The Arlene Francis Center has been a wonderful host to ZipLine Improv over the past year and it’s time for another fundraiser. Last year you helped us get stage curtains and new chairs, and this time you get to set your tushies down on those fine new chairs. Now we’re looking to upgrade the classroom a bit with window shades (my students know how that sun comes blindingly in at a certain time of day!) and perhaps a new paint job.

So! Swipe Right (concept created by the Un-Scripted Theater Company®, 2014) is a show in which we explore, yes…online dating. Whether you’ve experienced it, refuse to try it, or never had to, there’s something for everyone to relate to when it comes to the eternal madhouse that is characters searching for love and connection.

The last show sold out — shall we do it again?

Tickets $20/Advance (no fees!) or $25/Door (it’s a fundraiser!)

TICKETS HERE

Welcome to Heist! -- a fully improvised high-stakes crime show about a plot to steal something of great value, in which a crew will be assembled, plans made, and mighty risks undertaken. Complications will arise. Relationships may be tested. And who are these people anyway? Who does this when it’s so much easier to just get a job?

After developing this format for BATS Improv and doing several shows there in September, I’m excited to bring this to Occidental Center for the Arts. With special guests: Rafe Chase, Dave Dennison, Stephanie Dennison (all of BATS) and Bill Stahl (5 Deadly Improvisers, Wondertown). With improvised music by the marvel that is Win Meyerson and a musical guest — because music in a heist is a character unto itself.

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It's the second (and last) ZipLine Improv show of the summer, and it's at "home" at Occidental Center for the Arts. Looking forward to making stuff up with my cast with your suggestions: expect short-scene shenanigans and a longform so get your genres and titles lined up--or come up with them on the spot like we do!

TICKETS $20

We’re celebrating nearly seven years of ZipLine Improv with a return of (most of) the very first cast: Regina Saisi, Bill Stahl and Toni Mazzuca will be back, bringing with them some crazy talent, skill and laughter.

The theme is “Summer…and Stuff” so bring your summer-y suggestions for our scenes and shenanigans — as well as our second half longform genre story. What genre? We don’t know, you tell us!

This is also our second Fundraiser for the Arlene Francis Center, adding to our new chair fund which started with May’s successful show. Hooray, we’re aiming for padded chairs, folks!

TICKETS HERE $20/Advance (no fees) or $25/Door

Adults dating. Online. Lord help us.

Happy to be performing for the first time @ Arlene Francis Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. And it’s a fundraiser for this neat nonprofit venue—we need better chairs for audiences! and stage drapery! and curtains! etc.! Come laugh, donate, and have a beer.

ZipLine will be performing a super fun improv format called Swipe Right (concept created by the Un-Scripted Theater Company®, 2014) in which we explore, yes…online dating. Whether you’ve experienced it, refuse to try it, or never had to, there’s something for everyone to relate to when it comes to the eternal madhouse that is characters searching for love and connection.

Tickets $20/Advance (no fees!) or $25/Door

TICKETS HERE

We love Occidental Center for the Arts and are delighted that they have invited us to perform quarterly! This is the second show of the year and we’ve finally gotten a foursome together that has been an intention for years: Andy Sarouhan will be joining ZipLine regulars Jerry Ruoti, Susie Sargent (and yours truly, Laura Wachtel). Andy performed for years with Jerry and Susie at Un-Scripted Theater Co. in San Francisco, and now lives in Sacramento where he performs regularly at Stab Comedy Theater.

Join us for whatever charming? engaging? absurd? insightful? and in any case never-before-seen storytelling hijinks occur this time.

Tickets available in advance HERE or at the door.

ZipLine returns for another rollicking good time at Occidental Center for the Arts. Guests will be Steven Anacker, Paul Holman-Kursky, Jerry Ruoti and Susie Sargent, all of whom were company members of Un-Scripted Theater Company together in the before times.

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