2013 Improvised Shows

Congratulations to the
2013 Unscripted New York Shows!

We presented more than 30 shows and films
and close to 200 performers at this year's fest!

Wed (5/29)

7:00 PM
The Lupones

8:00 PM
The Raving Jaynes /
The Improvised Play

9:30 PM
RuBin /
The Narrator

Thur (5/30)

7:00 PM
The Reverend Raymond Nader / Mandudebro

8:00 PM
Skycopter /
Trauma Center

9:30 PM
OJ in a Sippy Cup / North Coast

Fri (5/31)

5:00 PM
Michael Gellman Scenario to Stage Workshop Show

7:00 PM
Shackled

8:00 PM
Strange Worlds

9:30 PM
Centralia

Sat (6/1)

3:00 PM
Listen, Kid! / Face Off presents Goon River

5:00 PM
Mike Brown Solo Improv Extravaganza / Skycopter

7:00 PM
Michelin / STEELE/QUINN

8:00 PM
1 Deep / Storybox Spontaneous Theatre

9:30 PM
The SHITFA Awards / The Unscripted Players

Sun (6/2)

3:00 PM
Strange Worlds

5:00 PM
IRTE presents: The Groovy Gang Adventures / EagleFox

7:00 PM
Pat & Mary Save Their Marriage / Upton Abbey

8:00 PM
Unscripted Film Screening: Selected Shorts Trust Us...This is All Made Up / Q&A with director Alex Karpovsky

Wednesday, May 29th

7:00 PM - The Lupones (Pittsburgh, PA)

The LuPones delight your ears and your eyes with a totally made up musical. Improvisers with strong musical theater backgrounds, they take a single audience suggestion and weave grounded relationship based scenework with the heighten emotionally charged songs. Accompanied by an improviser/composer pianist and percussionist that looks like an Apostle, The LuPones create a full musical. The LuPones play every Saturday at Steel City Improv Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, and have been seen at such NYC venues as UCB East and The Magnet as part of the the NY Musical Improv Festival. And like their namesake, Patti LuPone, they take their diction and no flash photography VERY SERIOUSLY. Cast: Kasey Daley, Connor McCanlus, Emily Askin, Alex Rudzki, Molly Bain, Brett Goodnack, James Rushin, Aaron Tarnow. steelcityimprov.com

8:00 PM - The Raving Jaynes (NYC)

The Raving Jaynes combine dance and theatrical improvisation to create highly physical, spontaneous pieces of dance/theater. Nothing is choreographed, nothing is scripted!
Cast: Amy Larimer (Director/Performer), Jamie Graham (Performer), Jay Rhoderick (Co-Director), Daniel Clifton (Musician)
amylarimer.org

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8:00 PM - The Improvised Play (NYC)

We create fully improvised hour-long plays in the style of great playwrights such as Williams, Mamet, Pinter, Chekhov, and Shepard. We're a group of actor/improvisers that have all been through the UCB improv training program, (most of us are house performers there.) We've also engaged in rigorous dramaturgical study of the playwrights we perform. Our show combines these elements. We aim to mix the highbrow and lowbrow into an intelligent, but often silly, piece of improvised comedy theater. Cast: Gia Ingram, Jackie Jennings, Carrie McCrossen, Hunter Nelson, Elizabeth Noth, Patrick Noth, Chris Principe and Zack Willis www.theimprovisedplay.com. Twitter: @ImprovisedPlay Back to Top

9:30 PM - RuBin (NYC)

Formed in the summer of 2009 during a class taught by Rachel Hamilton at the Magnet Theater, RuBin (Ruby Marez & Binu Paulose) create a wonderful blend of offbeat but indelible characters cast into ordinary circumstances, creating extraordinary & hilarious scenework. They'll either be lovers or fighters - sometimes both. Either way, it will all end awkwardly.
Cast: Ruby Marez, Binu Paulose
http://www.rubincomedy.com RuBin Twitter: @RuBinComedy. Individually: @rubymarez & @binupaulose

9:15 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here
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9:30 PM - The Narrator (NYC)

