9:30pm @ The Hideout - Downstairs Stage
COLDTOWNE [Austin]
Coldtowne formed in March of 2005 from members of two Comedy Conservatory student teams in New Orleans, Louisiana. For several months, they performed weekly at one of the Crescent City's premier theater venues, Le Chat Noir, becoming key players in the city's budding comedy improvisation scene.
After Hurricane Katrina, a handful of ColdTowne's original eight members fled to Austin, Texas, living together, begging for food together, and building a group mind that borders on codependence. Performing at Austin's Out of Bounds Improv Festival, Coldtowne established a new existence as relentless and adaptable performers come hell or high water. Since then, Coldtowne has performed long-form improv regularly at Austin's Hideout Theater, won "Best Improv Group" in the Austin Chronicle Readers Poll, and opened its own theater and training center.
The residents of ColdTowne come from a variety of backgrounds: absurdist art, journalism, and business. Together they populate ColdTowne with long- and short-form improv, sketch, stand-up, screenwriting, guerilla film, music, and lots of nerdy blogging.
-Reviews and Accolades-
Winner Best Improv Group Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll 2006, 2007
2007 B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Improv Ensemble
Named Hardest Working Troupe by the Austin Improv Collective 2006
Austin Chronicle Write-up (1, 2, 3)
- Other Festival Appearances -
Out of Bounds, Out of Bounds West, Chigaco Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, Phoenix Improv Festival, New Orleans Improv Fest, among many others.
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OMEGA 2 [Chicago]Bill Arnett and Danny Mora have been performing together for over 15 years, going back to their days at the University of Florida. During that time they performed in Austin in the first three Big Stinkin' Improv Festivals. After college they moved to Chicago where they studied under Del Close, Charna Halpern, Mick Napier and Noah Gregoropoulos, later becoming founding members of legendary iO harold team People of Earth. Nowadays you can catch them performing with iO's alumni classic The Armando Show and theater favorite, 3033. If you can't make it out to OOB, you can catch their antics on YouTube with sketch veterans Maximum Party Zone.
These guys are legends, y'all. This show is not to be missed.
- Other Festival Appearances -
Big Stinkin' 1, 2, and 3
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Michael Jastroch
Arthur Simone
Justin York
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Bill Arnett
Danny Mora
