Watch the first half of RAZOWSKY AND CLIFFORD’s performance at the Black Box Improv Festival on 9/27/2008. Razowsky & Clifford is a two-person improv show that has become one of LA’s “must see” performances. David Razowsky and Carrie Clifford relish in the purist form of improv—starting with nothing. Well, almost nothing, an audience member decides where to place two chairs for the first scene and they’re off and running. The random placement of those two chairs dictates the entire performance, and becomes the spring board for a variety of characters and relationships.

Watch Nashville’s FUSE BOX THEATRE perform at the Black Box Improv Festival on 9/26/2008. FuseBox Theatre is a non-profit, multimedia improv and sketch comedy company. They were founded in January 2008 by veterans of the Nashville improv scene with the intention of expanding the community for improv, sketch comedy, and live theatre in Nashville and beyond. They also maintain FuseBoxTheatre.com, a community resource for improv articles, interviews, videos, and more. In fact, this video was produced by Fuse Box Theatre. Thanks FuseBox!

Watch the first half of AN EVENING WITH DIRK AND BLAINE’s performance at the Black Box Improv Festival on 9/26/2008. Dirk Manly and Blaine Bustier — Movie Mega-Superstars of Stage, Screen, Television (and sometimes Radio), return to Atlanta reprising two of their most beloved roles – those of improvisers “Tim Orr” and “Stephen Kearin”. Together, “Tim” and “Stephen” will create scenes based on audience suggestions. San Francisco-based musician David Norfleet is on keyboard.

Watch Minneapolis’s Jill Bernard performing DRUM MACHINE at the Black Box Improv Festival (the annual improv comedy festival I produce) on 9/27/2008. Drum Machine is a one-person unscripted structure featuring scenes, monologues and songs accompanied by the mad beats of the Zoom-Rhythmtrak 123 which Bernard calls, “Nature’s finest drum machine.” Typically the show opens with an improvised sing-along, and then explores a historical period suggested by the audience. From a punk persona launch pad, Bernard switches back and forth between characters with stunning virtuosity.