Kwardawks is a 7-person improv team that gets a location from the audience and performs scenes which happen at that location. This show was inspired by the location "summer camp" and involved a sloppy cook experiencing an undesired career change, a very slow speaking and contemplative counselor, and a returning camper who maybe has perhaps shot some people.
Weird Gems is a 3-person improv team that focuses on explosive scene openings and getting down with oddness. This show involved a personalized spleen, a signage consultant frustrating a boot magnate, and an Uber driver using the ride to practice his marketing pitch.
The Somnambulist's Theater of Waking Dreams is a show that takes inspiration from a dream shared by an audience member. From the dream, players create a surreal series of characters and scenes. This dream was a reccuring experience of being late for either massage therapy appointments or school.
Creature Comforts is all about the weird, the inanimate and the inhuman. Each player is non-human. Animals, inanimate objects, time, space, and concepts are on the table.. This show was inspired by the location "Cedar Point laundromat" and involved an extremely thirst dish rag, a coke addled dollar bill, and a smooth talking chipmunk.
Kwardawks is a 7-person improv team that gets a location from the audience and performs scenes which happen at that location. This show was inspired by the location "amusement park" and involved a pair of pigeons, a confused start to a one-sided romance, and uncontrolled inflation of ticket prices.
Kwardawks is a 7-person improv team that gets a location from the audience and performs scenes which happen at that location. This show was inspired by the location "nuclear silo" and involved a radioactive corn, conflict between a radar operator and a researcher, and a crowded bathroom.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience. For inspiration the question was asked, "What should we destigmatize?" and the audience answered "picking boogers." The show involved the tragic loss of a service animal, unnecessarily aggressive labubus, and a musician in the genre of bathroom beats.
Kwardawks is a 7-person improv team that gets a location from the audience and performs scenes which happen at that location. This show was inspired by the location "Roman colosseum" and involved a hungry animal, gladiators involved in collective bargaining, and a tighwad of a Senator.
Weird Gems is a 3-person improv team that focuses on explosive scene openings and getting down with oddness. This show involved aliens of questionable intent, a nosey neighbor learns too much, and an on-stage appearance by Ollie the Dog.
Creature Comforts is a show without humans. Given a location for inspiration, the team will create scenes that focus on the trials and tribulations of the everyday inanimate objects found there.
Weird Gems is a 3-person improv team that focuses on explosive scene openings and getting down with oddness. This show involved neighborly disagreements about gardening, dueling periodicals about floor cleaning technology, and outdoorsy trackers follow their noses.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
WORD is a show where individuals share prepared true stories from their lives. The theme of this show was "underwater." Mike delivered a story titled "Time Does Funny Things" about moments in life where time seems to slow down or speed up unexpectedly.
Weird Gems is a 3-person improv team that focuses on explosive scene openings and getting down with oddness. This show involved prayers answered and ignored, a husband surprising his wife, and a hot dog cart therapist.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
La Ronde is a classic improv form where all the players develop a character and remain that same character for the duration of the show. This graduation show was performed by the students enrolled in the La Ronde class taught at the Nest Theatre
Debate Fighter is a show where players are given a champion and must debate why that champion would win in a fight. For this show, Mike adopts the character of Professor Bobson Dugnutt, a professor of Combat-ology
Pretty Flower is an improv form where a base scene is established with all players on stage, then scenes are drawn from the content in the base scene. This graduation show was performed by the students enrolled in the Pretty Flower class taught at the Nest Theatre
What Happened in Vegas begins with a series of Vegas inspired short form games. The second half of the show is a longform series inspired by an interview with an audience member about a real time they visited Las Vegas.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
Dual Duel is a competition between improv duos. In Mr. & Mrs. Goodenuff, Mike plays the eponymous Mr. Goodenuff, in a montage inspired by the daily joys and sorrows of married life.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
The students of the stand-up workshop taught at the Nest Theatre each gave a 5 minute graduation set.
Fowl Play is a house team for the Nest Theatre of approximately 10 players. They perform a montage of scenes inspired by input from the audience.
DAMJAMM is a team of 7 players. They collect a set of words at the beginning of the show to create a madlib which inspired a montage of scenes.
The Somnambulist's Theater of Waking Dreams is a show that takes inspiration from a dream shared by an audience member. Inspired by the dream, players create a surreal series of characters and scenes. This dream was about a visit to Washington DC during an impending flood all while a murder mystery documentary was being filmed.
The Somnambulist's Theater of Waking Dreams is a show that takes inspiration from a dream shared by an audience member. Inspired by the dream, players create a surreal series of characters and scenes. This dream was about oversleeping and missing an important exam.
WORD is a show where individuals share prepared true stories from their lives.
Debate Fighter is a show where players are given a champion and must debate why that champion would win in a fight. For this show, Mike adopts the character of Professor Bobson Dugnutt, a professor of Combat-ology
Troika is a bracketed competition between teams of three players. Teams are randomly drawn at the beginning of the season.
WORD is a show where individuals share prepared true stories from their lives.
This is the graduation performance for the students completing the 4th level of the Nest Theatre core curriculum.