The Improvised Shakespeare Company Tickets

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Oct 6 – 31, 2021 Garner Galleria Theatre MAP

THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY®

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The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Co.® creates a fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your very eyes!

Join us for an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Nothing has been planned out, rehearsed, or written. All of the dialogue is said for the first time, the characters are created as you watch, and if ever you’re wondering where the story is going…so are they! The night could reveal a tragedy, comedy, or history. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new! You’ve never seen the Bard like this before!

Please be aware that the Garner Galleria Theatre bar will not be open during the run of The Improvised Shakespeare Company. We recommend our partners, EDGE or The Corner Office, for drinks before or after the show.

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Type: Broadway, Cabaret, Comedy

Intermission: No

Content Advisory:

Due to the improvised nature of the show, some performances may contain mild mature content.

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october, 2021

The Improvised Shakespeare Company®

DESIGNERS

LISA M. ORZOLEK

LISA M. ORZOLEK (Scenic Designer) is delighted to be designing for The Improvised Shakespeare Company® and is thankful you are back with us to experience live theatre. Welcome! Past designs for DCPA Cabaret include Xanadu, First Date, Dixie’s Tube Top, Forbidden Broadway, Love… Perfect…Change, Five Course Love, the original Girls Only (Denver, Des Moines, Winnipeg and Charlotte), The Taffetas and My Way. Lisa is the Director of Scenic Design for the DCPA Theatre Company where she has overseen or assisted with the designs for more than 250 productions in 29 seasons. Design credits include A Doll’s House & A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Whistleblower, Human Error, Native Gardens, Disgraced, The Nest, Tribes, One Night in Miami, Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike, Shadowlands, Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, The Liar, Superior Donuts, Othello, Gee’s Bend, The Pillowman, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur and more. Other local designs include projects at Colorado Shakespeare Festival and Lone Tree Arts Center. A Denver native, Lisa has a BFA in Scenic Design from Boston University.

CHARLES R. MACLEOD

CHARLES R. MACLEOD (Lighting Designer). For DCPA Cabaret, past design credits include Xanadu, First Date, An Act of GOD, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women (Denver, Winnipeg, Des Moines, Charlotte and 2016/2017 National Tour), The Taffetas, My Way, The World Goes’ Round, Swingtime Canteen, The Last Five Years and Always… Patsy Cline. Mr. MacLeod has been the resident Lighting Designer for the DCPA Theatre Company since 1987. Past credits include The Lord of the Flies, The Glass Menagerie, Jackie & Me, Death of a Salesman, Grace, or the Art of Climbing, The 39 Steps, Reckless, When Tang Met Laika, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lydia, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1001, Season’s Greetings, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, Dirty Story, Copenhagen, Behind the Broken Words, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, A Christmas Carol, Love, Janis, Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams. Charles is so pleased, fortunate and happy to return to live theatre. Thank you DCPA.

THE PLAYERS

JOEY BLAND

JOEY BLAND is a Los Angeles-based writer/performer who hails from Virginia, where he attended the College of William and Mary. He spent many years in Chicago where he performed with ComedySportz, the iO Theater, and The Second City. For two years, Joey traveled the world with The Second City Touring Company, and in 2009, he played the title role in The Second City’s hit, original musical, Rod Blagojevich, Superstar. Television credits include “Teachers” (TV Land) and “Forever” (Amazon Prime). Joey is also a two-time “Jeopardy” champion.

ROSS BRYANT

ROSS BRYANT is a writer/performer from North Carolina. Ross performed for many years in Chicago, where he was a member of the resident cast of The Second City Mainstage. Now in LA, Ross can be seen regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. Ross also tours the country and performs monthly at The Largo in LA with The Improvised Shakespeare Company. Ross is currently a writer for “Mystery Science Theater 3000” and recently co-wrote an original pilot for Warner Bros and the Showtime network. TV credits include “The Good Place” (NBC), “Crashing” (HBO), and “I Think You Should Leave” (Netflix). Ross is also a cartoonist. Many of his original animations have been featured on Comedy Central Digital. Check them out on his instagram @rossbb

BRENDAN DOWLING

BRENDAN DOWLING is an actor and writer whose recent credits include writing for and appearing in Showtime’s Work in Progress. Stage credits include Baby Wants Candy, The Second City National Touring Company, and The Second City Denver’s How I Lost My Denverginity. Film credits include It’s All Good and the award-winning short, Curtains. Follow along at @berndandooling.

JOSH LOGAN

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JOSH LOGAN is a writer/performer from Cleveland, OH who currently resides in Hollywood, CA. Before joining the cast of the ISC, Josh performed with the improv troupe Michael Pizza, which was featured in Chicago Magazine’s Best of Chicago Edition. Television/Film Credits include “American Housewife” (ABC), Rob Huebel’s “Want to See a Dead Body” (Youtube Red), The Tarot (Movie), and Researcher Sings A GEICO TV Movie. Josh has been published in The New Yorker (Shouts and Murmurs) and his work has been featured on IFC digital. Josh also operates a whiskey tasting business.

TIM SNIFFEN

TIM SNIFFEN has performed with The Improvised Shakespeare Company® since 2008. He’s also worked with The Second City, the Boom Chicago theater in Amsterdam, and improvised musical troupe Baby Wants Candy. For the last three years Tim has been a contributing sketch writer on NPR’s “Live From Here With Chris Thile” and recently worked as a script consultant on Work In Progress, appearing on Showtime. You can read Tim’s work in The New Yorker, on Medium, and on Twitter.

BLAINE SWEN

BLAINE SWEN is the creator and director of The Improvised Shakespeare Company®. He performed for many years at iO Chicago where his credits include the two-person group Blessing with Susan Messing, The Armando Diaz Experience, The Deltones, and his award-winning one-person improvised musical BASH! Additional Chicago stage credits include The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pegasus Players Theatre, The Backroom Shakespeare Project, and The Second City. Television credits include “Crisis” (NBC), “The Odd Couple” (CBS), and “Star vs The Forces of Evil” (Disney). He has developed original pilots with NBC, Universal Cable Productions, and Pop TV. You can hear him as Arnor the Warrior on the podcast “Hello, from the Magic Tavern”. In 2010 the Chicago Reader named him the “Best Improviser in Chicago.” Blaine also has a PhD in philosophy from Loyola University, Chicago.

GARNER GALLERIA THEATRE CREW

Technical Director – Abel Becerra

House Manager – LeiLani Lynch

Core Stagehand – Anna Hookana +

Stagehand – Herbert Caldwell, Jr +

+ Backstage and Ticket Services Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States and Canada. (or I.A.T.S.E.)