The Narrator is a musical improv show where story is King, emotion is Queen, and music is our castle. Born of the Magnet Theater's Directors Series, this is a unique show where a narrator guides us through our story and the actors bring the tale to life. Narrator audiences have laughed, cried, and spent shows on the edges of their seats. This is a truly one-of-a-kind musical improv experience featuring an innovative format and an all-star cast.
Cast: Jordan Hirsch, Sarah Puls, Joseph Hendel, Oscar Montoya, Woody Fu, Michael Murnane, Michael Lutton, Lorraine Cink, Frank Spitznagel (accompanist). Created & Directed by Michael Martin
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Thursday, May 30th

7:00 PM - The Reverend Raymond Nader (NYC)

The Reverend Raymond Nader has rolled into town to perform a completely improvised Pentecostal sermon based on the audience's sinful suggestion. The Reverend Nader has been profiled on America’s Most Wanted and To Catch a Predator with Chris Hansen, and his YouTube series “How To Repent for This Sin or That” has garnered over a gazillion hits with 99 trillion thumbs-up. The Reverend Nader is managed by Ben Hauck (benhauck.com), author of the best-selling improv book Long-Form Improv (Allworth Press, 2012), who is co-star opposite Mandy May Cheetham of the all-improvised YouTube web series on casting workshops called The Infinite Need, which won 17 awards at the 2012 iNeed Awards.
Cast: Ben Hauck http://benhauck.com Twitter: @BenHauck

6:45 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here
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7:00 PM - Mandudebro (Bethlehem, PA)

Mandudebro's brand new show, "Who's Your Daddy?," is a journey through a completely made up world- A world based solely on information gathered during an interview with an audience member about their father. From there, Mandudebro sets off on a magical, unscripted voyage to hilarity, with the end goal of teaching you how to love again.* Cast: Matt Candio, Jon Lunger, Dan Maher, Evan Stutts.
*Learning how to love again results may vary. Facebook: facebook.com/MandudebroImprov

8:00 PM - Skycopter (NYC)

Skycopter is a team created by improvisers who have graduated from The People's Improv Theatre. We create improvised one act plays at the PIT and all around New York City. Skycopter hosts Act One, a showcase of improvised one act plays performed by NYC's finest improv teams, hosted by the creators of The Scene, Dan Hodapp and Micah Sherman. Skycopter is here: http://skycopter.improvteams.com/ and here: http://www.facebook.com/skycopternyc and here: http://actonenyc.tumblr.com/ Skycopter is watching you from above.
Cast: Joseph Albano, David Carl, Alex Gallafent, Abbie Harper, Dawn Harris, Frankie Johnson, Sarah Morgan Coach: Micah Sherman
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8:00 PM - Trauma Center (NYC)

Trauma Center is a company of performers who have come together to explore the experiences of trauma and catharsis. Join them as they travel to the darkest corners of our nature, looking for light. Cast: Michelle Francesca Thomas, Dan Pozmanter, Sean Taryoto, Jessica Gorman, Destiny Rivera
https://www.facebook.com/traumacenterimprov
Twitter: https://twitter.com/danpozmanter

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9:30 PM - OJ in a Sippy Cup (NYC)

OJ in a Sippy Cup are two best friends, Julia Morales and Oscar Montoya, who share the improv stage in a very unique way. From a hardworking janitor looking for love on Craiglist, an insensitive mother giving a reality check to her 9-year-old child to two Justin Bieber fans realizing the fate of their unusual relationship, OJ in a Sippy Cup knows how to create some of the funniest and most memorable relationships you will ever see on stage. Cast: Julia Morales, Oscar Montoya
OJ in a Sippy Cup Facebook page

9:15 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here

9:30 PM - North Coast (NYC)

Now that the East Coast/West Coast beef has subsided, North Coast is stepping up to throw down. Watch as New York's only freestyle rapping, beatboxing, long-form improv team performs a fully improvised "hip-hopera" right in front of yo mouf. You bring your favorite rap lyric and North Coast will make your gut bust and your head bop. And if you don't know, now you know. Cast: Jonathan DeMuth, Boris Khaykin, Oscar Montoya, Rachel Rosenthal, Douglass Widick, Julia Morales, Angela Randazzo, Shuan Fisher, and James Robilotta www.northcoastnyc.com
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Friday, May 31st

