Chemically Imbalanced Comedy's Blog

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy announces that Founder and Executive Producer Angie McMahon has stepped down from her position. She will remain a Resident Artist and Marketing Director.

CIC is excited to announce the appointment of Sarah Borer as the Managing Director. Sarah has been a company member with CIC since 2003. She has stage managed over a dozen productions over our 10 seasons, directed, and produced as well. She has been the companies House Manager since 2007, and resident Artist since 2005.

CIC is also excited to announce Adam Higgans has taken the position of Rehearsal rental Manager. Adam has been an Artistic Associate with CIC since 2007. If you would like to book rehearsal space you can contact him at cicannex at gmail.com

With 1603 votes on the Chase Community Giving Facebook grant giving contest we came in at 143 our of 200 Charities in the Country. We can not thank our friends, family, and fans enough for this wonderful support. We will be awarded $20,000 from Chase and use it for our expansion project.

Also contracts to the other 14 Chicago Theater Companies that were also awarded a grant:

Stage Left, Theatre Seven, Strawdog Theatre, Neo Futurists, The Hypocrites, House Theatre, Backstage Theatre, About Face Theatre, Strange Tree, Barrel of Monkeys, P H, Will Act For Food, Eclipse Theatre, and Wildclaw Theatre!

Congratulations to ALLISON KELLER and NATALIE RAFF!!! Our two winners of 2 three day passes to this year’s Lollapalooza!

We are finally at our last day of this contest. We have only 17 hours left and 30 votes between us and the last place charity.

We appreciate so much everyone’s votes and support these last 27 days. Today is the day, please post it in your Status update, tell a friend, and vote if you have not. For your enjoyment Artistic Associate Anthony Ellison seduces you for one last vote in this short film by him and Sean Keith.

Thanks everyone voting ends today at 10pm Chicago time.

On Wed Jun 30 is the final night of the 6th month run of Dummy, an evening of unscripted comedy with Colleen Doyle and Jason Shotts. After wonderful reviews in the Trib, Reader, Yelp, and more we close the Dummy run for the summer. Look out for this Dynamic Duo to return to our Comedy Showcase in the near future.

Final night is Wed June 30 8pm tickets $5, sponsored troupe 96D opens.

Here in the midst of a hard economy many Not For Profits are looking for alternative funding to help bridge the gaps. My daughter is 5 years old and goes to a Chicago Public School. With horrible budget cuts looming the parents of the school have really taken the reins and found ways to reach the schools goals and needs. Sometimes with fundraisers, sometimes “vote for us” type contests (her school won $100,000 from US Cellular), sometimes through creative donations (all of the artwork around the school was donated by various neighborhood artists). But it is obvious why these parents would fight so hard for there children to get a quality education.

A lot of discussion has been flying around the Theater blog/facebook world about recent fundraising efforts by Theater in Chicago. Many people don’t even know Theater is a charity. Some flat out deny it is, no matter what the government has deemed it. Some only see the value of arts if they give back to education programs (my daughters school for example again has writes grants to have various artists come and teach special things to the kids. My daughter had a whole quarter of bucket drum classes and she LOVED it!)

So I ask you, dear friends, fans, and fellow artists…why is CIC important to you? Is it the low cost high quality entertainment? Is it the chance to perform when you cant find a break to cut your teeth? Is it the many different styles of Comedy you will see under one roof? Is it the fact that we raise money for battered women every week after our 2 year old show Pimprov?

Please share with us why CIC is important to you…and thanks for the support.

Chase Community Giving is once again giving 200 different groups $20,000.

Here is the rules and how you can help:

From June 15, 2010 to July 12, 2010, users can vote for any Charity that is part of the Chase Community Giving application on the Facebook platform. On July 13, 2010, the votes will be tallied and the 200 eligible Charities receiving the most votes will be considered the top vote-getters of the Program and will share in $5,050,000 in donations from Chase.

Participants who allow “Access” and “Like” the Chase Community Giving application on the Facebook platform, may vote for Charities. Unless a Participant is the recipient of a Gift Vote, described below, each Participant will be limited to one (1) vote per Charity with a total of twenty (20) votes per valid user profile.

Vote for us HERE:

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy is proud to present a special engagement with some of Chicago’s finest performers. Octopus Pudding is a showcase of CIC’s oldest house Ensemble Roboctopus and special guest headliners Pudding Thank You. Pudding Thank You consists of Ryan Patrick Dolan, Jorin Garguilio, Adal Rifai, and Louis Sanders and regularly enjoy a run at the American Theater Company. Roboctopus has been a sponsored Improv Troupe with CIC since 2007. They have appeared all across the country in festivals and venues in Milwaukee, Rhode Island and New Mexico. Various opening groups will also perform weekly.

Fridays 8pm till July 30
Tickets $10
Box Office 800-838-3006
www.cicomedy.com

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
1420 W Irving Park
Chicago, IL 60613

CIC is excited to announce we have gotten a $500 grant from the Bruin Family Fund for a Home Building Community Foundation project to help our expansion. You can read more about the Bruin Family Fund HERE.

We thank you for the support.