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'''Marc Majcher''' ([[wikipedia:Help:IPA_for_English#Key|/ˈmetʃər/]]) is an improv performer, director, and teacher. He has enormous hands.
'''Marc Majcher''' ([[wikipedia:Help:IPA_for_English#Key|/ˈmeɪtʃər/]]) is an improv performer, director, and teacher. He has enormous hands.


==History==
==History==
Marc began taking improv classes at the [[Hideout Theatre]] in August of 2005. He's done a whole bunch of stuff since then.
Marc began taking improv classes at the [[Hideout Theatre]] in August of 2005. He's done a whole bunch of stuff since then.
A post from him about the first improv show he ever saw:<blockquote><p>I'm pretty sure the first improv show I saw was in New York around 1996 or so. My friend from college Tim was in a group called Newman's Nose (or something close to that), and got us to come out a show. I think they were doing some kind of ''[[Theatresports]]'' type of format, maybe not exactly that, but definitely some team-based competitive short form thing. It was pretty funny, and I was (at the time) impressed that my buddy Tim's team won the world championship of improv or whatever they called it back then, without realizing it was just the thing for the show they were doing. I'm pretty sure that I kept getting flyers and kept not going back, though.</p>
<p>(The interesting part of that story is that [[Asaf Ronen|Asaf]] was in one or more troupes with Tim around then, so I probably saw him in there, and talked to him at a party or something after. Shortly after arriving in Austin, Asaf brought me some photos that he took at a juggling club thing, and there I was. Crazy.)</p>
<p>The first improv that I saw in Austin (and I don't think I'd seen any in between, aside from zapping through ''Whose Line'' on the teevee a couple times) was a show that [[Les McGehee]] put together for the Alamo in 2003 or so. I'd been doing roller derby stuff a bunch in the years around then, and Les was emceeing the matches, and got a bunch of us to go to his show. It was mostly short formy stuff, with Les and [[Cynthia Oelkers]] and [[Scott Chester]] and... someone else. Again, funny, but didn't go to see it more than once.</p> </blockquote>


==Troupes==
==Troupes==
* [[Monster]]
* [[The Asides]]
* [[The Escorts]]
* [[Golden]] (director, performer)
* [[The Library]]
* [[Improv for Evil]]
* [[Improv for Evil]]
* [[The Escorts]]
* [[The Asides]]
* [[MmmmK]]
* [[MmmmK]]


