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Simply Unemployable LIVE: A Night of Improv and Sketch Comedy
Matt Catanzano and Richie Moriarty, the comedy duo from YouTube's Simply Unemployable (www.youtube.com/simplyunemployable), host an improv and sketch comedy show featuring some of the funniest comedians in New York.
Tickets: http://www.unionhallny.com/event/458319Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1390109417912424
Matt Catanzano just finished a 4 year run as a Mainstage performer, writer, director, and teacher at Improv Asylum in Boston, MA. He spent that time performing improv & sketch comedy shows 5 nights a week as well as directing his own successful shows at the theater. He has also been a teacher in their Training Center for the past 5 years.
Outside of Improv Asylum, Matt is the co-creator (with Richie Moriarty) of “Simply Unemployable”. Together they write, direct, and star in one-off sketches as well as web series. They also produce their own live shows under the Simply Unemployable name.
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His acting claim to fame is as the Easy-Tech guy in the Staples in-store videos. He also doesn’t understand when it's appropriate to call something a “claim to fame”.
Richie Moriarty in an actor, writer, and improviser, living in New York City. He is a graduate of Boston College, originally from Rockville, Maryland. From 2006-2010 he was on the mainstage cast at Improv Asylum in Boston's North End performing sketch and improv six times a week. He has performed in over 1,000 shows in front of audiences in Boston, Chicago and New York. He performs in The Scene at The PIT in NYC and is a student in UCB's training center.
His webseries, Employment Through Craigslist (ETC), launched in the Spring of 2012. Along with co-creator, Matt Catanzano, he raised the money to shoot the series through a successful Kickstarter campaign. They then launched their YouTube Channel, Simply Unemployable.
In 2012, Simply Unemployable signed as a Channel Partner on Broadway Video's YouTube Channel, Above Average. In the summer of 2012, Matt and Richie wrote, directed, produced and starred in a new webseries called Portrait STUdio for Above Average. Simply Unemployable sketches have been featured on Splitsider, NPR and Huffington Post among others.
