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On Saturday Nov 21st Bang played host to the launch of Young Working Actors giving back. David Henrie from Wizards of Waverly Place heads up this charitable acting workshop for kids in the LAUSD in affiliation with LA’s Best. The event was a major success for the kids and BANG. Ezra Weisz led the workshop along with Karen Baughn (Fructose). There were 23 kids from Arlington Heights Elementary School in the theater taking an improv class alongside Brandon Smith (Sonny with a Chance) Debby Ryan (Suite Life on Deck), Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm) Illeana Douglas (Quiz Show, Grace of my Heart) and David Henrie, among others. Tiger Beat, Getty, The Hollywood Examiner and Variety were all at bang plus a few online blog/gossip sites. This is just the start of many projects like this for BANG in 2010.

Read more about the event at Hollywood Teenzine.

Read more about the event at Shine On Media.

View more pictures from this event on our flickr page.

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Sexologist, lecturer and Manatee Community College Alumnus, Famke Roumstead, comes to bang comedy theater to discuss the REAL three Rs: Romance, Relationships and Rutting.

Bring your suggestions, check your shyness at the door and get ready for an evening of insight, daring and fun. Please think of the triple X rating as three erotic Os next to three sexy Ks.

Ms. Roumstead is Learning Annex accredited, and has studied mating rituals of North Australian Kangaroos, Gafeltafish, and the native White Detritus of Tampa.

(Photo © sabrinaphotography.net)

Tickets:
$14 at the door or
$12 through online ticketing

We are now accepting submissions for the Summer/Fall ’09 shows.

If you have an improv group, one-person show, play, sketch show, or variety extravaganza, now’s your chance.

Please contact Gretchen at alumni@bangstudio.com for more information.

On February 7, 2009, bang alum Tom O’Connor was in Seattle to see his bang-produced short film Tiny Spaceship screen as part of the “Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Film Festival” sponsored by the “Experience Music Project & Sci-Fi Museum.” It was a one-day festival where 20 short films were screened in two 2-hour sessions.

There were some great movies in the program with budgets ranging from $10,000 to $300,000. Yes, $300,000! The budget for Tiny Spaceship was just THREE thousand dollars… and yet it was the mighty Tiny Spaceship that the Seattle Weekly featured in it’s preview/blurb for the festival. Check it out at:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/events/science-fiction-fantasy-short-film-festival-562238/

Or watch Tiny Spaceship on YouTube here.

EMERGING GLOBAL SUPERPOWER is the 2008 Harold champion in the 6th Annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival at I.O. West!

They would all like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who came out to support them! They couldn’t have done it without you.

Emerging Global Superpower
2008 Los Angeles Improv Festival Harold Champions:
- Jed Grodin
- David Koff
- Natalie Maskulak
- Ramsey Omery
- Zachary Rynew

Congratulations, EGS!

Read Zack’s blog on the competition here!

LA Times Calendar
March 20, 2008

 ‘Britz in Pieces’ stars Neil Dickens

ALL HE’S CRACKED UP TO BE

Writer-performer Neil Dickens calls “Britz in Pieces,” his one-man show about seven characters — including a 14-year-old schoolgirl who dyes her nether regions an attention-getting blue, and an 82-year-old left home alone — a quasi-semiautobiographical comedic romp through death, divorce, greed, racism and homophobia. “The characters are all cracked because we’re all cracked as people,” says Dickens, pictured. Can’t make Saturday? Check back–word is there will be future dates. 9:30 p.m. Sat. Bang Studio, 457 N. Fa. $10. (323) 653-6886; www.bangstudio.com

 http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/radio/cl-gd-perfcandy20britzmar20,0,4618750.story

Here are some pictures from the final night of Heather Woodbury’s The Last Days of Desmond “Nani” Reese and the following Lady Party IV, featuring Nellie McKay.

Thanks to everybody who made this such a great night!