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* [[The 41-Hour Improv Marathon]]
* [[The 41-Hour Improv Marathon]]
* [[The 43-Hour Improv Marathon]]
* [[The 43-Hour Improv Marathon]]
* ''[[A Bedtime Gorey]]''
* ''[[After School Improv]]''
* ''[[After School Improv]]''
* ''[[Austin Secrets]]''
* ''[[Austin Secrets]]''
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* ''[[Blink]]'' (Coached)
* ''[[Blink]]'' (Coached)
* ''[[Blue Maestro]]''
* ''[[Blue Maestro]]''
* ''[[Buddy Cop]]''
* ''[[The Cagematch]]''
* ''[[The Cagematch]]''
* ''[[Charles Dickens Unleashed]]''
* ''[[Charles Dickens Unleashed]]''
* ''[[Cochise]]'' (Performed and Directed)
* ''[[Cochise]]'' (Performed and Directed)
* ''[[The Derby]]''
* ''[[The Derby]]''
* ''[[Death By Musical]]'' (Music)
* ''[[Dubbed Indemnity]]'' (2010-2012)
* ''[[Dubbed Indemnity]]'' (2010-2012)
* ''[[Ego's Trip]]''
* ''[[False Matters]]'' (2011)
* ''[[False Matters]]'' (2011)
* ''[[The Fancy-Pants Mashup]]''
* ''[[The Fancy-Pants Mashup]]''
* ''[[Fandom]]''
* ''[[Fandom]]''
* ''[[Fiasco]]''
* ''[[Four Chambers]]''
* ''[[Flying Theater Machine]]''
* ''[[Flying Theater Machine]]''
* ''[[Golden (mainstage)|Golden]]'' (director)
* ''[[Gorilla Theater]]''
* ''[[Gorilla Theater]]''
* ''[[Guilds Of Steel]]''
* ''[[Guilds Of Steel]]''
* ''[[Haunted]]''
* ''[[Happily Ever After]]''
* ''[[Holy 1960s Batman, Batman!]]''
* ''[[Holy 1960s Batman, Batman!]]''
* ''[[How I Saved the World Over Summer Vacation]]''
* ''[[Hurly Burly]]'' (performer, co-director)
* ''[[I Love You So Much]]''
* ''[[Improvised Shakespeare]]''
* ''[[Improvised Shakespeare]]''
* ''[[Intergalactic Nemesis]]'' (Scripted - Mysterion/Silcron/etc)
* ''[[Ka-Baam!!]]''
* ''[[Ka-Baam!!]]''
* ''[[The Kindness of Strangers]]''
* ''[[Kenjutsu]]''
* ''[[The Library]]''
* ''[[The Library]]''
* ''[[Live Nude Improv]]''
* ''[[Live Nude Improv]]''
* ''[[Lola]]''
* ''[[Lola]]''
* [[Lord Wensleydale's Last High Tea]] (Dietrich von Geltsack)
* ''[[Lonely Star]]''
* "[[Lord Wensleydale's Last High Tea]]" (Dietrich von Geltsack)
* ''[[Louder Than Words]]''
* ''[[Louder Than Words]]''
* ''[[Maestro]]'' (2000-)
* ''[[Maestro]]'' (2000-)
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* ''[[Magna Veritas]]''
* ''[[Magna Veritas]]''
* ''[[Manhattan Stories]]''
* ''[[Manhattan Stories]]''
* ''[[Mister Morbid's Moonlight Movie Mayhem Madness Massacre]]''
* ''[[The Nightmare Video Project]]'' ("Directed"/Produced videos 2010-2012)
* ''[[The Nightmare Video Project]]'' ("Directed"/Produced videos 2010-2012)
* ''[[Nothing and Everything]]''
* ''[[One More Night]]''
* ''[[One More Night]]''
* ''[[Pick Your Own Path]]''
* ''[[Pick Your Own Path]]''
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* ''[[Process]]''
* ''[[Process]]''
* ''[[Racket]]''
* ''[[Racket]]''
* ''[[Reform School for Wayward Girls]]''
* ''[[Rock]]''
* ''[[Rock]]''
* ''[[The Sandbox]]'' (Performed, Directed "Bloody Work")
* ''[[The Sandbox]]'' (Performed, Directed "Bloody Work")
* ''[[Savage Swords]]'' (director)
* ''[[The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects]]''  (Co-director)
* ''[[Seance]]''
* ''[[Seance]]''
* ''[[Speak No More]]'' (Director/performer)
* ''[[Spirited]]'' (Performed and co-directed)
* ''[[Spirited]]'' (Performed and co-directed)
* ''[[Start Trekkin']]''
* ''[[Start Trekkin']]''
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* ''[[Theatresports]]''
* ''[[Theatresports]]''
* ''[[This American Live]]'' (Segment)
* ''[[This American Live]]'' (Segment)
* ''[[The International Improv Experience]]
* ''[[The Source]]''
* ''[[The Tribunal]]'' (Performed and directed)
* ''[[The Tribunal]]'' (Performed and directed)
* ''[[The Violet Underbelly]]''
* ''[[The Violet Underbelly]]''
* ''[[Wanderlust]]''
* ''[[The Well-Made Play]]'' (Stage Manager)
* ''[[Whirled News Tonight]]''
* ''[[Whirled News Tonight]]''
* ''[[Who is T. Henry Baudecliffe?]]''
* ''[[Who Is T. Henry Baudecliffe?]]''


