Coaches

Jason Sweeten

~SKETCH AND CHARACTERS ONLY~ Jason currently teaches sketch at UCB and performs on Betty Night (Wig!). He also wrote on Maude Night for four years (Choir, What Would Do, and Glamour College). His other UCB credits include: The Queerball Sketch Show (writer), Jay Malsky Slept With My Boyfriend ...
Schedule updated 6 months ago

Betsy Helmer

Hey, hey, hey! I would love to coach your practice group or improv team! I have experience coaching since 2019. Currently performing on UCB Harold Night with Christopher Basketball, UCB Tour Co., Birdie and Dusty, SHRECC Prior UCB Improv Teams: Din-Din, Money Money I've studied with Molly L...
Schedule updated 7 months ago

Jason Farr

Hey there! Are you part of an improv team or practice group and looking for a coach to take your skills to the next level? Then I'd love to work with you! I'm Jason, an actor/comedian based in NYC with over a decade of improv and stand-up experience. I'd be thrilled to coach your group for one-of...
Schedule updated 7 months ago

Sebastian Conelli

Sebastian is a writer and performer from Staten Island, New York. He has studied and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Magnet Theater and the Upright Citizen Brigade Theater since 2010. He has had the privilege of studying under Peter McNerney, Armando Diaz, Russ Armstrong, Jordan Kleepe...
Schedule updated 7 months ago

Xavier Padin

Xavier "Xave" Padin has been teaching/coaching improv since 2010 and performing professionally since 1998. He is currently a member of the UCB Theatre's Harold team "babygirl," and a regular cast member of Magnet Theater's Friday Night Show and the Armando Diaz Experience. Xave is a form...
Schedule updated 7 months ago

Kay Mollica

Hi, there! My name is Kay (she / her) and I would love to coach your improv team / practice group OR your sketch team / show. I have been a house team performer for sketch and improv at Magnet Theater. I have some experience with the UCB circuit and have been an actor and musical theater pers...
Schedule updated 8 months ago

Richard J. Krysztoforski

Would love to coach your team! If you're looking to take your improv team to the next level, I'm your person: 13+ years experience studying and performing improv in the USA, and internationally. Director/producer for the Cat's Cradle Ensemble, an off-broadway improv comedy team with a resi...
Schedule updated 8 months ago

Ryan Barker

Hi - I'd love to coach your group! I started improv in college (as did we all), moved to New York in 2015, and I've taken classes at the UCB & Squirrel Theatres (rip), performing around the city ever since. Sitting on 13 years of improv experience, I'm excited to get out there and stretch my c...
Schedule updated 9 months ago

Emily Dayton Evans

I would love to coach your practice group or improv team! I am on UCB Harold Night (2024), and member of long running improv team The Sisterwives (UCB Cagematch WInners 2019, HBO Women in Comedy Fest performers).
Schedule updated 9 months ago

Ro Rovito

Ro Rovito is a comedian, artist, and dork from New Jersey. They have been an improviser for nearly a decade, studying improv at UCB and Magnet theaters. Like most improvisers, they've been on too many awesome indie teams to count they were most recently on Torpedo! on Megawatt and Focus Group at ...
Schedule updated 9 months ago