Improvaganza

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Hi all,

The website has been updated & submissions are now open for 2012 Improvaganza!! Get your submission in by April 20th & come September we may be seeing you in Hawaii!!

Revlis – totally awesome to watch.  It’s a one woman show featuring Kristin Firth.  She plays Revlis a time traveler from the future.  Revlis herself is charming, sweet and innocence and fun to watch.  You root for her.  The smartass douchy Santa Claus looking guy found out the hard way, between Santa and Revlis, people will root for the girl in silver boots.  Although it’s a one woman show, she turns the audience into her scene partner.  It’s genius.  She’s from Austin too, who along with Pgraph, Girls Girls Girls reinforces my belief that Austin improv is awesome!

Megalou – I’ve been a fan of Megan Gray since Snake & Bunny performed at Improvaganza 2008.  I wasn’t able to see Megalou last year because they performed at laughtrack the same time I was performing at Marks Garage, so I’m glad to be able to this year.  I loved Megalou’s show and the more I think about it, it’s become my favorite show of 2011.  It was the small things they did that I found was the most hilarious, the subtlety in their dialogue, the fleshing of their environment like the many DVD players and the Atari system.  And their chemistry is incredible. 

Super Mega Art Show – stole the show last year.  They were just as amazing this year.  Dartanion and Graham are capable of anything like getting huge laughs and even getting Hello Laser’s Alex’s father and the smartass douchy Santa to touch moustache and beard.

Galapagos – Like their showing last year was awesome.  I love that they use the entire space.  Last year they did a scene sitting at opposite ends in the audience.  This year Bill actually climbed a ladder in darkness for his scene.  I don’t like climbing ladders period.  I’m also a firm believer in the rule that there should always be an empty seat between two guys at the theater

Bunker 13 – Their aesthetics were great.  They had the uniforms, the green net thingee, tape recorder and even vintage playboys.  Very entertaining.  They had the suggestion of Batman vs. Superman which is something we’ve all argued about.   For the record, I think Superman would win, he can just be a dick, fly superfast and punch Batman so hard his head flies off.

OTS Hush.  OTS always puts on a great show and this is no exception.  Bonus points for the return of Jordan Savusa.  More bonus points for R in his costume of NosfeRatu.  Hilarious and somewhat unsettling, he’ll make you laugh and also look over shoulder to see if he’s there.

~By Renato Ordonez

"Juneau improv artists to perform at Hawaiian theater festival"

Morally Improv-erished got a short article in their Capital City Weekly about their trip to Hawaii to perform in Improvaganza!  Congrats - We are happy to have you with us!

Fondly remembering our time at Improvaganza in 2010 and looking forward to this year’s fun! - Love, The Puppets

Successfully Funded!!
Our kickstarter project has officially ended & we have been successfully funded!! In the end you helped us raise $2,506! That’s a whopping 125% funded!! Thank you all again.  Below you will find an updated list of all of our backers.  And remember if you don’t see your name please tell us ASAP so we can add you on.  In the next few days those of you who have selected rewards will receive an email to give you more info on how to obtain them as well as to help us find out your shirt size, and more.  Thank you again for all of your help!!! We couldn’t do this with out you!

Jonathan Wong
Elizabeth Westermann
R Kevin Garcia Doyle
Stephanie Farnum
Heather Galbreath
Carlynn Wolfe
Dominica Malcom
Andrew Utech
Dawn
Tony Pisculli
Holly Hearn
Joe Leibovich
Beth Dunn
Polarsounds
Scott Wilson
Sandra Finney
Mike Christensen
Stephanie Curtis Conching
KimIp
Kristin Firth
Marc Majcher
Genie Joseph
Jonathan Pitts
Dartanion London
Sharon Early
Fernando Pacheco
Wayne Kato
Ann Comstock
Mari Ann Snider
Sean O’Malley
Ratana Therakulsathit
The Hideout Theatre (Austin, TX)
Ken Uedoi
Michael Reyes
Shaun Landry
Kristin Van Bodegraven
Cate Browning
Pam O’Mara
Michael Christenson
Noelle Poole
Tammy Metz Starr
Carol Doi
Ryan Allen
Ryan
Nicole Tessier
J. Robideau
Xi Mao
Roderick Cachola
Bill Binder
TwinProv
Ryan Stanfield
John Waihee IV
Stu Hirayama
David K. Jones
Darren Tome
Jordan Matayoshi

Thank you to Darren Tome for becoming an Improvaganza backer. We have now raised $2,506! That’s 125% funded!  However there is still some time to help us. With just 21 hours to go it’s time to give that final push!  Look here soon for the list of all the backers.  Thanks to you all! Our success it thanks to you!!

Just click here or share this link to help us in these last few hours!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/59289355/improvaganza-hawaii-festival-of-improv

A big thanks to Sharon Garcia Doyle & David K. Jones for becoming Improvaganza backers today. That brings us to a whopping $2,455.00 which means we are 122% funded with 5 days to go!! Can we raise some more?? With your help we sure can!Just keep sharing!!

Also Congratulations to our friends in Austin who’ve also made their Kickstarter goals!! PGraph has raised $3,040.00 (that is 101% funding) & they still have 7 days left! Girls, Girls, Girls, has only 66 hours left but have already raised $1,225 (which is 122% of their goal). There is still time to help both out so check out these links below:

Girl Tripping:

PGraph Takes on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

The latest thanks goes out to John Waihee IV & Stu Hirayama. We now have 53 backers & are a whopping 119% funded!! We still have a little bit of time & swag left so make your pledge while you still can.  Again, thank you to all. (the names in bold are new to the list)

Jonathan Wong
Elizabeth Westermann
R Kevin Garcia Doyle
Stephanie Farnum
Heather Galbreath
Carlynn Wolfe
Dominica Malcom
Andrew Utech
Dawn
Tony Pisculli
Holly Hearn
Joe Leibovich
Beth Dunn
Polarsounds
Scott Wilson
Sandra Finney
Mike Christensen
Stephanie Curtis Conching
KimIp
Kristin Firth
Marc Majcher
Genie Joseph
Jonathan Pitts
Dartanion London
Sharon Early
Fernando Pacheco
wayne kato
Ann Comstock
Mari Ann Snider
Sean O’Malley
Ratana Therakulsathit
The Hideout Theatre (Austin, TX)
Ken Uedoi
Michael Reyes
Shaun Landry
Kristin Van Bodegraven
Cate Browning
Pam O’Mara
Michael Christenson
Noelle Poole
Tammy Metz Starr
Carol Doi
Ryan Allen
Ryan
Nicole Tessier
J. Robideau
Xi Mao
Roderick Cachola
Bill Binder
TwinProv
Ryan Stanfield
John Waihee IV
Stu Hirayama

*if we’ve forgotten anybody please do not hesitate to let us know.

Two more backers were added onto our thank you list today! TwinProv & Ryan Stanfield. Thanks to them & all of you, our kickstarter has now raised $2,340. That makes us a whopping 117% funded and we still have 10 days left!!! Lets see how far we can take this! 150%, 200%… The sky is the limit! Thank you all.

Also remember to check out the website at www.improvaganza.com

Improvaganza.com

First we’d like to thank @whbinder or Bill Binder for being our latest Kickstarter backer.  Secondly we would like to take this time to show you Improvaganza’s new & improved website!! It’s all fancy now!! Click the link above & you can find out info & see pictures of all of this years performers!! Please share this with all of your friends & remember there is still 11 more days for our kickstarter, we still can use your help! This also means there are only 11 days left to get these great deals! Don’t miss out!