Happy Valley Improv Group to Open Blue Brick Theatre for Improv, Comedy and More in July

STATE COLLEGE/CENTRE COUNTY, Pa — Happy Valley Improv has found a permanent home after moving between local venues for the last several years.

They’ve been performing and teaching classes around State College for the last few years, but co-founder Sam Tanner says in order to grow, they needed a place to call home.

“Prior to the pandemic, we were performing twice a month in the State Theatre, we were offering ongoing level one through level three classes and workshops, but I also think that we sort of had reached a point where we couldn’t grow anymore," he said. "So for us to be able to find this space, downtown in this location, really is the way forward for us to keep growing.”

This space will be expensive to renovate before it opens in July, but co-founder James Tierney says they’ve been preparing financially for a long time.

“We’ve been saving as a company forfor a while and up to this point, we haven’t had overhead," he said. "So, the money that we’re taking from classes and from shows, we were able kind of stash some of it away.”

Co-founder Nate Rufo says this was an incredible chance to hunker down, and he wishes nothing but the best to the other local venues in the community that helped them along the way.

“We saw a fantastic a fantastic opportunity and felt like we needed to go for it," he asserted. "It’s not a reflection on anything else because they’ve all been phenomenal partners and we loved working with all of them, and we hope that everybody...continues to support them, right? We’re carving out our own little niche here.”

When the theatre opens in july, any collected free ticket vouchers can be redeemed, and you can get one by copying and pasting the following link into your browser, and joining their mailing list: https://www.bluebricktheatre.com

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