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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

7:00PM	Local 154 and Borealis FREE
8:00PM	Senator and Big Black Car FREE
9:00PM	Mrs. Estherhouse and The Baldwins FREE
10:00PM	Zoltar: The Future Telling Machine and The Faculty FREE
11:15PM	Improdome SUPER FREE!


7:00PM FREE	Local 154 and Borealis Local 154 is Sam Dingman, Oscar Montoya, Ariel Karlin, Nate Williams, Mandy Schmeider, Ben Masten, James Rich and Rich Hollman Borealis is Keith Huang, Jamie Cummings, Adam Bright, Jonathan Desley, Marshall York, Lorraine Cink, Leslie Collins and Grace Helbig

8:00PM FREE	Senator and Big Black Car Senator is Randy Pearlstein, Chris Roberti, Rob Stern, Bradford Jordan, Phil Wells, Matt Dellapina, Steve Soroka and Julia Morales Big Black Car is Justin Akin, Scott Eckert, Ellie Kemper, Yang Miller, Matt Oberg, Kristen Schaal, Nate Starkey and Ashley Ward.

9:00PM FREE	Mrs. Estherhouse and The Baldwins Mrs. Estherhouse is Jenn Hibbs, Michael Newman, Greg Portz, Matt Garrett, Jacob Brown, Mauricio Bermudez, Alex Farlow, Pete LePage and Amanda Peck The Baldwins is Meg Griffiths, Jen Curran, Sarah Nowak, Pat Shepherd, Matt Love, Steve Siddell, Lucas Kavner and Chris Griggs

10:00PM FREE	Zoltar: The Future Telling Machine and The Faculty Zoltar: The Future Telling Machine is Chris Manley, Dez Nash, Michelle Wolf, Matt Hobby, Danielia Donohue, Geoff Grimwood, Andy Costello and Nikhil Rao The Faculty are all of your favorite PIT instructors.

11:15PM SUPER FREE!	Improdome Put together your own three-person improv team, or show up and make a team with other audience members. Each week teams are randomly-selected to perform 5-7 minute sets. The audience votes and the winning team returns the following week to defend its title. Practice your craft, perform with your friends, and play for glory. Enter the arena. Find out about the reigning champions and other news at the Improdome blog! Hosted by Chris O'Neil.

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Level 0: The Joy of Improv

Instructor: Yang Miller

Dip your toe into the joyous pool of improv! Level 0 means 0% fear, 100% fun. This is the perfect place for absolute beginners to get acquainted with the art of longform improvisation. Every week you will play in a safe and positive class environment with group exercises and scenework. It's the perfect spoonful of improv, come have a taste! Please note that there is no graduation show for this class. Check it out!

Become a Student at the PIT

The PIT offers unparalleled perks for students:

Practice Improv For Free
The PIT is the only theater in the country that gives students 5 opportunities a week to practice improv/stand-up and sketch for FREE infront of a live audience: The Sketch Lab (Mondays at 11pm), Bring It! (Tuesdays at 11pm), Improdome (Wednesdays at 11:15pm), New Team Lunacy (Thursdays at 11pm) or Happy Hour (Fridays at 6pm).
Free Shows
Students can see any show at The PIT for FREE during the duration of their class (as long as seats are available)
Internships/Work Study Available
Students have the option of applying for an internship here at the PIT. In exchange, you can take an Improv class for $50!
Referrals
If you refer a new student, you will receive $50 off your next class, or $30 in cash! (Valid on Improv classes only. Not valid for electives or writing classes.)
Discounts
Many of the restaurants and bars in our area offer discounts to PIT students!

The PIT - ECNY Awards: Congrats to all ECNY winners. Big congrats to Pitizen winners: Best Sketch Group: Murderfist
Best Stand-up: Hannibal Buress
Best One Person Show: Supernormal – Tom Shillue
Best Variety Show: Risk! True Tales Boldly Told - Kevin Allison
Emerging Comic Award: Myq Kaplan

Congrats!!
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Swords - St. Johns University Review: Swords gets reviewed by the lovely students at St. Johns University. Read it
HERE!
$100 Headshots!: Ali Farahnakian and Keith Huang want to help you get headhshots. Check out the details.
HERE!
Time Out Chicago Interviews Ali!: Time Out Chicago Interviews Ali about his time with Second City! Check it out
HERE!
Improv-focused rehearsal space: Simple Studios rehearsal space is open. It is just down the street from the theater, where everyone is welcome to practice their craft.

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The PIT Featured on NYCgo.com!: The PIT is named one of the NYC's best comedy clubs! Check it Out!
The PIT Goes Green!!: We are going green! After a very successful "Improv The Environment" night, The PIT and Carrotmob will now start working on making The PIT more eco-friendly! You can follow all of the changes on the Carrotmob blog - HERE!
Hi-Tech Comedy: Ali Farahnakian: Check out Ali's interview on bigbencomedy.com. Read it
HERE!
Ali interviewed about his improv journey at Improvisation News: IMPROVISATION NEWS: So what's the origin of the PIT name?

ALI: When we were coming up with a name, I wanted to have improv in the title and I wanted to have theater in the title. I went to school at UNC – Chapel Hill and they had a place called "The Pit” where people would gather to read something called the Daily Tarheel and they would say that everybody in a 24-hour period would walk through, “The Pit”...

Read more:
The Man Behind the Curtain (part 1)
Learn About PIT Founder Ali Reza Farahnakian: See his YouTube page, Interview about the PIT with Scene Interactive, and Online Reel & Resume

Find out how to bring PIT Founder and Owner Ali Reza Farahnakian to your town to teach Improv Workshops, Sketch/SNL Writing Workshops, Corporate Team Building Workshops, or to Perform with your Improv group