TJ and Dave
2002-present ยท Chicago, IL; New York, NY
Also known as TJ & Dave
TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi's weekly two-person long-form, widely considered the gold standard of contemporary improvised theater.
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- Started at iO Chicago in 2002; weekly in Chicago continuously since, monthly at Barrow Street Theatre NYC since 2006.
- Format: two performers walk out with no premise. One hour later, the audience has watched a full improvised play.
- Called by the NYT 'the premier improv duo working today' and 'Second City-seasoned masters of long form.'
- Subject of the 2009 documentary 'Trust Us, This is All Made Up.'
- Subject of the book 'Improvisation at the Speed of Life: The TJ and Dave Book' (Jagodowski, Pasquesi, Victor, 2015), one of the two or three most referenced improv craft books of the 2010s.
- Toured Poland, Italy, Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany.
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