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This January, 24 teams of Toronto’s best improvisers
compete:
For honour. For glory. For a ridiculous trophy.
THE BAD DOG THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS: GLOBEHEAD 2018
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm - January 5-27 - at the Bad
Dog Comedy Theatre
Fresh off a year touring the North American improv festival
circuit, reigning Globehead champions the
Bloody Mary's
(Kirsten
Rasmussen
&
Leigh Cameron)
return to defend their title against
a who’s who of Toronto’s very best improv groups in Bad Dog’s
sixteenth annual
Globehead
tournament this January. Hosted by
Andrea Marston
(Toronto,
I Love You, The Kinkonauts),
Globehead
is a hotly-contested Toronto comedy tradition and the 2018 lineup
boasts some of the fiercest competition to ever vie for the
trophy.
Over the course of four weeks, twenty four teams and more than 80
improvisers will face off in this single-elimination
Theatresports-style
tournament - performing spontaneous scenes scored by the
audience.
Among this year’s challengers:
local buzz-makers and OFF JFL (Montreal) sensations:
Coko & Daphney
(Coko Galore & Daphney Joseph),
Tallboyz to Men
(Tim Blair, Guled Abdi, Franco Nguyen & Vance Banzo)
&
Tony Ho (Roger Bainbridge, Adam Niebergall and The Beaverton’s Miguel Rivas)
past two-time Globehead champs
MTCIPftMTCwTM (featuring AJ Vaage of YTV’s That’s So Weird)
and perennial finalists/fan-favourites
Odin's Song (including Alice Moran, star of CBC’s upcoming comedy
Crawford)
the Canadian Comedy Award-winning creator of Monkey Toast,
David Shore, single-handedly taking on the competition in a bold gambit as a
team of just one
...and 17 more talent-packed teams including Toronto comedy
heavyweights like Canadian Comedy Award-winners for Best Improviser
Lisa Merchant,
Sean Tabares
&
Sarah Hillier;
Nigel Downer (Second City),
Tess Degenstein (Blind Date),
Christian Smith (The Adventures of Tom Shadow),
Hannah Spear (Filth City),
Alastair Forbes (Sunnyside),
Kat Letwin (Chasse-Galerie),
Lindsay Mullan (Second City),
Matt Folliott (Family Channel’s The Next Step),
Nicky Nasrallah (Beyography) and more!
Full lineup and tournament schedule available online at: http://baddogtheatre.com/globehead
GLOBEHEAD 2018
Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
(Semi-Finals: January 26; FINALS: January 27)
Location:
Bad Dog Comedy Theatre (875 Bloor St. W)
Tickets
are $15 regular/ $10 student - $75 All Access Pass - $40 Four Show
Flex Pass
Tickets are available at the door, online at
http://baddogtheatre.com/globehead
or via the Bad Dog Box Office at
416-491-3115.
2017-12-18
Toronto: Bad Dog Theatre Company presents "Globehead 2018" January 2018