Presents
The First Annual
September 9th through September 13th
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Venue Information
ImprovBoston (the Main Stage and Studio Theater venue) is located at 40 Prospect St. in Central Square, Cambridge. The CCTV stage is directly across Prospect St from ImprovBoston, at 675 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge. |
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Contact Info
For more information about the Boston Improv Festival, contact ImprovBoston:
40 Prospect St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-576-1253 * Fax: 617-576-5304
or send email to will.luera@improvboston.com
Show Schedule
$25 Nightly pass and $10 per show tickets available at the Box office or online.
- Wednesday, Sep. 9
- Thursday, Sep. 10
- Friday, Sep. 11
- Saturday, Sep. 12
- Sunday, Sep. 13
Michael McShane/An Improvised Movie (Made of Plastic)
Meet Michael McShane, another not-to-be-missed creation by master of deadpan John Shaughnessy. Possessing a PhD in Humor Studies, Shaughnessy's character, Michael McShane will run a workshop and Q&A on jocularity. Also featuring Dave Sawyer, Casey Williamson, Maria Ciampa. Then stick around for An Improvised Movie. Without scripts, props, stars or special effects, this team creates a movie inspired by your input! Featuring Josh Ain, Ken Breese, Tricia Craig, Kate Garvey, Henry Hammond, Ryan Heath, Tyler Krpata, Mike MacHenry
Show hosted by The Comedy Lab
Improtep'tl
ImprovBoston is proud to welcome back our good friends ImproTop. Mexico's premiere improv troupe, ImproTop, presents Improtep'tl, a prehispanic tale totally improvised. These masters of the craft create scenes in both Spanish and English. Their movement and commitment in their scenes make them easily understood no matter what language you speak. Don't miss this rare chance to see them in action.
Show hosted by Pete FenzelThe Comedy Lab: Farcebook / Directions...with Steve & Harry
Directions...with Steve and Harry features veteran improv performers Steve Kleinedler and Harry Gordon teaming up to tackle what happens when life throws you a curve ball. Together, they logistically describe how to get from Point A to Point B, and in so doing, explore a path they never intended to take.
Farcebook is a show about friendship, social networking, the internet and the tangled web they weave. Add Farcebook as a friend (not in a cheesy way, but srsly).
Also: stand up from Dan Kerrigan!
Improv Jones Boston/Kitsch In Sync presents: Better than TV!
Boston Improv Festival presents an hour of short form with two of the area's most popular troupes. Improv Jones Boston performs original long form formats sandwiched between short form games. Hilarity ensues! Kitsch in Sync is known for high energy shows and a tightknit troupe that performs short form improv.
Show hosted by Peter FenzelBilly Bob Neck's Oasis Of Godliness
The Boston Improv Festival is proud to present an evening with Billy Bob Neck. In a sea of petitions for names, place, things and titles, at last you can hear "God", "Heaven", "pitchfork" and "the Man Upstairs". William Robert Neck was born in the house his father built on Jekyll Island, GA and has followed the Lord ever since. Every night he puts his slippers under the bed so that he gets down on his knees every morning to thank God for the the good things in life and humbly ask Him to wipe liberals off the face of the earth. Starring Paul Day.
Show hosted by The Comedy Lab
ImproBroadway / Trail Mix
Boston Improv Festival brings you an hour of improvised music with Mexico's ImproBroadway and ImprovBoston's own Trail Mix! Trail Mix follows musicians, Star & Granola, as they make their way across the country telling tales and making music. Starring ImprovBoston's own Robert Woo and Rachel Rosenthal.
Show hosted by Bastards Inc.Crackers in Bed/Groaners for Doners
Crackers in Bed, featuring Jacey Bokuniewicz and Maitland Lederer, is an engaging two-person long-from improvisational show that highlights how relationships are affected and driven by the precise words that we use. Groaners for Donors creates as many jokes as they can, as fast as they can. Groaners takes inspiration words from the audience and tells jokes with old-timey, vaudevillian flair. It's the comedy show where quantity sometimes matters more than quality - and there's a laugh, or at least a groan every few seconds.
