Oh yes...

More student shorts that I've been a part of (plus one non-student short) are getting edited and posted! W00t indeed!

You're welcome. 

(no really.. everyone's doing a really lovely job.. it's amazing what people can do in such a short amount of time.) 

And here's the second one!

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SHOWS! 

Baby Game (kind of Brain Game, but different)

By the lovely folks at Tablesalt Productions

This Friday, January 18th, 7:30 p.m.

Lowry Lab Theater in beautiful St. Paul. 

Off Book

As HUGE Theater puts it, "Off Book pairs one actor that has learned (and will stick to) one half of a scripted scene with an improviser that has no idea what the script is and has to improvise along."

So much fun. So happy to be a part of this production again. 

This Saturday, January 19th, 8 p.m.

HUGE Theater in beautiful Minneapolis. 

HUGE Theater's 2nd Anniversary Show

Saturday January 26th, 8 p.m.

HUGE Theater in beautiful Minneapolis. 

Wait for it.. it'll be amazing. Promise. 

Thanks, friends.. Hoping your 2013 is treating you beautifully!

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S!!!!

Indeed! Hoping your 2012 closed beautifully, and that your 2013 is delightful!

What's up for January? .. erm.

Performance-wise, looking forward to HUGE THEATER'S 2nd ANNIVERSARY!!!! Performance details to come... January 26th, 2013.. Probably at 8 p.m.. Definitely at HUGE Theater. Watch for it, beautifuls.. :)

One of the student pilots I did has now posted..

The Skeeter & Benji Show! Pilot Episode from Raven Johnson on Vimeo.

And, goddamn, here's an improv set with the amazing Butch Roy, our duo known as Adorable. :)

Much love to you all, friends.. 

December December...

Hi friends! Just a quick update:

 - Levi Weinhagen is the kindest and most patient interviewers around. I'm completely honored to be a part of his Pratfalls of Parenting podcast. Meep!

 - Freshwater Theatre's anthology "For Better Or Worse" is now available on Amazon! (I wrote one of the pieces in it.. Exciting!)

 - Another of my small plays will be featured in Table Salt Production's "After the Apple", which is an evening of short plays by local women playwrights, directed by local women directors. Neat? Neat.

 - I'll be at HUGE Theater, Saturday Dec. 29th, 8 p.m., for the last "Family Dinner". This show has been a complete delight. Please join us! :)

 - Finished directing a play at Humboldt High School in St. Paul. We did it! Actually, THEY did it. Congrats to all involved!!

A Mystery Cafe gig, some last teaching.. and then it's 2013. January 2013. This still sort of blows my mind.

Hoping your holidays are beautiful!!

Ah, Toronto.. and a SURPRISE HOLY CRAP!

Hi friends!

The Toronto Improv Festival was great. Generous awesome crowd, generous awesome organizers. We appeared, did a show in a lovely giant blackbox theater, got our first non-alcoholic suggestion (which was lovely!), reunited with the excellent Meghan Wolff (who rocked it), secured crepes, and then walked back to our hotel, dodging mummies and drunk Power Rangers. Canada believes in Halloween. :)

ANNOUNCEMENT! HOLY CRAP!

Mike Doughty will be our Armando for a special performance at HUGE Theater.

If you're not sure who Mike Doughty is, think former Soul Coughing front man, amazing solo artist, writer, storyteller and good god. (Also think me listening obsessively, between the years 1995 and.. 2010? I've hung out with this guy's voice a lot.)

If you're not sure what an Armando is, don't worry: it just means that he's going to tell stories (!!! and he's an excellent storyteller), and then we shall improvise inspired by said stories.

If you're not sure what HUGE is, what better time to check it out, indeed? :)

Am I excited? Indeedy do. So very.

Armando Night featuring Mike Doughty.
THIS Friday Nov. 2nd
10:30 p.m., $20, HUGE Theater.

November is for turkeys and the funny.

October was fun. So much fun. But it's not over yet!

The beautiful Emily Schmidt and I head to the Toronto Improv Festival! Our duo, Ladies Who Drink, performs on Saturday October 27th at 9 p.m. I'm so damned excited to play with her, neither of us have been to that side of Canada, Toronto looks amazing, I get to take an airport shuttle. Meep!

Creature Feature has a special Halloween performance! 8 p.m., October 31st, HUGE Theater.

Family Dinner starts up in November. Ohmygod, the cast makes me so happy. It's what it says it is: an improvised holiday dinner. It'll be wonderful and terrible. Please come! Saturdays, 8 p.m., HUGE Theater.

Adorable will be performing sometime during the IMPROV-A-THON, Thursday November 15th, HUGE Theater. It might be in the middle of the night. Please come in your PJs (and it's Give To The Max Day! Important!)

The Theater of Public Policy continues to be awesome.. (I'll be performing with them on Thursday November 15th, 7 p.m.,  HUGE Theater.)


And I think I'm involved with a mysterious show called the Nightmare Video Project, Saturday November 17th, 10:30 p.m., HUGE Theater.

Finally, the All Star Variety Show Bonanza returns, Monday November 3rd! I have the honor of looking at the cast list. Good good. It'll be great. 7 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl.

Thanks, friends! Stay sane during these election times and see you in a bit. :)

One final review, and..

Ohh! The closing of "Eurydice" was too short, too short.. lovely audience, lovely cast, lovely crew, lovely all!

One final review from TCDaily Planet. "Walking Shadow’s production provides the audience with a fitting showcase for this intensely personal and poetic script." and "Scott’s facial impressions are especially noteworthy." Whoohoo! So lovely! Many thanks to all!

And upcoming shows!
THIS Monday, The All Star Variety Show Bonanza at the Bryant Lake Bowl! Comedy and drinking, sketches and funny funny bits. Amazing performers, ridiculousness!!! 7 p.m. for madness.

THIS Tuesday, Brain Game comes to Brit's Pub by way of Hanging with Your Parents' Friends! 7 p.m., Brit's Pub. Featuring Dennis Curley and Jim Robinson of Tablesalt Productions, myself, and the awesome and excellent Levi Weinhagen of Comedy Suitcase.

And finally, this starting this week.. 
CREATURE FEATURE returns! HUGE Theater, 8 p.m. Saturdays and a special 8 p.m. HALLOWEEN show on (well) HALLOWEEN, Wednesday Oct. 31st. Improvised horror for your improvised horror needs.

Coming soon... 
Adorable returns to Improv A Go Go!!! Long form improv performed by me, Josh Eakright and Butch Roy. 8 p.m., Sundays, Improv A Go Go at HUGE Theater, starting Sunday Oct. 7th.

Chicago Avenue Project just had it's writing retreat. I got to peak at some of the scripts. The theme is "Out of Control". It's going to be nuts. So excited. More details to come..

Hoping your pre-fall is treating you beautifully! :)

And reviews!

Fancy!

Star Tribune... So thanks to Walking Shadow for holding this exquisite jewel to the light with exceptional care and affection. It is that rarest of things: a sad joy." oh!

Aisle Say Twin Cities... "Bryan Grosso, Bethany Peters, and Jen Scott's trio of stones serves as a perfect anchor to this floating world: both comic and repellent, they embody the underworld’s imposed silence and suppressed thought.) ... It is a tribute to the Walking Shadow’s courage and ability that they have chosen such a challenging play and have staged it beautifully."

CityPages was nice, but thought we could have done better.

And MPR wonders "What did you think?"

Pretty happy. Yea! :)