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Sat 4th Aug 7:30 PM 8:30 PM | Private Performance in Amherst, MA  Amherst, MA |
Sun 5th Aug 7:00 PM 9:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club! Eat, drink, laugh, and shout suggestions as Sea Tea Improv's team of professional comedians host an evening of improvised comedy at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club, 942 Main Street, in Hartford, CT. Their work has been featured on ESPN, NPR, WFSB, and more. Best of all, admission is FREE! See why the Hartford Advocate recognized Sea Tea Improv's monthly show as one of the top things to do in Hartford. Enjoy City Steam's dinner menu and locally brewed beers while performers take suggestions from you and weave them into comedic scenes. On Sunday, August 5, the comedy club doors open at 6PM for seating and food. Improv begins at 7PM. Call ahead to City Steam at 860-525-1600 to reserve seats. All ages are welcome. Due to the sale of alcohol, those under the age of 21 must be accompanied by a legal guardian. seateaimprov.com City Steam Brewery, 942 Main St, Hartford, CT |
Wed 8th Aug 7:00 PM 9:30 PM | Group Games (Summer Improv Workshop Series) Instructors: Laura Manasewich & Graham Snow Cost: $35, $30 for college students Group games are fun! In this workshop we will work together to build our focus, energy and group mind to produce great scenes with all of our players! Sure, two and three person scenes are great, but what’s more fun than a hilarious scene with your whole team? Come learn the importance of working together for the greater good. This workshop will include exercises to get your group mind brain brewing and plenty of time to create group scenes that will be fit for any long form improv format you can imagine! Registration via PayPal: bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopGroupGames Registration via PayPal (college students with valid ID): bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopGroupGamesCS RSVP to this workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/295591017205174/ TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 |
Wed 15th Aug 7:00 PM 9:30 PM | Hip-Hop Improv (Summer Improv Workshop Series) Instructors: Vladimir John Perez & Dan Russell Cost: $35, $30 for college students Sea Tea Improv’s Vlad & Dan will school you on what it takes to bring the ruckus to all you improv lovers. Learn comedy battle rapping, how to roast an audience member like a Beastie Boy, and how to rhyme quick on your feet. Learn to support your fellow improv rappers with beatboxing, and learn to listen to your “opponent” to dis back hard. Create a hip-hop persona that’s larger than life, but true to your steez. By the end, you’ll be selling bad rhymes, setting up easy ones, and finding the awesome connections that come when you’ve got no choice but to try to rhyme on the spot. True “Yes And” ain’t nothing to f**k wit! Registration via PayPal: bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopHipHop Registration via PayPal (college students with valid ID): bit.ly/SeaTeaWorkshopHipHopCS RSVP to this workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/398106313584861/ TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 |
Sat 18th Aug 10:00 PM 11:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv at the Baltimore Improv Festival! We've been selected to perform at the Baltimore Improv Festival in Baltimore, MD! We're performing at 10PM on Saturday with LD50 from New York, NY and Adrift from Philadelphia, PA! More info on LD50: ldsub50sub.improvteams.com/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2unhEukm0A More info on Adrift: https://www.facebook.com/ImprovAdrift/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xrCn3KY8dM The Baltimore Improv Festival website: www.baltimoreimprovfestival.org/ It would be great to see some friendly faces in B-More! RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/240499932734700/ 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD |
Wed 22nd Aug 7:00 PM 9:30 PM | Build-A-Character (SOLD OUT!) (Summer Improv Workshop Series) Instructor: Julia Pistell Cost: $35, $30 for college students Southern belles, sarcastic bellhops, and suspicious busboys-- we all know a well-drawn character when we see one. But how do you build them in the heat of the improv moment? Veteran Sea Tea Improviser Julia Pistell will guide you through the process of creating a character within an improv scene without undermining the integrity of your story. Using your particular strengths, you'll create at least three characters that you can play with for the rest of your improv days. We'll work with point of view, philosophy, and physicality to create characters that last for much longer than a single laugh. We promise: a character is a lot more than a silly voice or an impression. Come and meet your other selves! RSVP to this workshop: https://www.facebook.com/events/478891918806834/ TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103 |
Fri 24th Aug 7:30 PM 9:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv Presents the Longform Showcase feat. Fake Fake Monkey 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! Tickets are just $9 online ahead of time, $10 online on the day of the show, or $10 at the door! Buy tickets: seateaimprovlongform.eventbrite.com/ Sea Tea Improv's format this month is TBD! 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: ImprovBoston's Fake Fake Monkey! 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. The Studio at Billings Forge, 539 Broad Street, Hartford, CT |
Fri 7th Sep 10:00 PM 10:25 PM | Sea Tea Improv at the Boston Comedy Arts Festival! ImprovBoston Studio Theater, Boston, MA |
Sun 9th Sep 7:00 PM 9:00 PM | Sea Tea Improv at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club! Eat, drink, laugh, and shout suggestions as Sea Tea Improv's team of professional comedians host an evening of improvised comedy at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club, 942 Main Street, in Hartford, CT. Their work has been featured on ESPN, NPR, WFSB, and more. Best of all, admission is FREE! See why the Hartford Advocate recognized Sea Tea Improv's monthly show as one of the top things to do in Hartford. Enjoy City Steam's dinner menu and locally brewed beers while performers take suggestions from you and weave them into comedic scenes. As an added bonus when scheduling allows, String Theorie provides live music before and during the show. On Sunday, September 9, the comedy club doors open at 6PM for seating and food. Improv begins at 7PM. Call ahead to City Steam at 860-525-1600 to reserve seats. All ages are welcome. Due to the sale of alcohol, those under the age of 21 must be accompanied by a legal guardian. seateaimprov.com City Steam Brewery, 942 Main St, Hartford, CT |
Fri 14th Sep 7:30 PM 9:30 PM | Sea Tea Improv's Longform Comedy Showcase feat. The Sticks Improv 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! Tickets are just $9 online ahead of time, $10 online on the day of the show, or $10 at the door! Get tickets online: seateaimprovlongform.eventbrite.com/ Sea Tea Improv's format this month is the Narrative. Each installment will feature Sea Tea Improv and a superb guest group from Connecticut, Boston, New York, or elsewhere pushing the boundaries of what improv can be. This month's guest: The Sticks Improv! 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. The Studio at Billings Forge, 539 Broad St, Hartford, CT |
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