Show hosted by Jeremiah Jordan
Somebody's in the DogHouse/Flaming Awesome/Urban Indigenous
An hour with Somebody's In the Doghouse, Flaming Awesome and Urban Indigenous. This blend of sketch and improv features national and local talent including Somebody's in the Doghouse, the nationally acclaimed, not to mention hilarious, Leah Gotcsik and Marty Johnson.
Show hosted by Bastards Inc.The Line/Lightning Hawx Presents: Wings of Thunder
Boston Improv Festival is pleased to bring you some of IB's up and coming stars with this one hour show. The Line uses live sketches along with filmed pieces to showcase their absurd view of the world, finding hilarity in the strangest of places..and normal places too. Lightning Hawx presents Wings Of Thunder, a sketch show that brings you the answers to many age old questions, and the answers are all funny, we promise. Seriously, they have a minotaur costume.
Show hosted by Jeremiah JordanSawyer & Hurley Get LOST w/ Michelle Dabrowsky
Dave Sawyer & Dennis Hurley deliver their blend of improv and sketch on stage and screen and dispel some rumors about themselves and a certain J.J. Abrams series...Also featuring Michelle Dabrowsky, the edgy yet huggable, stand-up comic who pokes fun at herself, popular culture, and pretty much all the people in her life.
Show hosted by Bastards Inc.
Naughty Nanas Book Club/Dowry
The Dowry met in the lobby of ImprovBoston, when five strangers reached for the same bottle of UFO Raspberry. An epic battle/sketch team ensued. Hailed as some of the freshest, most innovative sketch comedy being done in Boston today, The Dowry is well worth the title of "New England's Most Mustachiod Sketch Troupe". Plus sketch comedy from Naughty Nana's Book Club. Under cover of their monthly book club, four naughty nanas indulge in illegal, immoral, and scurrilous behavior at their active adult community, Hidden Hills at Heritage Hollows.
Show hosted by Brian Donnelly
Micah & Friends / ImprovBoston Mainstage / Bastards Inc.
Join Micah Sherman as he hosts a comedy cavalvade of some of his favorite area performers including the beloved Bastards Inc and the ImprovBoston Mainstage. Sherman has been featured at the Great American Comedy Festival and is a regular performer at The P.I.T. in New York City.
Show hosted by Bastards Inc.
Lost Marbles Improv gets devoured by hungry hungry hippos! / Sons of Liberty
Lost Marbles is spinning, crazy, tilt-a-whirl of short-from improvisational comedy. They pull out all the stops physically and musically and win the tug of war with your laughter. Prepare for awkward moments, complete absurdity, and the chance we will even pull you up on stage! All the scenes will be based on your suggestions and with a little help from the board game Hungry Hungry Hippos. Plus Sons of Liberty - long-form improv comedy from Boston University that is so good, it must be from the future.
Show hosted by Brian Donnelly
The Robert Cycle
Come see improvised Shakespeare at it's best. The Robert Cycle chronicles the histories of nine kings, Robert I through Robert IX, in a parallel British universe, presented in Shakespearean style. Generations of royal stories will unfold, some tragedies, some comedies, all of them 100% fun. ImprovBoston goes Elizabethan to tell one grand history over the course of centuries. Directed by Steve Kleinedler.
Elvis & Me w/ Michelle Dobrowksy
From NYC's famed "The Pit," come improv troupe "Elvis and Me" performing with edgy yet huggable comedian Michelle Dobrawsky.
The Immortals/Junior Varsity
The Immortals are an Improv foursome that never ends. Their shows can pull anything from anywhere at anytime. Watch the Immortals and enjoy the infinite soul satisfying laughter. The Immortals are Sasha Goldberg, Lindsay Wiroll, Taylor Newhall, Harry Gordon. All that comedy plus Junior Varsity. Since 2007, NYC's hardest partying and road trippingest improv group featuring Lucia Aniello, Jarret Berenstein, Jane Borden, Kevin Cragg, Megan Gray, Jamie Rivera, Sean Taylor, and Shawn Wickens. I mean, come on - this show is going to be amazing!
