Name Change Pending - Extreme Improv

These guy do it again. They have taken the normal everyday improv games like one might have seen on "Who's Line is it Anyways" and combined it with daredevil stunts that you may have seen on "Jackass." We like to think of it as "Who's jackass is it anyways?" Thus creating a new brand of improv... extreme improv!

Name Change Pending has invented and perfected such unusual games as "Head in a Bucket of...", "A Flogging Good Time", "Ice On the Rocks", "Cram It!", "Shock Therapy", "Drug of Choice", and "Strip Torture". Name Change Pending is constantly developing and producing new games, with the intent to keep our production fresh.

The sole purpose of Extreme Improv is simple: To make the audience laugh out loud... and that's just what they do!

You will never know what to expect at a show... one show even saw two 80 year old female audience members joyously swinging a Cat-o'-Nine-Tails. Cast members regularly get flogged, clamped with clothes pins and once they were beaten with chalk dust filled socks!

Rare is it when they don't hear a round of "I can't believe that they did that!" from audience members as they leave the show. That's probably why they keep coming back for more.

Name Change Pending is now officially the longest running show at the Orlando Fringe Festival (eight consecutive years) May 14-May 24, 2009!

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Growing up in Boca Raton, Jay has been a comedian all his life, or so his mother told him. While attending Boca High and Palm Beach Community College, Jay pursued theatre with a passion. Beginning in 1991, Jay performed Children's Theatre at The Drama Center and Little Palm Family Theatre on and off for ten years. Bored with memorizing lines, Jay joined Comics Anonymous Improvisation Troupe of South Florida. Wanting more creative control, numerous members split from C.A. and formed Name Change Pending. Four years later, Jay is the only original member left, leaving him in charge. In 2001, Jay recast NCP with new amazingly talented performers and the success of the troupe has been outstanding. Currently, Jay runs his family business and is a substitute teacher of History in Palm Beach County. Jay is also an ordained Reverend and is currently looking for 12 disciples to go drinking with.

Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, Eric spent most of his childhood growing up in South Florida. While attending the University of Michigan, Eric ran Laughtrack, the student comedy club, where he performed regularly during his college career. During that time, Eric also performed stand up at comedy clubs throughout the Midwest, as well as, all over Florida. After his stand up career, he began working as a DJ, spinning at several clubs and radio stations.

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Brad brings an eclectic mélange of improvisational street theater to the group. He is best known for his role as Maxwell Silverhammer, the Royal Executioner at the Florida Renaissance Festival, and has played demented versions of French Admirals, English Dukes, and Barber-Surgeons that no country will claim. At Pirates in Paradise, he played a sea dog with an advanced case of scurvy, aptly named Barry Cuda. A superhero, a mad scientist, and a cop in a murder-mystery play round out this bizarre list. He has dabbled in stunt work (swords, hand-to-hand) with the Royal Chessmen, sings in a madrigal group called Dragonsfaire, and plays the dumbek, the tin whistle, and the conch shell.

Born "Edgar Knopfbaum," Mike suckled at the teat of a scruffy, but very maternal, german Shepard after being abandoned in upstate New York by an unmarried, former housekeeper for the Kennedy's. When Mike was roughly 6, he stumbled onto a highway and a caused a multi-vehicle accident. Shortly thereafter, the feral tyke was adopted by the hypochondriac, bi-polar EMT, Edna Dawkins, who found him at the scene. After eleven years of Edna shoving children's aspiring and cough medicine into him, Mike ran away and joined the circus. He quickly found a home amongst the clowns. He was a quick study and developed into the very popular "Halitosis Harry." After a wildly over-blown, and often repeated, incident involving a bottle of Southern Comfort and a bull elephant, Mike left the circus, but not clowning. Out on his own, Mike turned to street clowning, and was able to put himself through chiropractic college on the money tossed into his worn black derby with the polka dot sash. Mike discovered Improv after waking up in the back of Jay's car with an empty bottle of Southern Comfort under his arm and a nasty rash on his stomach. With the exception of a two year stint in California (trying to find himself), Mike has been with NCP ever since.

Matthew Kurit has been performing on and off with Name Chang Pending since 2002. He brings his own unique style of comedy with crazy characters such a motivational speaker man and autistic guy. Matt is a father of two beautiful girls and three not as beautiful dogs. Matt is easily recognizable as he is always the one wearing either Ohio State or Cleveland Indians gear.