What You Need to Do Is!
Bugalug Ink (Eric Simons & Alsa Bruno)
Silly characters, real advice—What You Need to Do Is! is an improvised, life coaching seminar. You ask REAL questions and we help your solve everything from the smallest quibbles to serious GROWN FOLK BUSINESS.
Venue: Phoenix Theater
Tagged For: Comedy, Improv, Storytelling, Audience Participation
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Crude Humor
Ages 12-15 and up
The reason for this one? Alsa Bruno - the other half of the Bugalug Ink team alongside Eric Simons (aka, Clemons Samons, Owner, Coach, Power Forward)
Here's a reason it’s good to have human pictures in your Fringe publicity. You stop and think “Hey, I know that guy!” He’s not really Logan Jack, Renaissance Gentleman, Retired Rodeo Clown - he’s Alsa Bruno.
Alsa’s a founding member of Blackout Improv (another returning favorite for this year’s Fringe) and co-founder of the Black and Funny Improv Festival.
He was also part of the ensemble for “I Never Eat December Snowflakes,” an original holiday show concocted by the theater company Little Lifeboats back in 2015, for which I was one of the writers. 40 short pieces, chosen from at random by the audience, performed by the ensemble in rapid-fire succession until the show time ran out, or they ran out of pieces to perform, whichever came first. Not quite improv but close enough for that show.
This Fringe outing is genuine improv and though I’m intrigued by the concept, I just know Alsa delivers the funny, so that’s enough to get me in the door, and get a high placement on the top 10 list this year.
He’s also on the roster for the Blackout Improv show, so there’s a couple of places to catch him in action this Fringe.
Here's some handy links to this year's Top 10 list and Top 11-20 list, also a full list of all returning favorites to this year's Fringe, plus a link to all the 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival coverage.
While I have your attention, please VOTE :)
Minnesota is currently in the early voting period
for our Congressional and local primaries (I had the U.S. Senate,
Congress, and the Minneapolis school board on my ballot) - final day to
vote in the primary is Tuesday, August 13th, but you don't have to wait
until Fringe is over, go vote right now :)
Early voting for the Presidential Election itself in Minnesota starts on Friday, September 20th.
We're lucky to have a lot of time to get our voices heard, so cast your
vote, and then make sure everyone you know and love is registered and
gets to the polls to vote. Election Day, your final date to vote, is Tuesday, November 5th.
As a queer playwright and theater maker, I want a government that's compassionate and competent enough to keep us all safe and healthy, keep theaters open and running, and personally, I'd just like to be legal myself and keep the weirdos out of government and out of my personal business (and the things I post on this blog, for instance). We all have our reasons, so let's make sure we get the leaders we need and deserve, and get our friends, family and co-workers to raise their voices, too.
Find where to vote and what's on your ballot (with links to candidate websites) and other resources at the Minnesota Secretary of State's website.
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Vote. Raise your voice. We're not going back.
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