1. 28 Mar


    Here’s Video submission winner for our 1st Annual Scripted Fest!! Conrats to Marianne Smith.

    Our regular schedule is back in action so come and check out Tonight’s shows:

    7:30 PM

    Cake Batter

    Siblings

    08:30 PM

    Between The Sheets with Josh Macuga

    10:00 PM

    Quartet

    The Reckoning

     

  2. 27 Mar


    “‘What you are not’ does not exist.” -Eric Hunnicutt on finding the empathy for every character you play. Eric Hunnicutt plays on the team “The Reckoning” every Thursday night at 10 PM at iO west. He also is one of iO’s most beloved teachers. Go to our website to find out what other shows are playing, and to learn more about joining the community. http://ioimprov.com/west/

    “‘What you are not’ does not exist.”
    -Eric Hunnicutt on finding the empathy for every character you play.

    Eric Hunnicutt plays on the team “The Reckoning” every Thursday night at 10 PM at iO west. He also is one of iO’s most beloved teachers. Go to our website to find out what other shows are playing, and to learn more about joining the community. http://ioimprov.com/west/

     

  3. 25 Mar


    Congratulations to sketch group Sketchy @ Best for their win in the 24 Hour Sketch Competition at iO West’s Scripted Comedy Festival! Sketchy @ Best Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sketchyatbestimprov The  YouTubes: Sketchy @ Best

    Congratulations to sketch group Sketchy @ Best for their win in the 24 Hour Sketch Competition at iO West’s Scripted Comedy Festival!


    Sketchy @ Best


    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sketchyatbestimprov

    The  YouTubes:

    Sketchy @ Best

     

  4. 25 Mar



    Improv Olympic Creates a Comedy Festival...That's Scripted?

    Cast of Monster Party, Winners of the iO West Scripted Comedy Festival

    Over the weekend, Improv Olympic became a Scripted Olympic. From Thursday through Sunday, Hollywood’s iO West Theater hosted its first annual L.A. Scripted Comedy Festival, featuring a collection of talent from across the country showcasing sketch, variety, storytelling, stand up and short films.

    The event marked a departure from the improvised comedy that defines iO. According to James Grace, the coordinator of SCF, this venture was an organic evolution for the theater.

    “iO West has had an explosion of sketch, solo, storytelling and stand up shows over the last year,” explained Grace during a pre-festival interview. “So featuring all the talent at this theater in L.A., and across the country, seemed like a natural progression. The industry is always looking for product and scripted comedy is the best way to consistently showcase talent.”

    (Read the rest of this review at LA Weekly!)

    Thank you so much to all the performers and comedy lovers who attended our First Annual Scripted Comedy Festival! 

     

  5. 23 Mar



    This is Your Scripted Comedy Festival Weekend. Write Yourself Into the Fun!

    2 days of the sketchiest fun you ever experienced down, 2 days of the sketchiest fun you ever will experience to go!

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    There are 12 more workshops left for you to get the goods for your writing, including “Writing for SNL” with Cindy Caponera (SNL, My Boys, Shameless, Second City), “Something From Nothing” with Jean Villepique (Up All Night, iO’s own Quartet), “Intro to Sketch Writing” with Matt Craig (SNL, iO West).  

    Check out the full list here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JFw73m5Ke9c

    Plus the many shows & competitions ready for your laughs & votes, from sketch to video shorts to storytelling to stand-up!  The full list of shows is here: http://ioimprov.com/west/scriptedfestival/shows.

    We look forward to seeing you at Scripted Fest!

     

  6. 22 Mar



    Night 2 at iO West!

    Join us as the laughs continue tonight, for night two of the iO West 1st Annual Scripted Fest!  A star studded stage reading of MOOCH kicks off at 8pm, the amazing improv musical Opening Night at 9pm and Douche Bag: A Love Story at 10pm. And that’s just on the main stage!

    For a list of all the other great shows in The Loft and Del Close Theater and more information visit http://ioimprov.com/west/scriptedfestival/shows.

     

  7. 22 Mar



    Steam Punk Burger + iO West

    Thank you to SteamPunkBurger for fueling our performers and staff on Day 1 of our Scripted Festival!  We’re having this food, and this festival all weekend, so either way, you’re pretty compelled to come.  Show line ups available at west.ioimprov.com

     

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  9. 21 Mar


    1st Annual Scripted Fest Starts TONIGHT!!!

    Laura Orrico and Friends make it happen at 8pm on the Mainstage, followed by Terror Visions at 9 and then The Trails End Radio Hour at 10!

    Lots more shows happening in our Del Close Theater and Loft. Check those out HERE

    We also have some incredible workshops showing happening, so don’s miss out!

     

  10. 20 Mar



    Solo Performance Class Week 4 - 03/20/2013

    Discuss “Into the Belly” and all the M’s including:

    Mission, methods, motives, message, medium, masks, milieu, mood, meter, motifs…

    Share your work so far

    Discuss how the work marries all the M’s

    Create alternate conceits for your story just for the sake of experimentation 

    HOMEWORK: Write more. Send me a photo of you for the iO West Solo Showcase page. If you have a title, send me that too. If you don’t, that’s super OK. This should be wild fun, not a pair of shackles that bind!