Breaking news:
The Guelph Comedy Festival
secures Second
City Workshop
Guelph.
ON, April 1, 2011 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Guelph Comedy Festival is pleased to announce that
there will be an Advanced Improv Workshop on Saturday April 30th 1pm
to 4 pm in the Ed Video Gallery with instructor Kerry Griffin from Second City.
The cost of the workshop is $30 plus tax and is separate from the festival show
prices.
Kerry Griffin is an alumni of the Toronto Mainstage, where
he was featured in the revues Barack to the Future and 0% Down, 100%
Screwed. A multiple Canadian Comedy Award winner as an individual and with
troupes Slap Happy and Monkey Toast, Kerry is also a founding member of the Bad
Dog Theatre Company. Acting credits include Train 48, Trojan Horse, Princess,
and Degrassi: The Next Generation. He has appeared on stage in productions such
as Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels, Norm Foster’s The
Melville Boys, and the Toronto production of Co-Ed Prison Sluts.
That’s right, Co-Ed Prison Sluts. It was a musical.
The Guelph Comedy Festival gratefully acknowledges the support of
Wellington Breweries, Red Tree Productions, The Loop.ca, Delta Hotels and the
City of Guelph.
Tickets for evening shows are $60 for the weekend, $35 per night or $15 per
act. For more info go to www. edvideo.org, or call (519)836-9811. All evening
shows are at the Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan Street
Guelph, ON N1H 3Z7 and the workshop is at Ed Video, 40 Baker Street, N1H
4G2.
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For more
information about the Guelph Comedy Festival please contact:
Elizabeth
Dent
liz@edvideo.org
519.836.9811
Elizabeth Dent, Executive Director,
Ed Video Media Arts Centre
40 Baker Street, 2nd Floor, PO Box 1629
Guelph, ON N1H 6R7
(519)836-9811
liz@edvideo.org, www.edvideo.org
Thanks to the J.P. Bickell Foundation, the City of Guelph,
The Musagetes Foundation, the Musagetes Fund of the Guelph Community
Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts for
their continuing support of Ed Video.
