Louisville’s First Official Improv Festival To Showcase Local and National Acts With Award Winning Performances, Improv Workshops, And More At The Bard’s Town.

LOUISVILLE, KY, September 29 & 30, 2017 – Local improv troupe, Damaged Goods, to host Louisville’s first ever Improv Comedy Festival at The Bard’s Town at 1801 Bardstown Rd. Metro Louisville will welcome some of the nation’s best improv comedy acts. 5 improv troupes from Louisville as well as 7 troupes from places including Chicago, St. Louis, Nashville, Detroit, and Cincinnati. This year’s Festival theme is, “If you’re alive…then you’re livin’.”

Festival performances will take place in Louisville’s best improv comedy venue, The Bard’s Town. The theater upstairs will play host to 5 shows and 2 improv workshops over 2 days.

Tickets for all 4 main shows will be $15 per show and $50 for a full weekend pass to all shows. Tickets are available at www.damgoodfestival.com/shows. There will be a 5th show after the 10pm set on Saturday Sept. 30th around Midnight. This show will be FREE to any and all and will consist of an improv jam open to the public and sponsored by Gonzo Improv. No experience needed for the jam. Just come up and have fun! Also you can come just to watch and not have to participate.

Sponsors of this year’s Dam Good Improv Festival include, The Hogue Group: Keller Williams Realty, Crescent Hill Radio, The Great Escape Comics, The Destination Nation Network, Thornsberry Solutions, Momma’s Pizza And More and others.

theThe Friday 7:30pm Show Line Up at 2017 Dam Good Improv Festival Includes:

Friday Sept. 29th at 7:30pm

HEADLINERS - HugSquared (Detroit, MI)

HugSquared is Aaron Mondry, Anna Imisch, Matt Penridge, Nicole Pascaretta, Donny Riedel, and is coached by Gary Lehman and musically coached and accompanied by Jeremy St. Martin. HugSquared was created as one of two Launch Groups at Go Comedy Improv Theater in Ferndale Michigan. An annual event, Go Comedy holds auditions each March to create a Launch Group, who are assigned a coach and get a year of shows. HugSquared was a 2016/2017 Go Comedy Launch Group who ended their run on June 11, 2017. They work so well together, and like performing together so much, they are staying together to continue to rehearse, perform, and create shows. They have worked on several improv forms, including creating their own, and took on the challenge of working on and performing their own musical improv form, which you will be seeing tonight. Along with performing at Go Comedy, HugSquared has been accepted and performed at the Chicago Improv Festival, Detroit Improv Festival, and now Dam Good Improv Festival. During the summer and fall of 2017 they will be writing and creating their own sketch comedy show at Go Comedy, and continue to perform around the Metro Detroit Area.

Improv Anonymous (Louisville, KY)

Performing the art of short form and long form improvisation and making people laugh their socks off! Performing regularly at places like The Bard's Town and Four Pegs, IA keeps Louisville laughing all year long.

OTRimprov (Cincinnati, OH)

OTRimprov is collaborative, simple, and joyful. We bring talented performers together to create consistently interesting, frequently funny, and always inventive scenes. By exploring a variety of forms, we keep ourselves and our audience on our toes. Members of OTRi have studied and performed with a variety of improv theatres and groups around the US, including Second City, iO, iO West, ACME Comedy Theatre, Mission IMPROVable, SmartyPants, Wit’s End, and Incredulity. We are proud to have been named “Best Improv Troupe in Cincinnati” by the reader of CityBeat in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Tickets can be bought at the door or online at www.damgoodfestival.com/shows