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We're kicking off our season of giving for the Countdown Improv Festival!
Our spring fundraising drive kicks off on Tuesday, April 16 with the live announcement of the 2024 festival lineup, and concludes with an all-out improv marathon on Sunday, June 2, where founders and executive producers Kelly Buttermore and Justin Peters will perform their own abbreviated version of every single act show that will appear at this year's festival in August. We've got over 90 acts in this year's festival, and you're going to want to watch us tackle them all. It wouldn't be a Countdown fundraiser without an elaborate and unnecessary performance stunt!
Join us live at The Commodore Theater in Tampa and online at https://twitch.tv/countdownimprov for these two great events.
Help us reach our $5,000 fundraising goal so that we can make the 2024 Countdown Improv Festival the biggest and best one yet.
2024 will be the biggest and most ambitious year yet for the Countdown Improv Festival: the world's only improv comedy festival exclusively devoted to trio, duo, and solo performance. Produced by Countdown Arts, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the festival will take place in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa from August 7-11, 2024. We need your support to help make it happen.
From its humble beginnings in 2017, the Countdown Improv Festival has grown into one of the best, most acclaimed events of its kind. In 2024, we will build on our track record of success by, among other things, running shows on three separate stages at the HCC Ybor Performing Arts Building, introducing new audiences to our event, and expanding our programming to include performances and workshops for kids, teens, and families. Your financial support is critical to our efforts to fully resource the festival and help continue to make it a destination for world-class improv comedy in Tampa Bay.
We've set a campaign goal of $5,000 , a sum that will help us offset costs associated with securing the venue, programming world-class shows and workshops, extending unparalleled hospitality to our instructors and performers, expanding our production team, and promoting the festival across the region.
Countdown Improv Festival co-founders and producers Kelly Buttermore and Justin Peters are the world’s foremost independent improv duo, and have performed, taught, and produced improvisational comedy together for over a decade. As the duo known as From Justin to Kelly, they have performed and taught hundreds upon hundreds of times in 29 different states, D.C., Canada, and international waters, and have headlined dozens of national improv festivals.
In early 2017, they mobilized the firsthand experiences -- both positive and negative -- that they had gained by participating in other festivals to found the Countdown Improv Festival, the world’s first and only improv festival devoted exclusively to small-group improv. Their mission was to foster a professional, supportive, welcoming, community-focused event where all participants felt equally valued and appreciated. The festival, now in its eighth year, has quickly become the most anticipated event of the year for trio, duo, and solo improv across the nation.
Perks
We're not making new fundraiser shirts this year -- we have so many damn shirts leftover from past festivals that it's sort of ridiculous. Give at this level and you'll get a super soft and stylish vintage Countdown shirt of our choosing, sent right to your door!
Don't want your show interpreted by Kelly & Justin in the culminating marathon? Or maybe you just want to take pity on us and give us a sure-to-be-needed break in what will be a 12-hour performance day? Give us $100 and we'll skip your act!
We're doing snippets of all 90+ shows at this year's festival. Think you or someone else deserves the star treatment? Donate at this level and we'll do a full-length (18-22 minute) version of your show -- or any other show you'd like us to do! -- at our marathon in June.
This donation level is for people who don't really want or need any festival swag, but who just want the tax write-off. Well, here you go! We won't mail you anything, and you can take the full tax deduction for your donation. In exchange, we'll thank you profusely during the fundraising event and during the festival. We'll also induct you into the Countdown Club: Our prestigious circle of high-rolling donors. This is basically just a "name-on-the-website" thing at this point, but there'll assuredly be more benefits as time goes on!
Donate at this level, and we'll name a room of your choosing at HCC after you for the entirety of the 2024 Countdown Improv Festival! Imagine the thrill of us ushering people in and out of the "[Your Name Here] Green Room" or pointing out the existence of "[Another Name Here] Bathroom"!
Donors at this level will be treated like VIPs at this year's Countdown Improv Festival. In addition to all of the preceding rewards, they'll enjoy 4 all-access weekend passes to the 2024 festival, and up to two complimentary slots per workshop, for up to three separate workshops over the course of the festival. Plus, we'll induct you into the Countdown Club: Our prestigious circle of high-rolling donors. This is basically just a "name-on-the-website" thing at this point, but there'll assuredly be more benefits as time goes on!
Highlights
See all activity10We're not making new fundraiser shirts this year -- we have so many damn shirts leftover from past festivals that it's sort of ridiculous. Give at this level and you'll get a super soft and stylish vintage Countdown shirt of our choosing, sent right to your door!
Don't want your show interpreted by Kelly & Justin in the culminating marathon? Or maybe you just want to take pity on us and give us a sure-to-be-needed break in what will be a 12-hour performance day? Give us $100 and we'll skip your act!
We're doing snippets of all 90+ shows at this year's festival. Think you or someone else deserves the star treatment? Donate at this level and we'll do a full-length (18-22 minute) version of your show -- or any other show you'd like us to do! -- at our marathon in June.
This donation level is for people who don't really want or need any festival swag, but who just want the tax write-off. Well, here you go! We won't mail you anything, and you can take the full tax deduction for your donation. In exchange, we'll thank you profusely during the fundraising event and during the festival. We'll also induct you into the Countdown Club: Our prestigious circle of high-rolling donors. This is basically just a "name-on-the-website" thing at this point, but there'll assuredly be more benefits as time goes on!
Donate at this level, and we'll name a room of your choosing at HCC after you for the entirety of the 2024 Countdown Improv Festival! Imagine the thrill of us ushering people in and out of the "[Your Name Here] Green Room" or pointing out the existence of "[Another Name Here] Bathroom"!
Donors at this level will be treated like VIPs at this year's Countdown Improv Festival. In addition to all of the preceding rewards, they'll enjoy 4 all-access weekend passes to the 2024 festival, and up to two complimentary slots per workshop, for up to three separate workshops over the course of the festival. Plus, we'll induct you into the Countdown Club: Our prestigious circle of high-rolling donors. This is basically just a "name-on-the-website" thing at this point, but there'll assuredly be more benefits as time goes on!
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