5:00 PM - Michael Gellman's Scenario to Stage Workshop Show

From Comedia del Arte to Mike Leigh, Christopher Guest and Larry David, improvisation from scenario is how we will make a living in the craft we love. Join us as students from Michael Gellman's Scenario to Stage Workshop as they improvise scenario-based short plays using long form techniques developed by Michael Gellman and inspired by classic nursery rhymes as metaphors for modern relationships. This show is "pay what you can!" Cast: TBD

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7:00 PM - Shackled (NYC)

Two murderers -- one black, one white -- chained at the ankles. Up against the elements, each other and their desire to escape, actors Dion Flynn (Late Night W/Jimmy Fallon) and Nate Starkey (Andy Kaufman award Semi-Finalist), as prisoners 12269 and 12284, have been hurtling into the unknown reaches of improvised theater to the delight of NYC audiences for more than four years. Shackled explores all that we run from, all that we run toward and what keeps us together. Do we ever get there? Come see for yourself. Cast List: Dion Flynn (Late Night W/Jimmy Fallon, Big Black Car) and Nate Starkey (Andy Kaufman award Semi-Finalist, Big Black Car). Directed by: Matt Higgins.
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8:00 PM - Strange Worlds (Austin, TX)

Enter a world of two fisted justice and wide eyed wonder, a world of weird menace and mad science, a world of pulse-pounding peril and thrilling adventure! Welcome to Strange Worlds, an improvised pulp hero anthology. Inspired by such iconic characters as The Shadow and Doc Savage, each Strange Worlds adventure presents a thrilling tale set in a simpler time of heroes and villains, marvels and monsters!
Cast: Jessica Arjet Ryan Austin Andreas Fabis Alexander Hilary Marc Majcher Madeline Malka Jayme Ramsay Heidi Rogers Peter Rogers Lacy Shawn Jordan T. Maxwell (director/host) Cindy Ward (technical director/musical technician) Chad Wellington (lighting technician) Michael Yew (sound effects technician)
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9:30 PM - Centralia (NYC)

Centralia (formerly Burn Manhattan) was born in 1996 out of an election-related sketch show from the group's Second City improv roots. The group morphed into Centralia in 2004. Centralia have sold-out shows at all the hippest underground NYC improv, theater and comedy joints ever since. They've also delighted and stunned audiences at clubs and colleges around the country. Every member is an improv teacher and they've taught with Second City, at Fordham University, Yale, Hampshire College, Brooklyn College, for Fortune 500 companies and at the PIT. Cast: Matt Higgins, Jay Rhoderick, Kevin Scott

Saturday, June 1st

3:00 PM - Listen, Kid! (NYC)

Listen, Kid! Listen, you mugs! Show business is tough, see, but here's two fellas that got the straight dope: Hollywood producer extraordinaire Irv Newberg and his bosom companion Charlie Tickertape. These two dapper dans are gonna show you the ins and outs of the movie biz, from signing your star to Oscar night, and everything in between. So sit back, grab yourself some hooch, and watch the sparks fly in a behind-the-scenes scorcher you'll never forget! Cast: Al King, Kevin Cobbs
http://www.alessandroking.com/

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3:00 PM - Face Off Unlimited presents Goon River (Astoria, NY)

Completely improvised and performed in total darkness, Goon River is a unique journey into the imagination. Several improvised stories are cleverly woven together to create a tale of wonder and woe that you'll hardly believe is being made up on the spot, and all around you! Adapted from a classic improvisation exorcise, Face Off has created a new type of theatre experience, where audience members are literally surrounded by the story. By turning out the lights and removing the visual aspects of the experience, the story telling becomes personal to each theatre goer's imagination. With the actors seated throughout the audience, the listener is immersed into the world woven by Face Off's master improvised story tellers that is unique to each performance. Discover the stories and secrets of the inhabitants of this All-American small town. The stories may be funny, but they may not have a happy ending. Cast: Courtnay Griswold, Katie Terry, Lyle Pinder, Brian Walters, Steve Zegers. Created, directed, and produced by Face Off Unlimited. Face Off is Jay Painter, Eric Robinson, and Joe Tex. faceoffunlimited.com Back to Top

5:00 PM - Mike Brown Solo Improv Extravaganza (NYC)