Show hosted by Brian Perry
This Improvised Life
An improvised show about a TV show based on a radio show about real life stories. Join New England's top improvisers for this improvised take on the hit radio and TV show 'This American Life.' Each week a group of improvisers tackle a different theme and weave it into a collection of scenes, stories, and monologues - complete with our own wry host. The theme is decided by the audience, the number of acts is determined by the roll of the dice. Ira Glass would roll over in his grave...if he was dead.
Show hosted by Jacey
Mythical Newsroom w/ Dan Kerrigan
Hailing from Washington DC, Mythical Newsroom weaves an audience-suggested mythical creature into a full newsroom montage. What follows is pure magical fun with a dash of whimsy. With Dan Kerrigan - a professional tricycle driver who takes on his charmed world and gets ridiculous with it.
Swartzlander/SidViscous!: "The Fever Dream"
Swartzlander plays really fast long-form improv. Trained at UCB, Magnet, and Second City Theatres this powerhouse delivers fun, action-packed comedy that may just make your head explode. SidViscous! represents the union of some of the sharpest and most warped minds in Manhattan. Made up entirely of house team members from New York City's Peoples Improv Theater, their latest longform, "The Fever Dream," features scenes that weave, wind and bleed together into one continuous, often surreal, stream-of-consciousness progression, before building to an hilarious, frenzied climax.
Show hosted by Brian Perry
The Ego & The Oracle w/ Stand up from William Mullin
Boston-based, The Ego & The Oracle is an evening of spontaneous musical fortune-telling. Part improvisational theater, part cabaret, part audience participation, The Ego & The Oracle is a live stage spectacular where "Ouija Board meets iPod Shuffle". With NYC comedian William Mullin.
Micah Sherman / Phil & I
NYC's Phil & I are a longform improv duo that performs smart-yet-silly, often completely absurd longform at breakneck speed. The resulting shows have been compared favorably to vintage vaudeville, the Marx Brothers, and 1940s cartoons. But Phil & I prefer to call it simply, "smargenous," which they believe to be an actual word, the poor dopes. WITH: Micah Sherman, former member of the ImprovAsylum mainstage and host of the Myq and Mike show will be doing 15-20 minutes of stand-up comedy.
Show hosted by Lindsay Wiroll
MC Mr. Napkins / JoKyR and Jesster
MC Mr. Napkins (a/k/a Zach Sherwin) was recently named Boston's Best Comic of 2009 by the Boston Phoenix, and in July 2009 he performed in the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He has appeared on VH1, CNN Headline News, and the front pages of CollegeHumor and YouTube, and is currently starring in a Web promotion for Sierra Mist. "JoKyR and Jesster" is Joseph Kyle Rogan & Jesse Parent, two of Utah's most prolific improvisers, and veterans of over 30 improv festivals. Together they perform high stake, character driven improv.
Team X / Alderofsky
The Magnet Theater's Team X delivers a fast paced, no holds barred, sometimes raunchy, and always hilarious good time. Bring your friends, and keep your guns out of reach! Alderofsky is a two person improvised show starring Kristen Aldrich (The Tribe, Veal) and Ben Sandofsky (Improv Olympic West's Johnny Astronaut, The Havercamps). Mixing character grounded scenework with subversive humor, the show's structure is discovered on the fly; no two shows are remotely similar.
Show hosted by Lindsay Wiroll
Rondo & pHamily the Musical
Join ImprovBoston for pHamily The Musical, the improvised musical from Chicago that was called "Highly Recommended" by the Chicago Reader and a "Best Bet" by Metromix.com. pHamily the Musical! pHamily is a show about the dynamics of a family and how relationships with your family members can affect your life. pHamily will explore all the nuances that make up any family and get your help to do it. Plus you get the added bonus feature of Rondo, ImprovBoston's premiere Harold team performing long form Chicago style comedy. Take that windy city.
Fat Penguin / Featherweight!
Ask yourself what team has the fortitude and fearlessness to create the most penetrating characters? Featherweight. Ask yourself what team has the ingenuity and imagination to take you to the most exotic locations in the furthest corners of your brain? Featherweight. From NYC's Magnet Theater. UCB's Fat Penguin is an adorable overweight bird who performs longform improvised comedy and is also surprisingly good at swimming.
