Austin Improv

Hello

The B. Iden Payne Awards are coming up and we are going to be putting a list of every Austin-based troupe and show into the Out of Bounds Program for audience members to nominate troupes and/or shows for this years awards in October. We'll also be doing an online submission on these here forums for folks that won't be seeing any OoB shows.

We'll be doing it this way this year to help ensure that the improv category is on the actual ballot and not just a rushed inside job as it has been in the past.

This post isn't for nominating. I would just like y'all to go over this list, find your groups and shows and make sure there aren't any 2009 troupes or shows I am missing... or to make a case for any of these that should be stricken form the record, (out-of-town names, one-offs that never showed up... that sort of thing) or any Troupe names that should be in the Shows column and vice versa.

This will be the list that people will get to nominate from... kind of like picking all-stars at a MLB game in June.

Feel free to email me at buckprov@yahoo.com or PM me here to help me edit this list. Deadline is Wednesday the 12th.

112 TROUPES
3.14
1813 Drake
2nd Place Finish
3$Bills
Ace and Friends
Adventure Squad
Ames & James
Antique Limax
Available Cupholders
AWAH
Baby Kick Baby
Badr and Janik
BILLY ICON
Blokes with Jokes
Book Night
Bossanova Cocktail Party
Boy Toy
Briyan Isyland
Buddy Daddy
Burning Ranch
Busker Hu
Chris and Tami
Clammes
ColdTowne
Comedysportz 
Couples Therapy
Crazytowne
Damned Avalanche
Dentata!
Dick Rambuck
Disco Three
DJ Dubb and the Tripspinnaz
Escape Hatch
Firth & Arjet
Fishbowl Soldiers
Fuck You!
Get Up
Ghetto Sketch Warlock
Gigglepants
Girls Girls Girls
Girltrap
Glamping Trip
God
Golden Eagle
Henry has Epilepsy
House!
I Am Star Wars
Improv for Evil
Invisible House of Kaos
J/K
Junk
Just Eat, Johnny!
KarACEy
KKA
Ladyforms
Le Sexy
Lifeboat
Look Cookie
Lovey and Lovey
Master Sweeney’s Improv 101!
McNichol & May
Mid-Air Collision
Midnight Society
Murphy
Nice Astronaut
No Chaser
Northshore Local
one a.m.
Parallelogramophonograph
People Food
Perfect Season
Polite Society
Rachel & Dave
Ramirez & Gilstrap
Ratiliff & Jackson.
Razowsky and Ronen
Red Rover
Rise and Shine!
Snackers
Southwest Berkeley
Texas Giant
The Faculty
The Frank Mills
The Friendly Few
The Inmates of the Institution Theatre
The Jet Set
The Knuckleball Now
The Love Notes
The New Movement
The P! Company
The People’s Army
The Perfect Banana
The Smoking Arm
The Starter Kit
Think Tank
Third Wheel
Thought For Food
Tiger Beat
Tom Foolery
Topping
Total Panic
Turducken
Typhoid Mary
Twelve-Inch Integrity
Unfurled
Venn Diaphragm
Werewolf Birthday
Wicked City
You, Me and Greg
You're Not My Real Dad
Your Terrific Neighbors

75 SHOWS
40 Hour Improv Marathon
After School Improv
Am I Freaking JOB?
Austin's Next Top Improviser
Boys of Summer
Cage Match
Camp Northshore
Cochise
Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet
Dear Frailty
Double Barrel Improv
Dr P. and the Visors
Dress-Up
Dubbed Indemnity
Fairly Silly Fairy Tales
Fifty Minute Hour
Flying Theater Machine
Girls of Evil
Gorilla Theater
GRIMM: Improvised Grimm's Fairy Tales
Guilds of Steel
Haunted
Holy Sleep Deprivation, Batman!
Hyperlinks
Imposterous
Improvopalooza
Improvised Shakespeare
iPhone the Musical
Iron Improviser Tournament
Jabber Talky
Jam City
Ka-Baam!!
Les McGeHee Plays Well With Others
Live... or Let Die!
LOLA
Lost/Found
Maestro
Midnight Special
Midnight Society Presents
Monday Night Mash
Monster Families
Murphy Power Hour
No Shame
Of the Moose Variety
Office Party
Photorealism
President of Improv
Proctor
Some Like It Improvised
Staged By The Bell
Start Trekkin'
Stool Pigeon
Studio8.net
The 40 Hour Improv Marathon
The Draft
The Great Wheel Of Improvised Theatre!
The Hideout's 10th Anniversary Show
The Hippodrome
The Life Game
The Shootaround
The Sickest F***ing Stories I Ever Heard
The Snackers Club
Theatersports
This Week Tonight
Threefer Madness
Two on Two
Unbeaten
Uptowne Sketch Show
Well Hung Jury Reunion Show
What the Dickens!?
Whispersmack
Wild Wild Puppets
You Drive
You’re in Big Trouble, Mister!

For shows, please add Lola. Thanks!!

Edited to add a hearty thank you for putting this together, Dave.

shando wrote:For shows, please add Lola. Thanks!!

Edited to add a hearty thank you for putting this together, Dave.

done!
thanks shannon.

i also added Unbeaten

Hmm, Unbeaten was last October/November. Doesn't that miss the deadline?

Cochise belongs in the show category, not the troupe. It was IFE and friends.

Also, HOLY CRAP there was a ton if improv this past year!

I'm not sure what the cut-off date is for shows, but Some Like It Improvised was last September.

Some things that are missing:
ColdTowne
Stool Pigeon
Proctor
Improvopalooza
Monday Night Mash

Some of those shows are sketch, not improv. If that's intentional, you can add Midnight Society Presents (Midnight Society's monthly sketch show) to the list.

What the Dicken's was a one off for the marathon. The real show will be up in November and December.

I think Maestro show be under shows.

I'm not sure about Flying Theater Machine. I think maybe we are more of a troupe that puts on shows. The shows this year have been: Monster Families, You Drive, Wild Wild Puppets, Fairly Silly Fairy Tales.

By the way; Thanks for doing this Dave!

edited all of the above...

keep em coming, folks!

Four square on the Moon is Escape Hatch's old name. It can be erased. Transcontinental is just Northshore Local's nom de plume. it can be erased as well.

cupholders, please.

look at all this!
love it!
xo

I love you guys! I was looking at moving back to Portland and I emailed a comic friend and asked how the comedy scene was there, she said "it's thriving, we have 3 improv troupes now!"

I (heart) Austin.

Oh, and is Mamet on there, did I miss it?