Let's be honest. The Mike Brown Solo Improv Extravaganza is pretty much like any other improv troupe that you'll discover along life's path...with one exception: the show is completely improvised by one person. That's right, improv fans! An entire improv troupe has just been reduced to a single person, which means that all characters discovered in the scene are portrayed through the eyes of one improviser. The show started in 2009 when a small group of Mike's friends planted the thought of doing a solo improv show in his head. After successfully testing it out at The PIT's "Improdome" in NYC, Mike continued playing with this form around New York, as well as various festivals throughout the United States, until the "Mike Brown Solo Improv Extravaganza" was conceived and a new genre was reinvented. Cast: Mike Brown www.soloimprov.com

4:45 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here
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5:00 PM - Skycopter (NYC)

7:00 PM - Michelin (NYC)

Ever wonder what an improv show would look like, with realistic and fun man/woman theatrical tension? And by realistic and fun we mean, “Have I been watching a show all this time because I can’t tell; this seems real. It seems like I’m watching a real situation between these two and although it’s entertaining, it’s making me feel a little awkward but these are really attractive people, so I think I’ll stay and be a voyeur.” Michelin. Roll with us: Gripping Improv.
Cast: Colin McNally and Michelle Francesca Thomas
www.Facebook.com/MichelinImprov

6:45 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here

7:00 PM - STEELE/QUINN (NYC)

STEELE/QUINN sounds like a lady cop show but it’s twice as bad-ass! It’s lady two-prov from New York City featuring Lorie Steele and Elizabeth Quinn. Their brand of improv is both classically theatrical and clownishly absurd. STEELE/QUINN creates characters and worlds that take you on a journey of misfits and mayhem. STEELE/QUINN is a 2011 INNY nominee for Best Comedic Duo from ImprovisationNews.com
Cast: Elizabeth Quinn, Lorie Steele
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8:00 PM - 1 Deep (NYC)

With scenes of chaos and joy interspersed with spontaneous interactions with her inner clown, you never know what's going to occur. Free from limitations, 1 Deep delivers an energetic improvised one-woman showcase.
Cast: Shacottha Fields / Director: Rick Andrews
www.shacottha.com / Twitter: @Shacottha

8:00 PM - Chicago Improv Productions Presents Storybox Spontaneous Theatre (Chicago, IL / NYC)

Storybox is the epic adventure of a lead character that the audience helps develop as the performers explore dramatic ensemble based improvisation involving a multidisciplinary approach (including storytelling and movement) as they utilize sticks, cloths, and a variety of visual and verbal storytelling techniques derived from a wide range of theatre and improvisational traditions (including Story Theatre, Noh Theatre, Del Close, Keith Johnstone). Storybox has been improvised in Atlanta, Chicago, Honolulu, Minneapolis, Montreal, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, and Toronto. This performance for the Unscripted Festival features a combined cast of improvisers from the Chicago company and New York players who participated in the April workshop taught by Storybox's founder Jonathan Pitts (co-founder Chicago Improv Festival). Francisco, Seattle, Stockholm, and Toronto. Cast: Ricky Haschemeyer (Chicago), Stephanie Kuroda (New York), David Marx (New York), Mike Norris (Chicago), Jonathan Pitts (Chicago), David Nelson Taylor (New York) Ed Newman (New York) Elizabeth Kalfayan (New York) Paula Mate (New York) http://www.chicagoimprovfestival.org/web/storybox_home.php
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9:30 PM - The Unscripted Players / SHITFA Awards

Celebrate the inauguration of the Supreme Honorary Improvised Theater & Film Awards (SHITFAs – affectionately known as the SHITTYS)! Unscripted New York celebrates artists who work without a script and who create their art and tell their stories entirely in the moment by the presenting of the SHITFA followed by an improvisation show made up of faculty, staff, and selected participants from the festival roster.
The Unscripted Players: (in alphabetical order)
Mandy May Cheetham (SHITFA Winner: Emerging Artist – Int’l)
Amey Goerlich (SHITFA Winner: Innovative Excellence, Upton Abbey), Rachel Hamilton (Unscripted Workshop Leader), Ben Hauck (SHITFA Winner: Emerging Artist – US), Matt Kaplan (Unscripted Festival Coordinator), Heather Smith Lutkin (Unscripted Co-Producer), Mike Norris (Unscripted Workshop Leader), Jonathan Pitts (Unscripted Workshop Leader), Elizabeth Quinn (Unscripted Co-Producer)

