MADLAB THEATRE and GALLERY ANNOUNCES The Kill ‘em With Kindness Comedy

Festival

Media Contacts:
Madlab:
Andy Batt, Managing Director, Andy@madlab.net, 614-571-3886
Stephen Woosley, Co-publicity Director, 614-595-7743

Individual Groups:

Cody Rivers - Andrew Conner - info@codyrivers.com

Comedy'splosion - Justin Golak - justin.golak@gmail.com
See Your Thursday - Sean Wheeler - sewheele@hotmail.com
Fake Bacon - Jason Sudy - jsudy@msidesign.com
Shimmy Shake - Erin Prosser - eprosser@msidesign.com
The Regime - JB Reidenbaugh - jbreidenbaugh@hotmail.com

For Immediate Release:

MadLab Theatre and Gallery will present The Kill ‘em With Kindness Comedy
Festival at 8:00, March 12th-April 17th, Fridays and Saturdays, with a Thursday show
on April 15th at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. Third St. Columbus. Tickets cost
$10, $8 Students/Seniors, $6 Members. Call 614-221-5418 or visit www.madlab.net

MadLab presents The Kill ‘em With Kindness Comedy Festival

Friday March 12 8pm The Cody Rivers Show

Saturday March 13 8pm The Cody Rivers Show
Friday March 19 8pm Fake Bacon/Shimmy Shake Project
Saturday March 20 8pm Fake Bacon/Shimmy Shake Project
Friday March 26 8pm Comedy’splosion
Saturday March 27 8pm Comedy’splosion
Friday April 2 8pm See You Thursday
Saturday April 3 8pm See You Thursday
Friday April 9 8pm The Regime
Saturday April 10 8pm The Regime
Thursday April 15 8pm FFN’s Wheel of Improv
Friday April 16 8pm FFN’s Wheel of Improv
Saturday April 17 8pm FFN’s Wheel of Improv

All performances at: MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. Third St, Columbus, OH 43215,
www.madlab.net

Ticket prices are $10, $8 Students/Seniors, $6 Members

For reservations call 614.221.5418 or send to publicity@madlab.net
Order tickets at: http://www.madlab.net/MadLab/Buy_Tickets.html
THE KILL ‘EM WITH KINDNESS COMEDY FESTIVAL marks the first production at MadLab’s
new space at 227 North Third Street. This six week festival features a different comedy act
each weekend highlighted by the opening act - THE CODY RIVERS SHOW from Washington.
Each weekend will bring you anything from sketch comedy to short-form improv, from stand-up
to long-form improv. It’s a little something for everyone each week.

THE CODY RIVERS SHOW - March 12-13

The Cody Rivers Show creates kinetic and unpredictable comedy theatre that has amazed
audiences and defied description for the past five years.

Pushing the envelopes of physical theatre, dance, music, and high-concept comedy, The Cody
Rivers Show delivers unique shows unlike any other comedy act, past or present. Their latest
new piece - ‘Right Back Where We Finished’ - sprints between precocious youths, game theory,
pioneer-era linguistics, ants and prairie dogs, the confessions of an unruly teen, eccentric old
men, baby, jockeys, ping-pong, and oh so much more. It’s like running a marathon, doing
algebra, and eating cake all at the same time.

Andrew Connor of The Cody Rivers Show, on MadLab’s new space:

"Having grown up in Columbus and gone on to do theater all over the world, it's really awesome
to be able to come back home to a thriving fringe theater scene like the one that MadLab is
cultivating. For them to be buying a new space and amping up their operations in the current
economy is a real testament to their success and the strength of Columbus audiences. It's
totally against the national trend of theaters and arts organizations imploding.

Columbus is one of our favorite tour stops - always fun shows - and we're super excited to
be coming back."

FAKE BACON/SHIMMY SHAKE PROJECT - March 19-20

Fake Bacon & The Shimmy Shake Project will be teaming up to bring you the finest in short-
form improv comedy. Whether putting their own spin on classic improv games or hitting you
with their healthy dose of troupe originals, their high-intensity show is certain to generate laughs
both long and loud.

COMEDY’SPLOSION - March 26-27

Comedy’splosion returns to MadLab! This will be the third year Columbus-based stand-up
comics Justin Golak & Sumukh Torgalkar have put on the mammoth weekend of shows which
celebrates stand-up comedy in Columbus. Billed as a stand-up show run by stand-up comics,
for stand-up comedy fans, Comedy’splosion features established Columbus-based comics
performing alongside standout up-and-comers from the Columbus comedy scene. Come out
and see the best stand-up comedy that Columbus has to offer.

SEE YOU THURSDAY - April 2-3

See You Thursday is the resident troupe of Pull The String Productions, a non-profit
organization developed by co-founders Bill Sabo and Sean Wheeler to promote the awareness,
education and creative development of improvisational performance in Central Ohio. See You
Thursday's show format involves various non-related scenes divided by blackouts and music.
The scenes can possibly be related, but generally develop independently from one another.
Nothing is scripted out; everything that happens between the performers on stage is entirely
spontaneous and made up on the spot. The scenes are character-driven, and with the
exception of a suggestion given at the top of the show, audience participation is non-existent
(with the hopeful exception of laughter, of course).

THE REGIME - April 9-10

With our newest revue, The Regime is celebrating one more comedy show for Columbus
audiences. After four huge ha-ha bashes, quite frankly, we're wondering why we don't have our
own t.v. show yet. Where's the love, Hollywood? (And by love, we mean cash.) "Can't
Somebody Else Do It?" is the second most-asked question by Americans. It's a thought that's
crossed everyone's mind at some point, from Jesus to John McCain. It's also the title of our fifth
show, natch. You're going to love this show so much you're going to want to make love to it in
the backseat of your automobile. And that's cool. You have our blessing.

theregimecomedy.blogspot.com

FULL FRONTAL NUDITY’s WHEEL OF IMPROV - April 15-17

For the last four years, FFN has brought you Columbus’ only true long-form style of improv,
creating full thirty to sixty minute plays right before your eyes. This time, you will decide which
format of old they will resurrect before your very eyes as they will be at the whim of the
deadly....Wheel of Improv!!

With a spin of the wheel by one of the audience members, the troupe will have to jump into and
maybe out of one of these longform shows:

FFN’s Sketch You Can Believe In

FFN in Reverse
What’s On Your Mind Now?
Dramatic Turn
Looking for Love
FFN in Spaaaace!!!
What’s On Your Mind?
The Love Jungle
CSI: Columbus

Do they dare?