Shame-Full

Press Kit

What

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre presents Shame-Full, an original two-woman sketch comedy, written and performed by Kathleen Cameron & Tess Richie, and directed by Leslie Meisel.

When

Thursday, January 23rd at 8:00pm

Where

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Franklin

5919 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles CA

Tickets

Tickets can be purchased online at ucbcomedy.com, by phone at 323-908-8702, or in person at UCB's box office, 5919 Franklin Ave.

Show Description

Tess and Kathleen are full-on Shame Monsters! Tonight they will try to rid themselves and the world of shame. Will they succeed? Or will they make it worse by revealing things they shouldn’t about themselves? They’ve never done this before, but they’re sure it’ll work!

About the Artists

Kathleen Cameron - Writer/Actor

Kathleen is a writer/performer based in New York City. She graduated from NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway, where she studied Music Theatre, and has studied improv, sketch & character at UCB.
kathleencameron.com

Tess Richie - Writer/Actor

Tess Richie is a writer and performer based in New York City. She attended the Tisch School of Drama at NYU where she began writing vulnerable plays and learning all of Bob Fosse's original choreography.
tessrichie.com

Leslie Meisel - Director

Leslie Meisel is an actor, writer, director, teacher and in college worked at a bowling alley thinking it would be exactly like Grease 2. It wasn't. Currently a co-host of the monthly show COUPLES SKATE and most recently she was a cast member on the UCB house team CHARACTERS WELCOME (Season 1 & 2) and Winner of the 5th annual NBC/UCB Diversity Showcase. On screen, Leslie can be seen on the new NBC show RISE, Difficult People, Broad City, Netflix’s The Characters, and the feature film Bachelorette (w/Rebel Wilson & Kirsten Dunst). As a director, she has worked on many shows at the UCB Theatre, including AzN Pop!: Live in Concert!, All In Favor, United Federation of Teachers with Natasha Vaynblatt (IFC, Funny or Die, McSeeney’s), co-directed Stone Cold Fox: Sexy Idiots with Aaron Burdette, (Man Seeking Woman, The Onion), several Maude sketch teams, co-director/writer of He Said She Said with Kate Riley-Zelensky (MTV, Two Guys Named Josh) and worked with Bridge & Tunnel‘s staged show for Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival. Other staged shows at UCB: BOB ODENKIRK and UCB PALS: A LOAD OF HOOEY, Oh My God I Heard You're Dying!, The Unbreakable Gun, Thunder Gulch Presents MNL: Monsters Night Live and she performed in LOVE CAN SUCK A D**K...AND SO CAN I! A show that was co-created by Leslie and Megan Neuringer (written by Megan with Material/Characters by Leslie) all about how much love sucks a big 'ol dong which played to sold out shows at UCBLA and had a year long run at UCBNY.

lesliemeisel.com @lesliemeisel