chmielewski, Nick Jaramillo, Katie Simon, Austin Rodrigues, James Robilotta, Chris Principe, Sarah Mathews, Nick Kocher, Al Smith, Marshall Stratton, Katherine Toledo, Sarah Wharton

North Coast

Our returning champion X2! North Coast is a crazy, fast, hilarious freestyle rap improv group. They’re really good at rhyming things.

What they say about themselves:

“Now that the east coast - west coast beef has subsided, North Coast! is stepping up to throw down. Watch as New York’s premier freestyle rapping, beatboxing, long-form improv team performs a fully improvised “hip-hopera” right in front of yo mouf. You bring your favorite rap lyric and North Coast! will make your gut bust and your head bop. And if you don’t know, now you know.”

North Coast is Oscar Montoya, Julia Morales, Doug Widick, Rachel Rosenthal, Shaun Fisher, Boris Khaykin, James Robilotta, Jonathan DeMuth

Anders & Cooper


Anders & Cooper is a bunch of really funny people, who all have something in common.

Anders & Cooper says:

“Improv is gay.”

Anders & Cooper is Rita Chinyere, Brian Faas, Molly Gaebe, Brian Glidewell, Lucas Hazlett, Aaron Jackson, Oscar Magallanes, Victoria Scroggins, Josh Sharp, Brandon Waters, Ryan Williams

Our hosts, Amey and Ryan, will be there, talking, introducing people, and saying things.

ICM NYC assistants Justin Byrne and Evan Boshi will be there, as usual, for all the actually important stuff.

Don’t forget to make reservations!