American Theater Company Presents Improve ATC!

AMERICAN THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS

IMPROV ATC

 

IMPROV ATC features Chicago’s best improv talent every Friday night with House Team

Pudding-Thank-You and special guests

 

American Theater Company (ATC) continues its wildly successful Friday night improv performances with IMPROV ATC featuring house team Pudding-Thank-You and special guests St. Olaf performing October 17, 2008 and Rich Sohn and Rebecca Sohn performing October 24, 2008. Pudding-Thank-You performs Friday nights at 11 PM at American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St, Chicago. 

 

IMPROV ATC features some of Chicago’s finest improvisational comics from troupes across the city. Friday night performances by house team Pudding-Thank-You and special guests (which have included SNL veteran Nora Dunn) offer brilliantly funny and affordable comedy to both theatre and improv audiences alike. 

 

Adal Rifai is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory, iO training center and soon to be graduate of Annoyance. In addition to performing with Pudding-Thank-You at IMPROV ATC, he performs at Second City in the house improv ensemble Twisty, at iO with Hunter Family Crest, as a sit-in with Whirled News Tonight, and in the upcoming Radical Concept, at the Playground with Mort and occasionaly Big Yellow Bus. Adal also performs around town with Insult To Injury and the sketch group Wizards and Biceps.

 

Ryan PatRick Dolan completed the School at Steppenwolf this past summer.  He improvises with at iO with the house team, Revolver.  Ryan was a mainstage cast member and teacher at Improv Asylum in Boston, and he's improvised at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with "Chairs."  He trained at iO, and the Annoyance, and was an assistant to the director for the Second City e.t.c. show, "Show Title Deemed Indecent by FCC."  Ryan can be seen in Wildclaw Theatre's "Dreams in the Witch House" this autumn.  He's currently studying playwriting at Columbia College.

 

Jorin Garguilo began improvising in 1991 in Raleigh, North Carolina with ComedyWorx (formerly ComedySportz-Raleigh). Jorin moved to Chicago in 2004 to pursue a wider improvisational education and completed classes at the iO Theater. At iO, Jorin performs with house team Harold Revolver, improvised puppet show FELT, and the Lindbergh Babies 2.0. Jorin coaches improv teams at both iO and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, and may be seen performing around the city at an assortment of venues. Jorin is a founding member of Pudding-Thank-You.

 

Louie Saunders moved to Chicago to pursue improvisational comedy and has had the opportunity to play with Airbourne!, Wing Night, Chicago Sashay Company, and Pudding-Thank-You. Louie also enjoys writing screenplays, books and stage plays.

 

IMPROV ATC / FACT SHEET

 

Title:                 IMPROV ATC

Featuring:          ATC House Team, Pudding-Thank-You

              

Schedule:          October 17, 2008 at 11 PM

                        Pudding-Thank-You and guest team St. Olaf

                        October 24, 2008 at 11 PM

Pudding-Thank-You and guests Rich and Rebecca Sohn

            Location:           American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St.,

Tickets:             $10 at the door including beverages

 

Box Office:        The Box Office is located at 1909 W Byron St., 

773-409-4125; www.atcweb.org

AMERICAN THEATER COMPANY

American Theater Company is an ensemble of artists committed to producing new and classic American stories that ask the question, “What does it mean to be an American?” We provide a truly intimate home for the community to experience meaningful stories.  We foster a nurturing environment for artists to take risks and create essential work. 

 

American Theater Company is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and CityArts II.  Additional valuable support is provided by the Alphawood Foundation, the Bruce B. Boyd Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, the Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, the Polk Bros. Foundation, and Prince Charitable Trust.

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