Melanie PennStaff

Happy almost-May, Improv Shop! 🌼 And happy birthdays to Shannon Russell, Tuesday Badell, Kaylee Vanatta, Julie Gill, Mike Shocklee, Alex Ringhausen, and everyone celebrating birthdays this week! 🎂🎂 Here's some updates, gang: THURSDAY PROGRAMMING - Come out for shows this Thursday April 30th: House Team Night at 7:00 in mainstage with 2zin Tarandon, Sophie Tucker, and Songbird The Menagerie at 7:00 in sidestage with Yes Andersons, Panick Attack!, Oh Geez, and Where It's At The Merry-Go-Round at 9:00 in sidestage with We Need A Name, Experi-Mental, hbh51hbh, and Boyride ...plus The Jam at 9:00 in mainstage with some fresh new and old fave shortform games 🤸 FRIDAY PROGRAMMING - This Friday May 1st, new month + new and returning shows: THE ASTERISK* at 7:00 in mainstage ~ this week's theme is ceremony 🥂 Chaos Gremlins at 7:00 in sidestage where three teams - Spit-Take, Zam Pow!, and Some Black People - play with their respective coaches - Tracey, myself, and Alayna - as we try to wreak chaos on our teams 😈 Cagematch at 9:00 in mainstage with returning champions Mid-Tantrum vs. new challenger Mansplain Welcome to Frog Hollow at 9:00 in sidestage ~ it's the pilot episode of a new location-centric, character-highlighting, TV-series-inspired show QUEER IMPROV JAM - It's the first Saturday of the month this Saturday May 2nd, so time for another Queer Improv Jam, hosted by our friends of Yas And! Queer Jam is a free dropin workshop at 5:00-6:15 in sidestage, open to any LGBTQIA+ participants regardless of improv experience, so tell your friends! 🌈 Speaking of Yas And... SATURDAY PROGRAMMING - Another fun show night to be had this Saturday May 2nd: Yas And Friends at 7:00 in sidestage with Yas And and C-Sweet The One Four Fives present an Improvised Musical! at 7:00 in mainstage Dreamscope at 9:00 in sidestage Harold Houdini at 9:00 in mainstage with two full-length Harold teams Floorplay and Potato Wedgies ...plus the Inaugural Improv Shop Derby at 11:00 in sidestage! There will be horse races, musical performances, and mint juleps at the bar; see Charles's post for information and follow the link to submit names for racehorses. 🏇 RUNNING CLUB meets this Sunday May 3rd at Jefferson Barracks Park, starting around 10:15-10:30 at the Taco Bell Fitness Course. Yep, that's a real thing. Sunday forecast should be sunny and 60s, perfect time to be outside. ☀️ MONDAY JAMS - Come out for more miniworkshops at 6:00-6:50 this Monday May 4th aka Star Wars Day: Student Jam in mainstage with Megs Davis! Grad Jam in sidestage with Jeff Sheary! Big thanks to Megs and Jeff for facilitating, and big thanks to everyone for coming out. 💪 MONDAY PROGRAMMING - It's week #6 in this cycle of student showcases - only two more till graduation! That's two Teams Level 2 showcases in mainstage, plus two Teams Level 1 showcases in sidestage, followed by School Night at 9:00. Do like me on a school night in 1999, stay up too late constructing costumes out of a big trash bag of scrap fabric in your bedroom - except instead of constructing costumes you're watching longform improv and instead of your bedroom you're at The Improv Shop. Ok that's a wrap for now, team. Remember to sign up for core classes or workshops by May 13th if you're planning on taking a class in the May-July session, and lmk if there's anything you need. Thanks for being part of this thing. 💛

Charles HarrisStaff

Many have been asking me about the horses racing in the Inaugural Improv Shop Derby. They say "Charles! What are the names of the steeds that will be partaking in this incredible event?" The answer is that I don't know yet because I'll picking from your name submissions. Here's the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepU9SYrsbjKE5er-po4zXM3Sy7tK4yQsWiL4nfBjoVq3SSjA/viewform

Pep LaMarch

Ever been to a show that begins & ends with the ENTIRE audience? If not, here's your chance! It's SQUIGGLE! Sat, May 2 @ 9p Side stage at The Improv Shop - STL!Part improv, part live installation, entirely unpredictable. Featuring 𝒁𝒂𝒎 𝑷𝒐𝒘! (Erin Pazderka, Max Levin) & 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏? (Nicole Durel & I) The audience will transform a hoodie into a one-of-a-kind souvenir one lucky person gets to keep!a ＤＲＥ▲ Ｍ ＳＣＯＰＥ productionhttps://theimprovshop.com/show/ｄｒｅ▲-ｍ-ｓｃｏｐｅ

Iván Otero

Chaos Gremlins is back this Friday May 1st at 7pm in Side Stage! The concept: 3 improv teams will run their normal form with one catch… their coach will be onstage with them, acting as an agent of chaos to the set. Can these teams survive their own coaches?! Get your tickets here! https://theimprovshop.com/show/chaos-gremlins-3/ Featuring: Spit-Take with Tracey https://improvshop.wiki/team/spittake Some Black People with Alayna https://improvshop.wiki/team/sbp Zam Pow! with Melanie https://improvshop.wiki/team/zampow Flyer artwork by Griffith Moore

Pep LaMarch

One of two I̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲i̲s̲ ̲s̲e̲a̲t̲ ̲t̲a̲k̲e̲n̲?̲ shows this weekend! Come get to know Nicole Durel & I through our form all about getting to know each other!KTK Productions w free parking at Mallinckrodt St & N 14th! Remix of a well-historied chair circa 1400s from the MET NYC public domain works. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/196580 @0VNJqKrP

Leslie SymondsStaff

There are still some spots available for this one day workshop! Have you been curious about sketch, and want to see how you can use your improv skills as a springboard? Want to learn more about sketch, but you don't want any homework? Do you have availability in your schedule for 3 hours this Saturday? Then come take Improv to Sketch with me! https://theimprovshop.com/workshop/improv-to-sketch/