Strategist | Writer
Collaboration Coach | Improviser
You just have to align goals, manage personalities, engage participants,
guide discussions, agree on an outcome, make everyone feel valued, and achieve objectives.
In a 30-year corporate career, she’s been a trusted collaborator across creative, marketing, research, sales, and product development teams. (And a go-to emcee for company events.)
As a professional improv comedian and coach, she entertains audiences and brings out the best in other performers.
She has relied on both experiences when she has coached corporate leaders, small work groups, creative studios, a bunch of Presbyterian Elders and Deacons, and auditoriums full of theater kids, They leave engaged, energized, and more in sync than when they started.
Join us for a hilarious night of improv comedy with Tantrum to support One Good Meal! Get ready for unscripted laughs, quick wit, and unexpected twists—all for a great cause. Don’t miss this chance to enjoy top-notch comedy while helping provide meals to those in need.
Award-winning comedy group Explosive Group Chat performs our signature format, Chairnado!
Tell us about YOUR most explosive group chats to inspire a whirlwind of hilarious, fast-paced, completely improvised scenes and characters.
Featuring KC’s most experienced, reliable, relatable players so it’s guaranteed funny: John Adams, Trish Berrong, Carrie Blubaugh, Maggie Cargill, Ed Doris, Quinton Loder, Mark Orr, and Shannon Walsh.
PLUS The Bird Comedy Players, named KC’s Best Improv Troupe by The Pitch since 2022.
Celebrate Shakespeare’s 462nd birthday with some laughs and help the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival raise money for scholarships so kids can attend Camp Shakespeare!
The Bird’s musical comedy group improvises songs, games, and other nonsense on the spot from audience suggestions.
Monday, April 27
Doors open at 6:30pm | Show starts at 7pm
The Westport Bowery (in the back of the Westport Flea Market), 817 Westport Rd.
TICKET PRICES
Regular price: $15
Discount for military, students, ages 60+ (like Trish), and regularly performing improvisers: $10
Full service bar and Flea Market menu available! Plus cupcakes.
This show may contain adult (or super immature) content. Not recommended for kids who’ve never heard the F-word or are likely to ask questions you’re not ready to answer.
We’re back at The Bird to play our part in a showcase of 3 carefully curated improv comedy troupes.
Our favorite Minneapolis improviser, Jill Bernard, has been producing Duo for a Day since 2021—and now she’s bringing it to Kansas City!
We’re looking for 12 brave improvisers—4 directors and 8 performers—for one day of spontaneous storytelling.
Want to be one of them? Apply at this link:
https://forms.gle/DG3PzwDXF57kd8YWA
IMPORTANT DATES
—Applications due: Sunday, April 5, no later than 6pm
—Participants notified: Sunday, April 12, no later than 6pm
—Show day: Sunday, April 26, at the Bird Comedy Theater
5pm: Meeting for directors and performers
5-6:30pm: Directors rehearse with their performers
6:30pm: Short dinner break
7pm: House opens
7:30-9pmish: Show
9-9:30pm: Quick notes from directors
DUO FOR A DAY IS PART OF DOUBLE TROUBLE: THE IMPROV DUO COMEDY FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 23, through Monday, April 27, at The Bird Comedy Theater and The Westport Bowery.
All about the reps: Scenes followed by notes followed by scenes followed by notes.
Just a few players in my living room/ rehearsal space, so there’s enough time and space.
We’ll start at 10am and go till sometime between 11:30 and noon.
Tea, cocoa, and consensual dog kisses available at no extra charge
I’ve loved Star Wars from the beginning, but K2SO is the first action figure I can identify with.
I’ve got a thing for big red pencils. If you’ve met me, been to one of my classes, or seen me play, I’ve probably shoved one at you. So when Michelle Plante invited me to read in a storytelling event for “people reading short…
TRISH BERRONG 