Indigo Shift

Indigo Shift
Years Active	2011-2013
Cast	Jordan T. Maxwell Kacey Samiee Jeffrey Amos

Indigo Shift was a musical improv troupe set in a cabaret at the end of the world.

Format

Indigo Shift followed a troupe of performers (Solomon Strange, Anita Deva, and Colin) as they performed one final show for the last night on Earth. Suggestions were drawn out through discussion of apocalyptic themes with the audience, which were then spun into a series of scenes, stories, and songs loosely threaded together by the banter between the three characters.

History

Shortly after Jordan T. Maxwell announced he was moving back to Austin from Los Angeles, Michael Brockman approached him about developing a musical format. Maxwell was inspired at a concert for the Brechtian punk duo The Dresden Dolls to create an improvised dystopian cabaret that would take place at the end of the world.

Maxwell and Brockman recruited Kacey Samiee and Sarah Marie Curry to round out the troupe and they began rehearsing and hashing out the mechanics of the format. Curry soon had to drop out of the project and the remaining trio debuted on 10/8/11, opening for Get Up in The Saturday Night Special.

The troupe took a brief hiatus while Maxwell and Brockman fulfilled other professional obligations, but returned in 2012. Brockman left the group shortly before their show in The 2012 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, but Maxwell and Samiee's long time friend and collaborator Jeffrey Amos filled in for the performance and officially joined as the troupe's new third member and musical accompanist. Because Amos currently resides in Seattle, Washington, Indigo Shift has occasionally invited guest improviser/musicians to play, including Jeremy Sweetlamb, Cindy Page, Craig Kotfas, and Ryan Hill.

They have also performed at The 2013 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Improvaganza in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Alaska State Improv Festival in Juneau, Alaska. They are also frequently featured guests at the Hell & Back Cabaret.

Dramatis Personae

Rev. Solomon Strange (Jordan T. Maxwell)

Anita Deva (Kacey Samiee)

Colin (Jeffrey Amos)

Former/Guest Artists

Brother Monkirk (Michael Brockman)

Doc Jenkins (Craig Kotfas)

Nigel (Ryan Hill)

Kitty Draco (Cindy Page)

Baby Doll (Sarah Marie Curry)

Jeremy Sweetlamb played without an "in universe" character.

Media

Videos

• Video of 3/29/2012.
• Video of 12/20/2012 performance.

Photos

• Photoset from 10/8/2011 by Steve Rogers.
• Photoset by Roy Moore of their 3/29/2012 performance in The Threefer.
• Photoset by Steve Rogers that includes their 8/28/12 performance in The 2012 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival.
• Photoset by Michael Yew that includes their performance in the 9/20/13 Hell and Back Cabaret.
• Photoset by Steve Rogers that includes their 9/27/13 performance at The Hell & Back Cabaret.
• Photoset by Michael Yew of their 12/20/13 performance in PGraph Presents.
• Photoset by Chad Wellington of their 4/18/14 show.

More Information

• Indigo Shift's Facebook page
• Interview with the troupe on The Theft Forum.