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Meet Your Madmen!
November 20th - Meet Your Madmen
Our acclaimed show format featuring the personal stories of special guests from the Portland community returns to the Winningstad!
Jerry Ketel, co-founder of Leopold Ketel & Partners
Kelley Baker, filmmaker and author of The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide.
Special Musical guest Amy Veltman
8:00 PM
Portland Center for the Performing Arts’ Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway [...]
PDX Improv-O-rama
November 14th - PDX Improv-O-rama
Two of Portland’s best improv comedy groups take the stage alongside Super Project Lab: Brainwaves Improv Comedy, Portland’s longest running short-form improv group; and The Liberators, purveyors of extremely funny and good-looking improv.
These three masters of spontaneous comedy will delight audiences with instant wit, improvised stories, and on the spot brilliance. [...]
Scary-Ass Improv!
The Brody Theater
October 16th & 17th at 8:00 PM - Scary-Ass Improv
Laugh, scream, and run for your lives! Two nights of improvised stories inspired by audience members’ recollections of frightening characters from their past, either imagined or real, living or dead.
Super Project Lab performs with very sexy and funny special-guest improvisers: The Liberators!
The Brody Theater
16 [...]
Portland Creative Conference
Don’t miss The Portland Creative Conference on Saturday Sept. 12th. The conference is a celebration of film, television, interactive media and design with an amazing line-up of speakers, including SPL’s own Gary Hirsch.
View Video Highlights from the 2008 Creative Conference!
“Old Flames” at Curious Comedy
Our new show format “Old Flames” debuts this weekend at Curious Comedy Theater, September 11th & 12th at 8:00 PM. Doors open at 7:30 PM.
Special Musical-Improvisation Guest: Canoofle
Old Flames offers a hilarious night of improvised stories that are inspired entirely by audience members recollections of lovers past. Audience members provide a few descriptive details, quirks, [...]
Ralph Huntley in ‘Bloc Party’ Video
See SPL’s very own Ralph Huntley featured in Bloc Party’s new music video for “One More Chance”. Way to go, Ralph!
“Meet Your Poet” Scott Poole
Fresh from playing to packed houses at The Portland Center of the Performing Arts, SPL brings its acclaimed show “Meet Your________!” to the Curious Comedy Fools Festival for one night only: Saturday April 4th at 8 PM
Truth and fiction collide when special guest, Scott Poole (Poet and author of The Cheap Seats and Hiding from [...]
“Curious Fools Festival” Rolls Into Town!
THE CURIOUS FOOLS FESTIVAL
Curious Comedy is hosting a fantastic comedy festival next month! Super Project Lab appears on Saturday, April 4th!
Wednesday - Friday, April 1st - 5th
The Curious Fools festival features West Coast acts such as the Curious Main Stage Players, Super Project Lab, Unexpected Productions (Seattle), Funny Business, Gustafer Yellowgold, and special East Coast [...]
Risk is the Mother of Improvisation
PDX Pipeline, the Portland-centric music/arts/events online magazine gave Super Project Lab a great review following our February 21st show.
Here’s an excerpt of the review:
Risk is the Mother of Improvisation
by Arthur Smid
I really believe improv is the most exciting form of theater. I don’t know what is going to happen. The actors don’t know either. [...]
“Found” Editor Appearing with SPL!
We are thrilled to announce that Found Magazine Editor, Peter Rothbart, will appear with Super Project Lab on March 7th.
Found Magazine “Collects found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles–anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes.”
Visit Found Magazine to learn more. [...]
SPL at Curious Comedy Theater
3 Improvisers, 4 Evenings, Infinite Possibilities Super Project Lab will be appearing at the Curious Comedy Theater December 5th, 6th, 12th, & 13th!
Super Project Lab’s new show ‘3Some’ takes three improvisers, throws them on stage without a script, plan, or clue and compels them to improvise to their (and your) heart’s content. You may see [...]
Photos: Liberators and Storm large!
Here are some photos from Super Project Lab’s “Meet Your Force of Nature” show with Storm Large and The Liberators on November 22nd.
Gary Peressini Wins Free SPL Tickets!
Gary Peressini gave us his email address as part of our ongoing effort to bug the crap out of you with our show info, but in return he is the winner of a pair of free passes to our next run at PCPA! That’s right, five Super Project Lab shows for free! Come to our [...]
Photos: “Meet Your Wordsmiths”
Here are a few “behind the scenes” shots from Saturday’s “Meet Your Wordsmiths” show at the Winningstad. Photo credit goes to Gary Hirsch’s son, Eli.
Gary Hirsch and Scott Poole, separated at birth?
Acito-White Cultural Exchange
Check out the front page of today’s Living section in The Oregonian. Super Project Lab friends Marc Acito and Ryan White have featured articles. Here’s an excerpt:
“As part of their own little cultural exchange program, sportswriter Ryan White took author Marc Acito to his first basketball game. In return, Acito, who is, in White’s words, [...]
Former Portland Improviser joins SNL
I freaked out this morning when I got an e-mail telling me that my old Brainwaves cast member Mickey Watkins has been picked as one of the two new faces on SNL. Mickey is amazingly funny and talented. She will kick huge funny booty on SNL! An enormous congrats from the Portland improvisers who [...]
SPL: This Week’s Willamette Week pick!
From this week’s Willamette Week:
Meet Your ______!
[IMPROV] Super Project Lab’s terrific talk-show-improv-comedy extravaganza returns, this time to the Winnie at PCPA. Guests for this fall’s season include Dark Horse editor Scott Allie, Saint Cupcake owner Jami Kurl, political consultant Mark Wiener and novelist Marc Acito. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway., 224-4400. 8 pm Saturdays. Closes [...]
“Writers’ Block” - New Improv Format
Yesterday a faction of the SPL family had a blast pioneering a new improv format at Portland’s Wordstock festival. Wordstock is a celebration of writers and books with an emphasis on Portland. The event was packed with fun writer talks, workshops and a giant book fair. Of special interest to me was the addition of [...]
Storm Large Appearing with SPL!
November 22 - “Meet Your Force of Nature”
Storm Large will be Super Project Lab’s special guest on November 22nd at Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Don’t miss this incredible show!
Bring four canned-food items and receive $4 off any ticket purchased at the PCPA box office! Not only can you show your thankfulness by bringing [...]
Show Recap: “Meet Your Dough Girls”
If you missed last weekend’s Super Project Lab show at PCPA in Portland, here are some highlights:
Cupcakes are made with batter, not dough. Sarah Dougher’s name is pronounced “Doo-ger”, and has nothing to do with dough. Never bring large pieces of meat through customs. And never go to a photo shoot with a small trampoline [...]
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