The Hitchhiker Issue 1
September 2005

Hello!

Welcome to the first edition of The Hitchhiker, 88 improv's newest endeavor to keep you informed, educated and entertained! Read on to learn more about your favorite improv team, and find out where you can see us next!

In this issue...
  • Ladies and Gentlemen...88 improv!
  • 88 Improv is back at The Rock!
  • The New Girl - Corinne Mings
  • The New Guy - Solomon Davis

  • 88 Improv is back at The Rock!
    The Rock

    Check us out this weekend at The Rock in Papillion. That's right, 88 improv is back at one of our favorite venues that brings in one of our favorite crowds to perform for! This Saturday night, September 17th, we will take the stage along with the bands Uncommon Sense, and Nicholas Petersen. Tickets are $7 and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information on The Rock, check out www.therockpapio.com.


    The New Girl - Corinne Mings
    Corinne

    Meet the newest girl on the 88i team! Corinne Mings joins 88 improv as one of its two new members this fall. She has recently graduated from Northwestern College and just finished up her summer's work at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico. Corinne brings a refreshing improvisational style to 88 improv with her prior experience leading the Black V improv team through its sixth year of existence at Northwestern. Her theatrical training and variety of roles in scripted theatre also add to her talentedness...(a great new word, use it every day!) In her free time Corinne loves to dance and spends free time saving puppies from danger.


    The New Guy - Solomon Davis
    Solomon

    Meet Solomon Davis, another new addition to the 88 improv team. Solomon joins us after a summer of performing nationally with Northwestern College's Touring Theatre Ensemble. Solomon is an accomplished performer whose credits include penning and performing an award winning One-Man Show, founding the improv team Nuprin (Little. Yellow, Different.), and acting in a long list of scripted theatre productions. Other interests include photography, music and films. Oh, and if you're lucky, he'll break out his jaw harp and play you a fancy song.


    Ladies and Gentlemen...88 improv!
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    In the weeks and months to come the Hitchhiker Newsletter will provide you with exclusive articles and insights on issues concerning all things improv, comedy or both. In this, our premier issue, we would like to take a moment and reacquaint you with the 88 improv you know and love.

    Two years ago this September 88 improv stepped onto the stage at Stage Right Coffee Shop Downtown, marking their first performance on Omaha soil. Since then the team has bounced around from coffee shops, theatres, churches, schools, boardrooms, parks and everywhere in-between spreading laughter to all who will listen. Throughout our time here in Omaha and the preceding years in Northwest Iowa, 88 improv has been moving steadily forward toward the belief that comedy can be great when it is performed with care and purpose.

    This goal is propelling 88 improv to take larger steps now than we ever have before. We are settling into the Grande Olde Player's Theatre for many of our monthly public performances, seeking national representation through speakers bureaus and developing a secret project to entertain the masses over the web. These are exiting times for the team so join Nate, Steve, Sarah, Tim, and now Corinne Mings and Solomon Davis (as our brand new members) as we fill Omaha and the world with smart, clean, comedy!

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