Posted on Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:48am

THE LOWDOWN:

This Labor Day Weekend, teams from all over the world are descending upon Dad’s Garage Theatre for the 2008 World Domination TheatreSports Tournament! We’ll be joined by some old favorites (Rapid Fire Theatre and Iron Cobra) and some new friends (Vancouver TheatreSports League and Eux) for a knock-down drag out improv battle of global magnitude! Teams will compete throughout the weekend in TheatreSports style competition in an attempt to conquer comedy…and ultimately the Earth! Only one group will emerge from the wreckage as world champion, while the others slink away into a cold, lonely state of exile. Watch the video teaser on YouTube!

THE TEAMS:

Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton)
IRON COBRA (Toronto, Ontario)
!nstant Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
Vancouver TheatreSports League (Vancouver, BC)
Eux (Paris, France)
Team New York (New York)

THE SCHEDULE:

THU 8/28
8:00: Samurai Davis Jr. and Dim Sum’s Mega Super Happy Fun Time Improv Show
1st Half: !nstant Theatre vs. VTSL
2nd Half: Rapid Fire vs. New York
10:30: TheatreSports
1st Half: Eux vs. Rapid Fire
2nd Half: Iron Cobra vs. Dad’s Garage

FRI 8/29
8:00: TheatreSports
1st Half: Eux vs. VTSL
2nd Half: Rapid Fire vs. Dad’s Garage
10:30: TheatreSports
1st Half: Iron Cobra vs. New York
2nd Half: !nstant vs. Dad’s Garage

SAT 8/30
8:00: TheatreSports
1st Half: Rapid Fire vs. Iron Cobra.
2nd Half: !nstant vs. Eux
10:30: TheatreSports
1st Half: New York vs. VTSL
2nd Half: 2nd Place vs. 1st Place Battle!!!

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Posted on Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:21am

Wed 9/3 at 8pm - The Josh & Tamra Show - Puppets! Improv! Awesome!
Thu 9/4 at 7pm - Josh & Tamra's Puppet Improv Workshop.
Tickets at www.TheBasementTheatre.com.

The Josh and Tamra Show was formally seen in Atlanta as one of the headliners at the 2008 Black Box Improv Festival, where they recieved two standing ovations!

Josh Cohen and Tamra Malaga first met in 1999 at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York City, where they performed in several sketch shows and are alumni/members of the house Harold teams Team C.H.U.D, The Joe Ross Tribe, and My Kickass Van.

Mixing long-form improv with the puppetry skills Josh developed as a Muppeteer with The Jim Henson Company, NYC’s only improv puppet comedy duo was born.

The Josh and Tamra Show perform their unique brand of comedy coast to coast. Over the past eight years, they have been featured performers at a variety of venues and festivals, including The Bass Red Triangle Comedy Tour, Del Close Marathon, headlined the following Improv festivals: Improv Boston, The Toronto Improv Festival (Second City), The Los Angeles Festival of Improv Comedy (featured with Neutrino NYC), DSI Improv Festival (North Carolina), Twin Cities Improv Festival, (Mineapolis),The Chicago Improv Festival 10 (MainStage), The Seattle Festival of Improvised Theater.

When not performing in their on-line sitcom Apartment 413, The Josh and Tamra Show continue to perform live in New York City and beyond.

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Posted on Sat Mar 1, 2008 6:31pm

September 24th-28th, 2008 - DramaTech Theatre presents the Fifth Annual Black Box Improv Festival, celebrating 20 years of improv comedy at GA Tech with Atlanta's largest improv comedy festival. This event brings together Atlanta's sprawling improv community along with some of the country's best nationally touring acts to entertain audiences and educate the next generation of improvisers.

The Black Box Improv Festival is seeking submissions from performance groups and instructors. Applications are also being accepted for the Robert Lowe Scholarship. All forms are now available online at BlackBoxImprov.com.

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Posted on Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:28pm

The Doug Dank Project Ensemble (Rene Dellefont, George Faughnan, Amber Nash, Matt Stanton, and Dan Triandiflou) are celebrating the 2nd anniversary of their show, The Doug Dank Project, which pays homage to the great monologist of our generation Doug Dank and also commemorating the 20th anniversary of his disappearance with the The Last Seen Improv Festival. The Last Seen will be held at PushPush Theatre February 28, February 29, March 1 at 8pm. Joining the ensemble for the festival are Alistair Cook from !nstant Theatre, Vancouver; Tim Stoltenberg from Dad's Garage Theatre, Atlanta; Matt Young from Imrov Olympic, Los Angeles; and John Gregorio from the off Broadway improvised musical smash The Nuclear Family, New York. The festival will bring together improvisors, filmmakers, and actors from Atlanta for three very different and unique performances.

Thu Feb 28: The Improvised Film Project
The Last Seen Improv Festival will be host to the world's only improvised cartoon along with the Atlanta premiere of The Last Seen Film Project. Rene Dellefont, creator of the smash hit The Saturday Morning Pajama Jam at Dad's Garage, is resurrecting his improvised cartoon for one night only. It has been compared to MTV's Wonder Showzen, was one of the only improvised shows to get 4 stars at the 2007 Edmonton Fringe, and has been hailed "a Christmas miracle." The Last Seen Film Project will consist of 4 teams of filmmakers and improvisors who will be creating an improvised film in real locations that the audience will watch live as scenes get run back to the theatre for projection. Leading the film crews are Hugh Braselton of FakeWoodWallpaper; Dave Bruckner, co-director of The Signal; Raymond Carr of Atlanta's Dailies Project; and Adam Pinney of FakeWoodWallpaper and co-writer of the independent hit BloodCar.

Fri Feb 29: Royalties
The Last Seen Improv Festival will host an all out Improvised Battle Royal entitled "Royalties." Improvisors from Dad's Garage, Relapse Theatre, Jackpie, Laughing Matters, and more will compete against each other on stage by performing improvised scenes. It will be up to the audience to decide who stays and who goes until only one improvisor is left standing. It will be one of the only times this many of Atlanta's finest improvisors will be on stage together.

Sat Mar 01: The Last Seen
The festival closes with The Last Seen. This will be the first, last, and only time you can ever see this performance. Under the direction of Alistair Cook, the festival ensemble will curate a never before seen fully improvised show attempting to capture a similar sense of eccentricity, unconventional style, and irreverent behavior that Doug Dank left us with.

Visit thedougdankproject.com for more details.

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