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Powerpoint Roulette

Comedians, actors, and musicians are given a challenge: improvise a coherent presentation based on a set of slides that they have never seen before. All slides are taken from actual presentations given at business meetings and classrooms, but put together in bizarre and unlikely arrangements.

How do you move from a slide depicting the annual increase in fertilizer production in Turkmenistan to a slide analyzing gender dynamics in Frasier? We don’t know either, but we intend to find out.

Host Nat Towsen (Esquire, UCB) and musician/deckmeister Darren Solomon unite with one purpose in mind: to bring you the best presentation-software-based live comedy experience ANYWHERE.

PLUS: An actual scientist will have their actual, legit presentation “improved” before their very eyes by one of our guest improvisers! You won’t want to miss it!

Featuring:

Sebastian Conelli (HBO’s Search Party)

Jon Bander (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

Manolo Moreno (Comedy Central, Dr. Gameshow)

Tallie Medel (Cocoon Central Dance Team)

Allison Bishop

Music from Mikal Amin

Nat Towsen is a standup comedian, writer, and actor from Manhattan, New York. He is a humor writer at Esquire and a writer/editor at the tech/comedy startup Botnik. He has also written for The Onion, Vice, and CollegeHumor. He tours clubs across America with The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi. Towsen has studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the Bilingual Acting Workshop in Paris, and Emerson College in Boston. He is also an accomplished commercial actor and voiceover artist. He is represented by Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty. Towsen has been called a “comedic genius” by Time Out New York, a “polymath comedian” by The AV Club, and a “bright young man” by Bill Gates.

Darren Solomon is a Clio and Cannes Gold Lion award-winning composer, producer, bassist and keyboard player, based in Brooklyn. He has composed music for hundreds of TV commercials, toured with Ray Charles and Barry Manilow, and created the collaborative music websites In B Flat 2.0 and marker/music. He is a partner and creative director at Quiet City Music + Sound and a visiting affiliate artist at SUNY Purchase. Darren likes throwing his hands in the air, but draws the line at waving them like he just don’t care.

SHOW INFO
Doors 6:30 PM, show 7:00 PM.
Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $5 livestream.

21+

No outside food or drink is allowed.

COVID POLICIES
As we re-open we’re doing everything we can to keep our audience, performers, and staff safe and are complying with all Covid regulations.

As part of this, all attendees must present proof of full vaccination to enter. Proof can be via the New York State Excelsior pass, a physical copy of the CDC card, a photo of your CDC card, or other electronic record of vaccination includes name and date (e.g., some chain pharmacies have an app with this information). In all cases the name must match that on your photo ID.

Our full Covid policies can be found here.

REFUND POLICY
Tickets may be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.











When: Thu., Jul. 29, 2021 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Caveat
21 Clinton St.
212-228-2100
Price: $20-$25
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Comedians, actors, and musicians are given a challenge: improvise a coherent presentation based on a set of slides that they have never seen before. All slides are taken from actual presentations given at business meetings and classrooms, but put together in bizarre and unlikely arrangements.

How do you move from a slide depicting the annual increase in fertilizer production in Turkmenistan to a slide analyzing gender dynamics in Frasier? We don’t know either, but we intend to find out.

Host Nat Towsen (Esquire, UCB) and musician/deckmeister Darren Solomon unite with one purpose in mind: to bring you the best presentation-software-based live comedy experience ANYWHERE.

PLUS: An actual scientist will have their actual, legit presentation “improved” before their very eyes by one of our guest improvisers! You won’t want to miss it!

Featuring:

Sebastian Conelli (HBO’s Search Party)

Jon Bander (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

Manolo Moreno (Comedy Central, Dr. Gameshow)

Tallie Medel (Cocoon Central Dance Team)

Allison Bishop

Music from Mikal Amin

Nat Towsen is a standup comedian, writer, and actor from Manhattan, New York. He is a humor writer at Esquire and a writer/editor at the tech/comedy startup Botnik. He has also written for The Onion, Vice, and CollegeHumor. He tours clubs across America with The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi. Towsen has studied improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the Bilingual Acting Workshop in Paris, and Emerson College in Boston. He is also an accomplished commercial actor and voiceover artist. He is represented by Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty. Towsen has been called a “comedic genius” by Time Out New York, a “polymath comedian” by The AV Club, and a “bright young man” by Bill Gates.

Darren Solomon is a Clio and Cannes Gold Lion award-winning composer, producer, bassist and keyboard player, based in Brooklyn. He has composed music for hundreds of TV commercials, toured with Ray Charles and Barry Manilow, and created the collaborative music websites In B Flat 2.0 and marker/music. He is a partner and creative director at Quiet City Music + Sound and a visiting affiliate artist at SUNY Purchase. Darren likes throwing his hands in the air, but draws the line at waving them like he just don’t care.

SHOW INFO
Doors 6:30 PM, show 7:00 PM.
Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $5 livestream.

21+

No outside food or drink is allowed.

COVID POLICIES
As we re-open we’re doing everything we can to keep our audience, performers, and staff safe and are complying with all Covid regulations.

As part of this, all attendees must present proof of full vaccination to enter. Proof can be via the New York State Excelsior pass, a physical copy of the CDC card, a photo of your CDC card, or other electronic record of vaccination includes name and date (e.g., some chain pharmacies have an app with this information). In all cases the name must match that on your photo ID.

Our full Covid policies can be found here.

REFUND POLICY
Tickets may be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.

Buy tickets/get more info now