SUBMIT YOUR AVAILABILITY FOR THE JULY/AUGUST SCHEDULE

[Roy Janik]

The Austin Improv Collective is now looking for your availability for Fridays in July and August. Please forward this e-mail to anyone you feel might need it.

Please send in your troupe's availability by sending me a PM or e-mailing me at ROY AT JANIK.ORG
before JUNE 15, 2007

In this message:
1. Available Dates
2. What information to provide
3. Show Descriptions
4. Friday Night Hosting Duties
5. Stay in touch

1. AVAILABLE DATES

We are seeking availability for the following dates:

July 6, July 13, July 20, July 27
August 3, August 10, August 17, August 24

Note that Thursday Night Awesome no longer exists. Also note that the Cagematch is now scheduled directly by Chris Trew and Eric Seufert. So this e-mail applies only to The Threefer Madness and The Double Barrel.

Please try and make your troupe as available as possible. The last scheduling round was made rather difficult by the fact that most troupes had extremely specific scheduling requirements.

2. INFORMATION TO PROVIDE
Please provide answers to the following questions when replying. Try to keep the numbered list format intact so that e-mails can be processed as quickly as possible.

1. Name of troupe
2. Contact's name
3. Contact's phone number
4. Contact's email address
5. Which time slots/shows are your troupe’s preferences.
6. Ideally, how many shows would your troupe prefer to schedule over the two months.
7. Which dates your troupe will be available to perform
8. Which dates your troupe will be available host.
9. (optional) a brief (4-5 sentence) description of the troupe for use on websites and other promotional material
10. (optional) a link to a high-quality photo of your troupe for use on websites and other promotional material
11. (optional) your troupe's website/myspace, whatever.

2.1 EXAMPLE RESPONSE
For example, here's a response from a fictional troupe, Team Awesome:
1. Team Awesome
2. Adam T. Awesome
3. 555-AWSM
4. adamizawesome@gmail.com
5. Team Awesome prefers Threefer Madness slots, but we'll take anything.
6. We'd love to perform in up to 3 shows.
7. We're available to perform on any day in July.
8. We're available to host on any Friday , but would prefer August 24th.
9. description: Team Awesome is made up of Austin's most experienced imaginary improvisers. With a combined 200 years of made-up experience, Team Awesome promises to shock and awe audiences with their bombardment of call-backs, quick edits, and amusing facial expressions. Team Awesome recently won the Austin Chronicle's 2006 award for best Novelty Band, which confused everyone involved.
10. Here's a picture of Team Awesome that we like: http://tinyurl.com/36ahxg
11. Team Awesome's website is http://www.teamawesome.ca

3. SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
3.1 THREEFER MADNESS
day/time/location: Fridays, 8pm, at the Hideout
description:
A showcase of three up-and-coming troupes, each with their own unique style. New teams, old pros, regional and national performers, improv, sketch and the occasional experimental form - each team gets 25 minutes to mesmerize you with their own brand of weird science.***

*** (two shows or more scheduled in the 8 or 10 pm shows obligates you to one Friday Night Hosting Duty---see below)

3.2 DOUBLE BARREL IMPROV
day/time/location: Fridays, 10 pm, at the Hideout
website: http://doublebarrel.austinimprov.com
description:
Two experienced, proven improv troupes. Roy Janik and Kaci Beeler host with a western flair. 35 minute slots for experienced, proven improv troupes***
*** (two shows or more scheduled in the 8 or 10 pm shows obligates you to one Friday Night Hosting Duty---see below)

4. FRIDAY HOSTING DUTIES
7:30pm-11:45pm

HOSTING IS REQUIRED ONCE FOR EACH LOCAL TROUPE WITH AT LEAST TWO SHOWS SCHEDULED IN FRIDAY SHOWS.

Note that since the Cagematch has moved to Coldtowne, host troupes are only responsible for helping with Threefer Madness and The Double Barrel.

HOST TEAMS will be in the command of Ann (or another stage manager) who will be present each Friday to supervise and make sure you are keeping the place clean and functional. It's our playground. Let's help make it awesome.

Duties include:

* Providing a Tech person for Threefer Madness and Double Barrel
* Providing Box Office Person for Threefer Madness and Double Barrel
* Having someone take tickets outside the theater door.
* Helping to clean the greenroom and theater before/between/after shows
* Providing snacks for Teams and yourself (optional)
* making sure the shows run smoothly.
* Doing anything else the stage manager asks of you.

5. STAY IN TOUCH For news, discussion, schedule changes, casting info and anything else related to Austin Improv, go to the AIC forums at http://forum.austinimprov.com

For the current weekly schedule, head to http://www.austinimprov.com

You can expect an e-mail sent with a complete JULY/AUGUST AIC schedule no later than June 22nd.

If a problem/conflict/emergency comes up the Friday night of your performance or hosting, call Ann Wilson, the Hideout stage manager, at 254-366-8936.

Thanks!

[Roy Janik]

Also, there are a lot of new people in the AIC, so please pass this message on to anyone you feel might need this info but hasn't got it.

[Roy Janik]

bump.

[Roy Janik]

I still need availability from the following:

The Knuckleball Now
ColdTowne
Vertigo Ramp
Dr. Clobber

If your troupe is on this list and you think you've sent me availability, just respond here and I'll double-check.

Thanks.

[shando]

Dr. Clobber? Who's that? that's an awesome name.

[Roy Janik]

Dr. Clobber? Who's that? that's an awesome name.

Well, I'm not 100% sure they're going with it, but it's a tentative name of the newest troupe to come out of the ColdTowne auditions... the other contender was It's Full of Cobras.

But I agree. I love the name Dr. Clobber. If they don't use it, I'm totally stealing it.

[Roy Janik]

bump. Still need availability from some troupes.

[Roy Janik]

Bump. Still looking for availability from:

Vertigo Ramp
Dr. Clobber (or whatever they're called now)

Also, thanks to everyone who heeded the call to be more flexible in terms of available dates this time around. Scheduling is going to be so much easier (and better) this time.