The Croton Academy of Comedic Arts
Step into the fast-paced world of unscripted comedy with the teen performers of CACA! Featuring an extraordinary cast of local high school students, this showcase highlights the next generation of comedic talent as they take the stage without a safety net.
The BackyardAsians
The BackyardAsians are here to perform kid-ified musical improv FOR ADULTS, inspired by TV shows you grew up with: elements of Nick Jr. and PBS Kids with just a hint of Adult Swim. Through song, dance and puppetry, they teach essential life lessons like how to spell, how to dance inside a jail cell, and how to set someone on fire. Debuting as part of Shoes Off: All Asian Improv at Second City NYC, the BackyardAsians have since graced the stages of Asian Comedy Fest, Brooklyn Comedy Collective's Fun & Dumb Improv Festival, and AF Comedy Fest in Los Angeles. Featuring Christian Masinsin, Marcy Lin, Michelle Chu, and Xuan Zhao
Location: The Musical!
Welcome to Location: The Musical, the fully improvised show where a single audience suggestion unlocks an entire world. Whether it’s a bustling airport, a 24-hour diner, or a quiet library, an eclectic cast of characters intersects, collides, and navigates life in one shared setting. When emotions run too deep for mere words, the cast bursts into fully improvised, show-stopping songs! Every storyline, lyric, and melody is created live right before your eyes. Featuring Andrew Newberg, Jordan Balaban, Danielle Purdy, Brian Bagot, Natassia Velez, Michael Short, Ania Kowalczuk, Erin Sullivan, and Ian Kelleher
Saint Mary's Church Basement Players
Theater like you've never seen before and probably never will again (Brought to you by Fable and Sow's Agreement alumni) Featuring Connor Bond, Kristin Battersby, Drena Fagen, Shirley Martinez, Michael Rinere, and Michael Tyler
Dance Factory
Performing a 25-minute feat of strength, Dance Factory invites the audience to pick out one team member and one action that they'll have to perform in every scene, supported and edited by the team. It's a combo of long- and short-form that delivers to veteran and novice audiences alike! Featuring Brent Williams, Tess Frazer, Davonte Smith, Alex Kornfeld, Chloe Prasinos, Matty Truzynski, Heidi Waldermeir, and Ha Cao
Brunch Punk
One of Blind Tiger's house teams, Brunch Punk will always take those audience suggestions in surprising and creative directions. Will it be brunch? Will it be Punk? The answer, of course, is yes! Mimosas or body piercings, or both, it will build to twenty minutes on stage that has never existed before and never will again! Featuring Michelle Piccolo Hill, Todd Brown, Regina Fontanelli, Ania Kowalczuk, Kelsea Dineen, and Niko Borhi
Up To No God
Up to No God takes a life-changing moment from an audience members life and uses it as inspiration for a fast-paced and action-packed improv set, using the "Eventé" form to show how our lives could go so differently depending on the choices we make--or don't make. Featuring John Kennedy, Emily Riggins, Lia Fietz, Steven Moity, Joe Mourad, Hank Wolverton, and Mary Lane Townsend
Brick Frisbee
Born out of the multitude of Blind Tiger classes between them, Brick Frisbee (and their one brain cell) is ready to take on any crowd suggestion with a combination of wit, agility, and pizzazz. Brick Frisbee has a little bit of everything - Korean War stories! Eastern European witches! A monkey playing cymbals! - and, most importantly, a love of improv comedy. Featuring Bex Gavidia, Amelia Zaino, Craig Colavito, Danielle Purdy, Heather Kendall, and Jordan Balaban
The Josh and Tamra Show
For 27 years, The Josh and Tamra Show, pioneers of puppet improv, have toured the U.S. and beyond, headlining improv festivals and teaching their unique blend of comedy. Born at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City in 1999, their show combines puppetry with long-form improvisation. Starring seasoned long-form improvisers Josh Cohen, a Jim Henson Muppeteer and Tamra Malaga, a character actress. Each performance begins with an audience suggestion and unfolds into a hilarious, one-of-a-kind, puppet-filled adventure. (May contain adult language and situations.) Featuring Josh Cohen and Tamra Malaga
The Duke Comedy Theatre Players
The Duke Comedy Theatre is a Hudson Valley nonprofit proving that people will laugh at anything: bad jobs, baffling text messages, and total strangers' most humiliating days included. The Duke turns real-life absurdities into fully improvised comedy. Their mission: help Hudson Valley adults discover their voice, build connection, and heal through the joy of comedy, because sometimes the fastest way to feel better is to say "yes, and." Featuring Michelle Lieblein, Kendra Leigh Landon, Priscilla Candelaria, Mariah Warren, Nicole Syrlik, Kristy LaRocca, and Patricia Rau.
