Catching Up With Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte Co-Founder Abby Head

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• A Guide to Charlotte's Best Italian Restaurants: 2024
• Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte Frequently Asked Questions
• You have a story to tell
• Catch the Butcher at Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte
• LEARN HOW TO WRITE & PERFORM STAND-UP COMEDY AT CATCh!
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One of the opening acts is Doc Love, born Diacos Love, who came up in the Chicago scene and spent two years on the road opening shows for the late Dick Gregory. CATCh, Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte, at 4128 South Blvd, is dedicated to providing an open door to all comedy artists and the larger community as a unique and inclusive performance space. 🎓Get ready to laugh your socks off as our stand-up comedy class graduates take the stage in style! Renowned architect Cesar Pelli designed the Performing Arts Center, which opened in 1992, as well as the adjacent Bank of America Corporate Center and Founders Hall. The Center’s name honors the contributions of the people of the state of North Carolina as well as the generosity of the Blumenthal Foundation, the largest private donor to the capital campaign. A hallmark of the theater’s design is some 2,400 “points of light” in the audience chamber, part of a dazzling fiber optic network with multi-color capabilities.

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“I needed something done on their server, so I said, ‘Who runs your server? ’ They told me, so I message them, just laying out what I needed. On a recent Friday night, The Comedy Zone (in the AvidXchange Music Factory complex) draws a healthy crowd—teachers, salespeople, Air Force personnel—to see Chris Redd, formerly of Saturday Night Live.

Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte Frequently Asked Questions

Originally presented Off-Broadway in 2015, the show is a witty mash-up of The Silence of the Lambs and modern suburbia. Kim is a wife, mother, financial services professional, and community volunteer who credits improv with helping her navigate life’s uncertainties. Please follow each link to learn more and to purchase tickets. Comedy trailblazer and actor Dane Cook announced ‘Fresh New Flavor’. Join over 47,000 local readers and get our FREE newsletter every day.

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Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to Charlotte! Based on the beloved film and directed by four-time Tony Award® winner Jerry Zaks, MRS. DOUBTFIRE tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together. Amy Gascon is happy to have found a new home at Charlotte Comedy Theater after performing improv for the past decade in the Midwest. She is a Second City Chicago Conservatory Graduate and helped build up the improv and sketch comedy scene in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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And this year, Rory Sheriff’s Speakeasy will take the stage as the third finalist. This past Saturday (Memorial Day weekend), The African American Playwrights Group (AAPG) and Matthews Playhouse Of The Performing Arts sponsored the third BIPOC Playwrights Festival Semi-finals at Comedy Arts Theater Of Charlotte (CATCh). A special shout-out is given to the staff of CATCh that includes Abigail Head and Kevin Shimko, for being a venue sponsor for this event.

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She has taught master classes at improv festivals and studios across the United States, Istanbul, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Mandy specializes in applying the Meisner Technique to long-form Improvisation and earned her Meisner teacher certification through the True Acting Institute. Nias started performing 12 years ago—to impress a guy she had a crush on who told her he was going to do an open mic in Fort Mill.

Keli Semelsberger is the Owner of Charlotte Comedy Theater and a 29-year Chicago Improv Comedy Veteran. She is one of the co-founders of the VAPA Center, the author of “Improv Shaman – The Transformative Journey of Divine Play”, a tribe/team-building specialist, energy medicine practitioner, class V raft guide, and a veteran of the US Army. Her classes are legendary in their life-changing messages and inspired energy. Keli is currently focused on re-opening our sister theater, Big Island Comedy Theater, and works remotely.

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The theater features a contemporary European horseshoe arrangement for an intimate atmosphere and world-class acoustics. The most distant seat is less than 135 feet from the stage. Belk Theater features state-of-the-art equipment, production and support capabilities and can host any event, from grand opera to rock to corporate annual meetings and lectures. Bring your pre-purchased parking pass with you to the show and exchange for an exit pass or purchase your exit pass at the box office or parking stations at the show. Post Mortem Players, the Charlotte area’s only horror theatre company, in partnership with Comedy Arts Theatre of Charlotte will present Adam Seidel’s dark comedy Catch the Butcher.

