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Upright Citizens Brigade

Musical sketch comedy show SHIZ has been installed as a featured show at Upright Citizens Brigade! We’ll be screlt sketching the second Monday of every month in Hell’s Kitchen with different special guests (TONY WINNERS YALL) and you’re gonna be all like hey that’s funny and THEN you’re gonna say keep singing it’s good when y’all do that too.

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Monday 06.10.19
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Gahla Gayla Galuh

La MaMa ETC rang in their 57th season with a gala to celebrate the work of Lisa Kron and raise funds for their new building project. A small choir sang a few numbers by La MaMa alum Elizabeth Swados in between courses. It is always an honor to represent this institution!

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tags: La MaMa, Grace Mclean, Preston Martin, Stephanie Hsu, Elizabeth Swados, The Beautiful Lady
Friday 10.26.18
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reality show season 14

This year’s Reality Show: NYU has wrapped with huge successes in all three countries!

It is always a pleasure and inspiration to helm this international endeavor I inherited from Elizabeth Swados. This year was full of incredible revelations, performing in the round at Barclays Center, returning to our first home at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and filling the Red Theater in Abu Dhabi with a roaring standing ovation.

Another summer, another forty artists changing the world.

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Tuesday 09.18.18
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WHAT A SHIZSHOW

I’m gonna serve you Evan Hansen, Jean Val Jean, Kenickie, Mark Cohen and Townsperson #3 all in the span of an hour.

SHIZ is a musical sketch show helmed by Matt Gehring and Shaina Taub throwing a wrench into iconic musical theater numbers throughout American history and we’re all gonna laugh about it.

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tags: Shaina Taub, Matt Gehring, shiz, Wicked
Monday 07.02.18
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Onstage at the TONY Awards!

My longtime artistic home La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club received the Regional Theatre TONY Award!

I joined an ensemble on the stage of Radio City Music Hall to sing behind artistic director Mia Yoo’s acceptance speech during the televised ceremony.

I also ate purple carrots backstage with Tina Fey and Andrew Lloyd Webber while watching Michelle Williams coo to Claire Danes’ ocelot printed pregnant belly. My favorite moment was witnessing an incredibly touching congratulatory hug between legends John Leguizamo and Chita Rivera.

To commemorate this illustrative evening, here is a picture of a television screen!

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Monday 06.11.18
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Other Coast?!

Here's what's gonna happen: I'm gonna go to Los Angeles and play three characters in an incredible play by Joshua Harmon directed by Stephen Brackett with superstars Melanie Field, Vella Lovell, Keilly McQuail, John Garet Stoker, Concetta Tomei and Will von Vogt. 

Come through the Geffen Playhouse this Spring to see Significant Other and watch me wear loud prints, fold a baby blanket and make out with my #itscomplicated on thefacebook, Vella Lovell!

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Monday 03.05.18
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Preston's legs don't extend, but Toe Pick does

TOE PICK has extended to play another weekend at Dixon Place!

2/23 and 2/24 10pm

Scoop your tix fast cause people wanna watch!

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Saturday 02.17.18
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Nancy Kerrigan plays Preston Martin in Toe Pick at Dixon Place

Nancy Kerrigan has taken on the role of Preston Martin in TOE PICK, a script entirely transcribed from 90s interviews and commentary by Zackary Grady. We play at Dixon Place on Fridays and Saturdays at downtown jewel Dixon Place, and looking at this poster makes you wanna see it bad. 

2/9 and 2/10 at 730pm, 2/16 and 2/17 at 10pm

Tickets here!

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Friday 02.09.18
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New Website!

a website is here for you and for me!

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Monday 12.04.17
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