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IMP presents Collidescope

By The Improv Movement Project

Directed by Mark Benzel & Sean Dillon

IMP’s seasoned cast of dancers, mimes, clowns, improvisers, and physical theater-makers takes an audience story and transforms it into an improvised kaleidoscope of bodies in motion - 100% physical, 0% verbal.
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 7-11 and up
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Cast and Crew
Mandi Bedbury
Performer
Mandi Bedbury is an actor, dancer, writer, and the Executive Director of Stage Your Change, a creative training and development company. Mandi's performing arts career began as a dancer and improv artist in New York as a backup dancer for Nancy Sinatra in Little Stevie’s Underground Music Festival, 1966 (A Night at the Whiskey-Go-Go), Treasure Island (Manhattan Children’s Theater), and the Notes in Motion Dance Company. Her television and film credits include Elskan (wrote/directed), Dating IRL (wrote/starred), (Mis)placed, Celebrity Ghost Stories, Across the Universe, Blood Son, and Love Taxi. The Improvised Movement Project has allowed Mandi to combine her movement background with her improv and acting skills into a unique performance experience, and is thrilled to perform at the MN Fringe 2024! Upcoming events include The Rusty Nails Improv Variety Hour at Strike Theater, end of August.
Mark Benzel
Performer/Co-creator
Mark Benzel (he/him) is a theatre maker and teacher who seeks out collaborating on new works across disciplines. His curiosity and playfulness through improv, movement, and writing has been seen locally in The Seven Shot Symphony (2011 Ivey Award Winner) and The Sparrow (Live Action Set). Houdini, Little Pilot, Unspeakable Things, etc (Sandbox Theatre), The Big Show (Jon Ferguson Theatre), and will you still love me tomorrow and Dreamless Land (Red Eye Theater). As a collaborative director and creator Mark has worked on The Rule of Three (Four Humors) and frequently with Brooklyn-based duo The Coldharts on Eddie Poe, Unrepentant Necrophile, Edgar Perry, and Edgar Allan, which has appeared in Fringe Festivals across the U.S. This January Mark will be co-directing a second run of the wordless, physically focused Improv Movement Project and performing in Attenborough: The Improvised Nature Documentary at HUGE theater. Mark also ongoingly works with the Remember Project to build more dementia-capable communities by using the arts and performance. Also catch Mark in Transatlantic Love Affairs 5X5 at Fringe!
Rachel Buhman
Performer
Rachel Buhman (she/her) is a Twin Cities based writer and performer. She has done everything from sketch, improv, stand-up, to storytelling. Most likely you've seen her improvising for seven years in shows at Strike and HUGE theater, where she has found a niche in movement based shows including Improv Movement Project; Collidescope and Miscellany (a collaborative creature show). Off the stage, Rachel studied screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago ('17) and is, currently, a script reader for the Austin Film Festival.
Alsa Bruno
Performer
Sean Dillon
Performer/Co-creator
Sean (he/him) is a scripted and scriptless theater-maker, founder of Oncoming Productions and the Improv Movement Project, and Managing Director at HUGE Improv Theater. Since his arrival from NY in 2011, he has appeared on MN stages with History Theatre, Theatre Pro Rata, Walking Shadow Theater Co, the Umbrella Collective, Ghoulish Delights, and others. He currently improvises with IMP, DillyDallHaus, Attenborough, and Star Trek: The Next Improvisation, and puppeteers a live-size juvenile T.Rex at the Science Museum of MN. UPCOMING: Oncoming Productions will be presenting his scripted diptych On the Table at the 2024 Twin Cities Horror Festival in October, and IMP will return to the HUGE stage in January 2024!
Evelyn Digirolamo
Performer
Evie Digirolamo (she/they) is a physical theater maker and aerial theater choreographer/performer based in the Twin Cities. She is a company member of Sandbox Theatre which creates original multi-disciplinary performance and founded the aerial theater The Swingset.
Gregory Parks
Performer
Gregory Parks (he/him) is a clown, actor, and improviser from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has performed on four continents with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, Disney Live!, Kinoshita Circus, and as part of clown festivals in China and India. He performs mostly silent solo improv titled "Where I Am Now". An advocate for representation and a proud geek, he has moderated, participated in, and created panels for CONvergence sci-fi-fantasy convention and is the host of CVG-TV's Con-Link.
Victoria Pyan
Performer
Victoria Pyan (she/her) is a Twin Cities Theatre maker. You may have seen her past fringe productions: Visitation, Geminae, The Last Bombardment, Two Jokes One Act, After Life and How to Date a Werewolf. Locally, Victoria has also appeared with Girl Friday Productions,Market Garden Theatre, Freshwater Theatre, Theatre Pro Rata, Theatre Unbound and Frank Theatre. She is a founding member of Little Lifeboats where she has worked on; Sing to Me Now, TEASE, Raise Your Voice (Suzanne Cross) That F--king Harriet Tubman Show, I Never Eat December Snowflakes, Confessions of a Butter Princess and Parhelion, She is also a company member of Oncoming Productions.
Henry James Walker
Performer
Henry James Walker (he/him, they/them) is a physical theatre artist, improviser, somatic practitioner, and anti-racist facilitator living in South Minneapolis. In 2018 he toured his solo show “Mimecycle” to the Chicago Fringe Festival - and may one day get back on his invisible bike in a theater near you. He is grateful to be a part of the Improv Movement Project, and hopes you enjoy Collidescope! Henryjameswalker.com | IG: @mimecyclist, @mimecycle, @henrywalkeryoga
Robbie Darling
Lights & Music
Robbie Darling (he/him) is a Twin Cities improviser, light/sound technician, and show producer. He has appeared in a variety of improvised performances since 2018 including Catchemon and Improvised Love is Blind, regularly runs lights and sound at HUGE Improv Theater, and produces Soda Pop Improv which occurs the first Friday of every month at Strike Theater. He has found collaborating with IMP's Collidescope especially fulfilling, and is excited to assist with the atmosphere surrounding the cast.
Butch Roy
Lights & Music - Aug 11
Butch Roy.
More Information

The Improv Movement Project, founded and led by Sean Dillon and Mark Benzel, aims to expand and transform the Twin Cities improv landscape through body-centric performance, education, and collaboration. Sean and Mark were lucky enough to assemble a company of 10 amazing physically-oriented performers from a variety of backgrounds who share this vision, and together they performed their first run of wordless, physical improvisation at HUGE Theater in Spring 2024. They are thrilled to bring their work to a wider audience at MN Fringe with our signature form, Collidescope.

In addition to performing, IMP holds free public playdates (half workshop, half jam) for improvisers and other physicality-enthusiastic theater types the 2nd Sunday of most months at HUGE. Interested folks should follow IMP's Facebook page, where the sign-up for these sessions will be released week-of. IMP believes firmly that there are no wrong bodies for this work, and encourages participation by all shapes and abilities. (No session Aug 2024, because Fringe.) IMP doesn't typically hold auditions, but we hope to expand in the future, and company members will likely be drawn from enthusiastic, talented folks we encounter in those sessions.

Thanks for your interest, and we can't wait to see you at the Festival!

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