Confidence Men

Confidence Men
Years Active	2010-Present
Cast	Asaf Ronen Ceej Allen Jeff Britt Michael Ferstenfeld Tom Booker Troy Miller

Confidence Men is an improv troupe that improvises in the style of David Mamet.

Summary

Show Structure

A typical Confidence Men show is a two-act play. Each act is a monoscene. Each performer plays one character throughout the show. In between act one and act two, there is a 45-second solo musical performance.

Press Blurb

This is their bio from the 2012 Out of Bounds web site:

"You know what it takes to improvise a David Mamet play?

Balls. Brass Balls. It takes brass balls to improvise a David Mamet play. Listen friend, the six intrepid members of Confidence Men have brass balls in spades and they are not afraid to use them to unfold the seedy underbelly of whatever the audience suggests on the spot. Every show, a new play will be improvised in the style of such great works as Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and House of Games, with all the rat-a-tat and grift of its actual predecessors. Featuring a 45-second live musical intermission.

Confidence Men features six Austin, Texas-based improvisers who have come together full of love for noted playwright David Mamet. Taking an audience suggestion for where that night's particular story will take place, Confidence Men is then off and running to create a 2-act improvised play infused with the verbal style and story sensibility of Mamet himself: rapid-fire elliptical speech, liberal and creative use of profanity, desperate men trying to fight for one-upmanship in a dog-eat-dog junkyard of a world."

Media

• Video of their 8/1/2010 show. ("Area 51")
• Video of their performance at the 2011 Improvised Play Festival.
• Video of their performance at The 2011 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. ("The Hall of Justice")
• Video of their performance at the 2012 Improvised Play Festival.
• Photoset of their performance from Wafflefest 2012.