Harrisburg PA Comedy Improv Throw Down Festival Aug 13-15, 2010

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Because this is the first year for the CITD, the competition shows will be professionally taped and edited into a DVD available shortly after the festival! Come be part of the event, the fun, the weekend and the DVD for the very first Comedy Improv Throw Down!





Featuring:

Don't Break the Streak, Harrisburg, PA (Hosting)

1. The Second Place Champions, Glassboro, NJ

4. Hustlebot, Pittsburgh, PA

5. Dutch Blitzkrieg, Lancaster, PA

6. The Pitt Improvers, Bradford, PA

7. Face Off, New York, NY

9. Mishmash, New York, NY

10. MacCloskey and Myers, Dallastown, PA

11. D.U.P.E.D. Washington, D.C.

12. ShawnMikael(s), Washington D.C.

13. Supercrab, NY, NY

14. Blank Slate, Bethesda, MD

15. Fling Improv, Bethesda, MD

16. Dr Bayber's Secret Mischief Tape, New York, NY

Don't Break the Streak Improv is proud to announce the first annual, Harrisburg Comedy Zone 2010 Comedy Improv Throw Down!
This comedy festival is being held August 13-15th at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone in New Cumberland Pennsylvania.

16 Improv troupes will battle it out until one is left standing! Mixed in with all the competition and evening shows, at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone,
we have over 14 hours of improv workshops! Seven 2 hour blocks with the following lessons:

Harold workshop - by Hustlebot
How to get good paying gigs - by The Second Place Champions
Finding Your Best Characters - by Dutch Blitzkrieg
Musical Improv - by Mishmash
Favorite Short Form Games - by The Pitt Improvers
Breaking it down and working the gimmick - use the built in gimmicks of the game to get the most out of a scene - by Face Off
I Am Brave and Fearless, So What Am I So Afraid Of? - by Rick Horner from Activity Book


How Much Does it Cost? (Must be 21 or older to attend because we have a full bar on premises.)

The show admission for ALL performances is $20 per person
The workshop fee for ALL classes is $40 per person
Buy a combo ticket for just $50 and enjoy every improv show, competition and workshop for one low fee!

Want to attend only one workshop or show? No problem. $10 per class or show!

Current competition and Show Schedule

Friday 8/13/2010

5PM - 8PM Registration / Cocktail Party at Doc Holliday's

9PM - 10:30PM - Don't Break the Streak Improv Show in the Harrisburg Comedy Zone (official start of the festival!)

Saturday 8/14/2010


Noon - 6PM - 16 competing teams will be weeded down to just 6 who advance! (20 minutes per team)

8PM - 9:30PM - First evening show with the first three finalists each performing for 30 minutes in front of a general public audience. TWO teams will advance to Sunday.

10:30PM - 12:00AM Second evening show with the final three finalists each performing for 30 minutes in front of a general public audience. TWO teams will advance to Sunday.

Sunday 8/15/2010
Noon - 3PM - Final showdown between the top four teams from Saturday night. Two teams selected from the 8PM show and two teams from the 10:30PM show will throw down in the Harrisburg Comedy Zone. Each team will perform for 30 minutes with a 15 minute intermission between shows. The top two WINNING IMPROV TROUPES will be selected at this time.


6PM - 7:30 - Winning two teams battle it out in front of a live audience for the grand prize! Each team gets 45 minutes to perform and the winner will be selected at the end of the night. This final battle will wrap up the Comedy Improv Throw Down for 2010! 45 minutes, 10 minute intermission and the final 45 minutes from the final troupe.

Judging Criteria / Method

This Comedy Improv Throw Down will have three judges, each scoring the performance on a scale of 1-10. Judge number 1 is an expert in the field of improvisation and will be judging based on any long form / short form technical matter. The second judge will be a local celebrity and will vote solely on his or her entertainment value of the sketch. The third judge is a representative of the people...the people in the audience that is! The third judges job requires him or her to observe the audience more closely and monitor the "entertainment value" from the audience perspective and vote accordingly thus involving the entire audience into the voting process as well. (If you have fans, convince them to come root for your troupe!)

We're going to have a great Improv weekend and the opportunity to learn from others, what their strong points are, all in a peer to peer equal environment. Improv actors helping other improv actors period. Ok, we will be drinking a little too... some of us maybe a lot but we WILL be having fun either way. Come on out to a new type of improv Festival and tell everyone you were here when they did the first one back in 2010!

