Let’s Talk About Sects!
No, Not the classic Salt-N-Pepper song. (clip here)
Let’s talk about Heavy Wet Sectional.
Heavy Wet Sectional: an improv group that is neither heavy, nor wet, nor a sectional. But all together, Heavy Wet Sectional is an improv troupe that has been making audiences laugh and having good times for over two years. Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, the Sectional performs a mixture of classic and self-created improv games – and always guarantees the laughs. See them perform LIVE at the RIF.
Tonight, November 5th at 8PM.
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ComedySportz: Back In Action
It’s not comedy about sports, it’s comedy played as a sport.
We are excited to present not one, but TWO ComedySportz shows during this year’s Richmond Improv Festival. ComedySportz Improv Theatre (formerly the Comedy Alley) was built in 2001 and has served as Richmond’s ONLY improv theatre. The RIF proudly showcases Richmond’s longest running improv show.
CSz players have been seen on stages all across the country. Players have been featured at the 2009 North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, 2009 Black Box Improv Festival, 2009 Philadelphia Improv Festival, 2009 ComedySportz Marathon (Buffalo, NY) and the 2009 Toronto International Improv Festival. And now, right here at home.
(come support your favorite CSz players)
FRIDAY 7PM at Center Stage, Rhythm Hall (Jaycees Benefit)
Referee: Tim Sinclair
Players: Zach Arnold, Bryan Dunn, Micah Edwards, Dave Gau, Jenni Goldsby, Matt Newman, Stacey Voorhees-Brown
Mr. Voice: Aaron Grant
SATURDAY 4PM at Center Stage, Rhythm Hall
Referee: Dave Gau
Players: Zach Arnold, Rachel Garmon, Jenni Goldsby, Aaron Grant, Susan Scovill, Stacey Voorhees-Brown, Matt Newman
Mr. Voice: David Pijor
Come see ComedySportz perform LIVE at the RIF at Center Stage.
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The LODGE > Dan Brown
It’s a secret society. It’s improv. It’s an improvised secret society.
Even Dan Brown couldn’t make this up.
We are humbled to welcome Skull N’ Bones The Lodge to this year’s Richmond Improv Festival. Hailing from Washington D.C., The Lodge is an improvised long form show that took an oath to entertain you. Founded on an audience suggestion, a secret society is born and the performers create a show exposing the secret rituals of this new society and the unwitting world waiting outside. They are gentlemen of the highest order.
Help be a part of the creation. See them perform LIVE at the RIF at CenterStage.
Friday, November 6th at 9PM.
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Full Contact with BEES!
Yeah, sure, we have teams traveling from 9 different cities, But Your Richmond Improv Festival also proudly features awesome “Homegrown” improv talent, trained and performing regularly right here in the River City.
For over three years, Full Contact has been entertaining RVA comedy lovers. They are hilarious, witty, and perform bold, edgy improv. Full Contact has been featured at the 2009 North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival (NCCAF) and the 2009 Toronto Improv Festival. They have been seen recently rocking the stage with the Richmond Comedy Coalition. Full Contact: Long-form improv, short-ass tempers.
Made of BEES first pollinated the comedy scene over a year ago and have been blossoming ever since. They were also featured along at the 2009 NCCAF and were honored to Headline a show at the 2009 Black Box Improv Festival. Fast-paced, in your face, aggressive, and always funny… Made of BEES: Improv that stings.
Watch Full Contact and Made of BEES perform LIVE at Capital Ale House.
Thursday, November 5th at 8PM and 10PM.
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It’s a DANNY CANOE Debut
Are you excited for the Danny Canoe Festival Debut? We are.
Danny Canoe (Dan Sipp, Anoushka Broad, Annie Zipper) is a brand new team of players who have improvised together for years. Based in North Carolina, Danny Canoe discovered a mutual love of scenes that swing wildly from silliness to social commentary and from realism to the cartoonish. Shows feature scenes that shift rapidly from character to character, in and out of strange situations, and more.
Dan says, “Our rehearsals are so much fun. We love cracking each other up, and we hope that translates to the audience. We want the audience to have as much fun as we’re having.” The trio have a combined 45 years of improv experience (WOW!) and have trained with The Second City, iO – Chicago, Annoyance Theater, and with improv luminaries Paul Sills and Del Close. Watch Danny Canoe perform LIVE at the RIF.
Thursday November 5th, 8PM at Capital Alehouse.
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The N Crowd is the IN Crowd
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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Fuse Blowin’ Up
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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It’s not Rocket Science! Or is it?
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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Superbest Returns!
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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