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

Saturday Sept. 30th at 7:30pm

HEADLINERS - Nashville Improv (Nashville, TN)

Nashville Improv has been entertaining audiences with their unique brand of high energy improvised comedy nationwide. They’re bringing the best of improv & theater into the 21st century, recently being featured on Comedy Central’s Drunk History, and past performances with Laura Hall from Whose Line is it Anyway, the Chicago Improv Festival, Geek Media Expo, and selling out shows consistently nationwide. Nashville Tennessee’s own professional improv company with regular classes, performances and corporate training.

Burnside (St. Louis, MO)

Burnside is a house team from The Improv Shop in St. Louis, MO. Burnside performs the signature longform piece, the Harold.

Tenuous Reality (Louisville, KY)

TENUOUS REALITY is Alphaeus Green, Jr, Robert Thompson, and Karl Seitz, and they are excited to be one of the newest Improv Teams in the Greater Louisville Area. Striving for Originality, Diversity, Creativity, and Quality, our mission, should we choose to accept it (WE DO!), is to entertain you, our audience.

The Reality is us. We’re here. Come along for the ride. It’s going to be Tenuous.*

*Look, we’re better improvisers than we are writers. Seriously, it’ll be fun.

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