Show hosted by Lindsay Wiroll
Fri. Midnight show! North American Battle Royale: USA vs. Mexico vs. Canada
Fri. night Midnight show! What's the funniest country in North America? Find out at ImprovBoston as teams from Canada, Mexico and The United States battle for the ultimate bragging rights - being the funniest people on the continent. You be the judge at this knock down, drag out, international comedy face-off. Team USA is talking trash....just sayin'...
ImprovBoston Family Show
Join us for a night of hilarious short-form improv for Mom, Dad, Sis, Grandma, Spot the dog and the entire family! This evening full of interactive games, performed by the ImprovBoston Family Show Crew, is sure to bring out the child in everyone. Did we mention ImprovBoston's Family Show just won the Nickelodeon Award for Boston's Best Theatre Group for Kids?!
Jailer/Moxie
JAILER is an improvised, one-act play with J* and Taylor Peterson. Given the suggestion of their location J* & Taylor discover their characters through an exploration of the environment. JAILER is fun and sometimes wacky, but always based on the truth and basic love found in every relationship! Moxie: (1) Vigor, verve, pep. (2) Courage and aggressiveness (3) A NYC-based veteran long-form improv and sketch ensemble that has been taking stages and festivals around the country by storm since 2006. (5) A pretty nasty soda.
Show hosted by Rachel Klein
Beat It w/ Where the Hell am I?
BEAT IT - Jay Revis & J*, from The Basement Theatre in Atlanta, starts with an audience suggestion which the duo uses as inspiration for a poem, then that poem serves as inspiration for scenes and characters.
Performing with: Where the Hell am I, featuring Sheila Bronstein. Sheila has been dead a long, long, long, time. Catch her as she walks the earth in search of her long-lost husband and a decent manicure.
Mosaic
Between sketch comedy and performance art, improv and stand-up acts, musical theater and abstract "theatre" lies MOSAIC: our unconventional take on 18 different social, personal and political happenings of today. Be it song, sketch, parody, puppet show, guessing game: every week, we find freshly creative ways to redefine comedy and shed light on our lives and yours.
Show hosted by Rachel Klein
Sidecar presents THIS ONE'S FOR THE LOSERS
A lot of sketch shows are for guys like David Beckham and George Clooney, but not this one. This one's for the rest of us, this one's for you, This One's For The Losers. The Boston Improv Festival is proud to host Sidecar - a sketch troupe born at UCB and now a festival favorite all over the country.
Show hosted by Rachel Rosenthal
Focus / Spinning Hardcore
FOCUS, a unique and entertaining live talk show/parody of The View, currently playing at the Magnet Theater in New York City performs along with Boston-based Spinning Hardcore, a improvised show about a punk rock air guitar band and their entourage.
Johnny Astronaut / The New Deal
Johnny Astronaut is a resident team at Improv Olympic West in Los Angeles. They perform IO's signature piece, "The Harold," a half hour show inspired by a single word from the audience. Plus The New Deal. Join the three gentlemen of The New Deal as they reach across the aisle in an effort to convince Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid they should get their money for nothing, and their chicks at a reasonable discount.
Show hosted by Jeff Perry
Road trip with Zach Ward / Fantastic Genius
Zach Ward, from Dirty South Improv, will perform his unique brand of southern style improv gravy with a special guest. Fantastic Genius is a high energy tour-de-sketch comedy. Watch Amy Daulton and Alex Decaneas hit themselves, talk in strange voices, put on wigs, and fall down for your pleasure.
Show hosted by Hannah Foell
Veal w/ William Mullin
Veal is a musical improv group comprised of hooligans who met at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre. Veal takes the basic structure of long-form improvisation, the Harold, and adds on improvised songs, dance and music. We ask the audience for a suggestion of a location, we explore all aspects of that environment and create music and joy for everyone. You'll be excited about life with all of our dancing, harmonious singing and of course, our jazz hands. Performing with NYC comedian William Mullin.
