One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
Graham Downing was born, raised and plans to die in Seattle. He has been performing improv for the last 11 years and is thrilled to be doing his second Cast of One. When not improvising he is a painter and one half of the sketch troupe Death & Taxes. He’s really sorry he never returned your email.
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
About the Performer – Matt Hatfield has over a decade of experience in both improv and sketch comedy. He is a the creator of seattlecomedy.org, a current member and founder of sketch group; Drop the Root Beer and Run, Improv duo; Matt-enee and talk show; The Tipfield Hour. Matt has also performed with other such groups as Specific Northwest, Whattabout, Matt-a-Graham and is a former member of ComedySportz Seattle. He can be frequently seen performing or hosting shows at the Pocket theater in Greenwood of which he is also a board member. In addition to performing in Seattle Sketchfest, Bumpershoot and the Seattle Festival of Improvised theater he has also performed in such Out of town festivals as the Toronto Improv Festival, Chicago Sketchfest, Vancouver Sketchfest, The LA Improv festival, Idaho Laughfest, Austin’s Out of Bounds Comedy festival, and The Del Close Marathon in New York. Matt really enjoys monsters from folklore, super weird movies, armadillos and drinking juice.
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
About the performer – Mandy Price is a Jet City Improv cast member and has appeared in many full-length improvised plays, including Lovetanic, Goin’ Steady: The Musical, Austen Translation and Upside Downton at JCI and The Pretty Wonderful Club at Unexpected Productions. She also keeps one foot in the world of scripted theatre, playing The Storyteller in ArtsWest’s production of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Kimmi in The Underneath at Annex Theatre and various roles in Wagner Sketches with the Seattle Opera. Mandy is a transplant from Chicago where she performed with The Second City, iO, The Annoyance and Laugh Out Loud Theatre. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she holds a BA in Theatre from Belmont University and fights against her accent every day.
With special guests Death & Taxes!
One featured improviser will perform a one-person production, in which they play every character. The audience will choose the story: any book, film or play ever created. With only the help of a quick glance at the synopsis, will they create an entirely improvised, once-in-a-lifetime adaptation of the work in question. In this show the improviser has no safety-net, no partner, no one to help. All they have is their wit, talent and a room full of strangers watching them attempt the bravest act a performer can attempt.
This Month: Phill Arensberg
