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Woodstock Comedy Festival: Upright Citizens Brigade Mega-Show & Laughingstock!
The Woodstock Comedy Festival
Sunday, Sept 22
Performing at the Colony Café
Upright Citizens Brigade Megashow!
Sketch and improv from the best of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC.
Hosted by Streeter Seidell.
Featuring...
STREETER SEIDELL is an American comedian, writer, actor, and TV host. Seidell first gained popularity as part of the cast of CollegeHumor's online skits, although he has written and edited the site's front page before then.
ONASSIS (feat. Woodstock local Josh Ruben)
Originating as a house sketch team at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Onassis and has gone on to win acclaim as one of the best comedy groups in New York City. They've also received national attention as winners of the Friars Club Best Sketch Team and as finalists in the NYTVF Comedy Central Short Pilot Competition. In addition to three year run at The Upright Citizens Brigade, Onassis has performed all over the country including San Francisco Sketch Fest, Los Angeles' Comedy Central Stages and the Out of Bounds Festival in Austin, TX.
THE BEATdown
Comedy rap battle duo Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan and Victor Varnado
Shockwave (Freestyle Love Supreme, The Electric Company) and Victor Varnado (Awkward Comedy Show, Tell Your Friends: The Concert Film!) host 5 of NYC's finest comedians and one audience volunteer in a freestyle rap face-off to the death. Six rounds of badass one-on-one rap battles decided by the audience that will make 8 Mile look like a movie from 10 years ago. facebook.com/theBEATdownNYC twitter: @TheBEATdownNYC (less)
UCB TOURCO
The Upright Citizens Brigade Tour Company an evening of the best longform improv on the East Coast. Named "Hot Farm Team" by Rolling Stone magazine and "Best Comedy Club" by The Village Voice, The UCB Theatre is widely recognized as home to today's funniest actors and writers. The touring arm of UCB (UCB TourCo) brings the most innovative and hilarious comedians from UCB's New York and Los Angeles theaters directly to you. The hand-picked cast is sure to delight and is known for presenting the nation's next wave of comedy superstars.
Past casts include: Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover), Bobby Moynihan (SNL), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Adam Pally (Happy Endings), Horatio Sanz (SNL), Rob Corddry (The Daily Show), Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids, The Office), Rob Riggle (The Daily Show), Zach Woods (In The Loop, The Office), Lennon Parham (Accidentally On Purpose, BFF)
Doors: 6:00pm/Show: 7:00pm
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Laughingstock! A Night of Local Stand-up Comedy
Featuring...Adam Mamawala, Audrey Rapoport, James Judd and Verna Gillis.
Hosted by Rich Shultis
ADAM MAMAWALA is a 26-year-old comic based out of Hoboken, NJ. The winner of the 2007 New Jersey Comedy Festival and a semifinalist in the 2011 Boston Comedy Festival, Adam has headlined over 125 colleges across more than 30 states since fall of 2010. He performs regularly in NYC and co-produces a weekly Friday night show at Beauty Bar (near Union Square), and was recently chosen as one of Funny or Die's "Top 30 Under 30: Comedians to Watch".
AUDREY RAPOPORT is an actor, writer, and improviser. A native of Ulster County, NY, Audrey has performed with The Groundlings, Acme Comedy Theatre, and at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. She has performed her own material in numerous shows, including Audrey Rapoport's Funny Stories Featuring James Judd ; 7 Sins; Va Va Voom!; Pinata; Heroine Addicts; and Girls' Club.
JAMES JUDD is a monologuist from New York City. He is the Artist in Residence at the All For One Festival. His new solo play Killer Quack will debut on November 3 and 9th at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater in Manhattan. He is a former member of The Groundlings and the New Face as the Hollywood Improv. He performed with local Audrey Rapoport in Funny Stories at Kleinhart Art Center in Woodstock.
RICH SHULTIS
Although Rich now makes New York City his home, he is originally from Kingston, NY (the first capital of New York, if that means anything to you) where he grew up as a small town scurvy kid with eight brothers and two step sisters. Starting out at open mics in NYC and any other venue with a stage and a microphone (and some without either) that would allow him to perform, Rich quickly caught the eye of club managers, owners, booking agents and producers. In just a few short years he became a regular at most of the major NYC and Tri-State comedy clubs. He has also performed at venues throughout the country sharing the same stage with the likes of Jim Gaffigan, Dean Edwards, Ted Alexandro, Tom Shillue, Mike DeStefano, Rich Voss, Joey Gay, The "Reverend" Bob Levy and Dave Attell to name a few.
VERNA GILLIS knows that 71 is the new71! She was the founder/director of a performance space in NYC called SOUNDSCAPE. The first presenter of world music. Back in another day she was also a music producer /manager for such great artists as Daniel Ponce, Youssou Ndour, Salif Keita, Carlinhos Brown, Yomo Toro, and Roswell Rudd who is her present collaborator on all things musical. She published a book I JUST WANT TO BE INVITED I PROMISE NOT THE COME (Life as One-Liners). She is the "imaginator" or KICK BUTT BALL Squeeze me Get a Grip. Verna has been performing segments of her one-woman show in progress "sit-down comedy TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK, on the verge of extinction." Going sane one day at a time!
Show: 9:00pm
$25
One ticket for both shows
*Official event of the Woodstock Comedy Festival*
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LocationColony Cafe (View)
22 Rock City Road
Woodstock, NY 12498
United States
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