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Improvised StandupPrice: $10 | $9 student & senior* | $8.50 ArtsQuest Member
Doors: 7:45 p.m. | Show: 8 p.m.
Buy Tickets: https://www.steelstacks.org/event/5553/improvised-standup/
Standups and improvisers from the Lehigh Valley and beyond will create standup comedy on the spot based on your suggestions!
Hosts:
ANTHONY DESANCTIS
Anthony DeSanctis is ArtsQuest’s Cinema and Comedy Specialist and the Director of the Greater Lehigh Valley Filmmaker Festival. He is a Penn State alum with a BA in Media Studies from the College of Communications. A true movie aficionado, Anthony has written and directed a few films as well. His film The Alley won Best Film at the Front House “Philm” Fest in Philadelphia in 2014. In his spare time, he enjoys improv comedy and has performed with The Associated Mess and as a member of the Improv Comedy Power Hour.
ADDYSON TEAL
Addyson Teal is a multi-faceted Bethlehem-based performer, instructor, and producer/director. Serving as the Cinema & Comedy Coordinator at ArtsQuest, she has directed productions of A Golden Girls Drag Show, Lip Sync Battle, and I’m Probably Reading Into This, the latter being a game show that she devised and hosts. You can also see her onstage as the co-host of Improvised Standup at the ArtsQuest Center or with her improv team Synced Up; she previously was a member of the teams Period Drama and The Associated Mess. When Addyson isn’t working to make laughter happen, she’s onstage playing the fiddle with her Celtic band Fig for a Kiss, who released their first EP in 2019.
Panel:
KIRK GRIFFITHS
Kirk Griffiths is a comic based in Philadelphia. He's currently beefing with his barber, but is confident that it will work out in the end. He's performed in LV Comedy Platz festival 2017, 2018, and 2019, has advanced in Helium Comedy Club's Philly's Phunniest, and has opened for names such as Kyle Kinane, Jordan Carlos, Michelle Buteau, and Mike Birbiglia.
JON LUNGER
Jon Lunger is a Pennsylvania-based comedian, improviser, and writer who has been performing comedy since the good old days of 2012. Along with fellow comedian Glen Tickle, Jon is currently re-writing the entirety of Wikipedia via The Improvised Wikipedia Podcast.
Jon performs with numerous improv groups in the Lehigh Valley. You can catch him co-staring alongside Matt Candio in the two-man, pseudo-improvised show Spoiler Alert, and with Justin Passino in the improvised horror-comedy show The Great Old Ones.
TYLER ROTHROCK
Tyler Rothrock is a Nazareth-born standup comic and writer who has performed both across the country and many times here at the ArtsQuest Center, including opening sets for Michael Che, Dave Attell, Roy Wood Jr., and more. He also recorded his first album, Tyler of Nazareth, here.
*Student & senior discounts apply at the box office only
HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES
The health and safety of our patrons, vendors, volunteers, staff, and everyone attending our campus, buildings, and events is of the utmost importance to ArtsQuest and we have established a number of best practices and procedures based on guidelines from the CDC, City of Bethlehem and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Please click here to read all of the safety guidelines and regulations in place for attendance at this event: https://www.steelstacks.org/health-and-safety-guidelines/
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SteelStacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, United States
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