Dogwood Comedy Festival aims to be one of the Southeast's premier comedy festivals. Held at ComedyWorx, founded in 1989 in Raleigh as an improv comedy club, "DoCo" features 5 days of longform improv comedy performances from teams around the Southeast, including ComedyWorx's own house teams and its premier Armando troupe, Capital City Culture Club.

We are delighted to welcome Bianca Casusol (Second City New York, Magnet Theater, NC Theater Conservatory, and more) to DoCo! Bianca will teach four different workshops and perform in shows!

Schedule of Events:

10:00 am - 1:00 pm: WORKSHOP: It's Us in the End

If this was the last hour on earth, what would your character choose to do? This workshop-to-show focuses on grounded character work. With no time jumps or tag outs, the show format encourages us to explore a shared world where our characters make discoveries before we say goodbye to them together. All of our characters die at the end of every show, so let's honor that and explore that together! This workshop is appropriate for improvisers who have at least some longform improv experience and will involve performing in a show later the same day.

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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: WORKSHOP: Make It Matter

Make It Matter is a longform improv-specific workshop focusing on longevity in scene work. This workshop will focus on finding anchors in our scenework to help us dive deeper into a character's point of view and build characters with texture that we can explore and play with for longer scenes. We'll focus on "yes and-ing" our own choices, and delving deeper and finding the beauty in even the "smaller" details and choices we make in our scenes. This workshop focuses on longform improv and is appropriate for improvisers who have taken at least one longform improv-specific intro course, whether at ComedyWorx or elsewhere.

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5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: SHOW: The Last Laugh

Headliner: Vatican City Navy
Feature: Diabolical Fishbank
Guest: Higher Education
Opener: Dome
Special Event: It's Us in the End

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