“A Cell Phone Story”
Built on the success of the show, HOW WE FIRST MET, Fringe Festival Ed Reggi has created this “Playback Theatre” show called A CELL PHONE STORY.   Playback Theatre is an audience driven theatre event.   A CELL PHONE STORY allows the audience to finally put everyone's theatrical annoyance (a cell-phone) to good use.   Imagine what happens when actors bring to life the stories told by those people listed in your cell phonebook.   What would that ex-friend say about you?   How did that name and number get in there?   And witness how a live calls to your mother; enemy or business client can create the funniest theatre around. “A Cell Phone Story,” allows the people we have programmed in our phones to become a live theatre!
http://www.edreggi.com

Celestial Theatre
The Celestial Theatre began in 1970 and lasted through 1974. In the '80's only one event was held. However, in 1997 we began a major revival of this theatre and are now averaging 11 performances/events per year with 61 as a grand total. A lot of our plays focus on original storylines that our 22 characters go through. We strive to make each stage show different. A typical stage show has several acts telling the stories and then we'll close out with The Lightbenders. The Lightbenders is our pure entertainment focus. Our Journal Link has a "sample" storyline developed from discussions with the characters.
http://www.ctheatre.homestead.com/ctindex.html

Homoerratic
Strap yourself in for a high-energy mix of cabaret, satire and comedy Improv. From politics to pop-culture, music to gay marriage, nothing is off limits to the unscripted and wild comedy of HomoErratic. Using ideas and suggestions from the audience, veteran improvisors Ed Reggi and Chris Parente craft a night of spontaneous and unforgettable LGBT Theatre.
http://www.homoerratic.com

Improvised Film Project
The Improvised Film Project (IFP) is a completely improvised feature film complete with plot, characters, camera angles and special effects created by several audience suggestions and created right before their eyes. Some 25 local St. Louis actors; five camera operators and a dozen technicians take their cinematic suggestions and descend upon St. Louis.   As they shoot their scenes outside the COCA Theater, one by one, tapes return to the COCA projection booth and the movie's plot unfolds.   The movie looks like a feature film but the only difference -- it is produced as the audience is sitting watching it.   (Take that Hollywood!)

Paper Slip Theatre, Inc.
Spolin's Theater games were created in the late 1950's by the mother iof improvisation Viola Spolin.   Her improv games can reach a variety of audiences, like that scene on the ABC hit TV show WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY. Paper Slip Theatre Inc. (PST) demonstrates how Improvisational Theatre helps build a story between its actors and the audience. PST has been performing around St. Louis and the region since 2001.   You have seen them at sold out crowds at Fair St. Louis, St. Louis Art Fair and Grand Center's First Night.
http://www.papersliptheatre.com

Project Improv
Louisville, KY's long-form improvisation troupe. From a single audience suggestion, Project Improv's eight performers craft a full-length, one-act play. "Dead Pilots" is an improvised sit-com that never made it past episode 1; the audience provides the set-up of the show. "Next News" is an improvised look at what happens to the people in the news after the news; the audience chooses stories from current newspapers and magazines.
http://www.projectimprov.com

Suspicious of Whistlers
Washington University's long-form improv troupe is characterized by taking an initial suggestion, topic or idea garnered from the audience that drives their entire show. This is done by using either ideas generated at the beginning or by letting the audience suggestion drive the scenes that unfold. In general, long-form aims to create a sort of story and encourages an audience to see it as a movement with a beginning, middle, and end. Long-form often adopts a formula of scenes/techniques in order to accomplish this feat like the “Harold” which was developed at Chicago's ImprovOlympic.
http://www.getsuspicious.com/

Thomas Brady "Traces"
International performance artist Tom Brady began exploring performance as art in the early 70’s.  This current work of original music and action is presented as a Koan, a  riddle, a paradox, an aid in meditation to gain intuitive knowledge.  Objects, actions, words empowered by association, infused with mystic meaning emerge as dancing visions of the unknowable, untouchable, the unreachable, the unheard and the unspeakable.  Brady’s work sculpts light and shadow to create magical images, reflections on the state of being.
tombrady2@mac.com

UCB TourCo
The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre (UCBT) is nationally known as the home for cutting-edge sketch comedy and innovative improv in New York City and on televisions across the country.   Founded by Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, UCBT has theatres in New York City and now in Los Angeles. UCBT is nationally recognized for comedy, improv training, and as the home of some of the top improv talent in the country. UCB is only performing at LAUGHS ON THE LANDING THURSDAY EVENING and at WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE GARGOYLE.
http://www.ucbtheatre.com

All Fringe Festival Tickets are $5 for Students/Seniors and $10 for General Adult Admission. All Festival performances are performed at COCA (Center of Creative Arts) located at 524 Trinity Avenue in the Delmar Loop/Washington University area in University City near Big Bend Blvd "Lion's Towers."

For reservations 314-647-8030 otherwise click festival@stlfringe.com