Unicorn Parade
Unicorn Parade creates an improvised play, weaving a narrative tale through one location, and exploring all kinds of characters with hilarious antics! Featuring Caitlin Canahai, Sarah Comfort, Amy Feder, Jack Gembala, Lindsay Kustich, Tony Messina, Josh Verby, and Trey Wydysh
Once Removed Musical Improv
Ever wish you could erase your student loans, that text you shouldn’t have sent, or the pile of laundry on your ‘workout’ chair? Musical Improv team Once Removed takes your suggestions of things you want gone and turns them into a fully improvised musical. Featuring a powerhouse cast of veteran performers, we’re here to help you sing your troubles away. Featuring Harvey Chipkin, Michelle Chu, Matt Cohen, Miguel Fernandez, Alicia Lau, Michael Lenmark, Dee Sentino, Catherine Stahl, Tim Steckler, and Joan Tarbutton
Play It Forward
It's the super epic Play It Forward show! Play It Forward is one of Blind Tiger Improv's three house teams, specializing in longform improv! Featuring Jacob Reiter, Priscilla Candelaria, Brian Bagot, Gina Goodenow, Heather Kendall, Amelia Zaino, and Jen Nordmark
Dun Dun... Musical Improv
It's Off the Record: An Improvised Musical Documentary! Come with us on a journey through a town in crisis as our team of crack investigators/improvisers gets to the bottom of each case... through song. There will be laughs. There will be harmonies. There will be Keith Morrison impressions. For fans of Law & Order, Dateline, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats! Featuring Sydney Amanuel, Jackie O'Shaughnessy, Annie Raczko, Sydney Roslin, Mikaila Schmitt, Claire Shiell, Catherine Stahl, Riley Stanzione, Savannah Walters, and Kylia Williams
I Love Your Grandma
Get ready for a delightfully bizarre night of comedy with I Love Your Grandma, one of the premier house teams at Blind Tiger Improv. Packed with top-tier talent from Second City, ComedySportz, Magnet Theater, and The PIT, this ensemble specializes in the wonderfully weird. Featuring Ben Masur, Andrew Newberg, Bex Gavidia, Jordan Balaban, Erin Sullivan, Danielle Purdy, and Jennifer Eolin
Maria’s Basement
Half-an-Hour Town! A simple audience suggestion conjures up an entire cast of characters and the town they live in. Every town has its drama and secrets. We'll explore how all these imaginary lives cross over, connect, and collide! Featuring Maria Ayoob, Charlie Owens, Winnie Ashby, Hayes Fields, Jason Burke, Jennifer Lavenhar, Riley Hart, and Walt Batycki
The Mop and Bucket Company
Mopco is the premier improvisational theatre company of New York State's Capital Region. 2x2x2 throws its cast into randomly paired, rotating duos, each scene sparked by a single audience suggestion. Over the course of the show, a world emerges: relationships, loves, conflicts, hopes and disappointments revealed. At the last minute, somehow it all comes together, the way a good movie or play does. (Or, maybe not—this is improv on the high-wire. But usually, it's amazing.) Featuring Michael Burns, Kat Koppett, Jennifer Lavenhar, Maria Ayoob, Alex Rabinowitz, and Drew D'Amelia
Hudson Valley Improv Touring Company
Kingston NY / Art Society of Kingston
Award-winning touring company, Hudson Valley Improv, storms the stage with LOST IN PLACE. Built from an audience-suggested location, this original long-form explores a space gone slightly off-course—where people and objects reveal surprising connections and the place itself becomes the main character. Featuring Samantha Jones, Michael Withall, Jennifer Farmer, Lou Denise, Susan Gray, Jamie Ashlaw, Patrick Domery, Heather Dell'Amore, Anne Girvin, and Liz Saydah
The Mashup
Expect the unexpected as top-tier improvisers—veterans of Second City, UCB, the Magnet, and the Annoyance—gather for a chaotic, one-night-only collision of comedy styles. This heavy-hitting ensemble is meeting on stage for the very first time! Blending decades of coast-to-coast experience with the electric energy of total strangers making magic in real time, they’ll deliver patient relationship play, rapid-fire montages, and pure, unpredictable gold. Featuring Don Romaniello, Michael Short, Stacey Venzel, Jordan Fried, Heather Marie Vitale, and Rob Lowenthal.