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.

Lesley Tsina

Lesley Tsina is a writer, actor and stand-up comic. She's written sketches and videos for Maude teams Extreme Tambourine and Paddington and sketch group The Mopes. Lesley studied theatre at Swarthmore College and then improv and sketch at UCB and iO West. Other UCB credits include the Harold teams Hugboat and The Galleria, Tournament of the Nerds (as Enid Coleslaw), Exhibition Cagematch (as Daria), Sketch Cram, UCB Pep Rally, and Summer Blockbusters Revealed. She also writes for the comics and satire quarterly magazine "The Devastator." Lesley has performed standup at Comedy Death-Ray, See You Next Tuesday, The Tomorrow Show, Pimp'd and other shows around Los Angeles. She can be seen in the Funny or Die Presents miniseries Designated Driver on HBO and performing around town with improv teams Slave Leia, I Can Has Ringwurmz and Many Mumbling Mice.