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Michael Hartney

[headshot] Michael Hartney was a writer/actor on the UCBT Maude Team Arbuckle, and before that, an actor on High Treason. He was also the writer and performer of So I Like Superman: A One-Nerd Show.

Past shows at UCBT include Brad Sacks Gets A Handjob, Oh My God, I Heard You're Dying!, The Same Sex-Tacular, The Judgment Day Eve Gong Show, Cool Show 4 Teen Girlz, Matt & Brett Love Comics!, Waiting For Obama: A Night at the Hall of Presidents, Radio Underground, The Gator, Iron Man 2 Premiere Party at Avengers Mansion, Celebrity Funeral: Matthew McConaughey, Salvador Dali's Danza Macabre, The It Sucked! Awards, The Greatest Concert Ever, The Holiday Spectacular, and Rat Radio.

Michael can be seen on 30 Rock, in the films True to the Heart and BearCity, in webseries Two Jasperjohns and It Gets Betterish, and commercials for AT&T, Target, Time Warner Cable, CarMax, and many more.

He has a BFA in Acting from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and completed the one-year program at the American Comedy Institute. At UCB, he has studied improv with Jackie Clarke, Brian Huskey, Michael Delaney, Billy Merritt, Anthony King, Will Hines, Neil Casey, and Ryan Karels. And because he'd like to include just one more list of stuff, he has also studied writing at UCB with Daniel Dratch, Eric Drysdale, and Ari Voukydis.