thursday 1st 10:15pm
Double Bill Of Improv
serious kicks 🇺🇸
Serious Kicks drops you into a smoky, imaginary North Beach, San Francisco coffeehouse where you are the hep cats in the audience.
From a single audience suggestion, the performers spin fully improvised Beat poetry.
Those fresh poems spark spontaneous scenes that bring their rhythms, images, and emotions to life. Scenes inspire new poems, poems spark new scenes, and the night swings forward like a jazz riff.
Inspired by the rebellious spirit of Beat legends like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Diane di Prima, Serious Kicks is long-form improv with a beatnik soul—part poetry jam, part theatrical happening.
About Us
In addition to working together in Serious Kicks, Diana Brown and Michael Shaffer also perform in the improvised Shakespeare trio Gamesome Frolic. Diana also performs with the duos Bingewatch and Fleeting Reminiscence, the trios Slumber Party and POPTOP and the Twilight Zone Inspired ensemble But Of Mind. She’s appeared at Improv Fest Ireland, Gather Fest, Impro Amsterdam, Liverpool Improvisation Festival, Vancouver Improv Festival, SAVI Fest, Rise Comedy Festival, Countdown Improv Festival, Dramatic Improv Festival Chicago, NYC Improvised Shakespeare Festival, Uptown Improv Festival, Northwest Improv Festival, New York Improv Festival, Twin Cities Improv Festival and others.
Mick Shaffer is an improv actor, & comedy writer who worked in New York City & Los Angeles for over 16 years as a member of the award-winning First Amendment Comedy and Improv Troupe. He has worked with the likes of Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Alan Arkin, Gilbert Gottfried, Kathy Kinney, Denis Leary, & The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Now residing in San Francisco, Mick has performed at the Leela Improv Theater, Made-Up Theater, and All Out Comedy Theater as part ofimprov ensembles Objectively Speaking, Poetic License, Gamesome Frolic,Foolhardy, and The Serious Business of Kicks.
festival jam
Now its your turn!
Join us for a late night festival jam, a chance to play and perform (or just watch and enjoy!) with improvisers from all around the world in a fun and supportive environment!