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Thu 19th Jul 7:00 PM 9:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv for a Change! A Fundraiser for HartBeat Ensemble This annual hip, laugh off of your seat event will remind you why you love watching this group perform! Sea Tea Improv will be joined by other area improv groups for a night of improvised plays created on the spot based on your suggestions. Help shape our search for the truth through comedy! All proceeds go to benefit HartBeat Ensemble. HartBeat Ensemble creates original, professional theater based on stories from our community. Through Mainstage plays, Open-Air performances and Education programs, we make theater accessible beyond the barriers of class, race or gender. Gregory Tate, Julia Rosenblatt and Steven Ginsburg founded HartBeat Ensemble in September of 2001 after working together at the San Francisco Mime Troupe for a combined total of 22 years. HartBeat was founded to create original plays based on the Greater Hartford community. HartBeat Ensemble members chose to live and work in Hartford because they are passionate about using theater to inspire a struggling city in need of change. hartbeatensemble.org/  The Dirt Salon, 50 Bartholomew Ave, Hartford, CT 06106 |
Fri 20th Jul 7:30 PM 9:30 PM | Sea Tea Improv's Longform Showcase feat. BenTopher & Colin McEnroe! Watch Sea Tea Improv and one guest group perform different kinds of *longform* improv comedy! See the styles of improv comedy made popular in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York! Watch improvised scenes created right before your eyes, based on your suggestions! $9 online ahead of time ( seateaimprovlongform.eventbrite.com/ ), $10 online on the day of the show, or $10 at the door! Sea Tea Improv's format this month is the Armando! We'll be getting our inspiration from improvised monologues by WNPR's Colin McEnroe! Each installment will feature Sea Tea Improv and a superb guest group from Connecticut, Boston or New York pushing the boundaries of what improv can be. This month's guest: BenTopher! Our improv shows are different every time! This event is supported by the City of Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant Program, Pedro E. Segarra, Mayor. Buy tickets: seateaimprovlongform.eventbrite.com/ The Studio at Billings Forge, 539 Broad St, Hartford, CT |
Sat 21st Jul 5:15 PM 7:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv at the ImprovisationNews Mixer! Triple Crown Ale House, 330 7th Avenue New York, NY 10001 |
Sun 22nd Jul 4:00 PM 7:00 PM | Auditions! (Option 1) Sea Tea Improv, Hartford, CT's premier professional improv comedy group, is holding auditions for new members! Auditioners will have the choice of two audition dates and times: Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 at 4PM and Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 7PM, both at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club in Hartford, CT. Some auditioners will be invited to callbacks on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 4PM at the same location. Auditioners are asked to come to only one (1) of the two first-round auditions. Please arrive at the audition's start time, and be prepared to stay for a full 3 hours. Auditions will consist of improvised scenework, improv games, various warm-ups and exercises, and interviews. Please send a resume with any and all experience and/or education related to improv, and a headshot (if you have one) or recent photo to auditions@seateaimprov.com by Sunday, July 15th, 2012. Walk-ins will be able to audition, but sending a resume and photo ahead of time is strongly encouraged. Walk-ins are also encouraged to bring resumes and photos with them if possible. Sea Tea Improv is a professional improv comedy group that performs, on average, once per week in and outside of Connecticut, and rehearses up to twice a week in Hartford, CT. Sea Tea Improv offers paid performance and education opportunities for members. Sea Tea Improv has been working together since April 2009 and has performed or taught over 100 shows, classes, and workshops. These are Sea Tea Improv's first auditions in 2 years. SeaTeaImprov.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/383440668381417/ City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club, 942 Main St, Hartford, CT |
Tue 24th Jul 7:00 PM 10:00 PM | Auditions! Sea Tea Improv, Hartford, CT's premier professional improv comedy group, is holding auditions for new members! Auditioners will have the choice of two audition dates and times: Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 at 4PM and Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 7PM, both at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club in Hartford, CT. Some auditioners will be invited to callbacks on Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 4PM at the same location. Auditioners are asked to come to only one (1) of the two first-round auditions. Please arrive at the audition's start time, and be prepared to stay for a full 3 hours. Auditions will consist of improvised scenework, improv games, various warm-ups and exercises, and interviews. Please send a resume with any and all experience and/or education related to improv, and a headshot (if you have one) or recent photo to auditions@seateaimprov.com . Walk-ins will be able to audition, but sending a resume and photo ahead of time is strongly encouraged. Walk-ins are also encouraged to bring resumes and photos with them if possible. Sea Tea Improv is a professional improv comedy group that performs, on average, once per week in and outside of Connecticut, and rehearses up to twice a week in Hartford, CT. Sea Tea Improv offers paid performance and education opportunities for members. Sea Tea Improv has been working together since April 2009 and has performed or taught over 100 shows, classes, and workshops. These are Sea Tea Improv's first auditions in 2 years. SeaTeaImprov.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/368843319845698/ City Steam Brewery, 942 Main St, Hartford, CT |
