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Parallelogramophonograph
2025 Sarasota Improv Festival
Parallelogramophonograph
Parallelogramophonograph
2025 Sarasota Improv FestivalParallelogramophonograph has performed for over 19 years and 1500 shows. Fiercely dedicated to the craft and art of improvised theatre, PGraph has held a weekly show in Austin since 2006 and spent years developing award-winning original formats and studying scripted theatre, improv, and storytelling. They've toured the country and the world performing and teaching their unique brand of improv with ensemble appearances in over 65 cities in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the UK.
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It was a rare treat to watch this highly skilled company
Parallelogramophonograph Cast
Kaci Beeler
Roy Janik
Kareem Badr
Valerie Ward
Kaci Beeler (she/they) is a visual artist, improviser, writer, and stage/film/voice actor based out of Austin, TX. Kaci has been performing improvisational theatre since 2003 and has toured to over 85 cities and 11 countries to perform and teach. Some career highlights include being named Best Actor/Actress in the Austin Chronicle "Best of Austin" Awards, studying with the PUNCHDRUNK theatre company in London, and improvising in character for HBO’s WESTWORLD experience. Kaci is a writer and actor on the new TV sketch comedy pilot LAWN PARTY, currently in production in Austin. You can hear Kaci on national TV and radio daily as the chief brand voice for Domino’s.
Roy Janik, in addition to being a member of the renowned ensemble Parallelogramophonograph, is one of the owners and the Artistic Director of The Hideout Theatre in Austin, TX, which specializes in narrative and genre-based improv. Over the years Roy has directed and created countless shows at The Hideout, including "Death by Musical" and "Austin Secrets," the latter of which has inspired productions in Seattle, Portland, Rhode Island, and more. He is particularly fond of teaching his workshop "Chase the Ball," which explores a focus-based perspective on improvising.
Kareem Badr is an actor, writer, and improviser based out of Austin, TX. Kareem’s stage credits include Salieri in Amadeus, The Actor in The Woman in Black (Penfold Theatre), and Nazrullah in Heartland (for both Vortex Rep and Luna Stage in NJ), for which he was awarded the B. Iden Payne for Lead Actor in a Drama. He is one of the owners of The Hideout Theatre and co-authored “Do It Now”, a book of essays on instinctual narrative improvisation, with his award-winning improv group Parallelogramophonograph. His fiction podcast script "Curtains" won the Austin Film Festival script competition in 2020.
Valerie Ward after having been a fixture of the Austin Improv scene for over 20 years, now lives, works, and performs and teaches improv in NYC. She has traveled the world teaching and performing and co-authored “Do It Now,” a book on narrative improv, with the rest of her ensemble, Parallelogramophonograph. She is as comfortable playing the upper crust of 17th-century French society as she is doing off-the-cuff abstract performance art with her absurdly funny trio “Echo Lake.”
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Our offerings allow you to learn from the experts with intimate trainings led by Festival artists from across the country and around the world. Featuring workshops in a wide range of improvisational styles and techniques, there is something for improvisers of all experience levels at the 2025 Sarasota Improv Festival. All workshops take place Saturday, July 19.