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MAUDE NIGHT DEBUT!!!
Come out tonight at 9:30PM to The Upright Citizens Brigade (Chelsea) to see my Maude Night debut on Neighbor Boy! 
WRITERS: Beth Appel, Caitlin Bitzegaio, Geoff Garlock, Matt Moskovciak, Erik Tanouye, Melinda Taub
ACTORS: Joanna Bradley, Tim Dunn, Nathasha Rothwell, Davram Stiefler, Shannon Taing, Rob Webber
GET TICKETS. BE THERE.  YOU’RE WELCOME.


Welcome to Maude Night Nathasha Rothwell!
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thoreauup:

MAUDE NIGHT DEBUT!!!

Come out tonight at 9:30PM to The Upright Citizens Brigade (Chelsea) to see my Maude Night debut on Neighbor Boy! 

WRITERS: Beth Appel, Caitlin Bitzegaio, Geoff Garlock, Matt Moskovciak, Erik Tanouye, Melinda Taub

ACTORS: Joanna Bradley, Tim Dunn, Nathasha Rothwell, Davram Stiefler, Shannon Taing, Rob Webber

GET TICKETS. 
BE THERE.  
YOU’RE WELCOME.

Welcome to Maude Night Nathasha Rothwell!

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Advice to new Maude writers and actors

digsyfinallyhasa:

Someone actually did ask for this, so I’m not just on a high horse (I mean, I am literally, not metaphorically; I’m riding a horse right now!). A lot of new people got put on Maude teams late last night and I thought I should share some things I’ve learned after being a writer on Thunder Gulch for two and a half years.

  • Pay attention. Yes, we are all individual writers, but just because your sketch is not being read or ran through does not mean you shouldn’t be paying attention. Your fellow writers need your eye and comedic voice to tweak and offer jokes. Your actors need your comedic fan brain watching and reacting to them.
  • Your first drafts will not be perfect. Do not be insulted or indignant when you bring in the sketch that killed in your 201 and it gets notes. It’s getting the notes for a reason. Listen. Also do not kill yourself trying to make a first draft perfect. It’s a first draft. Give it your all, and bring in what you have. A killer first page is absolutely enough for the rest of your team to generate ideas.
  • Cut back on the jokes. Right now, new writers, you might not be used to having actors actually read the words you have written. You also might not be used to having your stuff put up in front of the great crowds Maude night brings in. I am personally guilty of falling in love with my words and cramming way too many jokes into every chunk of dialogue; the audience will not hear them because they will be laughing at that killer other joke you wrote. Find the best jokes, keep the best jokes, cut the mediocre ones or the ones you only put in to please yourself. Keep it clean and tight.
  • Writers, your actors are comedic geniuses. They were put on your team for a reason. Remember that, in the UCB community, odds are your actors are also writers themselves. If they have a joke pitch, take it seriously. If they go off book and riff, relish it. When your actors are running through your sketch, watch it like you are watching it from the audience. If something they add genuinely makes you laugh, keep it in. It is absolutely an honor that they love your sketch enough to put themselves into it like that, do not squash it by being married to your words. This is a team.
  • Actors, know when to play and when to work. Add your lines, play with your character, but when it comes time for the final dress rehearsal and tech, know your lines. The time for riffing is done, it’s time to run the show and buckle down on perfecting the awesome sketch shows you just wrote.
  • Be fearless on stage. No matter how bad you think a sketch is going, know that the one thing the audience REALLY hates, even more than a bad sketch, is seeing fear. The worst sketch, acted with the utmost confidence and joy, can still be fun to watch. The stage is your battlefield, you are an ACTOR on MAUDE NIGHT. People paid money to see you. You are amazing.
  • Don’t fight the notes. You hired your director to direct you. Let them do it. Will they always be right? Probably. They should be. Maybe not. If you disagree with a note, keep calm and talk it out like adults (cause we are all adults, what what!). This is practice for the Real World where you might have to work with higher ups that you don’t agree with.
  • Be Brian Craine. That’s my shorthand way of saying, be the person on your team that everyone loves. Help out when asked, be positive, help out when not asked, show up on time, hang out afterwards, be a friend, be the best you you can be. Be Brian Craine.
  • Respect your tech. They are also there at the theatre with you, running through a show well after midnight. Unlike you, they are probably doing it anywhere from 4-8 times that month. Respect them. Give them your sketches in show order, print a tracklist for the tech CD, if you have crazy DVD/slide show/sound cues, email them before hand and make sure that the crazy idea you have can actually be done on stage.
  • Swagger.
  • Have fun and enjoy it. You may forget this, but none of this is under your control. You don’t really have much of a say as to whether or not you or your team stays on Maude Night. Take pride in the fact that you were chosen and give Maude Night everything you can while you can. You are now on a team with people who are going to become your best friends, your family; you might just be doing what you were destined to do for the UCB. This is it. Rock it out.
  • And take lots of photos.
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UCBT announces: Maude Night 2012

