Author: The Committee Movie

The 2015 San Francisco Improv Festival.

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In addition to our Committee project, we are also part of the team that produces The San Francisco Improv Festival, an annual celebration of improvisational theater at The Eureka, at the foot of North Beach in San Francisco. It’s coming up next month, and features cutting edge work by companies near and far. This year, the program includes visits from Matt Besser (UCB, improv4humans), WeirDass (Stephnie Weir & Bob Dassie), Susan Messing, and many many more. If you want us to recommend some shows, message us. We’d love to have you join the party.

John Byrne Cooke

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Recently we had the very good fortune of interviewing writer, actor, and doc filmmaker John Byrne Cooke, at the home of our good friends Cassidy Brown and Rami Margron. John certainly wears many hats – he did sound for D.A. Pennebaker at Monterey Pop, and served as road manager for Big Brother and the Holding Company, which he details beautifully in his book On the Road with Janis Joplin. He is responsible for a set of amazing color photos of The Committee, taken during their Satirathon in 1968. He also brings the perspective of Committee fan during their later years, in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Check out his website to keep tabs on his many projects: http://www.johnbyrnecooke.com/

Prophetic Scribbling

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Sent to us by Julie Payne, this pic is of the back of The Committee’s first album, inscribed by Del Close to actress Rochelle Richelieu. It is in fact, a collector’s item these days – copies of The Committee’s first album are exceedingly hard to find on the open market.

Note: Rochelle Richelieu appeared on Laverne & Shirley in the 1976 episode “A Nun’s Story”, directed by Committee founding director Alan Myerson (he directed a dozen of the series’ episodes). According to IMDB, her only other film or TV appearance was in 2008 – credited as Rochelle Winter in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino.