The 12th Annual Music And Gaming Festival
4 Days of Non-Stop Games and Concerts
Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center
201 Waterfront Street
National Harbor, MD 20745
Jan 2 -5, 2014 (Thu - Sun)

We have assembled a roster of comedic World Warriors to Dragon Punch your funny bone and entertain the masses. Our actors will create characters, scenes and stories on the spot in the style of short-form and long-form improvisation games, all revolving around video game suggestions provided by the Magfest audience. This group has grown at a geometric rate each year and now includes members of The Vitual Fools, PBC Productions, ScrewAttack, X-Strike Studios and other entities. We love an interactive crowd and there is always lots of audience participation!
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Juese CutlerJuese [pronuncitation: wees] Cutler is an X-Strike Studios co-founder/member as well as a performer in the troupe Queen City Improv, both located in Buffalo, NY. Juese travels in a talking spaceship called ShipShape with Spartakus (a mysterious wanderer) and Scruples the psychic myna bird in the mid-to-late 1980's. |
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Darrin DeMarco (Director)Darrin Douglas DeMarco directs diligently during December. Decidedly, he diversely and delicately delegates democratic dependability on demand. Dig Dug and Dinosaurs don’t do what Darrin DeMarco does. |
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Rich DurhamWhen no one was looking, |
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Tim EkkebusTim likes dogs. |
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Kevin FlanaganKevin Flanagan teaches film studies and writing courses at the University of Pittsburgh. He was co-director of the College of William & Mary's group Improvisational Theatre (I.T.) from 2002-2006. This is his 10th consecutive Magfest. |
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Jared KnabenbauerJared Knabenbauer's improv skills have reached plateaus far beyond what man thought was possible. He once jumped over an entire anthill that had like, a thousand ants in it. The ants were impressed probably. |
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Ben LathanBen is a 6'1" nerd that may or may not be overweight (depending on how well he stayed on his workout routine from the time this was submitted until now). Trained in Computer Science and English Language Arts, improvisational comedy is a welcome escape from the ill-spoken and technological illiterate. His likes are women, naked women, video game playing women, and Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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Rory O'BoyleWinner of the "Upstate NY Official Jason Segel Look-Alike" contest three years running, and a seasoned MAGvet of a solid decade. I whip in all 8 directions and Shadow like a Colossus. |
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Devon Riley(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ [⬇⬊➡ ℗IZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |
Bobby SchweizerBobby Schweizer--now at this his tenth MAGFest--is shocked, shocked to find improvisational comedy is going on in here! This flimflam man spends his days swindling a doctorate in videogame studies and his nights yelling at his Xbox. He occasionally also occasionally hosts the occasional Low Score podcast. Occasionally. |
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Steve SmithSteve is an action-platform game in which players travel through one hundred different stages, blowing and bursting bubbles, avoiding enemies and collecting a variety of items. Steve became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs. His main goal is to rescue his girlfriends from big wind-up toasters, among other enemies. |
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Adam StackhouseOnce upon a time Adam performed with Improvisational Theatre at the College of William and Mary, and he has since performed on the stages at the Washington Improv Theatre, DC Improv, and produced and performed "The Last Word" - a four-person improv show based off anonymous newspaper clippings. He once won a Sony PaRappa the Rapper video contest that resulted in YouTube death threats against his family from one of the losers, and this will be his third year performing in the MagFest Improv Show. |
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Brett VanderbrookBrett was actually kidnapped by the Fredonia State Improv Society 10 years ago, and forced into periodic improvisational servitude. If you're reading this, please send help. When not in captivity, Brett lives in Brooklyn, NY and tends bar to support his insatiable crank habit. I mean fuel his dreams of being an actor. |
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Chad WilliamsLast year, Chad used his ghost detective skills and fused with his entire family, and ghosts, to save the day. This year he is the curator of Games on Film, America’s premiere video game film festival. He also runs a children's theater company in NYC and thinks FF7 is better than FF6. |