Pretty cool, eh? We get a lot of (positive, thank you very much) feedback on our awesome show posters, and people are always asking who designs them. The answer is, elves.
Oh, that's not right. Actually, we do. It's a collaborative process whereby we first scour the calendar for exciting holidays that occur in the same month as our show - ie, President's Day for our February show. I mean, is there a more exciting holiday than President's Day? If there is no holiday to be had, we typically go with some kind of alcoholic beverage, as with Jim Beam & a Hundred Dollars.
Once we have our theme narrowed down, Darren usually comes up with a title. Not always, of course. Sonnjea suggested the always-popular Mother of All Improv Shows, a class vote got us Overexposed! and Andy provided both Peeps of Long Beach and the aforementioned Jim Beam & a Hundred Dollars. But the rest are all Darren: Last Laugh Saturday; Spiked!; Over Easy Like Sunday Morning; Four Score & First Fridays and now Lucky!
Next, Darren finds images that could work. Sometimes he finds tons of different possibilities. Sometimes he finds one. Sometimes he calls Sonnjea and says there are simply no pictures of alcohol in the known universe that could possibly work for our poster. But usually he sends Sonnjea a big ol' batch of photos and then Sonnjea goes to work in Illustrator and Photoshop and tries to make a poster that says, "Hey! We're funny! Come see us!" Or at least, "Hey! We're not totally remedial! And the show is free anyway, so what have you got to lose?"
We hope that's what Lucky! says to you! You can get all the details from the awesome poster, our FB page or our equally nifty website.
