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Sarasota Improv Festival
Schedule of Performances:
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(good for all performances, both nights)
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FRIDAY, JULY 16 ~ CLICK HERE TO BUY A $29 FRIDAY NIGHT PASS
6:00pm ~ FST Improv (Sarasota)
7:00pm ~ The Jester Theater (Orlando)
8:00pm ~ Available Cupholders (Austin)
9:00pm ~ The Dumb Show (St. Petersburg)
10:00pm ~ Dad's Garage (Atlanta)
SATURDAY, JULY 17 ~ CLICK HERE TO BUY A $29 SATURDAY NIGHT PASS
5:00pm ~ FST's Vintage Whine (Sarasota)
6:00pm ~ Just the Funny (Miami)
7:00pm ~ Improv Boston (Boston)
8:00pm ~ SAK Comedy (Orlando)
9:00pm ~ Dominizuelan (Chicago)
10:00pm ~ Available Cupholders (Austin)
11:00pm ~ Lazy Fairy (Sarasota)
11:40pm ~
Improv Jam
 Available Cupholders - Austin, TX
Friday Night at 8:00pm - BUY NOW
Saturday Night at 10:00pm - BUY NOW
The Available Cupholders theatre ensemble is dedicated to producing experimental, enriching and entertaining improvisational comedy. The Cupholders aspire to explore and expose an art form cloaked in natural communication, believing Improv to be the theatre of everyday existence. Unlocking the power of this art form through live performance and various performative media, they strive to be on the cusp of a daring theatrical experience that takes place anytime, anywhere. Their goal is to elevate the form and playing field, shedding light on the ever-changing zeitgeist in which we live, with belly laughs along the way. "If you don't know Available Cupholders, you don't know improv." - Austin Chronicle
 Dad's Garage - Atlanta, GA
Friday Night at 10:00pm - BUY NOW
Founded in 1995, Dad's Garage Theatre has grown from a small volunteer-led organization to a thriving mid-size theatre led by professional artistic and administrative staff. The family at Dad's has continued to grow along with us, including over 300 volunteers and performers, and entertaining more than 30,000 people a year. Dad's Garage produces 52 weeks per year with Improv shows every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They perform traditional and original formats, including the improvisede soap opera Scandal!, TheatreSports (TM), and the Japanese-style game show Samurai Davis Jr. and Dim Sum's Super Mega Happy Fun Time Improv Show! Dad's Garage has won Best Theatre and Best Improv Troupe in Creative Loafing five years in a row, as well as similar awards in almost every major publication in the city.
 Dominizuelan - Chicago, IL
Saturday Night at 9:00pm - BUY NOW
Hola Gaticos!! Dominizuelan is made up of Lorena Diaz, the tall Venezuelan and Wendy Mateo, the short Dominican. Both were actors in South Florida when they met, fell in love with Improv, and moved to Chicago. Based on a single suggestion of a number, Dominizuelan will use music to take the audience on a virtual tour of the familiar strangers you may see on the street every day. No matter what happens, you will see these characters like you've never seen them before...played by the funniest tall and short Hispanics you know. "Dominizuelan contains the kind of sharply honed humor that isn't afraid to stare down cultural stereotypes - even stereotypes other than their own." - Chicago Tribune
 The Dumb Show - St. Petersburg, FL
Friday Night at 9:00pm - BUY NOW
A hilarious, irreverent take on the world, starting with a simple audience suggestion, after which Hawk and Wayne create a series of characters and scenes that showcase the best and worst of humanity, and will have you laughing and shaking your head in wonder at the same time. "They find more humor in their unscripted hijinks than most actors ever find in the most celebrated of comic texts. If you love to laugh, you ought to give them a look." - Creative Loafing
 FST Improv - Sarasota, FL
Friday Night at 6:00pm - BUY NOW
Sarasota's Original Anti-Depressant and host of the Sarasota Improv Festival. Taking what is right in front of them, in the form of audience suggestions, FST Improv creates characters and sketches on the spot. No one - not even the performers themselves - knows what is going to happen next. It is this element of the unknown that makes every Improv show unique - and what makes for some exciting moments onstage. "Quick-witted...energetic" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"We laughed hard and often." - Longboat Observer
 ImprovBoston - Boston, MA
Saturday Night at 7:00pm - BUY NOW
ImprovBoston Mainstage is the ever-evolving show that is the cornerstone of ImprovBoston. Blending skillful storytelling, memorable music, audience participation, and joyful chaos, an elite cast of Boston's best improvisers creates a show that redefines itself with every performance. No rules. No boundaries. Just spectacular comedy and incredible improvisation. Voted "Best Comedy Club" in the 2009 and 2008 Improper Bostonian.
