Access to all Uptown Improv Festival shows Saturday 10/11/25. Performances from: 

CASTLES & CREATURES (BUFFALO, NY)
Castles and Creatures is a completely-made-up-on-the-spot comedy improv show inspired by tabletop role-playing, our collective humanity, and you the audience. In one hour, our cast improvises an epic quest featuring elves, gnomes, dwarves, wizards, monsters, spells, and the nerdy humans who bring them all to life.

AM 2 PM (NEW YORK, NY)
AM 2 PM will create art on stage using the lighting to illuminate deep grounded characters in their newly-created form The Insomniac. From light to darkness and back again, AM 2 PM will explore the journey of a complex relationship... when they need each other the most.


BEN GARDNER’S BOAT performs JEN & Kevin (COHOES, NY)
Jenn & Kevin is a format that explores the relationship of a married couple as they navigate their ordinary extraordinary life. Coming from drastically different backgrounds, Jenn and Kevin offer a unique experience of blended diversity, where being truly human can sometimes shine in the most inhuman moments.

HOT DOG WITH MUSTARD (Philadelphia, pa)
Hot Dog with Mustard performs fast-paced long form improv that traverses different worlds and explores silly characters.

HOLLY MANDEL & BILLY SOCO (NY & LA)
Holly and Billy met at camp and have been friends ever since. Their improv show will leave you wanting s’mores.

NNAMDI & PATRICK (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Two friends. One show. 

SHOTGUN THEATER (NEW YORK, NY)
What happens when a team meets for the first time hours before they take the stage in utica? 6 highly skilled performers come together and forced to commit… for one night only to create a never-before seen narrative. anything can happen in this show of experimental theater, almost as chaotic as a shotgun wedding.


WHATEVER FATE DECIDES (PROVIDENCE, RI)
Whatever Fate Decides uses the power of improvised theatre to look deeper into the messages revealed during a special Tarot reading for an invited guest. As we explore, the show grants our invited guest both insight into their past and present as well as the mystical power to change their future in front of the audience.


CHEESE & SLACKERS (BUFFALO, NY)
A long form indie team from Buffalo, NY who started doing a slacker format but has since evolved into their own unique form.