Register Here today!
 
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dontbreakthestr

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It's official, Dave Warick, the LA improv guru will be our technical judge for the improv throw down August 13-15, 2010 at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone!

Greg Maughan from PHIT was gracious enough to allow me to copy Dave's bio from their site so here it is for anyone who doesn't know Dave!

David Warick has worked as a professional actor, improviser, teacher and writer for over fifteen years. He is a member of SAG, Actors Equity, the Writer’s Guild and the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Guild.

After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts he trained and performed with The Groundlings, The Second City LA, and Los Angeles Theatresports for over ten years. At Los Angeles Theatresports he regularly performed in the groundbreaking long-form show, TRIPLE PLAY. He later wrote for Paramount, Fox and Walt Disney Television and was a story analyst for Artisan Entertainment, IFC, Avenue Pictures and director Michael Mann.

David has taught improv to adults, teens and kids on both Coasts. In Los Angeles, he developed the popular teen improv stage show LAUGH OUT.

In July 2005, David founded the Delaware Comedy Theatre. In addition to teaching workshops and classes for DCT, he has also served as director for the sold-out shows “A Chili Sumo Christmas” and “Cupid Shoots Self In Foot.”

In addition to his theatrical work, David is a founder of Ziksana Consulting - a firm that specializes in using improvisation for corporate training.

WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT DAVID:
"He is a God." - "He really expanded my knowledge and beliefs about what good improv could be." - "WONDERFUL energy and a terrific personality" - "Dave was awesome."
 
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dontbreakthestr

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I have two questions for everyone, How much interest would there be in the improv community, if we taped and streamed the Improv Throw Down live over the internet for people to watch. Would that be something anyone would be interested in? Secondly, what do you think would be a fair price to be able to log in and out the entire weekend and watch what's going on as it happens.

If there is enough interest in this I'll check into the logistics and see if it's possible!
 
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dontbreakthestr

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Only 13 rooms left for the Comedy Improv Throw Down 8/13-15/2010

I just checked the room status the weekend of our improv festival in Harrisburg and they only have 13 rooms left! If you're attending the event, call 717-920-JOKE to reserve a room before they're sold out!

If they sell out before you get a chance to register, there ARE other hotels right next door and in the immediate area but the rate won't be the $45 rate the Harrisburg West Inn & Convention center is giving us but it will also be a discounted rate for that weekend.

Thanks,
Keith

Kickstarter.com approved our fundraiser so we are officially trying to raise $5,000.00 to be used as the prize package for the 2010 Comedy Improv Throw Down in Harrisburg, PA August 13-15, 2010. You can support the project or look at all of the cool items we are giving away in exchange for your donations and support!

The way kickstarter.com works is you have a specific amount of time to try and raise your money. If you succeed, your project is fully funded and everything works out! That means someone is walking home $5,000.00 richer at the end of the Throw Down! If we DON'T meet our $5,000.00 goal, NONE of the money gets funded so it's ALL OR NOTHING!

Help us out if you you think spreading creativity and entertainment is a great positive thing to do!

Here is the link to our fundraiser! Thanks in advance for your support to anyone who helps us! We REALLY want to give away $5,000.00 in August! Help us make that happen
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...in-central-pen
 
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EDIT: Troupe CATCH 22 is now WALT! on the schedule.

BIG NEWS! We have been approved by kickstarter.com to do our fundraiser. What that means is we have about 45 days to try and get the word out and get sponsors to raise $5,000.00. IF WE SUCCEED, the winning improv troupe at the Aug 13-15, 2010 Comedy Improv Throw Down will walk away with $5,000.00 as a cash prize! If you'd like to support our fundraiser, click the link below and make a donation anywhere from $1 and up! Every dollar helps because if we DON'T raise the ENTIRE amount within our time limit on kickstarter.com, we lose the entire amount and no ones cards get charged. Here is a little promo video we did for the site:


Here is the direct link to the page where you can look at all of our reward offers for your different sponsor levels! We have some really cool items for your donations!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dbts/first-annual-comedy-improv-festival-in-central-pen-0 Please pass this link around to anyone you know coming! YOU are the one's who have an opportunity to win this so help us raise it! WIN WIN situation with improv actors helping other improv actors on an equal level! Thank you.
 
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