Email me at liz.arcury@gmail.com if you’re interested in reading my late night packets, narrative pilots, sketch comedy materials, or anything in-between.
I wrote and performed in “The Spotlight”, a monthly all-original sketch show at the UCB Theater in New York. Check out one of my live sketches from the show here!
I debuted my one-woman show, TEXT ME BACK: A One-Woman Show That Just Wants To Hear From You, summer 2015 in NYC! Vids here & here! It proceeded to play at The Annoyance theatre in NYC in February & March of 2016! As of December 2018, I have signed with a literary agent to adapt Text Me Back into a memoir.
I created a comedy webseries called MEN READING DIARIES. Our original uploads are here, and the standalone channel we created for back-up is here. Check it out!
Pre-pandemic, I hosted a monthly original comedy & storytelling show in NYC called AN HOUR OF FAILURE. It was featured in TIME OUT NEW YORK! Previous live guests include Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver), Anna Drezen (SNL), Pat Regan (Seek Treatment, Search Party), Chris Thayer (Adam DeVine’s House Party), and many more! We headlined the venues Pianos, Reckless Theatre, QED Astoria, and Easy Lover (formerly Legion Bar).
I perform improv as part of the cast of Smoothie Talk. Every single show in our run at the PIT Mainstage in New York City has sold out to standing room only. Fellow performers and guests on the show have included show creator Robbie Nunes (Loud About Nothing podcast), Devin Ritchie (UCB Harold Night), Nicole Drespel (Broad City, UCB, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later), Monique Moses (Astronomy Club on Netflix), X Mayo (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah), Brielle DeMirjian (UCB Harold Night), Sebastian Connelli (UCB’s The Stepfathers, Loud About Nothing podcast), Sarah Natochenny (voice of Ash on Pokemon), and so many more!
A comedy webseries that I created and host, Intense Confesh, can be seen HERE!
After the 2016 election, my close friend Samantha O’Brochta and myself collaborated on playlets that reflected the times and our anxieties accurately and humorously. Our great producer Emma Wagner put them in a charity show in New York City called “Where Do We Go From Here?” to raise awareness and funds in the aftermath of the trauma of the election.
Here are both of the playlets:
Greenlit
The Cup That Saved Christmas
I directed these and it was a thrill to have our vision realized on stage as Samantha and I consoled each other that December 2016. Our great cast here is Maryclare DeMenna (PIT, Thunderbolt Comedy), Witt Whitmore (Jimmy Kimmel Live, B-Reel), and Sabrina Margret Brier (Mean Book Club podcast)! I love directing live stage performances and taking on this charity project was a joy. It was an honor to take the helm when Samantha O’Brochta approached me for comedy collaboration and asked me to direct these. Enjoy!
I have appeared on George Takei’s Facebook Live videos to host/participate with him, and I appeared in George Takei’s series, It Takeis Two.
I wrote and performed sketch comedy with my group The D.A in New York for several years. We’ve performed at NYC Sketchfest and Montreal Sketchfest! Additionally, we created, produced, hosted, and performed a weekly comedy showcase called “No Parents!” at Legion Bar (now called Easy Lover) in Brooklyn for two years.
I performed in the Bad Theater Fest in Me and My Birdie! An Ornithological Rock Opera on October 29th and November 6th of 2015 and at The PIT in July 2016. We also had a run at The PIT October thru December of 2016!
I hosted and produced a sold-out staged live reading of an episode of The Hills with my favorite comedian friends. We did The X-Files, Degrassi, Nick & Jessica’s Family Christmas Special, and The Steve Harvey Show in the proceeding months.
I did improv at UCB in New York for over 6 years before it closed due to the pandemic in 2020. I’ve performed at the Del Close Marathon every year since 2011. I perform improv at venues across the city with teams BELLAMY, LASSO, THE D.A., and TECHNICALLY, BEVERLY. In August 2016 I was one of 16 performers selected as the cast of “The Goon Squad”, a UCB show directed by Joey Price. It’s an improv show inspired by the structure of the book A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. In May 2016, I was one of 16 performers selected as the cast of “The House Hunt”, a UCB show directed by Erik Tanouye. It’s an improv show parodying HGTV reality shows.
My indie teams in New York have performed in UCB’s Indie Cagematch in March 2015, January 2016, August 2016, March 2017, and the Del Close Marathon Indie Cagematch in June 2015 & 2016, in which we made it to the final three competing teams out of hundreds who submitted. It was also featured in the New York Times!
I wrote, produced, and directed an original sketch show at age 22 called The Regional Junior High School Theater Festival that premiered to a sold-out house at the PIT in New York.
I graduated from Boston University, where I performed in and ran the school’s only longform improv group, Sons of Liberty. I’ve done shows & workshops elsewhere, and I’ve performed improv at:
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (The Goon Squad, House Hunt, Grounded Harolds, Advanced Study Harold Program, Advanced Study Performance, Completion of Long-Form Improv Program)
- The Player’s Theatre
- The Annoyance (Dog Fight 4X Champion)
- Under St. Mark’s
- The PIT (NYC Improv Fest, Act One, Human Centipede)
- The Del Close Marathon in NYC
- National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY
- ImprovBoston Cagematch
- ImprovBoston Nightcap
- ImprovBoston Open Comedy Jam – anchor improviser
- BU’s Funniest Group competition
In college I was a writer/performer for BU’s sketch comedy collective, Theatre For Everyone. Promo vids HERE.
Email me at liz.arcury@gmail.com if you’re interested in reading my late night packets, narrative pilots, sketch comedy materials, or anything in-between.
Liz Arcury 