SCRAM!

SCRAM! a two-person improv show by Joe Bill and Jill Bernard. Chicago style improv in Sofia, Bulgaria!

Bulgaria’s premiere longform improv company ShiZi Pro is proud to host the renowned improv performers Joe Bill and Jill Bernard’s in Sofia this coming September/October 2016 as part of the First International Improv Fest in Sofia, Bulgaria.

SCRAM is a fully improvised two person show, that starts with an audience suggestion of anything at all. From there the two professional improvisers will create a show, that consists of separate or linked two person scenes.

Their signature format features three disparate two-person scenes that happen simultaneously.

Joe Bill and Jill Bernard will be performing in English.

"An opening warm up show will be performed by the Norwegian company Oslo Longform. The show will be performed in English."

WHEN? - September 29-th and 30-th and October 1-st at 8.00 PM.

WHERE? - Slavianska Beseda at 127 G.S.Rakovski str.

The visit of Joe Bill and Jill Bernard in Sofia is supported by the Embassy of the United States in Sofia and Art Office Foundation

ABOUT the performers:

Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best Teachers of Scenic and Comedic Improvisation in America today. He first encountered Improvisation in 1977 in Indianapolis.

He studied with Del Close at Improv Olympic, and with Martin DeMaat, Michael Gellman, Bernie Sahlins and others before graduating from The Second City Training Centre and Co-Founding the Annoyance Theatre (all in Chicago), and making his living as a Nationally Touring Stand Up Comedian.​

It was also 1990 when his passion for teaching Improvisation kicked into high gear, and a unique approach to Improvised Scene and Character began to be articulated by a number of teachers at Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre, lead by the visionary Artistic Director of Annoyance, Mick Napier.​

He has performed, coached, directed and innovated Improv Structure with a vast number of successful groups and co-developed the longform format The Bat,

Joe has taught and or performed at every major Improv Festival in The United States.

Joe currently teaches and does corporate training at iO Chicago, is an Artistic Associate for The Chicago Improv Festival, and acts as an Artistic Adviser for a number of Improvisation and Comedy Theaters all over the U.S. and Canada.

Jill Bernard has been performing with ComedySportz-Twin Cities since 1993, and is a founding member of HUGE Theater in Uptown Minneapolis.

Her one-woman improv piece, Drum Machine, has been featured in over forty improv festivals. She has taught and performed improv in Norway, Australia, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and over thirty-five of the United States; and also on an episode of MTV “Made.”

An Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival, she has studied at the Annoyance Theater, Improv Olympic, the Brave New Workshop and other organizations; and is the recipient of the 2005 Chicago Improv Festival Avery Schreiber Ambassador of Improv Award, and the 2007 Miami Improv Festival award for Best Solo Show. She was also the winner, in January 2000, of the Executive Vice President Award for outstanding contribution to Human Resources, the highest award in the American Express Human Resources function.

Drum Machine is Jill Bernard's one-person sweepingly epic unscripted musical featuring multiple characters in scenes, monologues and songs accompanied by electronic drum beats or in collaboration with a musician. The show opens with a brief interview of an audience member, then Bernard creates a musical that weaves details of their life into a historical period suggested by the audience.