Indie Cage Match round 12: 7:30 PM, Sunday, February 5th - UCB East
Get ready folks! Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, in UCB East Indie Cage Match’s mind-bending twelfth show, some weird people return to face off against a team named after a woman, and a team of all women. Three will enter, one will leave victorious - Sunday, February 5th, 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 John Flynn
John Flynn is an actor and writer currently living in New York City.
He is one of the co-creators of the hit show Showgirls: The Best Movie Ever Made. Ever! He is also one of the writers of Logo’s NewNowNext Awards, airing in June. John also created, produced, and hosted the internet show Project Improviser, a competitive reality show that explored the world of long form improvisation. His one man shows, Themepark Superstar and Dances With Pitchforks: Confessions of a Farm Boy, have been performed in New York at Caroline’s Comedy Club, Joe’s Pub, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and in Los Angeles, Boston, and Key West, Florida. He’s a regular contributor to the monthly storytelling show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Nights of Our Lives, and has been published in The Daily News, Go Metric Magazine, and an upcoming book about Craigslist hook-ups.
John has appeared off-Broadway in What in the World: The NEWSical Revue, Oedipus the Musical, All American Boy, andAround the World in a Bad Mood. Regionally, he appeared in the musical Gypsy (starring Betty Buckley and Deborah Gibson), Cold As Ice (an ice skating musical starring Oksana Baiul), A Chorus Line, and The Mystery of Irma Vep. On television he’s appeared on 100 Centre Street and Saturday Night Live, as well as numerous commercials, industrials, print ads, motion capture work, and he’s even done some hand modeling despite a life long habit of biting his nails.
His website is allthingsflynn.com
Our hilarious indie darling this week is Sasheer Zamata
Sasheer is an actress, writer, improviser and stand up comedian. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she started taking improv and sketch classes at the UCBT in 2009. You can see her perform with the lovely ladies of Doppelganger doing improv, and all by herself doing stand up.
She enjoys laughing, dancing and writing short bios.
For more vague descriptions, visit sasheer.com
Our incredible indie teams (and some fun facts about them)
The Weird Ones started life as a UCB 600 class, now they can be seen performing all over the city, in all their weird glory.
What do The Weird Ones have to say for themselves?
“Shannon O’Neill’s hand selected wEiRdOs!”
The Weird Ones is Eddie Brawley, Matt Chipman, Trish Gray, Kelly Q E Hudson, Boris Khaykin, Alex Khurgin, Lou Lasher, Nick Leyva, Sunita Mani, Tony Mui, Charles Parker, Joe Pera, Katherine Toledo, Mike Toro, Ben Warheit, Julia Wiedeman
Brenda is a group of hilarious people out of the UCB training program.
What Brenda say about themselves:
“All of us have illegitimate children. We met in a support group for people like us. We bring a mean box of joe to meetings.”
Brenda is Evan Boshi, Jocelyn Drew, Dave Kawalec, James Leggero, Jeff Solomon
P.I.G. is a group of funny funny girls.
What P.I.G. say about themselves:
“we can’t let the boys have all the fun”
P.I.G. is Aileen Clark, Morgan Hill, Kim Kalish, Ali Reed, Kat Ventura
Our hosts, Amey and Ryan, will be there, talking, introducing people, and saying things.
ICM NYC assistant Justin Byrne and guest assistant Ian O’Keeffe will be there, as usual, for all the actually important stuff.