Chet Watkins/Reverse 5
Chet Watkins is a resident ensemble based out of the Magnet Theater in NYC formed by improv guru/legend Armando Diaz. They offer up live longform improvised comedy based off of a single suggestion from the audience. Hilarious character driven work, Entertaining scenes, Enriching environments, Smart comedy. Reverse 5 is an improv comedy ensemble that performs a single scene based on a single audience suggestion. The members of Reverse 5 are veterans of improv theaters in Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC and now live, study and perform in New York City.
Show hosted by Jeff Perry
Mrs. Estherhouse w/ M.A.D.
One of the newest house teams at The Peoples Improv Theater in New York City, Mrs. Estherhouse is already earning acclaim for their unpredictable, high-energy shows. Performing wtih comedy threesome, M.A.D. from NYC. Watch out - they're not afraid to punch eachother in the area during a scene if neccessary.
Crisis Hopkins
Out to save the world one set-up at a time, comedy specialists Crisis Hopkins offer this fast-paced, consistently funny, riotous program of improvisation, prepared sketch, and video spoofs tentatively exploring various avenues of a crisis-happy age. Come see this San Francisco favorite from the Climate Theater.
Show hosted by Ken Breese
Bombardo/The Stamp and Coin Club: Dues Must Be Paid
Bombardo, the all girl improv group based in New York City, has performed at various venues around New York including UCB, The Magnet Theater, Caroline's on Broadway, and are most commonly known for their Friday night improv showcase at Gotham City Improv. Bombardo offers a unique blend of comedy that has been termed "weird," "psychadelic," and "full of cats." UCB's The Stamp and Coin Club loves to play with each other so much, most of the time everyone ends up in every scene. It'll get chaotic, but when the dust settles you'll have a smile on your face.
Show hosted by Brian Donnelly
MC Mr. Napkins/Obsequious Reflex
Join the Boston Improv Festival for some mind blowing, gut busting comedy featuring ZACH SHERWIN as MC Mr. Napkins and Obsequious Reflex with Joe Bill and Ethan Newberry. Napkins is a comic and rapper from Cambridge who was recently named Boston's Best Comic of 2009 by the Boston Phoenix and is considered one to watch by some of the industry's top professionals. Obsequious Reflex is Joe Bill and Ethan Newberry. One is from Los Angeles. The other from Chicago. One is old and sweaty, the other is young and fertile. Two improv Styles, one common improv goal: a mind-blowing show.
Show hosted by Ken Breese
Dynasty / Dr. Oddbody / The Wilhelm
Dynasty, the Magnet Theater's most high maintenance house team, does longform improv like this: My girl Eleanor, went to the drugstore To get deodorant, I think it was Sure Cause the one she used before made her underarm sore And thats why Eleanor dont use it no more. The Strange Box of Dr. Oddbody: The improv-comedy/horror-anthology show. Hosted by the sinister warlock Dr. Oddbody, we take titles of horror stories that have never been written from the audience and improvise three short plays. The Wilhelm is a house team that performs long-form improvisation every week at The P.I.T. in New York.
Show hosted by Brian Donnelly
Sat. Midnight Show! 30,000 Kilohertz of Sound/Chris and Paul Show
Sat. night Midnight Show! Boston Improv Festival presents an hour of cutting edge comedy from NYC. 30,000 Kilohertz of Sound is improvised theater that takes place in the dark, utilizing shortwave radio transmissions as inspiration. The Chris and Paul Show (Chris O'Neill and Paul Valenti) is a 2 man sketch show that brings Modernized Vaudville to the masses. Or whoever is in the audience.
Show hosted by Ken Breese
From Boal to The Big Bad Wolf
How does Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed mix with Fractured Fairy Tale characters as seen through the lens of Live TV Talk show hosts: Jerry Swinger, Okrah, and Dr. Pill? Come see for yourself! The Rainbow Players play out popular culture and maxims for life through the characters of all our favorite fairy tale icons. Through improvised scenes, the plot sickens until Okrah and Jerry Swinger need to call in Dr. Pill! Get ready to be that live studio audience!
