ImprovBoston Introduces The New England Music Improv Experience

New England's oldest and biggest comedy theater, ImprovBoston brings music improv masters and acts from around the world to Boston for a four-day musical comedy deep-dive at the New England Music Improv Experience (NEMIX). From July 5-8, international music improvisers will immerse audiences in all things music improv. The Experience features workshops, events, and performances featuring talent with credits from The Second City, Blank! The Musical (Off-Broadway), iO, ComedySportz, ImprovBoston, and many more. Laura Hall from the ubiquitous TV show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" headlines the festival.

NEMIX attendees will not only soak up performances, expert panels, mixers, brunches, and casual cabarets, but they'll also take part in an all-day intensive including multiple workshops with industry-leading teachers from around the world including:

• Laura Hall, best known as the improvisational pianist on "Whose Line is it Anyway?," which ran on ABC with Host Drew Carey. Hall got her start in improv in Chicago with The Second City National Touring Company.

• Ali Reed, a New York-based actor, improviser, singer, and teacher with BLANK! The Musical off-Broadway and Upright Citizens Brigade credits.

• Katy Schutte, a London-based improviser and member of The Maydays, who won the Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Show Award for Mayday The Musical.

• Matthew Van Colton, a veteran improviser and teacher based in Chicago, where he worked with the iO Theatre and Second City Theatricals.

Founder of the celebrated Music Program at The Second City Training Center in Chicago and co-creator of the ground-breaking off-Broadway production BLANK! The Musical, ImprovBoston Artistic Director Mike Descoteaux created NEMIX as a celebration of the internationally-recognized music improv expertise at ImprovBoston. With expertise from creative leaders like ImprovBoston Comedy School Manager Stacey Smith (the Creator/Executive Producer of the Chicago Musical Improv Festival and international music improv master instructor), ImprovBoston has quickly become a hub for the art of spontaneous song and the fully improvised musical.

The New England Music Improv Experience (NEMIX) shows run July 5th through 8th at ImprovBoston at 40 Prospect Street in Cambridge. Tickets are available at http://www.improvboston.com.

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For over 30 years, ImprovBoston has been New England's leading theater and school dedicated to the art of comedy in all its forms. Voted "Best of Boston" by The Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, and The Weekly Dig, ImprovBoston performers, teachers and students have included film stars, Emmy Award-winning comedians, and acclaimed producers, directors, musicians and writers. ImprovBoston alumni are featured on Conan, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, America's Got Talent, Funniest Wins, Playboy, Last Comic Standing and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, to name a few. In 2014, the Independent Reviewers of New England honored ImprovBoston with an award recognizing its longstanding contributions to the Boston theater community. As a nonprofit arts organization, ImprovBoston serves the community through laughter with youth outreach programs, workshops for businesses, scholarships, a national touring company and, of course, performances at its theater complex in Central Square, Cambridge.

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