==Festivals==
==Festivals==
* The 2007 Frontera Fest Short Fringe
** with [[Improv for Evil]]
* [[The 2007 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
* [[The 2007 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
* [[Wafflefest]]
* [[Wafflefest]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
* The 2008 Frontera Fest Short Fringe
** with [[Improv for Evil]]
* [[The 2008 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
* [[The 2008 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]] and ''[[Ka-Baam!!]]''
** With [[Improv for Evil]] and ''[[Ka-Baam!!]]''
* The 2009 Frontera Fest Long Fringe
** With ''[[Cochise]]''
* [[The 2009 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
* [[The 2009 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
** With [[Improv for Evil]]
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* [[The 2012 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
* [[The 2012 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]]
** With [[The Escorts]], ''[[False Matters]]'', [[Improv for Evil]], ''[[Manhattan Stories]]'', ''[[Process]]'', and ''[[Spirited]]''
** With [[The Escorts]], ''[[False Matters]]'', [[Improv for Evil]], ''[[Manhattan Stories]]'', ''[[Process]]'', and ''[[Spirited]]''
* The 2012 Frontera Fest Short Fringe
** in ''Linear Perspectives'' by [[Kayla Lane Freeman]]
* [[The 2013 Improvised Play Festival]]
* [[The 2013 Improvised Play Festival]]
** With ''[[The Black Vault]]'', [[The Escorts]], ''[[False Matters]]'', ''[[Live Nude Improv]]'', ''[[Strange Worlds]]'', and ''[[The Tribunal]]''
** With ''[[The Black Vault]]'', [[The Escorts]], ''[[False Matters]]'', ''[[Live Nude Improv]]'', ''[[Strange Worlds]]'', and ''[[The Tribunal]]''
 
* The 2013 Unscripted New York Festival
** With ''[[Strange Worlds]]''
* The 2014 Alaska State Improv Festival
** With ''[[The Black Vault]]'' and ''[[Strange Worlds]]''
* The 2015 Seattle Festival of Improv Theater
** With ''[[Hurly Burly]]''
* The 2015 Boston Comedy Arts Festival
** With ''[[Golden]]''
* The 2015 Providence Improv Festival
** With ''[[The Black Vault]]''
* Dallas Comedy Big Sexy Weekend 2016
** With ''[[Golden]]''
* Mount Olymprov 2016
** Teacher/Performer
* The 2016 Vancouver International Improv Festival
** With ''[[Golden]]''
* Dallas Comedy Big Sexy Weekend 2017
** With ''[[Golden]]''




Latest revision as of 22:38, 15 October 2018


Marc Majcher

Marc Majcher Pic.jpg

Primary Theater The Hideout Theatre
Years Active 2005-Present

Marc Majcher (/ˈmeɪtʃər/) is an improv performer, director, and teacher. He has enormous hands.

History

Marc began taking improv classes at the Hideout Theatre in August of 2005. He's done a whole bunch of stuff since then.

A post from him about the first improv show he ever saw:

I'm pretty sure the first improv show I saw was in New York around 1996 or so. My friend from college Tim was in a group called Newman's Nose (or something close to that), and got us to come out a show. I think they were doing some kind of Theatresports type of format, maybe not exactly that, but definitely some team-based competitive short form thing. It was pretty funny, and I was (at the time) impressed that my buddy Tim's team won the world championship of improv or whatever they called it back then, without realizing it was just the thing for the show they were doing. I'm pretty sure that I kept getting flyers and kept not going back, though.

(The interesting part of that story is that Asaf was in one or more troupes with Tim around then, so I probably saw him in there, and talked to him at a party or something after. Shortly after arriving in Austin, Asaf brought me some photos that he took at a juggling club thing, and there I was. Crazy.)

The first improv that I saw in Austin (and I don't think I'd seen any in between, aside from zapping through Whose Line on the teevee a couple times) was a show that Les McGehee put together for the Alamo in 2003 or so. I'd been doing roller derby stuff a bunch in the years around then, and Les was emceeing the matches, and got a bunch of us to go to his show. It was mostly short formy stuff, with Les and Cynthia Oelkers and Scott Chester and... someone else. Again, funny, but didn't go to see it more than once.

Troupes

Shows

Festivals

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