The N Crowd makes their Richmond debut at the 2009 Richmond Improv Festival. The N Crowd is a short form improv comedy troupe that hails from the city of Brotherly Love. Founded in 2005, The N Crowd has performed over 300 times in the Philadelphia area, including appearances at the Philadelphia Improv Festival, Bethlehem First Night on New Years Eve, and is a yearly participant in the Philly Fringe Festival. Every week, The N Crowd produces roughly 75 minutes of completely unscripted comedy. Every show is filled with hilarity. And their trip to Richmond will be no different.

You can see The N Crowd perform LIVE at the RIF at CenterStage.

Friday, November 6th at 9PM (tickets)

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We’re excited to have the Richmond Jaycees as a PLATINUM sponsor of the 2nd Annual Richmond Improv Festival. And as a way of thanking the Jaycees, Friday 7PM ComedySportz at Center Stage has been designated a BENEFIT FUNDRAISER for Camp Virginia Jaycee. Camp Virginia Jaycee is a year round residential outdoor recreation and educational facility for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Children and adults with special needs can be helped physically, mentally, and emotionally by an outdoor education and recreation experience. We are honored to support such a great cause. And You can help.

$5 from every ComedySportz ticket will go directly to the Camp.

Come out to see ComedySportz Friday Nov 6th and support Camp Virginia Jaycee.

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We are super pumped to welcome FUSEBOX to RICHMOND! Fusebox is a veteran comedy-duo hailing from Nashville, TN that recently moved to the River City. Their style is natural, bold, and always funny. They were featured at Atlanta’s Black Box Improv Festival in September. Lately, Fusebox has been seen performing in Richmond at Art6 with the Richmond Comedy Coalition. They teach classes. They coach. They perform. They rock the stage. John Sexton & Mandy Butler are FUSEBOX.

You can see them perform LIVE during the RIF at Capital Ale House.

Thursday, November 5th at 8PM.

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YEAH! Our festival makes a splash (or maybe an Artistic splat) on the Downtown Arts Scene in less than Two Weeks. Our 2009 design was created by David Pijor and are gonna be printed Black ink on Red American Apparel short sleeve shirts. Look out for these shirts around Downtown Richmond November 5th – 7th. These are the funny improv people. Hug them. But PLEASE, Do Not ask them to say something funny.

You might get a slap (or maybe a splat).

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It’s Einstein Meets Elvis (JaCKPie – Atlanta) This award-winning JaCKPie touring team brings together an all-star cast to rock your socks off! (EmE is not responsible for lost socks.) What do you get when Einstein Meets Elvis? ROCKET FUELED improv!! EmE features Mike Brune, Jen Caldwell, Damian Dunn and Chris Nik and has recently hit the festival circuit with a BOOM, destroying the Charleston Comedy Festvial, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival (where EmE returns February 2010), Black Box Improv Festival, Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival, Spontaneous Combustion, So ILL Improv Festival, Hawaii Improv Festival, and the Richmond Improv Festival — YAY RVA!

We are excited to have Einstein Meets Elvis back to the RIF! EmE takes the stage Saturday November 7th at 7pm, Tickets are $15, $12 when purchased in advance.

You should be there.

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That could be you. A Last Minute Sponsor.

And you would be in Great Company. We are currently being sponsored by and/or have partnered with The Richmond Jaycees (PRESENTING SPONSOR), Y101 (Radio Partner), Hilton Garden-Inn (Hotel Partner), Capital Ale House (Venue Partner), Pijornification (Design Partner), Molly Buckley (Marketing Partner).

PLATINUM/PRESENTING Sponsor — $3000 (SOLD OUT)

GOLD Sponsor — $1000 (3 TOTAL)

• Your logo with links on the Festival website
• Mentions at all Festival shows and events
• Mentions in all press materials and media alerts
• Ability to have flyers (produced by Sponsor) at all shows
• 4 unlimited Festival passes

SILVER Sponsor — $600 (8 TOTAL)

• Text links on the Festival website
• Mentions once per Festival show
• Ability to have flyers (produced by Sponsor) at all shows
• 2 unlimited Festival passes

COMMUNITY Partner — $250 (15 TOTAL)

• Text links on the Festival website
• Ability to have flyers (produced by Sponsor) at all shows
• 2 tickets to any show

If you or your organization are interested in Last-minute Sponsorship opportunities please contact Molly Buckley (molly@dsicomedy.com) to talk about Levels of Sponsorship and we can set you up. We are also interested in food partners and in-kind donations as sponsorship options so that we can provide our visiting Improv Artists with the best River City experience possible. Support Your Local Comedy.

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We are pumped to announce the return of Superbest. From the Washington Improv Theater, Superbest had the RIF audience in tears in 2008 as they kept up the comedy while moving seemlessly in-and-out of gameplay. And not improv “game” but virtual character-based “gameplay” – Amazing. You can check out a couple Superbest clips here. Superbest takes the stage at Center Stage on Saturday Nov 7th at 9pm.

More teams and FULL scheduled announced later this week.

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We are two months away from the 2nd Annual Richmond Improv Festival. Our Acts have been chosen and acceptances with more detailed information about the weekend are set to go out on Thursday. Our schedule will be publicly announced by the September 25th. Any questions? Let us know.

— Zach Ward

First entry coming soon. Hold tight!