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Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) [clear filter]
Wednesday, May 10
 

9:45pm PDT

Multimedia Improv 
Experimental Performance*

Improvisation evolves into a multimedia exploration. Come see the latest adaptations of improvisation enhanced with technology, including VR, XR, video, and puppetry, featuring Flipside Studio. #MadeInFlipside

Please join us live in person or via the Zoom webinar.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_04yINFcsSDOl4TlA5ot8Ug
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

*VIDEO & LIVESTREAM:
This event is live and will also be recorded and live-streamed - link for the livestream is above.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT, YOU CONSENT TO YOUR VOICE, NAME, AND/OR LIKENESS BEING ON VIDEO. DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE ON VIDEO.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for Joel Veenstra

Joel Veenstra

Faculty | Co-Founder/Creative Team, University of California, Irvine | Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)
Joel Veenstra teaches improvisation, stage management, and collaborative production at the University of California, Irvine. He is active in the improvisation and applied improvisation world and serves on the Board of AIN and as the co-director of Global Improvisation Initiative... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

The Global Improvisation Initiative (GII) was launched in 2016 by co-founders Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Joel Veenstra as a project to support an ongoing, international exploration of the art and impact of improvisation—appreciating the rich history and diversity of our field—and... Read More →
avatar for UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

Building on UCI’s demonstrated excellence in the creative arts and cultural programming, Illuminations aims to ensure that all of our students, regardless of major, have serious and meaningful exposure to the creative arts. In addition, we seek to strengthen the connections between... Read More →


Wednesday May 10, 2023 9:45pm - 10:45pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
 
Thursday, May 11
 

4:00pm PDT

Workshop 2A1: Writing for Neo Futurism

Learn how to write in the style of Neo-Futurism with 30 Plays in 60 Minutes: Scrhodinger https://linktr.ee/schrodingerscast
https://www.facebook.com/SchrodingersCast

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for Tea Lee

Tea Lee

Improv Revolution
Tristan Lee (they/them she/her) (also goes by Tea) is a third year vocal performance major- this is their fourth quarter as a member of Improv Revolution and their second Coup. If given the chance, they will geek out about music, video games, or any other obscure topic they are encroached... Read More →


Thursday May 11, 2023 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

5:30pm PDT

Open Mic Party (5 min spots)

Bring your talent! Share your joy! 5 minute sets to bring folks back together after some time apart!
Do you want to bring your talent to the party? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/PxAkUpRTyGMRDDdV6 

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for iRev Admin

iRev Admin

Improv Revolution generates creativity, comedy, and community at and around UC Irvine.Through a positive approach to improvisation, we construct opportunities for as many people as possible to engage in the creative process and to participate in community. We work on our own and develop... Read More →


Thursday May 11, 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
 
Friday, May 12
 

5:30pm PDT

Ripley Improv Performance: MAKE ROOM

Ripley Improv presents a genre improv performance - they may presents: MAKE ROOM!

An improvised play that could happen anywhere at any time! With MAKE ROOM, the Ripleys ask the audience a series of suggestions to uncover our play's set design, creating the physical environment that will inspire that evening's play, performed only once, seen by only one audience!

Ripley is: Daring actors improvising artful, long-form narrative about women who save the day, save the world, or save each other. Through bold and playful ensemble storytelling, Ripley seeks to inspire audiences to embrace the hero within.
www.ripleyimprov.com

The cast will include:
- Madi Goff
- Mary Chieffo
- Kelechi Ezie
- Teri Gamble
- Jessica Lynn Verdi

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for Jessica Lynn Verdi

Jessica Lynn Verdi

Jessica Lynn Verdi (she/her) is an actor, improviser, director, and producer, specializing in longform narrative improv with her all female and non-binary company, Ripley Improv. Jessica has created shows like Heartbeats, an improvised medical dramedy performed live online, X-Files... Read More →
avatar for Kelechi Ezie

Kelechi Ezie

Ripley Improv
Kelechi Ezie is an actress, singer, and writer most known for her work on The Deuce, Book of Mormon, and The Truth About Beauty and Blogs, an official selection of Roger Ebert's Film Festival. The daughter of a Nigerian father and an American mother, Kelechi's performing arts career... Read More →
avatar for Madi Goff

