48 Hour Improv Marathon

 

“…sharp, focused, and riotously funny!”- The Austin Chronicle

*Winner of an Austin Critic’s Table Award*

At 5:00pm on Friday June 6, 2025, eight brave and foolish improvisers will take the Hideout stage and stay there until 5pm on Sunday the 8th, performing 48 STRAIGHT HOURS of improvisational theatre and comedy without sleep or respite.

Each hour of the marathon will be a separate show, featuring classic and upcoming Hideout formats, one-off shows never to be seen again, and guest troupes and players from Austin’s ever-growing improv community.

Each hour of the marathon will cost $5 to watch. An all-access Marathon pass is available for $48, which, if you’re crazy brave enough to see all the shows, is a HUGE savings!

Fri-Sun 6/6-6/8, 4:45pm Marathon All-Access Pass

An All-Access Pass to the Entire 48 Hours of the Marathon

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Fri 6/6, 5:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 1: Kids Mixer – featuring kids from our Hideout Summer Camp

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Fri 6/6, 6:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 2: And They’re Off – The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour

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Fri 6/6, 7:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 3: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed.

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Fri 6/6, 8:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 4: The Big Bash – A special 1-hour version of our hit show!

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Fri 6/6, 9:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 5: ¡ESCÁNDALO! – an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue.

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Fri 6/6, 10:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 6: PGraph – This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways.

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Fri 6/6, 11:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 7: BOO85 – Improv based on middle school memories

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Sat 6/7, 12:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 8: American Berserk Theatre Presents… – Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy.

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Sat 6/7, 1:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 9: The Zoregon Trail – The Oregon Trail in space. A spacefaring crew faces dangers galore on their way to Zoregon. Some will die.

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Sat 6/7, 2:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 10: The Harold – The 1st hour of the 2nd day… and a brief respite for the core 8 perform by themselves. And for you improvisers out there, they’ll be doing a Harold.

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Sat 6/7, 3:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 11: The Bat – a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark.

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Sat 6/7, 4:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 12: Halyn’s Hour – This show will be whatever our guest, Halyn, wants to do.

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Sat 6/7, 5:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 13: Hometown – Quirky Small town improv

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Sat 6/7, 6:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 14: Y’honor – Playing with the format of an improvised courtroom drama inspired by shows/movies like Boston Legal, My Cousin Vinny, and Legally Blonde.

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Sat 6/7, 7:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 15: What A Racket – Tired people “score” each others’ scenes with percussion instruments, Foley equipment and noise makers.

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Sat 6/7, 8:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 16: The Fancy Pants Mashup – A resurrection of a classic Hideout show! Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes.

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Sat 6/7, 9:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 17: Good Rap, Bad Rap – “Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, Good Rap, Bad Rap bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage.”

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Sat 6/7, 10:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 18: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed.

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Sat 6/7, 11:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 19: Minority Report – Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs!

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Sat 6/7, 12:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 20: Golden – Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage.

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Sat 6/7, 1:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 21: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed.

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Sat 6/7, 2:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 22: Reform School for Wayward Girls – An Improvised Show Set in a 1970s All-Girls Reform School

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Sat 6/7, 3:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 23: Friends for Now – Friends For Now is ColdTowne Theater’s Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT’s best Teachers and Performers.

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Sat 6/7, 4:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 24: Glitter Witch – Wild and Weird.

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Sat 6/7, 5:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 25: Austin Secrets – This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets.

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Sat 6/7, 6:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 26: The Knuckleball Now – TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence

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Sat 6/7, 7:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 27: VILLAIN: The Musical – A sneak peak at the upcoming musical. It’s gonna be wicked!

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Sat 6/7, 8:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 28: Horse Girl Dude Ranch – The Adventure of a lifetime for a Girl and Her Horse

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Sat 6/7, 9:00pm Improv Marathon

Hours 29 & 30: Maestro- The Hideout’s longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes!

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Sat 6/7, 11:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 31: Jane Austin Improv – A one-hour improvised Jane Austen play! Rom-Com with more British accents and costumes!

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Sun 6/8, 12:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 32: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed.

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Sun 6/8, 1:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 33: SLEEP STUDY – A returning favorite. The marathoners find themselves in a dystopian sleep study where nothing is as it seems.

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Sun 6/8, 2:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 34: Reason for the Season – The small town parks department is gearing up for the festival of the season! Will everything go to plan?

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Sun 6/8, 3:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 35: Jurassic Park – What better way to keep the marathoners awake than the wonder/terror of dinosaurs?

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Sun 6/8, 4:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 36: WHATEVER – The core cast do whatever the heck they want.

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Sun 6/8, 5:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 37: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed.

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Sun 6/8, 6:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 38: Puppet Time – LB shows up with a pile of puppets, and chaos ensues.

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Sun 6/8, 7:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 39: Gothic Romance – Sometimes love can be dangerous…

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Sun 6/8, 8:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 40: Dubbed Indemnity – Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it’s up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition!

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Sun 6/8, 9:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 41: Wizards of the West – Come on a fantastical journey through far off lands, tales of magic and mystic, creatures of myth, times of medieval, all from their tavern

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Sun 6/8, 10:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 42: Bad Is Good – Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver.

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Sun 6/8, 11:00am Improv Marathon

Hour 43: The Black Lily – Welcome to the ‘The Black Lily’, where luxury and adventure knows no bounds. Inspired by “White Lotus”

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Sun 6/8, 12:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 44: LakeVale – Return to LakeVale! Drama, intrigue, supernatural and more are afoot again in the actual real midseason finale!

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Sun 6/8, 1:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 45: Show in Reverse – A mind-bending narrative experiment

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Sun 6/8, 2:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 46: MUSICAL – An improvised musical as part of a 2-part plan to break the brains of the core team.

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Sun 6/8, 3:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 47: Fakespeare – Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete.

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Sun 6/8, 4:00pm Improv Marathon

Hour 48: Final Countdown – The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They’re free to do whatever they like… except sleep.

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This year’s marathon improvisers will be Halyn Cameron, Jade Fabello, J.R. Zambrano, Marissa Stubbe, Martha Neil, Mykel Jewell, Natalia Rubio, and Roy Janik

Ordinarily the Marathon serves as a fundraiser for The Hideout Youth Program. But this is no ordinary year!

For the first time in our quarter-of-a-century history, we have to move! In September we will leave 617 Congress Ave. for good. We are still on the hunt for a new home, but one thing is clear: we will need hundreds of thousands of dollars to build the type of theater that our community deserves.

For the entire marathon, we’ll be collecting donations from people like you.


WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK LAST YEAR’S SPONSORS:

Chuy’s, Vic & Al’s, Vigilante Gastropub & Games, Hoboken Pie,