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60-minutes of never been seen and never to be seen again. Type Cast will create poetry and comedic scenes based on audience suggestions. Local poets and improvisers take the stage. They get a one-word suggestion from the audience. The poets take to their typewriters and write a poem based on that suggestion while the improvisers create a scene using that same suggestion. At the end of the scene, the poets will recite their poems to the audience. The improvisers then bring those poems to life in another improvised scene. Hilarity ensues.

Catalyst Repertory’s crass, slap-stick comedy, snack food sitcom returns to IndyFringe for its final (we hope) installment.

You aren’t going to believe this, but somehow there’s cocaine in the chips again… again. When the notorious drug-lord “Sombrero,” returns, the gang all turns their blame on known snack villain and former intern, Patrick. Only this time, Patrick is innocent, and a bit preoccupied… in love. So, who’s wearing the big hat?

Experience the fourth year of a new rendition of 24 Unique Micro-Plays in 48 minutes! The evening promises an emotional and intellectual rollercoaster of ideas, absurdity, and comedy at breakneck speed as dictated by the audience! Journey through Italian futurism with slices of Dada, Surrealism, Brecht, Happenings, Grotowski, and Boal all thrown in. It’s a different show every night and if they do not complete the plays within 48 minutes each audience member receives a treat!

A completely improvised sci-fi romp takes the audience on an adventure that’s out of this world!

Spontaneous tales captures the wonder of science fiction through entirely improvised stories. Anything can happen from high orbit hijinks to cyber punk shenanigans. A guest will give a short monologue to help the performers get started, but what happens next is anyone’s guess!

A group of friends attempt to cross an ocean of impossibility when they set out to stage James Cameron’s cinematic masterpiece ‘Titanic’ in under an hour. Performed by 6 comedians with 2 overhead projectors and an embarrassingly low budget. Will they succeed or will they be lost at sea?

Ship of Dreams is a parody clown show for cinema nerds and pop culture nuts.

Award-winning gay comedian, Ron Popp, returns to IndyFringe one last time!

Ron Popp returns to IndyFringe once again with his fractured take on life growing up in small town Indiana, trying to lose pandemic weight, and touring as a comedian. Don’t miss this hilarious lesson in how to not take life too seriously.

Comedian, Mark Cashwell, hosts a team of 4 local comedians to play improvised versions of your favorite British Panel Shows!

Banter and wit reign supreme. You will laugh, you will learn, and you will be hooked to find the real version of the games on YouTube! Horrible accents optional, but highly encouraged!

What would people say at your memorial service?

Join clown and comedian, Julia VanderVeen, as she finds the perfect way to honor her beloved Grandma Mamie, trying everything from song and dance to playing characters from her grandmother’s past. In what the Hartford Courant called, “A solo tour de force… A willfully bizarre, comic, ironic, quietly hysterical succession of sketches, characters, and aphorisms” it’s not clear if Mamie’s memory is ever actually honored, but you are sure to laugh and enjoy the ride along the way.

You’ve seen your favorites shine in their element. We’re giving them a chance to shine in ours! We’ve invited some of our favorite Fringe performers to share the stage with us for some improv. Every show features different guests!

It’s a game show where the audience members are the contestants. You’ll laugh at the hostess and YOURSELF during this fusion of Stand-Up Comedy, Improv, and Sketch.

This comedy show with big Steve Harvey Family Feud vibes will prove that you, yes you, are hilarious.

Infertility, miscarriage, and abortion aren’t exactly a barrel of laughs… unless you hear Mandee tell it. Stand-up comedian and IndyFringe’s own Underdog Award recipient, Mandee McKelvey, is back with her new one-woman show that is packed with punchlines and heart where you’d least expect it. Exes & Embryos is an irreverent story that begins with one friend offering another her last frozen embryo… and ends with two women risking it all to live their dreams.

Jan Gudaitis, aka, Deadpan Jan, ironically brings life to this comedy show with her wild imagination and off-beat writing. Go on a hilarious joyride to unexpected places as she shares stories from her marginalized life with her husband to inviting the audience to a “Sex Party” at her house along with Mark Twain and Sherlock Holmes. Come find out why Gudaitis is defined as “A Sex Party” in Urban Dictionary, and why this is a show you won’t forget.

Brad Hinshaw brings Dadbod back to IndyFringe to share his updated experiences on being a husband, father, fool, and calorie consumer.

Dadbod is a lighthearted and earnest stand-up comedy performance by Brad Hinshaw, a husband and father that, at the end of the day, is just trying to do the right thing. With a lot of cuss words. A lot.

This one man Comedy of Errors finds Tim Mooney taking on THIRTEEN different characters, including FOUR PAIRS of twins! (He threw in two extra sets of twins just to up the challenge.) Tim explains, “it’s a play about mistaken identity with all of the identities being played by the same person. My challenge was to make sense of all of this in a way that the audience would immediately grasp the evolving situation, but still feel the delight of puzzling through the criss-cross confusion”. Winner of “Best Overall Show” at the So Many Shakespeares Festival and named “Digital Shakespeare Production of the Year” (2022) by the Young-Howze Theatre Awards.

“It doesn’t matter if you believe in Bigfoot or not. Because Bigfoot believes in you AND America.”

In the summer of 1978, two FBI agents must track down Bigfoot in order to prevent the evil Mothman from taking over the United States. Thrills! Action! Romance! Will Bigfoot defeat Mothman? Will Bigfoot save his ex-wife in time? Can Bigfoot Save America?!

It’s a fistful of Action, Romance, and Cryptids.

Aloha! It’s Hawaiian night at the BINGO Palace with Betsy Carmichael’s Hawaiian Luau BINGO. Betsy Carmichael, the Big BINGO Kahuna, is pulling out all the stops as she hosts another unforgettable night of BINGO. Grab your lucky trolls, grass skirts, and brush up on your limbo. All winners will get leid! Maholo. This is a fully interactive experience and Betsy’s 3rd return to IndyFringe.

A riotous whodunit mystery filled with suspense, hilarity, and alcohol.

They found lava in a hopeless place, in this saucy Rome-com from Clerical Error Productions.

Two idiots rip the Grinch open to investigate capitalism, ecoterrorism, and maybe a bit of casual xenophobia in this sketch comedy piece from Atlanta artists, Adam Friedman and Tom Zhang.

Critically acclaimed stand-up comedian Jamie Campbell dives into the reality of getting married in your 40’s and realizing that parenthood just isn’t going to happen.

A one-man explosion of Shakespeare’s most-beloved classic in a story that is a lot funnier than we ever knew it was.