Q: I am interested in being on team, how would I go about that?

 

A: Good question!  We are always looking for talented improvisers (although no experience is necessary).  At the begging of every quarter we hold auditions that are open to any UCI student.  There is no preperation required, all you need to do is show up and go with the flow.  Even members that have been on the team for years must reaudition every quarter so we are always trying to fill 9 spots; the three captains are the only ones that do not audition.  Check the LNP Events page to find out the time and place for upcoming auditions.

 

Q: What type of time commitment does someone on the team going to have to give?

 

A: Our practices are from 5-6pm Tuesdays and Thursdays and 3-6pm Fridays.  We allow very few acceptions and do not cast people on the team if they have conflicts with this rehearsal schedule.

 

Q: How does someone become one of the three captains?

 

A: Whenever a captain is graduating from school (or unable to be a part of the team) the current captains meet to decide who will take his or her place.

 

Q: What do the captains do exactly?

 

A: The captains all have different jobs that we are always trying to clarify further.  Basically the three captains are split into: Advertising, Getting Spaces, and Financing.  In reality we all end up doing a little bit of everything.  Each captain also captains their 4-person team, runs practices, and hosts one show each quarter.  As you can see, we don't have any captain in charge of this website, which is why we are very thankfull to Tom Harris for buying, designing, and running it for us, free of charge.

 

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Live Nude People (With Clothes On)! is UC Irvine's premier, award-winning improv comedy troupe.

It was begun by grad actor Eric Stein in 1998, passed down to undergrad actor Crystal Solomon after Eric's graduation in 2000, and stolen from Crystal in 2001 in a mutinous but necessary hostile takeover by three of its undergrad players: Nathan Makaryk, Christopher "Shaggy" Wolfe, and Lindsay Hendrickson. It has been consistently run in this Three Captain style ever since.

Since its birth, Live Nude People has promised the bored and culturally deprived students of UCI a repreive from their bland surroundings. Every other Friday at 11pm the inhabitants of Irvine are given a spectacle the likes of which they would not otherwise see. There are flashy costumes, there is flashy music, and there is even flashier comedy.

At its inception, LNP was lucky to pull in an audience of 20. After seven years of playing to increasingly fanatic audiences, it consistently pulls in anywhere from 200 to 400 people a show, depending on venue size. For a performance troupe that is completely independent from the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts and with zero advertisement power beyond word-of-mouth and Photoshop posters around the UCI campus, this is quite a feat.

The UCI CT School of the Arts allows LNP to use whatever performance space is free and for this, LNP loves the UCI Production Office, or at least Toby. Also, just last fall, the Associated Students of UC Irvine (ASUCI) began allotting a small quarterly financial assistance to LNP and the troupe has been able to call itself "an ASUCI Sponsored Event" ever since. The phrase looks nice on posters and LNP hopes that one day it will prevent people from tearing down said posters. By the way, whoever keeps doing that: stop it.

The troupe consists of twelve players, all UCI students, though not by any means limited to Drama majors or even undergraduates. Players past and present have been English majors (both graduate and undergraduate), Psychology majors, and one guy who made up his own major: Arts-Humanities (whatever the hell that means, Spencer Williams).

Certain LNP alumni now perform or have performed in "Improv Shmimprov," an improv troupe performing in Fullerton at the Maverick Theatre to sold out audiences. Nudes are taking over Southern California. Please visit their website at http://www.improvshmimprov.com to learn more about them.

Live Nude People (With Clothes On)! is and forever has been ENTIRELY FREE to anyone who attends. Whether you'll get a seat is another matter entirely . . . because we're so popular, you see. Oh, man, are we popular.