The Second City and Kennedy Center's Jazz Comedy Experiment

July 21st, 2019 @ 3:00pm EST

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You may not know how the story is going to end… and neither do we. So join us for a true experience in creative expression across the worlds of music and comedy.  With a smart blend of music and improvisation, The Second City and Kennedy Center's Jazz Comedy Experiment shows that creative joy is in the journey — not the destination.

The Band:
Jason Moran, piano
Zwelakhe-Duma Bell Le Pere, bass
Savannah Harris, drums
Dave Adewumi, trumpet
Sarah Hanahan, alto sax 

The Actors:
Ed Herbstman
Kate James
Carley Moseley
John Thibodeaux
Steve Waltien


Comedy at the Kennedy Center is an initiative focused on elevating comedy as an art form and uniting the local community through laughter. Made possible with support from Presenting Sponsor Capital One, Comedy at the Kennedy Center programs include mainstage productions, such as a Signature Comedy Series, which features high-profile comedic artists; the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor; the District of Comedy Festival, which launched in summer of 2016; ongoing collaborations with Chicago's The Second City; and monthly comedy nights on the Millennium Stage. Since 2013, Comedy at the Kennedy Center has reached more than 400,000 people through live performances that have included some of comedy's biggest stars - Judd Apatow, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, George Lopez, Trevor Noah, and John Oliver - and more than six million people across the nation via television broadcast.

Second City Theatricals proudly brings dynamic, original programming to eclectic stages across the globe. Recent productions include the award-winning sold-out smash hit She the People at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), The Art of Falling, a critically acclaimed collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles), the epically dramatic parody Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and operatic opus Longer! Louder! Wagner! at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Since his emergence on the music scene in the late 1990s, Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran has proven more than his brilliance as a performer. With a unique vision and innovative approach to the music, Moran was appointed Artistic Advisor for Jazz for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in November 2011 and was made Artistic Director for Jazz in May 2014.

An accomplished pianist, composer, and educator, Moran grew up in Houston, Texas.  Upon graduating the Manhattan School of Music, Moran began recording with Blue Note Records producing nine groundbreaking recordings over 18 years. He created the scores for Ava DuVernay’s Academy Award nominated films Selma and 13th. He is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and 2016 Doris Duke Fellow.

With his partner Alicia Hall Moran, they created their own record company, Yes Records. His most recent James Reese Europe and the Absence of Ruin is a meditation on Europe’s importance as a pioneer that led the way for jazz entering concert halls and being introduced to Europe.  Moran teaches at New England Conservatory of Music and Georgetown University.

Moran has also reshaped and refocused the Center’s Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead professional development program for young artists, bringing in new faculty and expanding the curriculum to include collaborations with other D.C. arts organizations. He also teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and, is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Georgetown University. 

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  • General Admission: $15
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SubCulture
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July 21st, 2019 @ 3:00pm EST
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