Hello, 

I’m thrilled to announce the UCBT NY’s Maude Night line-up for 2012:

CAPITAL/BOLD = NEW TO MAUDE NIGHT

bold = returning Maude Night member on a new team

italic = returning Maude Night member taking on an additional role (writer/actor)

New teams: 

ZISSOU (starter name)

Writers

JAMES MCCARTHY

JESS DWECK

JON BERSHAD

KRISTY LOPEZ BERNAL

SARAH RAINONE

ZACK PHILLIPS

Actors

AVERY MONSEN

DAN HODAPP

JONATHAN MARBALLI

KELLY HUDSON

LANGAN KINGSLEY

LISA KLEINMAN

SPACKLER (starter name)

Writers

Brett White

Ben Stadler

Matt Pavlovich

Nathan Min

CLAIRE DOWNS

Dru Johnston (w/a)

Actors

Dru Johnston (w/a)

Aaron Jackson

Cody Lindquist

Violet Krumbein

CATHRYN MUDON

Michael Antonucci 

BADGER (starter name)

Writers

Kerry McGuire

Jason Flowers

Sarah Bennett

Dan McInerney

Andrew Law (w/a)

Alison Rich (w/a)

Actors

Andrew Law (w/a)

Alison Rich (w/a)

Leslie Meisel

Rob Cuthill

Zhubin Parang

KAT TOLEDO

CARL FOREMAN JR.

ST. CLAIR (starter name)

Writers

Ari Scott

Stephanie Bencin

David Bernstein

ACHILLES STAMATELAKY 

Matt Starr

Sasheer Zamata (w/a)

Actors

Sasheer Zamata (w/a)

Amber Nelson

JUSTIN BROWN

Stephen Soroka

John Milhiser

SIOBHAN THOMPSON

Returning teams:

Neighbor Boy

Writers

Beth Appel

MELINDA TAUB

Geoff Garlock

Matt Moskkovciak

Erik Tanouye

CAITLIN BITZEGAIO

Actors

Joanna Bradley

Shannon Taing

Tim Dunn

Kate Hess

Davram Stiefler

Rob Webber 

Gramp’s

Writers

Jesse Acini

Damian Chadwick

Alex Kane

Rachael Mason

Eli Terry

Rory Panagotopulous (w/a)

Actors

Rory Panagotopulous (w/a)

LAURA GREY

Eddie Dunn

Don Fanelli

Noah Plener

Morgan Jarrett

Fambly

Writers

MADALYN BALDANZI

JASON SHEBIRO

Colin Elzie

Patrick O’Brien

Kathy Salerno

Ben Wietmarschen

Actors

Dan Black

Dan Chamberlain

Mamrie Hart

Nicole Byer

Veronica Osorio

Zach Broussard 

Onassis

Writers

Emily Altman

Benjamin Apple

Eric Cunningham

Jason Saenz

Mike Scollins

Frank Hejl (w/a)

Actors

Frank Hejl (w/a)

Lauren Adams

Jocelyn Deboer

Rob Hugel

Ben Rameaka

Dawn Luebe

Thank you to everyone who applied to be a writer and/or an actor. It was an intensely competitive process: over 400 acting submissions and over 160 writer submissions. I was impressed by the depth of talent we have in this community. I encourage everyone to keep working hard on their craft and to keep putting good quality work out into the world. 

And thank you to all previous Maude Night members who will be moving on and not returning to Maude. 

I look forward to the great shows these teams will be doing at the UCBT Maude Night in 2012. 

-nate

Nate Dern
Artistic Director

UCB Theatre NY

145 30th Street, 4th floor

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