Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

We have affordable, high quality shows seven nights a week in NYC and LA. Our original comedy videos have garnered the national spotlight. We also run the first nationally accredited improv and sketch comedy school in the country. For information on our courses visit the Training Center.

Josh Rachford

Josh Rachford is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. He has studied improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatres in New York and Los Angeles since 2007. He's a member of the UCB Maude Team Hot Mess, which went to 2011's San Francisco Sketchfest and has also been heard on NPR's Marketplace. Other UCBLA credits include Sketch Cram!, Celebrity Funeral, Not Too Shabby, and Spank show King of the World: A James Cameron Sketchtacular's stint at iO West.

Josh has been improvising for six years, performing in two Del Close Marathons, Kaleidoscope, The FUTURO Show, The Bracket, Up the Creek Improv Festival, Let's Do This, iO Student Cagematch, and more. His online writing has appeared on Urlesque, Defamer, and Gawker.

Josh is also a proud member of the Story Pirates, an educational theatre company that brings stories by kids to life on stage in schools and at the Geffen. For more information, visit storypirates.org.