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SPECIAL EVENTS 2008: Update: 4/30/08
Update: 4/8/08
To celebrate and highlight the upcoming 11th annual Chicago Improv Festival, CIF Productions is having its first ever CIF Preview with performances at The Second City Skybox: April 25-26, 2008. Chicago Improv Festival Productions' Executive Director Jonathan Pitts says, "We have 10 wonderful Chicago acts performing in our preview and they're all part of our CIF 2008 roster. This is a great line-up, as we are happy to give an extra showcase to such strong Chicago talent." CIF Artistic Director Mark Sutton, who selected the Chicago ensembles for the roster of CIF 2008, said, "I originally wanted to call the CIF Preview weekend, 'A Celebration of Chicago Comedy' because that's what it will be. We can show our audiences 10 very funny Chicago improv teams, as well as give those Chicago teams an extra chance to perform with CIF. It's going to be a great weekend!" Ticket Information: Tickets will be $12 for each show (the midnight shows will be $10). Tickets can be bought through The Second City Skybox or by calling their box office at 312-337-3992. The Second City Skybox is located at 1608 N. Wells, 4th floor. SPECIAL EVENTS 2007:
Update: 10/20/07
Chicago Improv Festival Artistic Director Mark Sutton has begun announcing the line-up for the November 17 CIF All-Star show at the Beverly Arts Center. Says Sutton, "the CIF All-Stars will feature performers who have appeared in over 30 different shows between them in all ten years of CIF." Improvisers committed to perform so far include Joe Bill from Annoyance and BASSPROV, Tim Chidester from Comedysportz and The Hot Karl, and Bob Kulhan from Baby Wants Candy and from iO. The CIF All-Stars will be the headlining act and the musical long-form improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy will be the opening act. Sutton said "the evening will feature a group of some of Chicago's most experienced and funniest improvisors all sharing the stage in the same hilarious show". Update: 10/16/07
Update: 10/15/07
October 12 - 14:
Chicago Improv Festival Productions and Around The Coyote are proud to co-present three original multi-disciplanary improvisational theatre and multi-disciplanary sketch comedy performances by Cornwallis, Double Play, and Planet Terrance. These three shows all participated this last August in a weekend long multi-disciplanary theatre collaboration workshop co-presented by Around The Coyote and Chicago Improv Festival Productions at the Around The Coyote gallery space in Wicker Park. Cornwallis and Planet Terrance will perform in Theatre at The Shops of Wicker Park, 1279 N. Milwaukee. They will perform as a double bill. Their performance times are Friday & Saturday 8pm-9:30pm, and Sunday, 7pm-8:30pm. Double Play will perform outdoors in the Nelson Algren Triangle (Ashland, Division & Milwaukee). They will perform Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 6pm. Ensemble Bios: Cornwallis is a 6 person improv ensemble (3 men, 3 women) from Chemically Imbalanced Comedy that is improvising with Chicago visual artist Caroline Picard. Her paintings will be the backdrop for the set. Her paintings will also be used as props and costumes. Jonathan Pitts is the director for this show.
Cornwallis Planet Terrance is a 6 man sketch group is performing under the direction of Joe Janes. Their show also has collaboration from a visual artist and a musician.
Planet Terrance Double Play features a two-man improv duo, Stir-Friday Night alums Ranjit Souri and Joe Yau, improvising with a cello player Joe Eisman. The show is directed by Jonathan Pitts, is a combination of improvisation, movement, music and Viewpoints techniques.
Double Play
January 15, 2007:
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