The Queen's Secret Improv Club

05/03/2021

Hello,
I just heard some very sad news that Funkle Todd’s Dana Kaplan-Angle has passed away. Dana was a true light both on stage and off. I am passing along this doc if you would like to add yourself to it to stay in the loop about a memorial service. I hope you all are well and I’m sorry to be in touch with this kind of news.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FPEEdEUGoiSLdPKdCS8YiKCwnwlY9sg4JfeLlEehmEg/htmlview =1271987021

06/02/2018

Today is the last day that the Shannon Pot will be open. RIP for good this time.

05/16/2016

Posting this here for maximum reach. Please consider donating to this fund in memory of Timmy Wood.
https://www.gofundme.com/timmywood

Our dear friend Timmy Wood passed away unexpectendly on May 15, 2016. He was a husband, a brother, a friend, a wildman, a Texan, a movie lover, a life lover and his major passion was comedy. In lieu of flowers, we're going to start a Timmy Wood Comedy Memorial Fund. The proceeds will go toward...

08/09/2015

After a summer of less than ideal possibilities for housing QSIC, we have a promising meeting about a potential new home base for QSIC this Tuesday. Stay tuned for possible good news, or possible final news.

06/02/2015

I have a good amountof hot ass QSIC t-shirts available if anybody is interested in buying one. Suggested donation is $10 but will sell for literally any price because my GF is mad at the space they are taking up and I am out a LOT of money for them. Improv collectors item if we are dead forever, and you have a rare shirt mostly only our performers have if we open again in fall. Sizes S,ML,XL

05/27/2015

I usually don't write in the first person on the page like this, but this is a special instance. Unfortunately I received the terrible news today from The Secret Theatre owner, that the building's owner leased the Little Theatre space to a new tenant out from under us. This means that The Queen's Secret Improv Club is currently without a home starting JUNE 1st. I am, to say the least, very dismayed at this turn of events. People are already saying they are sorry to me, but this is not a personal loss so please DON'T be sorry for me. This isn't a business that I profit from, really it's just a lot of work for me. This is really affecting over one hundred regular performers as well as several hundred more per year with all the indie teams that play across all 6 of our nights, so this is much bigger than me at this point.
The initial plan will be to take the summer off to explore other options for a possible home base, or at least a solid interim base. If you have any leads in this area, please let me know. I can tell you I am not looking for a significant downgrade from what we once had, which was pretty good. I may also poll the community to see if there is even enough interest or need for me to justify continuing The QSIC. We exist to serve the entire indie improv community, so that is important to know. Write comments here if you want, but I may send an anonymous survey out at some point which if you take a moment to fill out, will help decide fate.

I sincerely want to thank everyone who has and is investing their time and work into this crazy idea that really kinda was working. Thanks to Mike Short and Anthony Apodaca for partnering and making Blind Tiger a success here, and Derek Dahmann for his work on Sunday nights with Tyro and QIC, and of course to Stefan Wenger for launching an incredibly successful musical program. I think no matter what happens in the end, I can say we were succeeding, but we were cut down by NYC real estate, glutinous landowners, and the unforgiving anti-artist landscape we are, for some reason, allowing this city to become.

I especially want to thank people who really went above and beyond to help run this beast over the last 3 years and without whom I would have drowned and failed long ago, so thank you Athos, Lauren Brickman, Jewel Elizabeth, Nathan Bredeman, all our techs, and our Wednesday night house teams for holding down the jam for a while now.

Much love and be assured I will be working to fix this if possible if it is what the community wants.
SIncerely,
Frank Angelini
Artistic Director (maybe)
The Queen's Secret Improv Club
https://youtu.be/9PXhj2IY4IY?t=22s

This Track is taken from the album "Best of Reggae Lounge (the 80s edition)" CD and digital release: July 26th, 2013 Get your copy here: http://tinyurl.com/q...

05/26/2015

The QSIC is booking teams forJune and July. Sign your team up for a run playing weekly at this link. https://docs.google.com/…/1X2eP4d0fSL8rCVBJ5cbPBLC…/viewform

04/22/2015

The QSIC is booking for May and beyond. Submit and expand your improv network and expose yourself and your team to the larger improv community in NYC.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X2eP4d0fSL8rCVBJ5cbPBLCKVHWzujtQZmPNClKf5pA/viewform

Use this form to book your team for shows at The QSIC. We have programming 6 nights a week, and are currently booking teams for several nights. We use player dues to keep individual player costs to a minimum, functioning as a collective to keep our great stage accessible to improv groups from any th…

04/11/2015

PopUp Musicals, our weekly musical improv hootenanny, is tonight:
-Hosted by house team Minotaur (welcoming a new member)!
-Hot Again and Space God (two kickass house teams)
-There's No Place Like Home (LGBTQ improv)
-Stefan Definitely (an improvised concept album)
-Orphan Alley (simply one of the best indy teams in town)
-Mixer at 10

See you at 7pm - $7 for the whole night!

03/22/2015

Highlights from last night's PopUp Musicals: GO!

03/15/2015

PopUp Musicals highlights… GO!!!