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It’s far from a seat-of-the-pants, anything-goes anarchic approach. The comedy arts program at DePaul, headed by Liz Joynt Sandberg, brings in a wide range of students in writing, performance, directing, technical production, arts management, and dramaturgy. To once again upend assumptions, dramaturgy isn’t just about working with new playwrights or researching old ones. As MessFest dramaturg Josephine Clarke tells me, “Comedians do a lot of dramaturgy. They just don’t call it that.
Sandberg, who took over the DePaul comedy arts program just ahead of the 2020 pandemic shutdown, notes that she’s always been interested in “the academic study of comedy, but specifically sort of this really unique combination of applied improv and applied comedy—theory as well as practice.” During the group meeting in November before the students dispersed into separate rehearsals, Sandberg reminded them, “This is not the time to chill out.” And, in conversations with other students, it’s apparent that nobody is treating this comedy festival lightly, no matter how fun the generative process is., notes that the spring residency at Annoyance was “MessFest 1.5. I think we did nine weeks of weekly 90-minute shows.
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