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John Frusciante

[headshot] John Frusciante is a writer, improviser, and director who has been at UCBT since 1999, and he is proud to serve as the theatre's Artistic Associate. He is the host of INDMUSIC's HiFive, a weekly webseries rounding up the best music videos on YouTube. As an improviser he has appeared in ASSSSCAT 3000, on various UCB Theatre Harold teams and he can currently be seen every Saturday night at UCB East in the improvised show AIRWOLF: Let's Go Back To Your Place. He is also a member of the UCB Touring Company and regularly performs for college students all across the country.

Writing credits include head writer for Slate.com's weekly web series, "Up In Your Business", sketch comedy groups Blitzkrieg, Gunderson, The Skuntz and Gorilla Gorilla, and the websites CollegeHumor.com, Cracked.com, AmplifierMagazine.com, ToplessRobot.com, and Soundwalk.com. He also co-wrote the viral Internet video "BP Spills Coffee" which was seen on The Rachel Maddow Show.

John's directing credits include Rory & Craig: Our Internet Knowledge and Thunder Gulch's POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE and KILLGORE: The New Blood. He is not the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.