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The Board sent out an e-mail today about this. In case you didn't get it:
Monday, 7-9 PM, Long Form, Teacher: Spencer Hamilton
Tuesday, 7-9 PM, Short Form, Teacher: Augie Artiles (with Rich Camillucci helping out)
Thursday, 7-9 PM, Jam, Rich Camillucci
All the classes are free and open to anyone, although regular attendance is very important. Unless stated otherwise, all classes will be in an open room in Weimer Hall, preferably the Auditorium. -
It's not a specific need or desire for TSF to be involved with the stand-up scene; It doesn't need to happen. However, it will be more likely that TSF will collaborate with USUCC in shows. Tonight and tomorrow night there will be a show at Murphree that is a collaboration show between TSF and USUCC.
Here is a link:
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It is up to the individual teacher of each class as to where the class will be held but a good rule of thumb is to check Weimer Hall, specifically the Auditorium.
The classes will start this Monday, June 28th and will run through out Summer B. -
Within the first few weeks of the Fall and Spring Semesters.
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Indeed he would, sir. Indeed he would.
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Tim Anderson will be starting up an audition based Musical Improv group hopefully this Fall.
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Mostly, yes. I have checks for RJ, Skyler, and a lady we owe money because we broke her tent. Unfortunately I did receive a few other receipts that were too late to make it in before the rest of the budget had been cashed out to UCB.
If you payed money and did not get reimbursed, you may contact me personally and I can see if there is anything I can do.
Have a great day!
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In a recent interview with resident Futbol expert Jeremy Katz, he was quoted as running around in circles with his shirt over his head screaming
"USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!"
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I believe this question calls for a response from the current Sketch Director. Liz Anderson here.
I firmly, firmly believe Oppie is not a failure. Just because something does not meet a prior expectation does not mean it has failed in the endeavor towards it. By the end of the summer, TSF will have produced six episodes of a legitimate television series. That's six more than we had before. We also succeeded in the fact that we promised IRHA six episodes, were given money for it, and will be able to give them those episodes. We did exactly what we promised. That is a success.
As far as those other two episodes go, I have full faith that one day they will be completed. I don't know when, and I don't know how involved TSF will be in their production. But, until such time that I, as a producer of the show, am convinced that those episodes will never see the light of day, they are not failures.
As far as similar projects, though we have no current big plans in the works, we are fully open to the "Big Project" possibility. Oppie taught TSF what its capabilities are. Production wise, comedy wise, stamina wise, everything. I can't see how we can have that realization and not take advantage of that. All it takes is a vision, and a single person who is willing to be the driving force behind that vision.
The thing that would have to change if we were to succeed would be straight-up organization. More calendars, more staff, more scripts on set. Oppie's greatest strength was also its greatest weakness: how much it relied on things that were in the moment and unpredictable.The only way to reach the potential of our creative professionalism is to bump up our administrational professionalism along with it.
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I believe this question calls for a response from the Treasurer. Liz Anderson here.
Simply put, the grand majority of TSFs budget comes from Student Government. Every year around January, all SG-funded organizations are asked to submit projected budgets for the next academic year. Since SG is so nitpicky about where their money goes, the Treasurer (or whoever else is doing the budget), must carefully describe each thing they need money for, why they need it, and how much they will need. These figures are based upon the last year's budget, the response the club had gotten in the past year, and projected increases in necessity.
The main way TSF gets money from SG is through our shows. We receive a specific amount of money for each of the shows we know we are going to be putting on in the next year. For example, Katie LeBlanc, our last Treasurer, would request a certain amount of money for Fall Show, whatever she projected we needed for it. She would include how much of that would be used for promotions, how much would be used for tech, how much would be used on props. She would also include information about how Fall Show had went in the past year, through audience response and turnout. Based upon this information, SG would review this request, and decide to give us either less or equal to that amount.
And so on for all our other programs and shows.
Because of this, money does not necessarily go to specific areas of the club (Sketch gets $500! Delta gets $1500!); rather, specific areas of the club utilize the funds by doing what we promised SG we were going to do with it.
Our current budget is around $5600. This sounds like a lot, and it is. However, just because TSF is "rich" doesn't mean we are able to spend that money freely. Everything is pretty carefully tied up in our programs. In fact, there will even be some fundraising occurring during the coming months in order to stimulate our external revenue. So, keep your eyes peeled and ears open! -
In the Fall there will be auditions for all of our performance groups (i.e. Short Form, Long Form, Sketch). If you make it on any of the teams, you must also be on one of TSF's committees.
There will be several committees you can join with varying degrees of difficulty as far as the application process will be concerned. There will be Promotions, Relay, Tech, Social etc. You can also offer to start your own committee and run it by the board for approval. The Directors of the committees will take attendance and let the board know if there are people who are not participating.
If you're worried about being on a team but not making a committee, don't. You'll get in something, that won't be an issue. -
ACADEMY INSTRUCTORS AND TA'S:
LEVEL 1:
Augie Artiles
Rich Camillucci
Level 2:
Skyler Kern
Matt White
Level 3:
Shawn McWhinnie
Jessica Zaleski (TA)
Jeff Spalding
Liz Anderson
Level 4:
Tim Anderson
Drew Carroll (TA)
Spencer Hamilton
Mike Dion (TA)
Level 5*:
Rudy Mendoza
PR Chair:
Bethanie Bailey
Tech Director:
Jessie Ervolino
Assistant Tech Director:
Francisco Birk
Short-Form Director
Spencer Hamilton
Sketch Director
Liz Anderson
Long-Form Directors
Sunday Group: Rudy Mendoza
Delta Group: Spencer Hamilton
Apprentice Group: Katie LeBlanc
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Denying your scene partner.
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If there was a theme for this upcoming year in TSF I would say it'd be Trust and delegation. There are many ambitious goals for the year that will require a lot of help and cooperation. More people will be involved in the inner workings of TSF more then ever before. Right now we have more positions then we've ever had, and technically there can be more if people run their idea by me.
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Medley always seems to recycle some of the same material show after show. I don't think that its anyone's fault, there is only so much you can do with 185 light bulbs.
A relationship that I am sick of seeing is Parent-Child. There is nothing wrong with it at all, I've just seen it hundreds of times. If the improvisers on stage are making it interesting, then it doesn't matter what the relationship is. -
I'd say that that is fairly common. Unfortunately, more often than not, people tend to pre-plan their scenes out of insecurity. Theres not one way to do improv, but I think having your mind clear is a good way to be.
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Over the years TSF has committed to some pretty ambitious goals. Every year we fall into the habit of coming up with a great idea that requires a lot of work that gets done last minute or sometimes not at all.
Creatively we have flourished in recent years but our biggest follies have been being unorganized and unprofessional. This next year we will make a concerted effort to be more professional and use peoples time wisely.
I wouldn't say any project we've taken on has been a complete waste of time. TSF is a student run organization. No one is being forced to do anything and no one is making money from this. If it wasn't worth doing nobody would do it. -
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Strike Force’s Bio
Theatre Strike Force is the University of Florida's Improv and Sketch comedy group since 1989. Twenty years later and it's stronger than ever.
