The Second Annual Supreme Honorary Improvised Theater & Film Awards
The First of its Kind International Award!
Only at Unscripted New York Theatre & Film Festival
Awards Ceremony and Show: Sunday, October 5th at 7:30 PM
Unscripted New York Improvised Theatre & Film Festival is proud to again host 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. This year, Unscripted New York will again present the SHITFAs to celebrate artists who excel and promote the acceptance of improvisational theater & film and bring a higher respect and awareness to the art form and the artists involved.
This year we honor outstanding improv performers in four SHITFA categories:
Dynamic Duo - The Raving Jaynes
Innovative Excellence - Storybox Unscripted Theatre presented by Chicago Improv Productions
Ensemble Performance - The Improvised Play
Outstanding Genre Performance - IRTE Presents: The Scary, Improvised Stephen King
Dynamic Duo - The Raving Jaynes
Innovative Excellence - Storybox Unscripted Theatre presented by Chicago Improv Productions
Ensemble Performance - The Improvised Play
Outstanding Genre Performance - IRTE Presents: The Scary, Improvised Stephen King
Behind the SHITFAs -- Why and How
Why the SHITFAs
We looked around and saw no national awards out there celebrating improvisational actors in theater and film. A few local companies recognized their own, but no one went beyond that to recognize and celebrate artists performing at the highest level, and taking improvised theatre and film to new places of collaboration and storytelling.
As practicing improvisational artists, we know how difficult it is to create full characters AND dialogue on the spot, AND make the story up as you go, AND collaborate with everyone in that space, AND stay in the moment with every fiber of your being. It’s an incredibly challenging art form. We thought: NO awards for outstanding improvisational actors? How Shitty is that? And thus, the SHITTYs were born.
How the SHITFAs are chosen
The Unscripted New York festival staff selects The Supreme Honorary Improvised Theater & Film Awards in a highly organic and collaborative process. We talk over who really knocks us on our ass and figure out how to celebrate and recognize them. This year, with so many outstanding improvised shows and films, we had to think beyond excellence and quality – they are all wonderful shows – and look at who is most innovative, creative, original and collaborative as differentiators to find our winners.
Our goal is to celebrate artists who excel and promote the acceptance of improvisational theater & film and bring a higher respect and awareness to the art form and the artists involved. We’re confident this year’s SHITFA winners are models of excellence in their commitment to the craft of improvised theatre and film, and we’re honored to have them as participants in the festival.
We looked around and saw no national awards out there celebrating improvisational actors in theater and film. A few local companies recognized their own, but no one went beyond that to recognize and celebrate artists performing at the highest level, and taking improvised theatre and film to new places of collaboration and storytelling.
As practicing improvisational artists, we know how difficult it is to create full characters AND dialogue on the spot, AND make the story up as you go, AND collaborate with everyone in that space, AND stay in the moment with every fiber of your being. It’s an incredibly challenging art form. We thought: NO awards for outstanding improvisational actors? How Shitty is that? And thus, the SHITTYs were born.
How the SHITFAs are chosen
The Unscripted New York festival staff selects The Supreme Honorary Improvised Theater & Film Awards in a highly organic and collaborative process. We talk over who really knocks us on our ass and figure out how to celebrate and recognize them. This year, with so many outstanding improvised shows and films, we had to think beyond excellence and quality – they are all wonderful shows – and look at who is most innovative, creative, original and collaborative as differentiators to find our winners.
Our goal is to celebrate artists who excel and promote the acceptance of improvisational theater & film and bring a higher respect and awareness to the art form and the artists involved. We’re confident this year’s SHITFA winners are models of excellence in their commitment to the craft of improvised theatre and film, and we’re honored to have them as participants in the festival.
THE UNSCRIPTED PLAYERS / SHITFA SHOW
Date & Time: Sunday, October 5th at 7:30 PM - Tickets are FREE!!!
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. The celebratory Awards Show will feature The Unscripted Players, a collaboration of faculty, staff and selected participants from the festival roster, who will come together for the first time ever to perform unscripted one acts. We honor outstanding improv performers in four SHITFA categories: Dynamic Duo, Innovative Excellence; Ensemble Performance; Outstanding Genre Performance.
The 2014 Unscripted Players: (in alphabetical order)*
Nannette Deasy (2014 SHITFA Winner: Outstanding Genre Performance)
Jamie Graham (2014 SHITFA Winner: Dynamic Duo)
Amy Larimer (2014 SHITFA Winner: Dynamic Duo)
Heather Smith Lutkin (Unscripted Co-Producer)
Jonathan Pitts (2014 SHITFA Winner: Innovative Excellence)
Elizabeth Quinn (Unscripted Co-Producer)
*Sadly, due to a prior performance commitment, a member from The Improvised Play will not be able to join us but we know they will be on stage in spirit!
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. The celebratory Awards Show will feature The Unscripted Players, a collaboration of faculty, staff and selected participants from the festival roster, who will come together for the first time ever to perform unscripted one acts. We honor outstanding improv performers in four SHITFA categories: Dynamic Duo, Innovative Excellence; Ensemble Performance; Outstanding Genre Performance.
The 2014 Unscripted Players: (in alphabetical order)*
Nannette Deasy (2014 SHITFA Winner: Outstanding Genre Performance)
Jamie Graham (2014 SHITFA Winner: Dynamic Duo)
Amy Larimer (2014 SHITFA Winner: Dynamic Duo)
Heather Smith Lutkin (Unscripted Co-Producer)
Jonathan Pitts (2014 SHITFA Winner: Innovative Excellence)
Elizabeth Quinn (Unscripted Co-Producer)
*Sadly, due to a prior performance commitment, a member from The Improvised Play will not be able to join us but we know they will be on stage in spirit!
