DSI Comedy Fans can rest assured, North Carolina will enjoy the same quality comedy classes and weekly performances that they have come to expect from DSI. My #Hustle and our local company wouldn’t have it any other way. I will stay Executive Producer, but the theater will be under new management starting this Summer. And Lord knows NCCAF (@nccomedyarts) can’t stop and won’t stop, So get ready for 2012!

We’ve already confirmed Second City and are partnering with Carolina Theatre to present Mike Birbiglia!

My publicist Carrie Gorn released the Boston news to press while I recorded a surprise curtain speech.

I know, I could have slowed down. I just didn’t have an audience and I was excited about THE ANNOUNCEMENT!

I am offline for most of the weekend, but I wanted to thank everyone for being so supportive and for all the congratulations. YES! AND! Accepting the job as Managing Director is an incredible career opening for me and a great challenge for the ZW #Hustle, it’s a critical growth move for an already successful organization like ImprovBoston and it’s a real opportunity for my company of performers, teachers and directors at DSI Comedy Theater to step up and grab leadership positions, to defy logic, exceed expectations and continue to make a significant impact on the community, audiences, students and each other.

I ended my official ImprovBoston job announcement news to DSI Company Members earlier this week with this next paragraph, and I think, if you’re from a different improv community, or maybe even a company that just operates like a family, you could change a few details and it might still be appropriate for you.

There is a world-famous comedy theater open for business on a loading dock, behind a diner and near some sketchy railroad tracks, in a small town where you would least expect it. Let’s work hard to keep it that way. For a lot of people, myself included, that place has become a second home.

I would “officially” like to thank coffee, @garyvee and #vampiremode for making this possible.

I would actually like to thank the Board of Directors and Staff at ImprovBoston, you know, for the job.

But, most of all, I would really like to thank my future wife Jessica, not only for agreeing to marry me, but for packing up her life and agreeing to move with me to Boston, so I could do what I love to do.

Anyway, the shows were awesome. I was pumped for our local audiences to see some really great sketch comedy last weekend and I’m always excited to see Acts inspired by each other at festivals. We had Sold Out shows EVERY NIGHT, despite rain on Friday and snow on Saturday. And a fantastic day of workshops on Saturday with Second City Chicago’s Anthony LeBlanc, SAINTS FTW!

But we’ve got 3 weeks left and Standup Comedy starts Thursday

Last year when I was producing the Toronto Improv Festival I wanted to blog about what was happening in REAL TIME, problems, solutions, Festival details. I was pretty overwhelmed and out of the country so it didn’t happen, but maybe that can change for #NCCAF. You should keep me honest.

Let me know your questions OR any feedback you have.

Biggest issue so far. Last week I tweeted that we were experiencing a 2007 Horatio Level Event. Short backstory – In 2007, Horatio Sanz agreed to do the festival but he went into surgery on Tuesday before his Friday show. My friend Anthony calls me on Thursday to let me know Horatio won’t be coming. I scramble for 24-hours and Louis CK saves comedy. That was awesome. But… what could equal that?

HLE PROBLEM: Last week a venue we contracted for NCCAF 2010 Standup Week picked up the phone, only to let me know they were closed until further notice because of flooding and electrical problems. WTF? Especially 7 days out. ZW SOLUTION: I need a place that has a similar vibe, not a performing arts space that seems too sterile for standup and not just a bar because we need to charge admission, and preferably ONE VENUE for all three nights (7 total shows). The next morning I meet with Tyler’s Taproom owner and manager and we confirm a new venue. Speakeasy, 100 E Main St Carrboro. It’s actually two blocks CLOSER than the other venue. Two drawbacks, No raised stage. And it seats 65 instead of 100. But the venue is excited to host and most of the comics are also playing DSI so I think we did okay.

You could check it out and let me know. http://nccomedyarts.com/standup

Back to work.