Madi Goff

Ripley Improv
Madi (they/them) is an LA-based actor, writer, & former Texas cowgirl, self-described as Peter Pan meets The Brave Little Toaster. Madi is a member of Ripley Improv, Impro Theatre, an alumna of Groundlings Sunday Company, and recurring performer in Groundlings’ “The Crazy Uncle... Read More →
avatar for Mary Chieffo

Mary Chieffo

Ripley Improv
Mary Chieffo (she/her) is a queer actor/producer known internationally as the Klingon Commander turned Chancellor L'Rell on the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery. Chieffo received her BFA from Juilliard in 2015, along with the prestigious Elizabeth Smith Voice and Speech Prize... Read More →
avatar for Ripley Improv

Ripley Improv

Ripley is: Daring actors improvising artful, long-form narrative about women who save the day, save the world, or save each other. Through bold and playful ensemble storytelling, Ripley seeks to inspire audiences to embrace the hero within.www.ripleyimprov.com... Read More →
avatar for Teri Gamble

Teri Gamble

Ripley Improv
Teri Gamble Actor, Writer, Podcaster, Scream Queen! Teri Gamble is an international performing artist and drama coach who has performed on stages from Los Angeles to Moscow, Boston and New York. She has appeared on the hit TV series Dollface, Superstore, Modern Family, ER and has... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

The Global Improvisation Initiative (GII) was launched in 2016 by co-founders Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Joel Veenstra as a project to support an ongoing, international exploration of the art and impact of improvisation—appreciating the rich history and diversity of our field—and... Read More →
avatar for UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

Building on UCI’s demonstrated excellence in the creative arts and cultural programming, Illuminations aims to ensure that all of our students, regardless of major, have serious and meaningful exposure to the creative arts. In addition, we seek to strengthen the connections between... Read More →


Friday May 12, 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

8:15pm PDT

Minority Reportz Stand-Up Comedy

Minority Reportz, we are the best and most diverse f****** Stand-Up Comedy Show in the country!
“With Minority Reportz, Shaikh hopes to give these up-and-coming comedians one of these alternate spaces.”- LA Times
Minority Reportz, created by stand-up comedian and producer Mona Shaikh, is committed to bringing a diverse AF line-up to major comedy clubs and has featured such comedians as Margaret Cho, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Haddish, Trae Crowder, Raj Sharma, Finesse Mitchell, Iliza Schlesinger, Mike Yard, Dustin Ybarra. Minority Reportz is proud to announce that it has showcased well over 450 diverse comedians since it’s inception and continues to rapidly grow due to the growing demand of diverse content.
LA Times says “There was so much howling, it sounded like a Magic Show” and Spectrum News LA calls us “groundbreaking”. Minority Reportz has also been featured on Spectrum One LA, Forbes, MSNBC, SiriusXM, IHeartRadio, Kirn Radio, India Abroad, Getty Images, Middle Eastern Broadcasting Networks and Hustler Magazine. Larry Flynt was a huge fan of us when we are fully clothed.
Minority Reportz is a brainchild of Mona Shaikh, a comedian, and producer, who didn’t see people like herself represented on stage so she approached The World Famous Comedy Store September 2015 with the idea for a show that showcases minorities like herself and others. She believes minority voices matter and saw the importance of the role these voices play in our society and the upcoming trend that was about to take Hollywood by storm.
The launch of Minority Reportz Girls Night Out series in 2019 has brought sold-out shows. Minority Reportz also launched GAY AF Comedy Show with a new residency in West Hollywood in June 2019 showcasing all LGBTQIA comedians. It was important for Mona, as a straight Muslim comedian, to be an ally and dedicate a show to the cause. The shows can also be seen at two more residencies, Caspian Restaurant in Irvine and The Cutting Room in New York City. Minority Reportz Desi Girls Night Out made history at the NY Comedy Festival Nov. 2021 with sold out shows and by being the first show of its kind with an all South Asian and Middle Eastern female comedian lineup.
Minority Reportz inspires to be a household name worldwide. Minority Reportz wants to be the Beyonce of Comedy Shows.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for Minority Reportz

