Explore our past, present, and upcoming productions.
Robot Riot:
The Robot Comedy Hour
Whether you love, fear, or are sick to death of robots and AI and ready to RIOT, have we got a show for you.
Get ready for a Robot Riot, with world-leading AI Ethics experts roasting AI and Robotics… Denver’s top AI and robotics-themed improv teams… and comedy acts involving real robots.
Don’t miss it… it’ll be a riot!
Robot Riot is hosted by Human-Robot Interaction expert Dr. Tom Williams, Director of the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab (MIRRORLab).
Black Mirror /
Red Carpet
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You are cordially invited to the red carpet premiere of three new science fiction "episodes" that will be "screened" for the first — and last — time.
Put on your finest duds and join local tech ethics students as they share their pitches for "Black Mirror"-like storylines grounded in their concerns for the future of technology + society... and then see our team of improvisers bring those stories to life, with you choosing which "episode" to see played out in full at its red carpet premiere.
Afterwards, stick around for a talkback with the class to discuss the alignment between the science fiction seen on stage and our technological reality.
Artistic Director: Tom Williams
Production Director: Archer Rosenkrantz
Season 1 Cast: Johnny Bartlett, Victor Galvan, Nate Harris, Katy Palmer, Spencer White (with Tom Williams)
Undertow
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A community's fears and concerns are stoked into paranoia by a mysterious force, who uses the town to summon itself into their reality.
But is it the residents of the fictional seaside town — or the audience — who is doing the summoning?
Undertow is an improvised theater production that uses thematic elements of the Weird and the Eerie to explore the psychodynamics of residents of a small coastal town living under an authoritarian regime, and the mutual reinforcement between community atomization and oppression.
Artistic Director: Tom Williams
Production Director: Alex Nichols
Technical Director: David Plugg
Original Music by Jared Allen Lacy
Cast: Audrey Grace, Sam Johnson, Charlie Kestler, Christina O'Brien, Mae Tanner (with Tom Williams)