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		<title>People You Should Know: Joe Avella</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Baumgart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May of 2009, Joe Avella challenged himself to take the next step on his path as a filmmaker by writing, directing and shooting a full length film entitled “The Master of Inventions.” The film follows an ill-fated inventor trying to make good and was commenced with a very unique and difficult challenge. For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions for Improv Team Old West Family Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Smothers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. What were the qualities of your teammates that drew you to this collaboration? Holly: I really wanted to play on a team with each of my teammates because they were amazing friends- people that I clicked with immediately in improv classes and that I had the most fun with. Plus, I thought they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KC Redheart Talks About the Marathon Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Playground Theater recently hosted a 30-hour improv marathon to raise money for the Illinois Coalition of Reach Out and Read. KC Redheart, an incubator team at The Playground, performed the unthinkable: a new guest team with a new improv form, on the hour, every hour, for 30 hours. They came out alive, albeit cranky, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Playground Theater, and Other Local Stages, Help Chicago Improvisers Get Their Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Barbera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of young aspiring comedians move to Chicago every year to learn to improvise from Chicago’s renowned comedy institutions. We have heard it for years and justifiably so: Second City and iO are the stages where future stars go to play. In recent years as new generations of Chicago comedians attain national recognition, the number of performers joining the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions for Michael Pizza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 03:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Smothers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our &#8220;3 Questions&#8221; series continues with the screamingly successful improv team Michael Pizza.  In the two years since Michael Pizza (otherwise known as Brett Elam, Eric Christensen, Ben Kass, and Josh Logan) have been together, they&#8217;ve been named &#8220;Best New Improv Group&#8221; by Chicago Magazine, won the &#8220;King of the Hill&#8221; at Chemically Imbalanced Theater, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions for 1, 2, 3, Fag!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Smothers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our &#8220;3 Questions&#8221; series continues by probing the minds of Kellen Alexander, Seth Dodson, and John Hartman of the improv team 1 ,2, 3, Fag!  We asked them the same 3 questions separately.  Here&#8217;s what they had to say: 1. What were the qualities of your teammates that drew you to this collaboration? Kellen: We all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight of the week: Improv Gladiators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Smothers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those seeking a fun, high-energy, intimate atmosphere full of audience participation, Season 11 of The Original Improv Gladiators arrived on September 10 at Cornservatory.   A cross between American Idol and WWF, the Improve Gladiators features several improv teams that are scored by both a panel of judges and audience vote.  Feel to BYOB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Yellow Bus Celebrates Six Years With Special Performances</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Press Release</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As this November marks the sixth anniversary of Big Yellow Bus, the Playground’s longest running production, each month leading up to the anniversary will welcome a different theme of artists to provide inspiration to the performers. Beginning in September with “Writers Month,” BYB will welcome teen fiction author Jeff Miller on September 16, and playwright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions for BLACKOUT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Smothers</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicago-comedy.com/?p=3171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A great philosopher once said, “If you want to know something, ask a question.”  We took that advice two steps further: we wanted to know a whole bunch, so we asked three questions.  In fact, we asked the same three questions to several improv teams in Chicago, hoping to get a glimpse into the comedic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nairobi Project at the Annoyance Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Press Release</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hello there. My names is Victor Gido from Nairobi, Kenya, and would like to ask if you people are interested in any plays for the moment.&#8221; So began the first correspondence between Kenyan Victor Gido and Blewt! Productions founder Steve Gadlin. Instead of filing that email away with the rest of his spam, Steve decided [...]]]></description>
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