 Jester Theater Company - Orlando, FL
Friday Night at 7:00pm - BUY NOW
Two of Orlando's favorite performers, David Charles and Jay Hopkins, improvise a completely original one-act comedy - Is This Seat Taken? Two chairs, two improvisers, too funny. Jay and David have set forth to create a show that breaks many of the stereotypical structures in improv comedy. They take the well-known rules of improv and try to break them while still creating a show that has great stories, interesting characters and lots of funny. Every performance starts by asking the audience one simple question - "Where are these two seats?" Perhaps the two seats are in a rowboat or the middle of a movie theatre. Maybe they are in a doctor's office or on a ferris wheel? Possibly a Principal's Office or even the Oval Office. Winner of the 2010 Orlando Fringe Festival Audience Award for Best Improv Show.
 Just the Funny - Miami, FL
Saturday Night at 6:00pm - BUY NOW
Miami's hottest improv theatre explores humor in the mundane and everyday with WARRIORS OF DUMB. A scene with our not so bright soldiers positioned throughout the jungle (i.e., throughout the audience), is our starting point. WARRIORS OF DUMB uses elements from that opening, along with creative stage choices, to create scenes that feature intelligent and edgy humor, created from characters and situations morphing reality with the absurd. Voted best of Miami 2000, 01, 05 and 06 - New Times. "Miami's funniest Improv Theatre Company" - Coral Gables News
 Lazy Fairy Improv
Saturday Night at 11:00pm - BUY NOW
Lazy Fairy is our way of saying, "laissez faire." Catey came up with Lazy Fairy after we agreed "laissez faire" is too hard to spell! Lazy Fairy is an ever-evolving, innovative, Sarasota-based improv troupe dedicated to entertaining, training and teaching others in the purest form of theatre: Improvisation. In other words, we make crap up on the spot for others to laugh at! "Trust me: they're funny, even enlightening." Sarasotacritic.blogspot.com
 SAK - Orlando, FL
Saturday Night at 8:00pm - BUY NOW
Orlando's powerhouse of Improv. The SAK Ensemble is a group of professional improvisation comedians from divergent backgrounds. Some of the best and brightest improv performers in the nation can be seen at SAK. The improvisers appear regularly in an improv show called "Duel of Fools," a SAK signature style of competitive improvisation. In addition to Duel of Fools, SAK's ensemble performs in many different forms and styles of improv shows such as The audition, SAK Request Live and Rub a Dub Dub, to name just a few. Central Florida's oldest, longest-running improv comedy theater. Winner: Orlando Weekly annual "Best of Orlando" reader's poll award for Comedy; Theater Troup 2006, 2007, 2009; Florida Monthly Magazine "Best Comedy Venue" Award; Florida living Magazine "Top Live Comedy Selection" Award; WESH Channel 2 "A-List" Viewer's Poll Award - Best Comedy Theater - 2007, 2008. SAK Comedy Lab alumni (such as Wayne Brady) have gone on to write, produce or star in such TV shows as: Saturday Night Live, MAD TV, The Office, 30 Rock, True Blood, Everybody Loves Raymond, Whose Line is it Anyway, Let's Make a Deal, Scrubs, Hannah Montana and Reno 911.
 Vintage Whine - Sarasota, FL
Saturday Night at 5:00pm - BUY NOW
A team of senior improvisers - old enough to know better, but young enough not to care - take your suggestions and twist them to show that life really is just one big laugh riot. "The Senior Improv Troupe has the time of their lives on stage...the wackiness ricochets off the wall." - Pelican Press
 Kids Komedy Club - Sarasota, FL
Saturday Night at 11:00am - BUY NOW
Florida Studio Theatre presents a fun-for-all-ages comedy show performed by students in one of our advanced acting programs. A hilarious mix of Sketch Comedy and Improvisation, Kids Komedy Club is a great show for kids of all ages. "High energy and infectious..." - The Observer
CLICK HERE for Information on our Imrpov Festival intensive workshops led by these professional groups.
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