Starting at 1:30 pm at the ComedySportz Theatre two teams will play a half court match.  Then two more teams will play a half court match.   The winner of those matches will play each other for the championship.   At 7:30 pm, the Champions will take on the pro team in a full ComedySportz Match.

Tickets for the Play Offs are $8 each.   Tickets for the 7:30 match are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors.

Mia Lee Bauman, Co-Owner of ComedySportz Indianapolis has recently been elected as the Vice President of the World Comedy League. Mia is a founding member of ComedySportz Indianapolis. She started her comedy career in 1989 with the Indianapolis sketch/improv group Below the Belt. This is where she met her co-owners Lynn Burger and Ed Trout. Mia is a proud member of the 2011 World ComedySportz Championship Team along with Lynn Burger, Ed Trout and Claire Wilcher.
In 2004 Mia was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. And in July 2011 Mia announced her retirement as a ComedySportz Indianapolis player, but stays very involved as co-owner of the Company.

Claire Wilcher, Jason Gloye and others from the Cast of Phoenix Theatre’s production of Avenue Q join John Patrick Coen, Tim Harrison, Rick Randjelovic and Chad Woodward in an exhibition of improvisation, puppetry and mayhem!

This is NOT a ComedySportz Match and is NOT appropriate for all ages.   We can control the People, but those Puppets…

Level 1 Sundays starting June 3

Level 2 Tuesdays starting June 5

Level 3 Mondays starting June 4

Kevin J Thornton is a road warrior and Fringe festival veteran who appeared in 10 festivals nationwide in 2011 including the IndyFringe Festival. Thornton will miss IndyFringe 2012 as he journeys to Canada this August for his debut in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2011 Thornton won the “Audience Choice Award for Favorite Show” at the Orlando International Fringe Festival and “Best Writing & Performance” at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

“Strange Dreamz” is also the title of the podcast the self-proclaimed “gay male Oprah with a potty mouth” produces weekly. Most Sundays Thornton and the occasional guest discuss touring adventures, current events, music, issues affecting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community and the meaning of life. Thornton’s podcast is the highest rated program on the LGBT related online radio station “Click Click Expose” based in Miami, Florida and an incubator for his live show.

The 90 minute live show also features short stories from Thornton’s 2012 paperback book “The Universe Sock Puppet” available on Amazon.com and retailers worldwide.

The Evansville, Ind. native is a Los Angeles Times ”Best Bet,” has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and is a “New Faces Winner” at The Comedy Store in Hollywood. In 2011 Thornton was a guest lecturer at University of California, Berkeley where he spoke about his successful use of his podcast and social media in connection with his national touring act.

Thornton’s social networking, podcast and one-person shows, including his 2009 hit debut “Sex, Dreams & Self Control,” and 2010’s “I Love You (We’re Fucked)” have garnered him a loyal following in Indianapolis and across the country. Thornton’s 2012 show will include brand new stories and humor but unlike the songwriter’s previous year’s shows he will cover songs like Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark,” Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream and his hilarious rendition of TLC’s “No Scrubs.”

Awards received on Thornton’s 2011 15-city tour include the Audience Choice Award for Favorite Show and the Fringe Crush Award in Orlando as well as the League of Cincinnati Theatre Award for Best Writing and Performance. Matthew J. Palm, theater critic for the Orlando Sentinel, called Thornton “an enthusiastic musician, a quick-witted comic and a really funny storyteller” and Cincinnati’s CityBeat said “he kept the audience in the palm of his hand during the sold out performance… he’s a fast-talking, high-energy powerhouse of a performer.”

Approx. Running Time: 90 minutes

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