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Welcome to Our New Chicago Writer Philip Buuck

We at improvoker are very pleased to announce the addition of Philip Buuck of mychicagoimprov.com to our writers. We are excited to see what’s happening in the Chicago improv scene and egarly look forward to hearing Philip’s thoughts on improvisation.

DCM 10 Notes – Are A-comin’

Hey how about that Del Close Marathon, right? Anyone? Crap. So it’s been entirely too long and I haven’t updated improvoker. This is due to one unfortunate problem, those damn Del Close Marathon notes. See the thing is, I took notes in a dark theater in a little notebook and when I looked again at [...]

Bobby Moynihan’s Face Joins Saturday Night Live

So as commenter The Gooch rightly noted, I have not written about Bobby Moynihan, of UCBs Stepfathers, being picked up by SNL. This is of course amazing news. Bobby had auditioned for SNL last year and was not added to the cast, but I think all of us expected if he auditioned again he would [...]

The UCB Theatre Announces New Harold Teams

Well, big announcements from the old UCB HQ today, New Harold Teams have been announced. There are quite a few surprises, new faces, and quite a few familiar performers. The biggest news is the reshuffling of 1985 and the remaining members of fwänd into two separate groups – The Law Firm and Amazon Tusk. I [...]

10th Annual Del Close Marathon August 8-10 2008

So, it’s been a rough week with UCB Harold auditions consuming most of my attention this week, but I thought I would point out that UCB Theatre New York has announced this years Del Close Marathon on August 8-10. For anyone who’s never attended or knows nothing about the DCM marathon, it’s the 3 day [...]

UCB Theatre Announces Harold Team Open Auditions

Ah, spring is in the air and UCB, contrary to previous rumors to the contrary, is once again holding open auditions. Complete information after the jump The only question we have is, when the sign up process end? We are assuming the sign ups are from Wednesday April 16th to Sunday April 20th. This is [...]