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.

The Friday 10pm Show Line Up at 2017 Dam Good Improv Festival Includes:

Friday Sept. 29th at 10pm

HEADLINERS - The Collage (Chicago, IL)

Chicago Improv Productions’ The Collage is a combination of long form techniques and short form game moves, so technically it’s a mid-form. The Collage is a format that is very popular with audiences, as we honor their suggestions and milk them until they are dry. Over the course of the show, we get several suggestions from the audience and often interact with them too. The secret to the success of The Collage is the cast’s ability to zig-zag between styles, forms, moves, characters, relationships, approaches, ranging from absurd humor to physical comedy to word play to strong characters, from deep relationships to superficial ones too. The Collage is like its artistic name sake, a series of things put together forming an organic theme. The Collage has performed at improv festivals across the Midwest including the Chicago Improv Festival, the Detroit Improv Festival, the Omaha Improv Festival, the C-U Improv Festival in Champaign, and The Compass Improv Festival in St. Louis as well as toured to theatres across the Midwest. The Collage has also done 4 runs at The Second City.

Project Improv (Louisville, KY)

Project Improv has been performing in Louisville since 2002! The faces might change but the idea remains the same – quality long-form improv shows that make you laugh, cry, or just ponder your own existence. You will walk away from our shows scratching your head and craving more!

Laser Comedy Show (Chicago, IL)

The Laser Comedy Show is a one of a kind, storytelling experience. Performing artist Chris Fair uses Laser Reactive Technology to draw characters and scenery with a cinematic sense on a glow in the dark screen, which the lines fade in moments like a high tech etch-a-sketch. Chris brings the characters to life by voicing them over, creating sound effects, music and continually drawing action to turn a 2-D screen into a 3-D world.
Chris has been a visual artist all of his life, studied art and film at Northern Illinois University and has been performing stand up, improv and sketch comedy since 2004. He has been developing the Laser Comedy Show since early 2011 when his brother introduced him to the technology with his laser reactive clothing company, Hyphy Color. Chris has studied at Chicago’s Notorious Second City, iO, Annoyance, ComedySportz theaters and has performed his signature show coast to coast at improv and comedy festivals.

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