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Sarah Burns began her professional acting career as America’s second favorite purple guy, Barney. She has been at the UCBT since 2001 and currently performs with The Shoves on Harold Night and with her sketch group Cooter Shorts. Sarah played Faye in Cavalcade of Personalities (recipient of 2004 ECNY award for best short film) which was featured on Comedy Central's Jump Cuts and played N'maia in the television show, Windy Acres. Currently Sarah can be seen on MTV's new show Damage Control.

Angeliki George graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and has worked with various theater companies in NYC, including Synaesthetic Theatre, Mr. Theater Co., and the Hungary Theater Company. Angeliki also does voice-overs and film, and has been regularly performing improvisation and sketch Comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for over two years, with The Shoves, and others.

Lennon Parham has been performing and studying at the UCB for over 3 years.  She is currently a member of the house Harold Team, The Shoves.  Previous New York Improv credits include Dillinger (NYC Cagematch Champs of 2004), Karl with a K, and Loud Bill.  She has also been in several NY theatre productions including Crepuscule, An interactive spelling bee musical, We Built This City on Rent Control, the first ever Second City New York Training Center Revue Showcase and Assorted States and Clean Living for FringeNYC 2002.  She has also performed in multiple staged readings of Until We Find Each Other by Brooke Berman and many other workshops for new playwrights with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She holds a BS in Theatre from the University of Evansville in Indiana and taught French for 2 years at TL Weston High School in Greenville, Mississippi with Teach for America.

Charlie Sanders was raised on the mean streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. He started doing comedy at Comedy Sportz in Minnesota. Later he moved to New York where he joined the Chicago City Limits Touring Company. He has been performing and writing at UCB since 2001. You may have seen him in such shows as Charlene Figures it All Out, Proceed With Honor and Buffoons. He was a proud member of the award winning sketch and improv group Police Chief Rumble. He is a member of the UCB Touring Company and a frequent actor on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Risa Sang-urai has studied at the UCB since 2001 and can currently be seen on Harold Night with THE SHOVES. She has also appeared on VH1's "A2Z" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Other performances include: ZACH & RISA (with Zach Woods), DILLINGER, DARK CHAMPIONS, $1,000,000, THE DOCUMENTARY, ASIA TOWN, PLEASURE ISLAND (Directed by Armando Diaz), SKETCH SHOW and THE MILLERS at UCB. Risa is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She is looking forward to the debut of her band, Ladyfingers, as soon as she learns the guitar and finds people who will perform under the name Ladyfingers.

Gavin Speiller is all kinds of awesome. He previously performed with the UCB Harold Team Mailer Daemon and loved it. In addition to Mailer Daemon, Gavin was a founding member of the popular independent group Rogue Elephant. While with the group, he performed at a plethora of different venues and also helped write a nifty little sketch show entitled Anarchy Club. Other credits at the UCB theatre inlude Extravaganza! and 22 Short Films about Elliot Gould. He's also done some hacky stand-up although he's destroyed most evidence of this. Gavin loves college basketball and Yoohoo.

Erik Tanouye has been performing in New York since the beginning of 2001. In addition to The Shoves, he also performs with The Mosaic NYC. He has previously been seen with Dillinger, Orchestra Pit, Stomping Ground, Corpa, and Asia-town, an Asian-American improv troupe he co-founded. In 2002, he co-wrote and performed in the shows Proceed With Honor and Red Christmas at the UCB Theatre. He has also performed stand-up comedy at alternative venues throughout Manhattan. He grew up in Maryland and has a degree in Creative Writing from Dartmouth. He also enjoys photography.

Zach Woods has studied at the UCB theatre since 2001. He has also studied at the Atlantic Theater Company and The American Comedy Institute. Zach has performed in numerous shows at the UCB including, The Dogs of St. Christopher, The Millers, The Documentary, Your Favorite Thing, and Namedroppers. He currently performs with The Shoves and Instant Cinema. Zach can also be seen in the film "Terrorists," starring Ian Roberts. Goodnight.

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