The Escapists/Stranger Than Fiction
The Escapists create smart, rambunctious sketch comedy, songs and improv. Shows range from deconstructing ABBA's music to showing the lengths that a truly kickass librarian will go to defened the civil liberties of her patrons. Their gigs include guerrilla theater on the streets of Portland, ME and performing at Capitol Fringe Festival in Washington D.C.. Stranger Than Fiction is dedicated to spreading the art of improv theater and comedy through quality performance and education. Along with shows and workshops around the Granite State and beyond, the cast hosts the annual improv retreat and festival known as Camprov.
BP and the Buj / Cronicas de la Dimension Improvisada
BP and the Buj is a two-person showcase for improv superstars Brian Paul and Chris Bujold. Armed with a bucket of plays they have never read, they perform one selected by the audience. From reading reviews/synopses from the back cover, and descriptions from the character list, BP and the Buj improvise the selected play at breakneck speed, mixing scenes and monologues. Theatre snobs beware. Plus improv from Mexico with ImproTop performing, Cronicas de la Dimension Improvisada, their family-friendly show in both Spanish and English.
Show hosted by Sheila Moeschen
SkyPunch!/The Paper Dolls
Sky Punch infuses long form elements into high-paced short form games. They call it "meat form", mostly because they love sandwiches. Their only goal for each and every performance is to make your brain dance. The Paper Dolls are veterans of the San Francisco improv scene. The east coast transplants (Pardis Parsa and Tara McDonough) present a 2-woman horror/suspense show like nothing you've seen before! Inspired by masters of the genre from Alfred Hitchcock to Wes Craven, The Paper Dolls will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you wanting more.
Show hosted by John Serpico
The IMPers' Animal Farm/The Ha-Ha Sisterhood
The IMPers are the teen professional improv troupe produced by Troubled Shores, Inc. They perform both short and long form scenic based improv on Martha's Vineyard and beyond. This year at the Chicago Improv Festival they created Animal Farm - a day in the life on the farm as experienced by various animals. The Ha-Ha Sisterhood has been cracking up western Massachusetts for the past five years with their rapid-fire, non-stop-laughter short form improv comedy show.
Show hosted by Sheila Moeschen
Don't Tell Mimi Presents: Somer-Villains/LivePod Shuffle
Boston improv heartthrobs Don't Tell Mimi use police reports from the Somerville area to inspire a series of pulse pounding scenes. LivePod Shuffle creates a unique live music and improv show where the audience "shuffles" the band's setlist (a mix of popular music spanning 50 years). Based on each song, the cast performs some of the funniest improvised scenes you can imagine. In the second act, we flip the record over as the cast (with your help) inspire the band to create some "B-sides" you've never heard before...
Show hosted by John Serpico
Bring your own improv/Unexpected Company
Bring Your Own Improv (BYOI) is an interactive improv show that welcomes voluntary audience participation! You can participate in one of three ways: Applaud at a scene you like, yell out fantastic suggestions, or if you feel you're ready, jump up and get involved with us on stage!!! Unexpected Company has been named Rhode Island's Best Comedy Troupe by RI Monthly magazine. UC is Rhode Island's most critically acclaimed improvisational comedy troupe, and the only group in the area strictly dedicated to long form improvisation. Described as "Pure Improv" and "Wildly Popular", UC is worth the trip.
Show hosted by Brian Donnelly
Somebody's in the DogHouse / IA Mainstage Alumni
Somebody's in the Doghouse is Leah Gotcsik and Marty Johnson. Their work has been featured at the New York Television Festiva, Chicago TV Pilot Competition, Austin Film Festival, Lone Star Film Festival, the Second City's Comedy Film series, and has been featured by the editors of funnyordie.com. ImprovBoston is thrilled to welcome our friends from across the river, Improv Asylum. Their Main Stage cast brings together improvisation and sketch material in front of a live audience. It's all the fun of IA without having to park in the North End.
Classes
Clases are $30.00 each. To register, please select the corresponding button. Contact bif-classes@improvboston.com with any questions/concerns.
All classes are located either within Improv Boston or the Improv Boston Davis Square space. Improv Boston in Davis Sq is three stops from Improv Boston on the Red Line Subway. |
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Kick Ass Characters That Don't Suck!
