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Second Nature Announces Special Guests for SF Improv Fest

We’ve officially announced our lineup of guests for our three special shows at the San Francisco Improv Festival. Here’s the schedule:

Thursday, July 24
Midori
(Sexuality Columnist and Fetishism Expert)
www.planetmidori.com

Friday, July 25
Andrew Leland
(Managing editor of The Believer)
www.believermag.com

Saturday, July 26
Daniel Handler
(aka Lemony Snicket, author of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”)
www.lemonysnicket.com

All three guests are Bay Area natives, and we’re really excited for them to come out for these special shows.

All shows are at 8pm in the festival’s “Union Square Stage” at the San Francisco Playhouse.

So, if you or anyone you know is in the Bay Area, reserve tickets now by visiting:

www.sfimprovfestival.com

2n Invited to San Francisco Improv Festival!

Second Nature is proud to announce that we’ve been invited to perform three shows at the 5th Annual San Francisco Improv Festival. We’re performing July 24-26 at The San Francisco Playhouse Union Square Stage at 8pm. As the only college troupe at the festival, we’ll be doing our signature Armandos with special Bay Area Guest Monologists. We’ve been talking with some awesome people and we’ll be announcing monologists soon, so stay tuned. For tickets and more information on the festival, visit sfimprovfestival.com

2n at Orientation!

Throughout the summer, we’ll be doing weekly shows for incoming student orientations. So, if you like improv, find orientation socials awkward, or just plain have nothing better to do with you weeknights, come check us out. The shows will be outside at Argue Plaza (near Alumni House) at 10:30pm. For exact dates, check out our shows page .

Second Nature at UCSB’s Improvathon

We’ll be going up north to UC Santa Barbara on May 30 to perform at their 24 Hour Improvathon, sponsored by local UCSB troupe, Improvability. Come check us out, we’ll be performing at 11pm, and jumping on stage throughout the night.

2N hosts 24 Hour Improvathon

In an effort to raise the necessary funds to put on The 5th Annual Fracas! Improv Festival this April, Second Nature is hosting and performing in a 24 hour Improv-a-thon.

For 24 hours, Second Nature is taking over USC to bring you the most exciting 24 hours of improv comedy ever performed!

12pm SATURDAY through 12pm SUNDAY

24 HOURS NON-STOP!
(come and go as you please)
With special guests from:
-IMPROV OLYMPIC
-ULTIMATE IMPROV
-THE UPRIGHT CITIZEN’S BRIGADE THEATRE
-COMMEDUS INTERRUPTUS
-VIDUSHAK

AND MORE!

Prizes! Raffles! T-shirts! Music! Mayhem!

This whole thing is FREE! but we will be collecting donations to raise money for The 5th Annual Fracas! Improv Festival - so bring money!

Every hour will bring a new and exciting show including:
-THE DECONSTRUCTION
-THE LA RONDE
-THE HAROLD
-THE FACEBOOK SHOW
-THE DVD COMMENTARY
-THE HAMFATTER POWER (HALF) HOUR
-THE SPOOKY HOUR
-THE TOTALLY NUDE HOUR
-THE IMPROV JAM
-THE IMPROV JELLY
-THE CHRIS JOHNSON LOOK-(AND SOUND)-A-LIKE DISCOVERY HOUR AND CONTEST
-TELEPROV WITH NICK ELIAFAN
-THE IMPROV MATCH GAME
-CLOSED QUARTERS
-THE SENIOR CITIZEN’S OF COMEDY (WITH REAL SENIOR CITIZENS)
-ZACHARY SIGELKO’S SUPERFLUOUS CABARET (BRING YOUR OWN CABERNET)
-THE ARMANDO
-THE SEVEN MENUS
-RUB-A-DUB REPLAY
-FUN WITH RAY CHASE

AND MORE!

full schedule TBA, check this page for updates!

1AM-2AM:
Second Nature with Roberto Alomar!
(Roberto Alomar is a long form troupe from ImprovOlympic West; cast credits include MADtv, WEEDS, DEXTER, and several national commercials.)

2AM-3AM:
The totally nude hour. From 2:01am through 2:59am all of Second Nature will perform totally nude. No joke.

3AM-4AM:
Open Improv Jam!
Anyone can perform!

10AM-11AM:
The Senior Citizen hour, featuring Marty Dusig, the “Senior Citizen of Comedy”

Tell your friends! THIS IS FOR REAL!

Check out the facebook event here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9340084134

WGA Strike Support Shows

WGA Month PosterFor the rest of February, Second Nature will be using our shows to support the Writer’s Guild of America.

Each of our February shows will feature either a guest performer or monologist from the WGA. It all starts tomorrow night! A full list of guests is below:

Friday, February 8th - 11pm
PAUL WOLFF

executive story editor, Remington Steele; writer, Home Improvement

Wednesday, February 13th - 11pm
TOM LENNON

writer, Reno 911!, The State, Balls of Fury, Night at the Museum

Friday, February 22nd - 11pm
WILL SASSO
writer/actor MADtv

Friday, February 29th - 11pm
LAUREN WEEDMAN

writer/correspondent from The Daily Show

All shows will take place at USC’s Ground Zero Performance Cafe. For location and directions, visit our shows page.

You can also join the facebook event for these shows here.

For ongoing developments on the writer’s strike, visit The United Hollywood Blog.

Armando Show with Kate Flannery

  • Last Wednesday, for our monthly special format show, Second Nature performed an Armando with guest monologist Kate Flannery.  You may recognize Kate as ‘Meredith’ on the hit NBC comedy, The Office.
  • This was the second big Armando guest Second Nature has had this year, and we were very excited to perform with Kate.  The show was an absolute blast, and we had more people packed into Ground Zero than we did for our welcome back comedy show.  Unfortunately, this also meant we had to turn a couple dozen people away, because Ground Zero was full past capacity, and nearly violated their firecode.
  • We’re hoping to have some more great guest performers this year, so keep an eye out! Unfortunately, we had to turn a lot of people away from this show, because we went way over Ground Zero’s fire capacity.
  • Pictures from the show can be seen in our gallery section, and video should be up shortly. 

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