Snag a spot in one of our Festival Workshops!
All four DICF Workshops will be held on Saturday, April 12th at Zounds Sounds in Dallas. This is your chance to enhance your comedy education and learn performance skills from some of the best local and visiting instructors! No two workshops are the same, so there's something fun for everyone. Workshops are open to students 18+. Follow the Workshop Tickets link to secure your spot!
For festival show tickets and passes, visit the DICF Shows page.
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LET'S GET PHYSICAL!
Led by Ryan Asher (Los Angeles, CA) Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 11:00am-1:00pm Price: $60 Location: Zounds Sounds (10050 Shoreview Rd, Dallas, TX 75238) Do you struggle with getting stuck in your head? Are you worried about saying the right thing during improv scenes? Then LET’S GET PHYSICAL is the workshop for you! We get out of our heads and into our bodies with a series of physical and emotional warm ups and exercises. Focusing more on character physicality, emotion, and environment work will help you follow the fun and find more play in your improv. About the Instructor: Ryan Asher is a Los Angeles based comedian by way of Chicago. She can be seen on The Joe Schmo Show reboot on TBS, as well as on Comedy Central. She has been performing improv, sketch, and solo performance across the country for 15 years. She has toured with The Second City’s National Touring Company, performed original work at The Kennedy Center, and on Second City’s Mainstage. In LA she can be found performing in Judd Apatow and friends at The Largo, and with The Armando at Elysian, as well as on the UCB Betty Team. When she’s not performing she is making crazy character content for TikTok and Instagram. Ryan loves appetizers, reality tv, and gossip. |
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Rhyme Time: Musically-Inclined Sublime Punchlines
Led by Colten Winburn & Daniel Matthews (Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL) Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 11:00am-1:00pm Price: $50 Location: Zounds Sounds (10050 Shoreview Rd, Dallas, TX 75238) An introduction to short form, premise based musical improv focusing on skills to improve rhyming technique, consistency, and finding the game. Join Colten and Daniel for two hours of silly singing, bolstered by their cumulative decades of being goofy lil guys. About the Instructors: Colten and Daniel started performing together at the UNT Improv Club in 2011 where they would go on to run workshops as the leaders of the club. They graduated from the improv and sketch programs at The Dallas Comedy House, separately(to their dismay). In 2017 they joined Four Day Weekend, honed their musical improv chops, and eventually trained a new generation of performers in the art of rhyme. It’s debatable whether they have spent more time singing together on stage, or singing together in their cars on the way to sing on stage. You can catch Colten at the Four Day Weekend Dallas mainstage shows, and Daniel at the Annoyance theater’s Tuesday Musical Improv. |
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Gut Check
Led by Rachel Farmer & Tim Yager (Dallas, TX) Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 2:00-4:00pm Price: $50 Location: Zounds Sounds (10050 Shoreview Rd, Dallas, TX 75238) Explore the power of instinct and emotional truth in this dynamic improv workshop led by Chicago-trained improvisers Rachel Farmer and Tim Yager. Through exercises rooted in spontaneity and commitment, you'll learn to trust your first response, break free from overthinking, and forge deeper connections with your scene partners. Play fearlessly and find authentic expression in every scene. About the Instructors: Rachel Farmer brings her diverse experiences to the DFW area as an educator, coach, and performer. She has trained with and performed on the stages of iO, The Annoyance, and Second City theaters in Chicago. Some of her career highlights include performances in New York Fringe and Off-Broadway and touring with Second City Theatricals. You can see her around DFW improvising with Bonobos and Mama Tried. She’ll write a sketch or jam with ya anytime - just ask! Rachel currently works in operations management utilizing the principles of improvisation on a daily basis. Try to find her on social media and explain how you keep up with it. Tim Yager is an alumni of iO (Chicago), The Annoyance Theatre (Chicago), and the Four Day Weekend (Fort Worth) training centers. In Chicago, Tim performed with two iO Harold teams, The Rabble and RGB. In Dallas, Tim performed performed with ComedySportz DFW, Four Day Weekend, FIAD, Victory Point, Samurai Drunk, and Kool Aid, and currently performs with Mama Tried and Last Second Chance. In Nashville, he debuted Third Coast Comedy Club’s first and longest running show, The Third Coast Comedy Show, remounted Samurai Drunk, sat in on multiple Life In Mono shows, and made up half of Luke & Tim. While at Third Coast he also founded and ran the Third Coast Comedy Training Center for its first several years until COVID took him back to Dallas. In addition to performing, Tim has taught at Four Day Weekend (Fort Worth & Dallas), Dallas Comedy House (Dallas), and Third Coast Comedy Club (Nashville) and enjoys being a less-than-prolific filmmaker. |
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Puppet Playtime for the Stage
Led by Daniel Matthews (Chicago, IL) Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 2:00-4:00pm Price: $50 Location: Zounds Sounds (10050 Shoreview Rd, Dallas, TX 75238) Have a love for fleece and felt? Never know what to do with your hands while performing? Join professional improviser and puppeteer Daniel Matthews for a crash course in puppetry for the stage. Daniel will cover the basics of stage puppet techniques such as proper eye focus and tuning in your lip sync as well as some techniques to performing as a human with puppet scene partners. Come learn that there’s more to puppets than just flapping mouths and flailing arms (though those are fun too!) and inject your scenework with something metaphorically warm and literally fuzzy. Please note: Daniel will not be teaching ventriloquism. He cannot do that. Optional Workshop Add-On: Take your workshop puppet home! About the Instructor: Daniel Matthews has been a professional puppeteer since 2013, getting his starting experience at the Beyond the Sock Workshop held at the University of North Texas. He began performing freelance puppetry for the screen very soon after, and eventually found a way to combine his love of puppets and improv together. Daniel assembled the Dallas-based improv team Empty Inside with whom he performed regularly at the Dallas Comedy House and subsequently The Monday Night Feast. Daniel also performed a recurring improvised puppet segment in the Four Day Weekend mainstage show for many years. |
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