Class Instructor: Joe Bill
Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best Teachers of Scenic and Comedic Improvisation in America today. Joe performed professionally with 5 different Sketch Comedy and Improv groups, studied with Del Close at Improv Olympic, and with Martin DeMaat, Michael Gellman, Bernie Sahlins and others before graduating from The Second City Training Center, he Co-founded The Annoyance Theater (all in Chicago), and was making his living as a Nationally Touring Stand Up Comedian. Joe brings a unique approach to Improvised Scene and Character to his workshops - don't miss this chance to improve your character work.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Green Room
Sold Out - Class Full
YOU HAD ME At YES!
Class Instructor: Zach Ward
So you've become addicted to the Improv drug. Awesome, isn't it? Just the idea of risking it all and knowing that as soon as you jump you will be supported on stage. No judgement. Just raw positivity and unconditional support. Wow. I've been using since 1993. I get it. I love it. Let's get into the philosophy of YES. And see the power of improv. Learn to flex Active Listening and Super-charged Agreement. Why? So we can run faster, jump farther and have more fun.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
12:30pm-2:30pm
Location: Improv Boston, Davis Square
Two's Company
Class Instructor: Joseph Kyle Rogan and Jesse Parent
Two person scenes rule! So why would you need more than two people in your group? This class will show you how two people can do it all. Learn how to commit to a scene when no one's there to bail you out! Trust in yourself and be your own back line with character switches, pivots, solo starts, and monologues. All while learning to develop themes by keeping all that information in your back pocket rather than in your head
Saturday, September 12, 2009
12:30pm-2:30pm
Location: Green Room
Sold Out - Class Full
Do you want to sell out your shows?
Class Instructor: Ethan Newberry
Do you want to sell out your shows? Do you want to get the rave reviews you deserve? Do you want to make your show the talk of the town? This in-depth class will guide you from start to finish on the proper way to market your show, your theater, or yourself to the public. It'll even surprise you with ways to get your show out to the world for all to see! Ethan Newberry - creator of hit improv shows like Cupcake, Reality World, Shuffle, Musical on 55th Street, Obsequious Reflex, and the top rated live interactive internet variety show, "The Real Cool Club" on TheStream.tv - will provide lessons in how to achieve the greatness you deserve and guide you in making your improv show the best it can be. The world audience awaits!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
3:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Green Room
You're working too hard
Class Instructor: Ben Sandofsky
Feel lost in a scene? You've doing things "right" but can't find the funny? You're working too hard. This workshop will simplify your scenework, in a good way. Learn the importance of grounding, simple approaches to game, and the importance of finding position. Ben Sandofsky began performing improv in 2000. A graduate of Improv Olympic West and Upright Citizens Brigade LA, he has performed on over a dozen teams, including two IOWest Harold teams. The short film he cowrote and starred in, "Voice Mail," has been screened at a number of film festivals, and won the "Online to on Screen" award at the Jackson Hole Film Festival.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Improv Boston, Davis Square
Sold Out - Class Full
Saving the Environment
Class Instructor: David Marino
How can I do mime and create environment when I have to worry about character, emotion, relationship, and all that other stuff? Good question. But, knowing where you are and how it affects you can actually HELP you ground your character, cement your emotions, and establish relationships. In this class you will learn to use your scenic environment to define your character, provide motivation, and forward the scene. Let the environment save you!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
11:00am-1:00pm
Location: Green Room
LIFE-PLAY Workshop
Class Instructor: David Shepherd
Come experience Life-Play - an emotionally engaging, phone-based improv format! Life-Play allows participants to express feelings, explore beliefs, co-create stories and imagine dreams. Players have found it useful for deepening new and old friendships, developing artistic collaborations, writing fiction and crafting performance material. Many sessions are recorded and submitted to create Life-Play radio pieces—to share emotionally honest play with the wider world. Join Life-Play founders Carman Dewees (independent radio producer), David Shepherd (founder of The Compass Players and Improv Olympix) and Chris Britt (independent filmmaker and performer) to learn how to play.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
1:30pm-3:30pm
Location: Improv Boston, Davis Square
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