Dasariski
Hailing from Los Angeles, CA

Dasariski is performing in the BIG Headlining Show Sunday at 7:30pm with Available Cupholders and 3 for All. ----> BUY TICKETS HERE

Dasariski is a sharp, three-piece improv group made up of Chicago veterans now living and working in Los Angeles. They are composed of Rich Talarico (Mad-TV, Saturday Night Live, Second City, Improv Olympic,) Bob Dassie (Baby Wants Candy, IO West,) and Craig Cackowski (Saturday Night Live, Improv Olympic, Second City.) Dasariski has appeared at the prestigious Chicago Improv Festival, the Del Close Marathon in NYC, as well as the Toronto Improv Festival and many other supporting festivals.

A Dasariski show is all about finding the game, tight connections between the players, and living in the awkward space. Their shows are hilarious, real, and resounding. It's some of the best scenework the old-school Delheads have to offer and it's a slice of Hollywood right here in Austin.

Dasariski is three-man improv that is so good, they somehow included all the performers names in the title. More info coming soon.


Dasariski is:
RICH TALARICO
Rich Talarico is a veteran of Chicago's Second City Theater.  He worked for the National Touring Company and also created five original revues for SC's resident companies including "The Psychopath Not Taken" and the 40th anniversary revue: "Second City 4.0."
      Rich started his improv training at Improv Olympic with Charna Halpern and Del Close.  He began performing and eventually teaching at Improv Olympic in Chicago during the early 1990s.
     At IO Chicago, Rich was on the house team "Mr. Blonde" and played with the long running "Armando Diaz Show."  Rich also co-created the long form shows "Trio" and "Dasariski."   Also at Improv Olympic, Rich co-created and starred in  several scripted shows including the musical "The Roof is On Fiddler" in the summer of 2001.
    Rich has written for Saturday Night Live and is currently a producer/writer on FOX's MAD TV.  Rich is also a consulting producer for "The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show" due to hit Comedy Central October 12th 2006.
     You might recognize Rich from commercials and various film and TV appearances on shows such as HBO's "The Sketch Pad," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" as well as the feature film "High Fidelity." Rich lives in Chicago and Hollywood.

Rich is teaching a workshop with Dasariski on The 3 beats of Harold on Saturday at 3pm.

CRAIG CACKOWSKI
Craig Cackowski has been a performer, teacher and director with the IO and IO West theaters since 1992.  He also teaches for the Second City Los Angeles, and can be seen around L.A. in such shows as Dasariski, Cog, The Armando Show, Baby Wants Candy, No Net, The Teachers' Lounge, and ASSSSCAT.  While in Chicago, he toured with the Second City National Touring Company and appeared in 5 revues on their resident stages.  He directed numerous teams and shows at the IO, including the then-neglected, now-legendary, J.T.S. Brown.  Film and TV appearances include Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the upcoming Mike White film "Year of the Dog", starring Molly Shannon.  As a member of Dasariski, he co-wrote and appeared in the short film Jakarta Boom
Boom, which played at HBO's Aspen and Las Vegas Comedy Festivals. 

He is excited to be returning to Austin for the first time in 9 years, and is on a quest to find that queso fundido dip he hasn't be able to get out of his mind.

Craig is teaching a workshop with Dasariski on The 3 beats of Harold on Saturday at 3pm.

BOB DASSIE
Bob Dassie is originally from Chicago where he toured with The Second City and performed at the Improv Olympic for several years. He has been involved in a variety of improvised and scripted shows including the musical "Baby Wants Candy" and the jazz inspired, yet non-musical "trio" & "quartet."  He co-wrote and performed the critically acclaimed, two-person comedy revue "WeirDass: UnMentionables" and was a Demon Tour Guide in the smash hit “Hollywood Hell House."  He is also among the three person cast featured in the Aspen-accepted short film "Jakarta Boom-Boom which was derived from the improvised show "Dasariski." Currently he can be seen at the Improv Olympic West in "The Armando Show", "Cog" and the Los Angeles branch of "Baby Wants Candy."

Past festival and other teaching experiences:  Chicago Improv Festival, Los Angeles Improv Festival, New York Improv Festival, Del Close Marathon, Portland Improv Festival, Memphis Improv Festival, Phoenix Improv Festival, Improv Olympic. Currently teaching at IO West. Plus workshops around the world, including Singapore, London, Edinburgh, Charleston, S.C., Durham, N.C., New Orleans, Washington D.C., and Boston.

Bob is teaching a workshop with Dasariski on The 3 beats of Harold on Saturday at 3pm.


Dasariski is performing in the BIG Headlining Show Sunday at 7:30pm with Available Cupholders and 3 for All.

----> BUY DASARISKI TICKETS HERE

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