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Founded in 1995, Dad's Garage Theatre has grown from a small volunteer led organization to a thriving mid-size theatre led by professional artistic and administrative staff. The Family at Dad's has continued to grow along with us including over 300 volunteers and performers. We now entertain more than 30,000 people a year at our two-theatre facility in Inman Park and at public events across the state and at improv festivals across the continent. Led by Artistic Director Kate Warner, Dad's gives a new definition to the phrase "original work" with regional premiere productions such as A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (by Kyle Jarrow), and COLORADO (by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb), as well as innovative world premieres created by the Dad's Garage family like Invasion Our Town: The Unknown, Uncensored, Unscripted Tales of Grover's Corners (an improv show inspired by the classic) and The Song of the Dead: A Zombie Musical (opening June '08). In addition to our outrageous original productions, Dad's Garage produces 52 weeks a year with improv shows every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. We perform traditional and original formats including the improvised soap opera Scandal!, TheatreSports® (we're the only officially sanctioned team in the Southeast), our very own improv psychology seminar led by Dr. Bob Frapples, and our brand new Japanese-style game show Samurai Davis Jr. and Dim Sum's Super Mega Happy Fun Time Improv Show! Our work has been recognized and supported by the Atlanta Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund and The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. By creating a supportive environment for an artistic, technical, and administrative ensemble, we are able to elevate the awareness of the Atlanta community to original theatrical works and the creative outlets found through improvisation. This leads to the production of more than 300 performances a year for our audiences, and the training of new improvisers in our High School Outreach Program with performances each semester, as well as onsite classes and workshops for the general public. Now a fixture in the Atlanta arts scene, Dad's Garage has won Best Theatre and Best Improv Troupe in Creative Loafing for five years in a row, as well as similar awards in almost every major publication in the city. The theatre includes a 120-seat Mainstage space and a 50-seat black box space (the Top Shelf). The Top Shelf allows us to experiment with new types of shows and production styles that ultimately influence our work on the Mainstage. Recent Top Shelf productions include original premieres by members of the Dad's Family like Skin by Steve Yockey, The History of Rock & Roll by Chris Blair, Drove by Scott and Sloane Warren, and the runaway hit Lawrenceburg by Travis Sharp.