January - July 2012 Season
The Improv Play: Post Your Review
Posted by DCA Theater on April 16, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, The Improv Play
A truly Chicago tale, The Improv Play follows three aspiring improvisers as they seek success and validation on local comedy stages after a fellow troupe member leaves to join the cast of Saturday Night Live. Incorporating improvisation, stand-up and sketch comedy with scripted material to create a raucous, cutting and honest exploration of performance, talent and ambition, The Improv Play shines a light on the thousands of performers filling out the fringe of the comedy scene.
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Spy Moves
Posted by DCA Theater on May 16, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Sour Mash Productions
Submitted by Gretchen Wright, Movement Director for A Natural Progression of Our Prolonged Stay and Co-Founder of Sour Mash Productions
As Sour Mash Productions was getting ready to dive into the Incubator, Rebecca, co-creator of A Natural Progression of Our Prolonged Stay asked me if I was interested in working on the movement and choreography for the project.
“Wait, what? Aren’t we doing a staged reading?”
Yes, indeed we are. A staged reading of a play about Russian spies, with scripted and executed choreographic sequences.
Meet the Players
Posted by DCA Theater on May 15, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Sour Mash Productions
Here’s an introduction to the top-notch performers you’ll see in action on May 21st in Sour Mash Productions showcase of A Natural Progression of Our Prolonged Stay.
Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary graduated from Columbia College‘s Directing program and is proud to be a part of Gray Talent, Collaboraction, Teatro Vista and a new voice at 2nd story. She’s done quite a bit of work around Chicago, top favorites include, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings where she was nominated for a Jeff, as Supporting Actress and won for Ensemble, she’s also played Shaquille O’Neal in Shaquille O’Neal and Christian Laettner Discuss written by Pulitzer Prize nominee Kristoffer Diaz. In Silk Road‘s production of Scorched, she played Young Nawal and Za Guide. In Kimberly Senior‘s production of Waiting for Lefty she played Edna. Most recently she closed Fish Men presented by Teatro Vista and Goodman Theatre, in which she was Casting Coordinator and Assistant Director. Rinska sends love to all her family, friends and to all the secret agents. You bring cool to cool-aid. Follow my work on Twitter!
Inside Scoop
Posted by DCA Theater on May 14, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, The Improv Play
At Inside the Improviser’s Studio, 3 Chicago improv teachers/performers sat down with the dramaturg (and an actor) from The Improv Play to fill in our live audience on where they are, what they love/hate/think about improv, and then conducted a mini-workshop to demonstrate improv training exercises with the help of volunteers from the audience!
Below you see Jamie Bragg, with Rebecca Sohn on behalf of The Annoyance Theatre, Matt Elwell on behalf of ComedySportz, and Bill Arnett on behalf of iO Improv.
Initial Synopsis
Posted by DCA Theater on May 2, 2012 in January - July 2012 Season, Incubator Series: Sour Mash Productions
Initial Synopsis of A Natural Progression of Our Prolonged Stay, to be presented by Sour Mash Productions in the DCA Theater Incubator Series 
Fifteen year-old Hannah Clark’s world has just been pulled out from under her. When her parents, Natalie and Vince, are detained by the FBI, Hannah discovers that, beneath the veneer of her typical suburban life, her parents are really Russian spies. Making Hannah’s discovery all the more astonishing is the fact that she never even knew her parents were foreigners. And now Hannah has to figure out what of her idyllic childhood—the perfect Azalea garden, the Saturday morning soccer games, the warm, devoted parents—was a carefully choreographed illusion, and what was actually real.
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