The Un-Scripted Theater Company – Wikipedia
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Un-Scripted Theater Company® is an improvisational theater company in San Francisco, California. Un-Scripted Theater Company performs many kinds of improv formats, such as comedy, mystery, drama, adventure, and musicals, each presented in 4 to 6 week runs each season, each with its own Director, format, and vision. Un-Scripted specializes in narrative and genre-based “single-story” improvised theater.
History[edit]
Un-Scripted Theater Company was founded in 2002 when the Thursday night performance group, The Belfry, was cut from the line up at San Francisco’s BATS Improv. Determined to continue their performance work, 8 of the original 20 improvisors of The Belfry left and started Un-Scripted Theater Company in January 2003. Since then, Un-Scripted Theater Company has performed hundreds of shows all over the Bay Area, throughout California and across the United States.
Founding Members[edit]
Un-Scripted Theater Company performs both Shortform and Longform improvisation. Shows are 2 hours long, with one intermission. Improvised theater is rooted in the idea that whatever you can perform with a script, like a play, movie, or musical can also be improvised, with unique and surprising results, which tap into deep universal themes and the innate creativity and individuality of all the players.
Organization[edit]
Un-Scripted Theater Company is a 501c3 non-profit performing arts company. It has a core performing Ensemble, some of whom make up the company’s professional staff. Each show typically features two or more guests from outside the Ensemble. Guest Improvisors are chosen by the Director of the show at open auditions, which are held before the start of the show’s rehearsal period. Each show has a larger cast size than the number of performers in any given night’s show, so the composition of the cast changes each night.
Un-Scripted’s rehearsal period and performance schedule that resembles traditional, scripted theater.
Show Titles, by Year[edit]
2012[edit]
Un-Abridged: The Best of Ten Years of Un-Scripted
Act 1: Scene 2
2011[edit]
A Tale of Two Genres: An Improvised Dickens Musical
Fear
Act 1: Scene 2
Secret Identity Crisis
2010[edit]
Un-Scripted: un-scripted
In A World
A Tale of Two Genres: An Improvised Dickens Musical
2009[edit]
Let it Snow!
Shakespeare: The Musical
Un-Scripted: un-scripted
2008[edit]
The Great Puppet Bollywood Extravaganza
Un-Scripted: un-scripted
San Francisco Improv Festival
Theater: The Musical
Three
2007[edit]
The Great Puppet Musical
You Bet Your Improvisor
The Love Show
Shakespeare: Un-Scripted
Let it Snow!
2006[edit]
Supertrain
The Impossible Film Project
Theatresports RAW
Two Man Longform at the Bay Area Comedy Festival
You Bet Your Improvisor
The Short & the Long of It (Abridged) at the Chicago Improv Festival Nine
Love at First Sight
2005[edit]
Let it Snow!
The Impossible Film Project
The Short & the Long of It!
Love at First Sight
You Bet Your Improvisor
2004[edit]
Let It Snow!
Fear
The Short & the Long of It!
Improvised Bawdy Shakespeare
Aussie Rules Theatersports
“Three”
Bawdy Shakespeare at BATS Improv
Improv Survivor
2003[edit]
The Cafe Sappore series
FEAR. reborn
The Amazing Improvised Musical!
Improvised Bawdy Shakespeare
Impro Bingo
The Short & the Long Of It!
Spring Sing and Improv Carnival Gala
Current Ensemble[edit]
- “Spicy & Cheap: New, improv’d Shakespeare” by Lisa Drostova and Kelly Vance – East Bay Express, July 21, 2004
- “Act Scared: Horror on the spot” by Anneli Rufus, Stefanie Kalem, and Annika Dukes – East Bay Express, October 27, 2004
- “The ‘Snow’ must go on”[permanent dead link] by Tiffany Maleshefski – San Francisco Examiner, December 7, 2004 (review of Let It Snow!)
- “Playing the Short and the Long of It, Un-Scripted” by Betsy M. Hunton – Berkeley Daily Planet, June 10, 2005 (review of The Short and the Long of It)
- “Stage Fog: The Making It Up As We Go Along Edition” – SFist.com, February 25, 2005 (review of You Bet Your Improvisor)
- “The Theater: Comedy Cohabitation Off Union Square” by Michael Katz – Berkeley Daily Planet, October 27, 2006 (review of Supertrain)
- “The audience’s input keeps ‘Puppet’ lively” by Pat Craig – Contra Costa Times, May 7, 2007 (review of The Great Puppet Musical)
- “The humans are okay, but the puppets are the real stars” By Molly Rhodes – SF Weekly, May 23, 2007 (review of The Great Puppet Musical)
- “Improv making up for lost time” by Sam Hurwitt – San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2007
- “Top Picks” (Shakespeare: Un-Scripted) – SFWeekly.com, August 29, 2007
- “Your Show Will Be Different” By Paul Sinasohn – San Francisco Bay Times, August 30, 2007 (Review of Shakespeare: Un-Scripted)
- “What the hell did I get myself into?” (audio review of Let it Snow) – The Cool as Hell Theater Show, November 28, 2007
- “Best of the Bay: Nightlife and Entertainment” – SF Bay Guardian, 2008
- “‘Let It Snow!’ is musical that’s made to order” By Sam Hurwitt – Marin Independent Journal, December 2, 2009
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