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Uphill Both Ways has been performing regularly in San Francisco since 2002, and has been the official selection of numerous national and international comedy festivals including NYCs Big Red Comedy Festival (2003, 2004), San Francisco Sketchfest (2004, 2007), Atlanta Improv Festival (2005), Dallas Comedy Festival (2005), Vancouver's CanWest ComedyFest (2005), Chicago Sketchfest (2005, 2006), L.A.s Fest of Sketch (2005) and International Sketch Comedy Championship (2006), D.C. ComedyFest (2006, 2007), Toronto Sketchfest (2006) and the Lowell Comedy Festival (2006) in Massachusetts. Our short films have appeared at the San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival (2006), Seattle's What The Hell Did I Just Watch Comedy Video Festival (2006), the LAFS Film Fest (2006), Toronto Sketchfest's "Dinner And A Movie" Programme (2006), SF Sketchfest's "Filmed Sketch Night" (2007) and DC Comedyfest's Short Comedy Film Festival (2007).

COLIN BENOIT: Colin was once a little blonde boy. Obviously, not much has changed. He began his long, torrid affair with sketch comedy at the tender age of 18, as a member of Cornell University's SKITS-O-PHRENICS. Since then, he's starred in a stage version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, tackled six different roles in a stage adaptation of the movie, Clue, worked with the Pine Sol lady in a Hilton Hotels training DVD, donned a motion capture suit and performed as an undead skeleton in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and portrayed a sailor trapped in a sunken submarine in the History Channel documentary, Man, Moment, Machine. A founding member of UBW, Colin continues to star in his own little daydreams. How cute.

DAVE McKEW: Dave grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from Cornell University where he was a charter member of the sketch group The SKITS-O-PHRENICS. After 4 years in Princeton NJ, he finally settled in SF in August of 2000, where he currently works as an office manager for a small software company. Regarding his studio apt. on Russian Hill, Dave says: “I take a cable car to work, I have a view of the Golden Gate Bridge... too bad I can’t afford to eat anything.” UBW's "Big Girl", Dave owns 7 dresses and 8 wigs, which is pretty scary if you think about it. He also has the distinction of having seen Madonna in concert 13 times in 8 different North American venues, and chronicles his recent front row experience at www.frontrowbitch.com

"Tech Guy":

CHIP CLOFINE: Originally from the City of Brotherly Love, Chip relocated to San Francisco in the early 1980s. He worked the Bay Area bar-band circuit for years as a bass player, and more recently has turned his talents toward music and video production. From the time he was a toddler, Chip has been fascinated with lights and sound. One of his favorite pastime activities is to run through the historic Haight-Ashbury district wearing nothing but a string of Christmas lights while shouting obscenities at tourists through a bullhorn. Doing lights and sound for Uphill Both Ways is keeping Chip off the streets, making San Francisco safe for everyone.

Mascot:

SPRINKLES: Sprinkles is a happy, fun-loving llama. He likes to eat grass and spit at people who make funny faces at him. He's a virgo and likes long walks on the beach. He's spontaneous, but also likes to spend time at home cuddled up to that special someone. Could you be that someone? :-P