“Comedy Club Seeking Diverse Talent. Must Be Willing to Make People Laugh,” reads a statement from iO West Theater, Los Angeles’ world-famous hub for improv and comedy. If that headline applies to you, it’s worth checking out the theater’s new scholarships offered to performers and writers of diverse backgrounds. Eight full scholarships for iO West’s improvisation classes, plus four for their sketch writing program, will be made available to aspiring comedy greats. Applicants for the former must email iowestdiversity@ioimprov.com requesting an audition time on Nov. 21 with a headshot attached. Writers are to submit two original scene scripts in Pdf form by that date. Scholarship winners will be announced Nov. 24. “Comedy comes down to getting people on stage or in the writing room who can make people laugh,” said iO West director James Grace in a statement. “Diversity is essential to give a complete and fresh...
- 11/11/2015
- backstage.com
The improv theater that launched the careers of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey wants to showcase female performers in Los Angeles next month. iO West is hosting Cake Batter’s Funny Women Festival, which is still accepting submissions for its storytelling competition, stand up competition and video short competition. “We have a lot of submissions for the other stuff. We’re trying to work everyone in, if possible,” James Grace, artistic director of the Chicago theater’s L.A. outpost, told Backstage. The event is the brainchild of the comedy troupe Cake Batter, which is made up of Lauren Frost, Angela Rysk and Erin Miller Williams. Grace said they approached iO to host the event, which runs Dec. 4-6, after noticing there were no female-only comedy festivals in L.A. “The idea behind it is that it’s going to be a celebration of the surge of women in comedy,...
- 11/26/2014
- backstage.com
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