Don’t Let the Night Catch You: NightWatch Producers, Damn Gina
Damn Gina has been filling houses and winning audiences since the five founding members (Cené Hale, Maggie Maye, Ronnita Miller, Tauri Laws-Phillips and Xaria Coleman) met and started the troupe at ColdTowne in 2015. Quickly establishing themselves as audience and scene favorites, they have played all over Austin and recently won the B. Iden Payne Award for […]
Missed Connections ATX: Best of What You’re Missing
ColdTowne Theater’s newest main stage show, Missed Connections ATX explores the sentimental, fantastical, and downright raunchy nature of austin’s most impersonal personal ads. We sat down to talk to show’s director, Chelsea Bunn, who handpicked a list of her favorite ads that aren’t going to make it into this run of shows. First of all, […]
Bad Ass Producer: Lindsey Moringy of “The Do Over”
Lindsey Moringy is #purehustle. From producing sold out festivals (BettyFest) to packaging sold out show runs, (there’s also that little music festival she produces, too), she’s a powerhouse of strategy and execution. Also: She’s really funny. As The Do Over wraps up its run, we asked her to school us on how she approaches being a producer […]
Teacher Spotlight: Nathan Sowell
Winner of “Best Coach” in 2016, Nathan Sowell is the complete package. Knowledgeable and encouraging as a teacher and joyful as a performer, he is a critic, audience and student favorite. We posed a couple of questions about his background and philosophy in this post. Tell us about your background, Nathan. I started taking improv classes in […]
Don’t Look Back: A retrospective on ’16 and look ahead w/Dave Buckman
Now that we’ve closed the books on 2016, we sidled up to Executive Producer Dave Buckman to talk about his first full year of programming at ColdTowne Theater to see what shows and performers had a break out run or year. What mainstage shows from 2016 were your favorites? Dave: Dinner for Six, famiLIES, Elvis’ […]
How do you call your Loverboy? On Friday nights, starting Jan 2017.
After Wednesday favorites Patio Talk moved to NYC to further their comedy careers in 2014, audiences wondered: who will move into the Wednesday night slot? Who could deliver that much energy, talent and delight week after week? Given the long shadow and packed houses that Patio Talk had built over the course of their residency, the expectations […]
You Gave Me a Mountain (of a Show): An interview with Elvis’s director Will Cleveland
Will Cleveland is the Artistic Director of ColdTowne Theater, and has performed, produced and directed shows at the theater since moving to Austin from NYC in 2013. Prior to coming to ColdTowne, he managed UCB’s traveling team and was a producer for UCBComedy. He is a native of Arkansas and you can see him in […]
Groundhog Indicates: It’s a Good Year for Improv!
Wondering if you or your loved one will enjoy taking classes at ColdTowne? Check out this blog post from Megan Mowry from this past March: she started in our free 101 class (every other Monday at the theater) and hasn’t looked back since. Want to go ahead and snag that holiday class pass? By Megan […]
Announcing the Jan – June ’17 Mainstage Schedule!
As a year of bang-up, award-winning programming comes to a close, we are excited to announce the selections for the ColdTowne 2017 Mainstage, from January through June 2017. All the Mainstage shows are Saturdays at 8:30pm. The 8:30 Mainstage shows are: January 7 – 28 The Do Over Produced by Lindsey Moringy Directed by Will Cleveland The […]
B. Iden Payne Announces Winners: Three ColdTowne Troupe/Show Awards
Last night, the B. Iden Payne committee announced the winners for the 2016 awards in theater and improvisation. We are delighted to announce that several ColdTowne shows, troupes and performers were given awards. Kudos to the casts, troupes and Joseph Dailey Outstanding Direction of Improvisational Theater Aly Dixon, Abby Lincoln, John Ratliff, Sanjay Rao, Kristen Samuelsen, Nathan […]