8:00 PM, Friday, May 1, 2020 – BUY TICKETS!
EXIT Theatre Main Stage, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
FemC: Linda Ray (Tucson, AZ)
Linda Ray is a 75 year old stand-up comic and improvisor. She has been a model, an ice skater, a high school octet alto, and national-level rock music writer. A highlight of her career is a 6,000 word piece on Dolly Parton that was re-pubished in a New York Times book. Linda Ray writes a weekly column about comedy in the Tucson Weekly (Laughing Stock), and established the nonprofit Comedy Alliance of Tucson, now doing business as the Tucson Comedy Alliance.
Featuring: Linda Ray
Credit the Source: Aretha Sills’ Tribute to Viola Spolin (Los Angeles)
In 1923, eighteen-year-old Viola Spolin (author of Improvisation for the Theater and creator of theater games) began studying with pioneering social worker and educator Neva Boyd at Chicago’s Hull House. Boyd’s theory of play inspired Spolin to create new ways of teaching dramatics to her students, often immigrants and children. Spolin’s son, Paul Sills (founding director of Compass, The Second City, and Story Theater) brought her discoveries to the world when co-founding the first improvisational theaters in the United States. Through family stories, personal history, archival photographs, and Spolin’s own words and writing, Aretha Sills will trace the roots of Spolin’s groundbreaking work to the social activism cultivated at Jane Addams’ Hull House, exploring how Progressive-era ideals of community and democracy led to the birth of improvisational theater in America.
Featuring: Aretha Sills
Hypothechicks (Sacramento)
Science can be used to answer questions big (like why stars exist) and small (like what creates B.O.). What do YOU wish science could answer? This team of smart, witty ladies will generate hypotheses to answers your questions, explore the hypotheses through scenes, and draw a conclusion by the show’s end. HYPOTHECHICKS was born out of the idea that women should celebrate our strengths and our backgrounds in a way that is accessible to audiences. They hope to inspire girls and young women to excel in male-dominated fields such as science, technology, engineering, and match (STEM) in a way that is both fun and engaging.
Featuring: Sara Aghamohammadi, Jasjeet Dhanota, Melissa Roy, Keisha Mello-Hall, Catalina Serrano-Bucheli, & Liz Gomez
Coach: Betsaida LeBron
The Women+ of Tri-Valley High: The Musical (Pleasanton)
Pleasanton, California’s award-winning teen improv troupe Creatures of Impulse presents “Tri-Valley High: The Musical” a totally improvised teen musical featuring a cast of high school age improvisers. Watch as the young improvisers tell the story of their people based on your suggestions through improvised song.
Featuring: TBA
Directed by: Mark Duncanson
Peach Pit (SF)
Peach Pit, four women who met through Leela, perform long-form shows that are driven by character and committed to absurdity. They create original forms that have incorporated fake news, audience interviews, and mad-lib style audience suggestions. Peach Pit is also the gnarled core of one of nature’s finest fruits. It contains nonlethal levels of cyanide.
Featuring: Casey Busher, Stacie Blanke, Jess Mathews, & Rocio Mancia