9:15 PM Pre-show - Waiting for the Show - see details here

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Sunday, June 2nd

3:00 PM - Strange Worlds (Austin, TX)

5:00 PM - EagleFox (NYC)

Like the unholy creation that is its namesake, NYC Improv team EagleFox weaves together high-energy scenes and characters to create a strange, yet beautiful world. Don't hate EagleFox. It was born this way. EagleFox Members are part of House Teams at the Magnet Theater, and as a group are the third-ever 9-time Champions of the Magnet's Inspirado Cagematch. They have performed at the Toronto Improv Festival and the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival.
Cast: Joe Lepore, Peter Collins, Andrew Vuilleumier, Adam Twitchell, Will Quinn, and Dennis Pacheco http://eaglefox.improvteams.com/
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5:00 PM - IRTE Presents: The Groovy Gang Adventures (NYC)

IRTE Presents The Groovy Gang Adventures. Jinkies! The Groovy Gang is up to their old tricks in IRTE's latest long-form improvisational comedy. Join your favorite band of teen sleuths and their talking alligator drummer Chompers, as they solve yet another spooky mystery. Cast: Robert Baumgardner, Nannette Deasy, Alex Decaneas, Curt Dixon, Jamie Maloney, Danielle Montezinos, Jeff O'Leary, Isabelle Owens. Directed by Pat Shay Original Concept by Nannette Deasy. http://irteinfo.wix.com/irte Twitter@IRTE_IMPROV
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7:00 PM - Pat & Mary Save Their Marriage (NYC)

Pat and Mary use their groundbreaking technique of "History Therapy for Couples" to investigate the love lessons taught by History's most famous love stories. They start with a modern marriage problem that is given to them by the audience and as they discover this problem in their marriage they get visits from some of history's most famous couples to help them find new and slightly unusual ways to overcome their problems while letting us in on what was the truth of their epic love story and help Pat and Mary on their quest to Save their Marriage! Cast: Mary Theresa Archbold and Pat Shay youtube.com/patandmaryseries Twitter: @dearpatandmary Photo by: Keith Huang Back to Top

7:00 PM - Upton Abbey (NYC)

Upton Abbey: A Show within a live show. The TV show Upton Abbey on film and The crew live on stage improvise a set before and after the episode. Series 1 'Upton Abbey' A TV show that take place in NYC in 1914-1916 two families come together one from England one from America to live together. A comedy set in the 1900's
Directed/Produced/Edited By Amey Goerlich Filmed By Lou Gonzalez & Matt Scott (Asst Director)
Upton Episodes Written By Amey Goerlich, Johnny McNulty, Zack Phillips, Katey Healy-Wurzburg, Jill Morris, Matt Scott, Brennan Mulligan
CAST APPEARING IN LIVE SHOW: Amey Goerlich, Rebecca Vigil, TJ Del Reno, Julia Wiedeman, Tracy Petrillo, Curtis Retherford, Ben Whitehouse, Evan Boshi, Caitlin Brodnick, David Ebert, Lou Gonzalez, Abby Holland, Brian Uretta
CAST OF UPTON ABBEY TV SHOW (FILM): Bob Kulhan, Cathleen Carr, Kevin Cragg, Rebecca Vigil, Caitlin Brodnick, Emily Bogue, Jessica Giannone, David Ebert, Angela Dee, Johnny McNulty, Abby Holland, Tracey Petrillo Smith, Marcus Bishop-Wright, Julia Wiedeman, Rachel Bitney Wecht, Brady O'Callahan, Robin Levine, Marshall Stratton, Jerah Mulligan, Jocelyn Drew, David Guzman, Matthew Brian Cohen, Ted Limpert, Krista Jensen
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8:00 PM - SCREENINGS - Unscripted Digital Shorts

"That Time" - Unscripted New York's fully improvised short video created during the festival
"The Taste of Coffee" - by Mark L. Feinsod
"The Feed" by Nightcrawlers Inc.
"Trust Us...This is All Made Up" a documentary on TJ & Dave followed by a Q&A with the director Alex Karpovsky!
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Congratulations to the 2013 Unscripted New York Shows!