The four semifinalists were chosen from 16 submissions that were submitted in early January. Submissions were received within North Carolina, yet extended to other states that included New York, Georgia, Illinois, Virginia, and Kentucky. A panel of readers were chosen to examine and score the submissions based on specific criteria formulated by the festival sponsors. The submitters with the top four scores were selected for the semi-finals.

Blumenthal hosts the annual Queen City Comedy Experience, while the Don’t Tell Comedy organization has even put on pop-up shows in art galleries and parking garages. The BIPOC Playwrights Festival was founded in 2020 through the efforts of the African American Playwrights Group and Matthews Playhouse Of The Performing Arts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in our theater communities. To align with The African American Playwrights Group’s mission of showcasing African American playwrights and its cultural in excellence, the BIPOC Playwrights Festival, for the third straight year, has done just that. The first year’s finalist, Greenwood, written By Coolidge Harris II, was a depiction of the 1821 destruction of Black Wall Street. The second year’s finalist, A House Is Not A Home, written by Kenyatt Godbolt, set in the 1990s in New York City, this original work showcased the family dynamics/conflicts between a father and a son with a backdrop of songs from the hip-hop culture.

Aisha Dew, President of the Dew Group, and avid supporter of the North Carolina theater community, moderated the event. Kim has been a student and performer of Improv for nearly 10 years. Throughout her professional career, she has instructed and presented on several topics in the academic, corporate, and non-profit arenas. Since completing improv training at the CCT Training Center she has performed short-form and long-form improv for weekend shows, corporate events, and comedy festivals. She is an original member of CCT’s all-female ensemble “That’s What She Said”.

Nias is sitting on a couch on the upper level of the Queen City Grounds coffee shop, where about 40 people have squeezed onto a narrow balcony on a Saturday night. “Nobody loves murder more than white women,” emcee Jordan Centry tells the crowd. He’s brought his own sound system but still has to compete with the noise of customers placing orders that wafts up from the lower level. Storytelling is a timeless tradition that transcends cultures, generations, and backgrounds. It has the power to captivate hearts, inspire change, and create connections like nothing else can. In this class, open to storytellers of all skill levels, we will guide you on a quest to discover and refine your own unique stories, and empower you to share them confidently before an eager audience.

Level 1 - improv basics and philosophies, stage presence, overcoming stage fright, achieving the group mind, co-creating, beginning skills/games, and building trust in an ensemble. Abby Head describes her experience as a woman as “short.” The co-founder of the Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte transitioned in 2019, and she soon discovered the frustrations of moving through the world as a woman. Her full-time job is in tech, and after she changed her name, she sent a routine email to a client.

Amy performs with That's What She Said and Bummerland as well as coach of The Jagbots. She is part of the level 4 long-form teaching team and loves being around students experiencing improv for the first time at CCT. When she's not performing comedy, she's an Education Program Manager working in entrepreneurship and innovation programs. During the class you will write, develop, and perform a three-to-five-minute set. You will learn the fundamentals of writing and performing standup comedy. We will examine various forms of jokes, writing techniques & practices, and performance basics.

Stuart has been performing, writing, and teaching improv and sketch comedy since 1997. He completed the training programs of The Second City, Annoyance Theater, and Improv Olympic. In addition to performing with The Second City National Touring Company, and being a founding member of the internationally renowned music improv troupe Baby Wants Candy, Stuart has also performed in New York with the Magnet Theater and the People’s Improv Theater. As a faculty member of The Second City Training Center, he has taught improv from the beginning to conservatory levels, sketch writing, storytelling, music improv, and youth/teen courses.

CATCh opened its first permanent venue at 4200 South Blvd in Charlotte on February 8, 2019.[3] During COVID, the theater moved its location to a larger space in the same complex at 4128 South Blvd in Charlotte, where it continues to operate. Learn to live in the moment and rediscover your creative spirit while developing great friendships in an accepting and inclusive environment.