2026 RISE Comedy Festival (Mainstage) – Mockumentary Now! / Pawn Takes Queen / Booze & The Boys / Basement Doctors - Sat 8/1/26 @ 9:00 PM

MOCKUMENTARY NOW!

Voted the best film of 1992, Mockumentary Now! is not a film. It’s an improv team of seasoned performers trying to piece together a documentary on the fly, live on stage. Each documentary is inspired by an audience suggestion — and goes completely off the rails from there.

CAST: Haley Cohen, Sam Johnson, Jason Wagner, Aurelia Vanderkolk, Katie Bates, Melissa Schenter, Todd Sullivan, David Luzader, Claire Shope

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PAWN TAKES QUEEN

Pawn Takes Queen is a long form improv team hailing from Southern Utah. They perform a monoscene centered around rich relationships and conversational tangents — always surprising, always human.

CAST: TJ Penrod, Wendy Penrod, Rev McLean

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BOOZE & THE BOYS

Booze & The Boys is a Cleveland-based comedy trio featuring Katie Booze-Mooney, Alex Shaver, and Ryan Santa — a three-person long-form improv team focused on emotionally honest and compelling character-based scenes.

CAST: Katie Booze-Mooney, Ryan Santa, Alex Shaver

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BASEMENT DOCTORS

Basement Doctors is a long form improv troupe in which none of the performers has a PhD (well… one of us does now…). Each show is inspired by a text message from the audience and always gives doses of the unexpected.

CAST: Cass Jacoby, David Luzader, Brian McCarthy, Connor Schuck, Jill Tsai