10/18/11: RESCHEDULED – Larry Hankin’s Street Stories
* The SF Improv Festival has had to reschedule Larry Hankin’s Street Stories due to scheduling conflicts that have come up on the part of the festival. We will be working with Larry to get him up here for the show in 2012. We’re very much looking forward to making this happen next year. Check back with the website or facebook for the latest info on when the show will happen. Thanks to all of you who expressed such interest in the show and for those of you who we refunded advance tickets for this show, contact us for information [...]
8/24/11: JUST ADDED – Emily Candini will be playing Saturday’s Messing with a Friend at 8:30PM!!
The San Francisco Improv Festival is excited to announce the addition of Emily Candini to the already deep bench of talent on Saturday night. Emily will be ‘Messed with’ by the ridiculous and ridiculously skilled Susan Messing in the 8:30 PM show on the Saturday double bill with Uncle’s Brother. Tickets are selling really fast for this show, so get ‘em now!! MORE ON EMILY: Emily Candini is a California native who has been performing for over 20 years. Obsessively in love with comedy since the age of two, she has always known her path. After years of modern and [...]
8/19/11: Jim Cranna added to Del Close: The Early Years panel
If you have any interest in comedy, the 60′s art scene in SF, or amazing stories about a comedy legend, you should get yourself to the Eureka tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 20th) at 6PM for our panel Del Close: The early years. 2011 OCIC Award designatee (is that even a word?) Jim Cranna has just been added to the panel on comedy legend Del Close. Jim will appear with fellow Committee members Chris Pray and Ed Greenberg, along with Del’s co-founder of Improv Olympic (now iO) Charna Halpern and Del Close biographer, Kim “Howard” Johnson. Charna and Howard also co-authored the [...]
8/18/11: SF Improv Fest – MP3 Experiment Highlight Posted!
Thanks to all of you who showed up to play on Tuesday!! The MP3 Experiment was a huge success, with an estimated 2500 people improvising in Union Square to the dulcet tones of Steve, Improv Everywhere’s omnipotent voice on the MP3 track. Check out the video highlight from the event by clicking on the pic above, and take a loook at some other angles from NBC Bay Area and Laughing Squid! Special thanks to SF Rec and Parks and MJM Management for rolling with an event much larger than anticipated…! Charlie Todd’s talk and Q&A on Improv Everywhere (Improv Everywhere [...]
8/16/11: Del Close: The Early Years – members of The Committee added!
Our festival retrospective on Del Close, focusing on his early years performing and directing here in San Francisco with The Committee, has just added two new members to the panel – Committee members Chris Pray and Ed Greenberg. These fantastically talented improvisors talk (with Del’s co-authors of the improvisor’s handbook “Truth in Comedy” Charna Halpern, and Kim “Howard” Johnson) about their experiences with Del as an actor, director and not-yet-improv-guru. Del Close, the man who trained improvisors from John Belushi to Tina Fey, and who served as the House Metaphysician for SNL’s opening season, spent his time in San Francisco [...]
8/5/11: Jim Cranna Named the 2011 OCIC Award Winner!!
The San Francisco Improv Festival is proud to announce that Jim Cranna is the 2011 recipient of their annual OCIC Award! The festival will be honoring Jim Sunday, August 21st at 5:30pm at the Eureka Theater, located on Jackson at Battery in SF. This is a free event, so please come celebrate with us…! Jim Cranna is one of the guiding lights for improvisation in San Francisco. Improv legend Del Close discovered him in 1967 and brought him into The Committee, where he performed until they closed up shop in the 70’s. Jim performed with other seminal Bay Area improv [...]
8/1/11: Golden Ticket – SF Improv Fest 2011 FEST PASS on Sale Now!
_____ Finally! A limited number of festival passes are on sale now, offering general admission seating to every show of your choice. That’s right – every show. How much are they? A mere $55. That’s almost $300 worth of shows you get for $55. There are a very limited number, so go get your pass immediately and then sign up for Uncle’s Brother and Messing with a Friend, Dr. God with Dave Holmes and Serious V-Neck, Del Close: The Early Years with ‘Truth in Comedy’ authors Charna Halpern & Kim ‘Howard’ Johnson, and all of your favorite local acts on the [...]
7/25/11: $100 Class Pass to Workshops w/Dr. God on Sale Now!!
Hello improvisors! Just a quick note to let you know the SF Improv Festival is getting you access to 10 hours of professional comedy and script-writing training for $100. I know – CRAZY – right?? That’s just what’s happening with the workshops with iO West mainstage performers Dr. God. Really – some of the most sought-after improv & sketch teachers in LA for as little as ten bucks an hour? Yes. If you do all 5 classes that’s what it works out to – just get your pass and then sign up for the Dr. God workshops you want to [...]
7/21/11: Call for Volunteers – SF Improv Festival 2011!
Hello Potential Plucky Volunteer and/or Willing Friend of Potential Plucky Volunteer! Would you like to see the San Francisco Improv Festival for free, connect with improv gurus from around the country, hook up some seriously powerful audiovisual equipment, or maybe just help people to their seats? Then come on down and volunteer for the SF Improv Festival to make your dreams come true! We’re filling many different positions across the theater, and we need your help. Please email JOSH@SFIMPROVFESTIVAL.COM for details.
7/19/11: SF Improv Festival Tickets on Sale Now!!
It’s happened!! The work of getting all the people places and things together to finally get tickets on sale and hopefully in your hot little hands is done – FINALLY! We’re back at the Eureka Theater for 2011 and have the schedule & performers laid out for you on the site, tickets to all workshops and shows available on BrownPaperTickets.com and a great event we will announce shortly that is free and open to participation by improv lovers and the population of the greater SF Bay Area on August 16th at Union Square!! Come back to this site for more [...]
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