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Free Improv Drop In Workshop
Sunday, October 21st from 2-4pm

Interested in taking an improv class but not sure you are ready to commit?
Second Beat is now offering a free intro to improv drop in workshop.
Instructed by: Laurie Shellenbarger
No registration needed.

2x2x3 Log Roll Improv Jam

2 randomly selected improvisers
2 teams go head to head
3 minutes each
Play multiple times with multiple people.
Free to play.
Free to watch.
Free to have fun.

Every Second Saturday at 8:30pm
No Jam in October

Register your team for the Pigtails Tournament

Have a team and want a chance for some extra stage time or a group you have been wanting to play with and want to see if you have the chemistry to be the next big thing?

Submit your team for the next round of Pigtails Tournament.

Thursday, October 4th three teams will compete for the audience vote. The winning team will have a month long run in the Saturday show Improv Triple Play in November. To submit go to the website and enter your team name, roster and description of your show.

Submit your team

Solo workshop with Kim Porter
Every Sunday from 6:30-9:30pm
$15 per sesson

Do you need something meaningful to do between acting gigs? Do you have a story you are itching to tell? Let award-winning writer/performer Kim Porter help you make that happen at the Solo Workshop.

This workshop is designed to help participants generate new material, support projects already in development, and offer accountability in a relaxed and generous small group environment. The Solo Workshop is designed to meet the participant where they are and is therefore ideal for both beginners and established writer-performers. Because the Solo Workshop is employing an on-going, drop-in model for participation, artists can work at their own pace and budget.

For more information about the Solo Workshop contact Kim Porter at kim@kimporter.net

Featured Performer:
Laurie Shellebarger

Laurie has been improvising since 2011. Her first introduction to improv was short form and wanted to try it. She started doing long form after her husband Shane got involved. She loves the story telling aspect of improv. She enjoys the formats that focus on character and relationships. For Laurie the best thing about improv is the ability to create a rich reality with scenery, characters, themes, and relationships with her teammates.

Favorite quote/advice from a coach/instructor:
Go for real, not for funny. The funny will happen because life is funny. Discover, don't invent.

You can see Laurie perform with:
New Heart every 4th Saturday.
She will also be teaching the free intro to improv workshop Sunday, October 21st from 2-4pm.

Featured team every first Saturday

Plunk!

Cast: Brian Ress, Jackie Rich, John Palmer, Raphael Robbins, Shane Shannon, Tara Jensen and Tillea Baltzel

Plunk! is a Second Beat born and bred improvA team featuring 100% Second Beat Theater training graduates.

Jumping onto the scene, Plunk!’s fun and high energy show combines memorable characters in unusual circumstances with a splash of refreshing insanity.

Slack Jam

3 randomly selected improvisers
3 minutes each
TAG OUTS!

Enjoy this fast paced jam.
Don't get comfortable sitting down. You'll be up again before you know it.

Every fourth Saturday at 8:30pm
Next Show Saturday. October 27th

Register for level 1 class

Wednesday, October 24th from 6:30-9:30pm

In this class students will learn the fundamental tools necessary for improv. They will learn the benefits of working as an ensemble by building skills in collaboration, support, listening and saying yes to the possibilities of anything.

Skewed News Hour!

You pick the news we pick it apart

Fridays at 7pm
Tickets: $7

Reserve your tickets

Improv Triple Play

3 Teams improvise with a suggestion from the audience

Saturdays at 7pm
Tickets: $10

Reserve your tickets

The [Itch] Theatre Presents SCRATCH Comedy
Saturday, October 6th

Second Beat Theater hosts SCRATCH Comedy sketch show presented by [ITCH] Theatre.

Every first Saturday 9pm. Tickets $10.

Reserve your tickets

Featured Performer: Liz Hutchman

Liz has been improvising since 2001. She has taken influences from every improviser she has met or worked with. Her style of play can change daily but loves the Armando format. Her favorite thing about improv is that there is no end. Every time she does it she wants to do it again. Liz loves the way the community has grown and how there are many opportunities to play as opposed to when she started playing which was mainly "bar-prov".

Favorite quote/advice from a coach/instructor:
Keep things simple. Talk less and react more. Listen to your scenes using all of your senses and respond to the last thing said.

You can see Liz perform with:
Skewed News Hour every Friday
Zombie Gourmet every 1st Saturday
Birds and Broads every 3rd Saturday

Featured team every first Saturday

Zombie Gourmet

Cast: Andrew Bernier, Eric Storie, Jackie Rich and Liz Hutchman

Zombie Gourmet dishes up an organic buffet of brainy bits, relying on flexibility, support, high energy and feeding off of each other to shape their shows.

Composed of stylistically diverse and dynamic troupe members, well seasoned like hand-me-down cast iron, ZG marches ceaselessly toward the lights in their ravenous pursuit of comedy.

Long form full of bizarre worlds, pulsating organs, and lightly braised transitions, the Zombie Gourmet format explores the soft, fleshy, delicious parts of improv.