Minority Reportz

We are the best and most diverse f****** Stand-Up Comedy Show in the country!Some of our past comedians have been Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Haddish, Trae Crowder, Raj Sharma, Finesse Mitchell, Iliza Schlesinger, Mike Yard, Dustin Ybarra to name a few.We not only give a platform to diverse... Read More →
avatar for Mona Shaikh

Mona Shaikh

Mona Shaikh combines a South Asian sensibility with Americanized values cherishing the First Amendment—the right to bear big mouths. And her fresh, fearless, free speech has raised eyebrows. With her offbeat sense of humor Shaikh is a tightrope walker striving to maintain equilibrium... Read More →


Friday May 12, 2023 8:15pm - 9:15pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
 
Saturday, May 13
 

6:15pm PDT

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet & Red Door

Two Teams of Two Back-to-Back = EPIC!

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet (Sketch) & Red Door (Long Form Improv)

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet 
Peer into the lives and minds of Ryder Tam and Gabe Valdez in this two-man sketch comedy show as they draw on their experience as scientists, BIPOC comedians, and a shared obsession with physical humor and buddy cop drama. They are a Ledge Theatre house team.

AND

Red Door will take you into their wheelhouse of accents, huge characters and crisp space work to show you that anything is possible behind the Red Door. Hitting the stage with high energy, power listening, and seamless editing Red Door is a great example of fast and furious team work.

RESERVATIONS:
Limited seating available: reservations via Sched registration are highly encouraged. Just add the event (click next to the event title) to your schedule and your reservation is set. If the event is full, you will be on the waitlist and will be encouraged to show up and if there is space, we will get you into the event.

DETAILS:
Face coverings (masks) are recommended (regardless of vaccination status) per UCI policy.

(All events are subject to change.)

Artists
avatar for Gabriel Michael Valdez

Gabriel Michael Valdez

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet
Gabriel Michael Valdez is a Colorado native actor, improviser, and writer. He is a playwright with work featured at the Denver Fringe Festival, and has over 50,000 views on his sketch comedy work. Gabe has performed internationally at the Auckland Improv Marathon (New Zealand), Ireland... Read More →
avatar for Justin Michael Terry

Justin Michael Terry

Actor - Writer - Awesome@justimpro
avatar for Ledge Theatre

Ledge Theatre

THE LEDGE ARTISTIC STATEMENTTo bring the voice of Black Artists and underrepresented communities in Los Angeles to the performing arts stage. Youth of Color seeing professional instructors of color teach theater, music, dance, writing and art. Bringing performances and events back... Read More →
avatar for Red Door

Red Door

Red Door is Justin Michael Terry and Ryan Marsico. They met at ComedySportz in Los Angeles doing short-form improv and quickly clicked, going on to perform together in Drunkards & Dragons, an improvised role-playing/drinking show, The Resistance, improvised action/adventure movies... Read More →
avatar for Ryan Marsico

Ryan Marsico

Actor - Writer - Awesome@ryanmarsico
avatar for Ryder Tam

Ryder Tam

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet
Ryder Tam is a Chinese-American improviser, actor, comedian and occasional aerospace engineer from Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the co-artistic director of Pack Theater in Hollywood, a former improv instructor for Rise Comedy Denver, and currently teaches for Ledge Theater in Los Angeles... Read More →
avatar for TVunscripted's Sketch Duet

TVunscripted's Sketch Duet

Based out of Los Angeles, TVunscripted has been featured at numerous theaters and festivals around the world, including as a headlining act at Trill Comedy Festival, at Ireland Improv Fest, Improfest Sweden, and dozens of others. They currently perform sketch and genre improv for... Read More →

Sponsors
avatar for Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

Global Improvisation Initiative (GII)

The Global Improvisation Initiative (GII) was launched in 2016 by co-founders Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Joel Veenstra as a project to support an ongoing, international exploration of the art and impact of improvisation—appreciating the rich history and diversity of our field—and... Read More →
avatar for UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative

Building on UCI’s demonstrated excellence in the creative arts and cultural programming, Illuminations aims to ensure that all of our students, regardless of major, have serious and meaningful exposure to the creative arts. In addition, we seek to strengthen the connections between... Read More →


Saturday May 13, 2023 6:15pm - 7:45pm PDT
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
 
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