DSI Comedy Theater Hosts Month-long CAGEMATCH Improv Competition On Saturdays

DSI Comedy Theater is heating up the summer with a little competition. Throughout the month of July, DSI is expanding its monthly CAGEMATCH to three exciting weekends with special out-of-town feature Acts each week. The line-up features teams from Atlanta, Texas, and Canada. All shows are Saturdays at 9:30 p.m. and cost $10.

"Austin and Atlanta already know what the rest of the country should soon find out. Carrboro is where you come to launch your comedy career!" smiles DSI Comedy Theater Executive Producer Zach Ward.

The CAGEMATCH begins on Saturday, July 11 with Einstein Meets Elvis from Atlanta's JaCKPie Theatre. Einstein Meets Elvis experiments in the rock and roll and science of long form improvisation. Atlanta's award-winning JaCKPie touring team brings together an all-star cast to rock the audience's socks off. EmE features Mike Brune, Jen Caldwell, Damian Dunn, Brad Kloth and Chris Nik and has recently hit the festival circuit with a boom, performing in just the past six months at the Charleston Comedy Festvial, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Richmond Improv Festival, Black Box Improv Festival, Southeastern Comedy Arts Festival, Spontaneous Combustion, So ILL Improv Festival, Mississippi State University and Ole Miss, all the while performing and coaching in Atlanta every week.

Einstein Meets Elvis will be the featured Act before DSI's 4DDI (4 Dudes Doing Improv) defends the CageMatch title. 4DDI is four comics in the vein of four of the most famous male insult comics (Don Rickles, Jackie Mason, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Marcus Valerius Martialis) all on stage with each other and making fun of each other while performing improv based on a conversation.

The following week, Saturday, July 18, Parallelogramophonograph from ColdTowne Theater in Austin, Texas will be the featured Act before DSI's PT Scarborough is a Movie takes on the winner from July 11th.

Parallelogramophonograph creates and experiments with new show concepts. Their original improvised plays have run the gauntlet of styles - from historic and highly stylized period dramas like "The 1930s", "French Farce" and "Some Like it Improvised" to compelling relationship and character-based shows like "After School Improv" and "Family Portrait" to the much darker, dramatic, and twisted tales showcased in "Villainy" and "GRIMM". Parallelogramophonograph is always playful and funny, yet never afraid to let dramatic moments add the bitter to their sweet improvised stories.

Veteran improvisor PT Scarborough (Harold Night, Super Sparkle Showcase) does the unimaginable: completely overdubbing the soundtrack to a motion picture, live before your eyes. Based on films the audience has chosen, PT takes to the stage by himself to spin whatever's on-screen into comedy gold.

The month long CAGEMATCH is closing on Saturday, July 25 with DSI veterans Senior PGA facing the winner from July 18th. Senior PGA is Zach Ward and Jeremy McDonald performing a two-man "old school improv" show. The closing night features Kevin Patrick Robbins and all-stars from the Impatient Theatre Co. from Toronto. Since 2001, The Impatient Theatre Co. has been at the forefront of the Toronto improv movement and is largely responsible for the proliferation of longform improv comedy in Toronto. The ITC is Toronto's leader of longform improvisation, in performance, coaching and training. No other company in Canada devotes as many resources to the continuous development, exploration and presentation of the art and craft of longform improvisation.

DSI Comedy Theater, an 84-seat non-smoking theater located in Carrboro, North Carolina, boasts a local company of 45 active performers and a national network of almost 100 professional comedians. A dedicated member of its community, the theatre continues to reach out to the greater Triangle region with fundraisers, outreach, and educational opportunities for all ages and abilities. It is the home of the DSI Comedy Training Center, which offers new classes every month in the art of improvisation, stand-up and sketch comedy. Zach Ward, Owner and Executive Producer of DSI, has trained improv talent featured on television (Jeff Richards, Saturday Night Live, MADtv), the big screen (Maddy Curley, Disney's Stick it), and students now featured at IO Chicago, IO West, UCBT-NY and UCBT-LA, Second City, Boom (Amsterdam), and ComedySportz®.

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