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It's OoBver!

Much thanks to everyone who made the 12th annual Out of Bounds such a huge success!

We'll be back August 26 - September 1, 2014 for lucky number 13.

For anyone interested in submitting stand-up, sketch, improv, and theatre shows for the 2014 festival, look out for that February 15 through May 1st.

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Does anyone recognize this year's trading card package design? It's a parody of an obscure, often made-fun-of trading card series from the 60s & 70s. Any guesses?

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You've seen OOB fest IRL but have you seen Austin Improv on public television?  It's coming.  Take a look.

http://bit.ly/15pgYIe

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Our photographers work so hard to capture each and every performance and upload their work just days after the event. See the fruits of their digital labor.

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In the great black room

there was a microphone

And a spraypainted boom

And a picture of—

The gnome skateboarding over the moon

and there were three funny players, sitting on chairs

and two clicking cameras and a pack of cards

and a ticket taker and a coffee maker

and a badge and a shirt...

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Of all the experiences I’ve had this week, stepping into Ezra Weisz’s mask workshop for five minutes to model this mask for the students was the most surreal and fascinating.  Having a dozen or so people - some friends, some complete strangers - stare intently at your face - but not *you* - and express the wide range of emotions it elicits is eerily satisfying.

Makes me want to try mask work again.

It was a perfect pause in the middle of a long, crazy day.

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The secret show is The Knuckleball Now, recounting ALL of Out of Bounds in twenty minutes or less.

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I think every single light bump at the Stateside has been called out on stage.  So much for subtlety.  :P

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Brad Hawkins unleashes the Hot Topic goth genie in the Baby Wants Candy lottery show.

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Next year...

Like many improvisers this weekend, I'm sitting in the Austin airport thinking about staying. Thanks for another great OOB staff, volunteers, performers and producers. (And if anyone has a Nerdvana trading card find me on Facebook. I never got to see it!) Star Seeds, Stephen C. James

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I’m Dennis Nottobetrusted. I come from a long line of Nottobetrusteds.  We’re Dutch.

The Doubtful Guests

(via unboundpage)

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View from the fog machine for Doubtful Guests tonight.

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Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara cope with Batman’s passive-aggressive gift of chairs while they wait for him to help with the insidious crimes of the Necktie Man.

Waiting for Batman!

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I had a very brief cameo in tonight’s show.  Much love to the commissioner and chief for hiring me on as receptionist.

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Thanks, Austin!

Thanks, Austin and OOB, for the incredible shows, wonderful conversations, blow-out parties and all around amazing experiences. Special thanks to the Doubtful Guests for the crainilingus. - Chris from Nerdvana

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Women Be Shoppin' from LA loved their first Out Of Bounds

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You know what? Chris Compton of NERDVANA got pulled on onstage for Magician Vs. Clown's fantastic sketch show too!