Sat 28th Jul 11:00 AM 2:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv Presents an ImprovBoston Workshop with Will Luera Sea Tea Improv is bringing Will Luera, the artistic director of ImprovBoston, to Hartford to teach a workshop on a longform improv style known as "Close Quarters" at TheaterWorks (233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT) on Saturday, July 28th from 11AM to 2PM. The members of Sea Tea Improv are taking this workshop, and we've got just 9 additional spots to fill, so we're telling Hartford-area improvisers about this great opportunity to join Sea Tea Improv for a workshop with this great instructor! The cost of this workshop is $47 per person. For reference, a 3-hour workshop at ImprovBoston is $65 per person, but Sea Tea is using part of a grant from the City of Hartford that we got to bring outside improv instruction to Hartford to help cover some of the cost for CT improvisers! There are only 9 spots, and since this is coming up very soon, the only fast and fair way we can think to offer these spots is first-come-first-served via a PayPal payment. (Note: you do not need PayPal account to pay via PayPal: you will see an option that says "Don't have a PayPal account? Pay with your debit or credit card as a PayPal guest.") Here's the link! bit.ly/SeaTeaPresentsImprovBostonWorkshop We hope to take this workshop with you! RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/339416286141615/ TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 |
Sat 28th Jul 8:00 PM 9:00 PM | Private Show in Lebanon, CT Lebanon, CT |
Sun 29th Jul 4:00 PM 7:00 PM | Audition Callbacks (Invite Only) City Steam Brewery, 942 Main St, Hartford, CT |
Wed 1st Aug 7:00 PM 9:30 PM | Physical Improv (Summer Improv Workshop Series) Instructor: Kate Sidley Cost: $35, $30 for college students Say goodbye to talking heads! This workshop is designed to get improvisers relaxed and comfortable with being physically active on stage. Create a realistic subway car, dive off Niagra Falls, be a gnarled tree, and get swept up in a tornado. This class will give you the tools you need to create dynamic and active environments on stage while working physically and safely with other improvisers. You don’t need to be an athlete or contortionist to be physical in improv, but with the support of your team and some basic skills, you’ll have an audience applauding your every feat. Students should come prepared to move. Registration via PayPal: bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopPhysical Registration via PayPal (college students with valid ID): bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopPhysicalCS RSVP to this workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/219298564860044/ TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 |
Sat 4th Aug 7:30 PM 8:30 PM | Private Performance in Amherst, MA Amherst, MA |
Sea Tea Improv Events/Shows Google Calendar
Public Performances:
Sea Tea Improv performs at public events regularly, and we have a monthly show at City Steam’s Brew-Ha-Ha Comedy Club. Check our calendar for our next public performance. We hope to see you there!
Private Performances:
Our team of professional improvisers can customize a show of just about any length and theme to entertain your guests through made-up on-the-spot stories, characters, and games entirely based on audience suggestions. We’ve performed for fund-raisers, birthday parties, graduation parties, opening ceremonies, holidays, and more. Contact us for options, rates, and references.
Corporate Entertainment:
Whether you’re entertaining employees or customers, our team of professional improvisers will customize a show of just about any length and theme to entertain your audience using their own suggestions. We’ve performed for insurance companies, law firms, financial companies, non-profits, and more. Contact us for options, rates, and references.
What to Expect:
Short-form improvisation usually takes the form of playfully competitive games and scenes based on a large amount of audience suggestions and participation. Popularized by Drew Carey’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” short-form is where you might see us perform a Beastie Boys rap about your crappy Thursday, or do a 2- minute film noir about the struggles of an elevator operator. Sea Tea loves short-form because it is a raucous, physical embodiment of both popular culture and traditional stagework. Plus, the audience gets to abuse us quite a lot, which they seem to love.
Long-form improvisation is a series of related scenes and games based off a single audience suggestion. In long-form, players use the single word to get down to the bottom of all of its associations and implications, and build off of those and each other. The product is sometimes a completely improvised three-act play, a complete story, or a series of increasingly brilliant scenes. Sea Tea loves long-form because of the time available to develop complex plotlines, relationships, and patterns. Long-form is not always funny but it is very often mind-blowing. Many of the greatest comedians of our time began by doing long-form: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Fred Willard, Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, Mike Meyers, Chris Farley, Vince Vaughn, and so many more. Long-form has more of a tendency to be strange and uncomfortable, but come along for the ride and we promise you’ll never see anything like it again!
Improv Groups, Bands, and other acts we’ve performed with:
Horse Lincoln, UCB TourCo, String Theorie, The Sticks Improv, Tick Tick BOOM, Home Brew, The Awkward Handshakes, Franklin’s Peaches, BenTopher, Colin McEnroe, Fake Fake Monkey, The Men in Black Barbershop Quartet, The Moveable Joints, Moebius, The Purple Crayon of Yale, Free Lunch, Standish Arms
Some Places We’ve Performed:
Theaters:
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts (as part of The Connecticut Forum), Hartford Children’s Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Hole in the Wall Theater, Lucid Stage (as part of the Portland Improv Festival), Perishable Theater (as part of the Providence Improv Festival), Playhouse on Park, Trinity on Main.
Comedy Clubs, Bars, and Cafes:
City Steam Brewery Cafe’s Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club, City Steam Brewery & Cafe’s Richardson Room, Cloud 9 Lounge, Hartford Funny Bone, Jitters Coffeehouse, Joker’s Wild Comedy Club, La Paloma Sabanera, The Speakeasy at Local 121 (as part of the Providence Improv Festival), Zen Bar.
Companies and Organizations:
Accenture, ESPN, Greater Hartford Arts Council, The Phoenix, Public Allies, Toastmasters, United Healthcare, United Way
Schools, Museums, Heritage, and Community Venues:
Bulkeley High School, Butler McCook House, The Buttonwood Tree, Central Baptist Church (as part of First Night Hartford), Hartford City Hall, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, ConnectiCon, Connecticut Science Center, CT Business Expo, Hartford Law and Government High School, Holyoke Public Library, Lyceum Resource & Conference Center, The Mark Twain House & Museum, Middletown Elk’s Club (for Gilead Community Services), PSC Partners Conference, Odyssey of the Mind, The Studio at Billings Forge, The University of Connecticut’s Student Union Theater, Wadsworth Atheneum
Media Studios:
ESPN Studios, WFSB Studios, WNPR Studios, WTNH Studios, WWLP Studios
