National College Comedy Festival upcoming
Click here to read Megan Angelo's story in the Feb. 3 online edition of The New York Times, and click here to read Doug Gruse's story from the Feb. 4 issue of The Post-Star.
A total of 18 collegiate comedy groups from throughout the Northeast are on board
to participate in the23rd annual National College Comedy Festival (NCCF) Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10 and
11, on campus. Professional groups TJ & Dave, BriTANick and Bleak! Comedy will also attend.
Established in 1990 by David Miner, Emmy Award-winning producer of "30 Rock" and "Parks and Recreation," NCCF is an annual gathering of professional and college groups focused on the collaborative process of sketch and improvised comedy. Past participants include Olde English, Derrick Comedy, Bleak! Comedy, Upright Citizens Brigade, Harvard Sailing Team, Tim Meadows, and Kevin McDonald.
College performances perform at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater; professional performances will follow at 10 p.m. Please see the schedule that follows for more details.
On Saturday, festival participants are invited to workshops led by Armando Diaz of Magnet Theaterand Bleak! Comedy for improvised and sketch comedy, respectively. These events will be closed to the public.
Additionally, NCCF will host a panel discussion on "Women in Comedy" at 12:15 p.m. Saturday in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. The panel discussion will be open to the public and free of charge; the producers will select questions from festival participants, as well as Skidmore student groups such as Skidmore Pride Alliance, Feminist Action Network, BARE, and the Center for Sex and Gender Relations, to address a wide range of woman- and queer-related issues related to the creation, production, and performance of professional comedy.
Saturday's panelists are Peggy O'Leary, member of Bleak! Comedy, Grace Helbig, Daily Grace web series and Attack of the Show! correspondent, Megan Gray, artistic director of Magnet Theater, and Rebecca Krefting, professor in American Studies, specializing in humor.
NCCF ticket prices are as follows ? General Admission:$5 college, $10 professional, $20 weekend;Skidmore Community:$3 college, $7 professional, $15 weekend.Tickets will be sold in Skidmore's Case Center from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Feb. 6 through 10. There will be a wait list.
NCCF 2012 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Friday, Feb. 10
College Groups - 7 p.m.
Purple Crayon- Improv - Yale University
Slow Children at Play- Sketch - Boston University
Happily Ever Laughter- Sketch - Vassar College
Major: Undecided- Improv - Tufts University
Skidomedy- Sketch - Skidmore College
INTERMISSION
receSs - Sketch - George Washington University
Sons of Liberty- Improv - Boston University
Strange Bedfellows- Improv - Bates College
The Sketchies- Sketch - Skidmore College
Professional Group - 10 p.m.
TJ & Dave
Saturday, Feb. 11
College Groups - 7 p.m.
Hammerkatz- Sketch - NYU
Starla and Sons- Improv - Brown University
The Limit- Sketch - Vassar College
Captain Soldier- Improv - NYU
Red Hot Poker- Sketch - Yale University
INTERMISSION
This is Pathetic -Improv - Emerson College
Dangerbox- Improv - NYU
Lighted Fools- Sketch - Haverford and Bryn Mawr
Ad-Libs- Improv - Skidmore College
Professional Groups - 10 p.m.
BriTANick
Bleak! Comedy
For further updates and media samples, please visit NCCF's Web site.
