Coup de Comedy 2024

Learn about clowning from the maestro of clowning! Select individuals will be given an opporutnity to participate in exploring their inner clown.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Shulie Cowen (director of Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®) and Jonathan Dinerstein will teach a beginning music improv workshop. The class will be a fun opportunity to play with music in your improv, with a focus on song structure, rhyming, and how you can use music to enhance your work.

Shulie Cowen has taught improv to kids, senior citizens, and everyone in between. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, a former member of The Second City National Touring Company, and a member of the original cast of Schoolhouse Rock Live!. Shulie studied improv in Chicago at The Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theatre, and at iO with Del Close. She has taught at iO West, The Second City Hollywood and has teaches custom classes and workshops across the country and internationally. Shulie currently directs and performs in Los Angeles with Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® and her team EST.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are highly recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

No MSG Added brings Asian Americans to the forefront of comedy.

Watch as we dissect the Asian American experience in 50 minutes while still disappointing our parents.

Please note: This show contains adult language and poorly sung songs about rainbows.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!® is exactly that: a Broadway-style musical that is made up on the spot, based on audience suggestion. So every night is the ‘Opening Night’ of a musical that has never been seen! Now in its 25th year, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® is thrilled to continue as the show LAWeekly called, “almost too slick to be completely improvised”. It is, by the way—completely improvised.

Led by Director Shulie Cowen, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®’s cast combines the Chicago-style improvisation of the iO and The Second City with the Broadway stylings of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Fosse, and many more. Occasionally, they even borrow the 76 trombones from The Music Man. They usually give them back.

Cast film and television credits include; Whose Line Is It Anyway?, UJokes, That 80s Show, How I Met Your Mother, Let’s Make A Deal, Reno 911!, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Mad TV, and World Cup Comedy.

The Coup de Comedy Cast:
Shulie Cowen (director)
Ithamar Enriquez
Jonathan Mangum
Lauren Pritchard
Music by Jonathan Dinerstein (Piano)

“Come back again and again — you’ll laugh every time.” (LA Weekly Best of 2010)

Visit their website at: www.improvisedmusical.com 

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are highly recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

UCI's talents take the stage to share their hilarious stand-up comedy routines.

**VIDEO:
This event will be recorded.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT, YOU CONSENT TO YOUR VOICE, NAME, AND/OR LIKENESS BEING RECORDED. DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE DOCUMENTED.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

A high energy, family-friendly improv show that will bring joy to your day and a boisterous car ride home. With a promise of laughter, this rotating cast has families yelling out suggestions, and young audience volunteers joining the cast on stage to perform games for a wild rockin’ hour of ridiculousness! We take our silly seriously, come rock some endorphins with the Rockin’ Awesome Improv Show!

CAST: Jose Acain, Matt Acevedo, Chris Bunyi, Oliver Berger, Pepper Berry, Jake Cassman, Jaclynn Cherry, Rachel Crane, Drew Cullinan, Chrystale Davis, John DeFour, Courtney Doyle, Piper Gillin, Elaine Hammel, Matt Hunter, Stephen C James, Jeremy Klein, Nina Marie Kypuros, David Luna, Danny Lutman, Katie McDermott, Kevin Ocampo, Carrie-ann Pishnak, Jamison Scala, Leeann St. John, Jenna Torrisi, Carrie Weisberg, Mike Woodley, and Arielle Zadok. Musical Director: Tiffany Schirz

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Learn about the improvisational approach that the action.improv.comedy. ensemble The Resistance utilizes in their work! Wear clothes that you can move in.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Join us for a hybrid exploration of Puppet Improv Comedy!

If possible get a puppet before the workshop (here, here, or here are some good options) or some options will be on site). An arm rod puppet is ideal, but any puppet (even just your hand!) is ok.

Learn about an awareness of your position in the frame of the camera, much like your position on stage and how they are both tools to tell a story. You'll also explore how emotional commitment is key for scene success. Brian will share how to puppeteer a bit with spontaneity in mind because improv doesn't give you much time to set up a particular movement, you just gotta go!

Those who register to participate will be able to try some of the techniques themselves. There will also be a Zoom option to just observe.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Red Door will take you into their wheelhouse of accents, huge characters and crisp space work to show you that anything is possible behind the Red Door. Hitting the stage with high energy, power listening, and seamless editing Red Door is a great example of fast and furious team work.

This website (https://coupdecomedy2019.sched.com) is for you to plan your Coup de Comedy schedule; to make your FREE reservation for this event, please do so at the Improv Revolution Coup de Comedy Eventbrite page. Limited seating available: reservations highly encouraged.

The Resistance hails from Los Angeles. We are an elite underground of comic soldiers dedicated to liberating your laughter and freeing you from the mundane. Based on tropes, cliches, iconic sequences and whatever else we can get from the audience, we perform a full length, fully scored and lit Action/Adventure movie right before your eyes, and it's completely improvised! The Resistance wants you to let go and have fun. It's not our playground, it's OUR playground. We're on the swings...push us.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)