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* [http://www.facebook.com/claudio.fox.5/media_set?set=a.629538103734355.1073741857.100000345135257&type=3 Photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] that includes their performance in [[The 2013 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/claudio.fox.5/media_set?set=a.629538103734355.1073741857.100000345135257&type=3 Photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] that includes their performance in [[The 2013 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/claudio.fox.5/media_set?set=a.664214413600057.1073741869.100000345135257&type=3 Photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] that includes their performance in [[WaffleFest 2013]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/claudio.fox.5/media_set?set=a.664214413600057.1073741869.100000345135257&type=3 Photoset] by [[Claudio Fox]] that includes their performance in [[WaffleFest 2013]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/chriscurl/media_set?set=a.10152580414492107.1073741854.549002106&type=3 Photoset] by [[Chris Curl]] of their perfromance at [[The 2014 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival]].
* [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.846434505420067.1073742115.221927764537414&type=3 Photoset] by [[Steve Rogers]] that includes their 11/21/14 performance in [[WaffleFest 2014]].


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Revision as of 18:54, 12 March 2015


Get Up

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Years Active 2005-Present
Cast

Get Up is an improv duo.

Summary

Get Up members Shana Merlin and Shannon McCormick have been working together in different improv troupes, such as The Heroes of Comedy, and performances, such as No Shame Theatre, since 2002. In 2005, they decided to get rid of all the dead weight and form a two-person improv troupe. In their debut show at FronteraFest 2005, they won Best of the Week with their original format "24 (minutes)," an improvised parody of the hit show "24," where they solve a matter of national security in exactly 24 minutes while the clock is ticking onstage. Later that year in "The Giants of Austin Improv Show", they debuted their format "Fast Forward," where they interview an audience member and turn his life into an action adventure thriller. In 2006 they added sound improviser Sara Farr to their ensemble to provide a live soundtrack and scoring to Shannon and Shana's improvised stories. Get Up's latest format begins with the audience randomly selecting the theme music for the show, listening to it, offering ideas as to what images the music suggests and the performers use that as inspiration for a improvised comedic one act play.

History

Here is Shannon McCormick's explanation of the name's origin:

No one knows this, but Get Up got on our list of possible names when Shana and I were riffing because it was an acronym, kinda, for GTP, Gnap! Theater Projects. GTP=Get Up. Of all our ideas we liked that one the best because of the multiple colloquial meanings of 'get up'--costume, dance, what you say to someone after you've punched them in the face.

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