Indie Cage Match round 14: 7:30 PM, Sunday, February 19th - UCB East
Get ready folks! TODAY in UCB East Indie Cage Match’s mind-bending fourteenth show, two all star teams and our returning champion face off in an awesome comedy death-match. Three will enter, one will leave victorious - Sunday, February 19th, 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 Brandon Scott Jones
Brandon performs every Friday at the UCB Theatre with the sketch group Stone Cold Fox. He improvises on the Harold Team Grandma’s Ashes and plays venues across the country as a member of the UCB Touring Company. He is also currently appearing in This is Not a Sketch Show: A Sketch Show. Additionally, Brandon co-hosts the weekly comedy/variety show GENTRIFY at the UCBeast.
Other UCB credits include: Maude Night; Waiting for Obama;Oh My God, I Heard You’re Dying; Celebrity Funeral;and the Harold Team Robber Baron.
As either an actor or writer, Brandon has worked on various film, TV, and stage projects. He has also appeared in a bunch of online videos for places like UCBComedy, CollegeHumor, LandlineTV, Jest and more. He is a graduate of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and the LAByrinth Theatre Company Master Class. Sometimes I — I mean he — he makes his own, weird little jokes on Twitter that often make no sense but in the moment seemed like a good idea: @brandonSJ
Brandon is a world class daydreamer and is often found daydreaming about being a professional tennis player; the Orioles winning the World Series; traveling the globe in a great suit; and having his very own rustic kitchen.
He would like to thank his family for their incredible support.
Our hilarious indie darling this week is Moujan Zolfaghari
Moujan Zolfaghari is a writer and performer living in New York City. She has studied improv at the UCB Theatre since March 2009 and is currently a performer on Harold Night with Still Mike and the line producer for Beta Team, Horse+Horse. Moujan has studied under Jeff Hiller, Greg Tuculescu, Ari Voukydis, Shannon O’Neill, Zach Woods, Becky Drysdale and the Hines brothers and is a former member of UCB House Teams American Cousin, Ragnarock, CAPTCHA and The Opera.
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Moujan is a graduate of UC Berkeley and a former producer and writer for Revision3.com. She is currently spending a lot of time at the Onion News Network.
Moujan can often be found at any Trader Joe’s/Costco sampling stations. The pronunciation of her name is Moo-jhaan Zole-faah-gaarr-ee. You got it.
Our incredible indie teams (and some fun facts about them)
“Sheldrake Boothroy was born into wealthy Louisiana aristocratic family, and was groomed to become a southern gentlemen. Upon graduating high school he shocked his family by deciding to attend Cambridge University, also known to some as Harvard, in Massachusetts. It was there he first theorized the idea of capturing an excited proton in a lazed form, this would later become his greatest invention “the proton” pack. After Cambridge, he accepted a teaching position at NYU, and this is were he discovered the wonders of psilocybin also known to some as mushrooms. One particular mushroom adventure he stole a horse and carriage from central park, rode it through time square attacking only asian tourist with a giant foam finger that was covered in relish. NYU, gave their esteemed professor a second chance, and all was quiet for a while. Then at a Thanksgiving diner party, a native american shared some of his peyote with Sheldrake. Sheldrake as well as his new native american friend, completely twisted on peyote, preceded to break into the Bronx zoo, liberate all of the reptiles and giraffes, completely shave all of the monkeys and tie wrap plastic knifes to the monkeys hands, and were finally caught riding a rhino somewhere in Washington heights. Needles to say he was let go by NYU, but his desire to teach still burned. Sheldrake is now a streetwalker, and can be found only if looked for properly wandering the NYU library. He has been the ghost writer on countless papers, and his sage like advice has become legendary at not only NYU, but colleges around the world. Sheldrake openly admits that he strongly attracted to single mothers, he believes they are what pumps the blood through the heart of the American culture ”
Sheldrake Boothroy is Nick Carrillo, Angela Dee, TJ Del Reno, Jonathan DeMuth, Luke Koz, J. Rod, Douglas Widick, Julia Wiedeman
“SWOON is a hard-working group… Won’t you love us?”
Swoon is Rudy Behrens, Joanna Bradley, Danny Pascal, Aaron Jackson, Nathan Min, John Townsend, John Trowbridge, Betsy Wilson
P.I.G. is a group of funny funny girls. OUR RETURNING CHAMPIONS, AGAIN!
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 assistants Justin Byrne and Evan Boshi will be there, as usual, for all the actually important stuff.
