Riverside Theatre Presents SAK Comedy Lab

Vero Beach, FL – SAK Comedy Lab comes to Riverside Theatre for a limited summer engagement
on Thursdays starting on June 5, 2025.

SAK Comedy Lab, a Central Florida favorite for over 30 years, specializes in spontaneous, audience-
interactive, improvisational comedy, good for all ages. SAK was voted “Best Comedy” in the Orlando
Weekly Reader’s Poll and is consistently ranked as one of Orlando’s Top Attractions on Trip Advisor.
If you like the television show “Whose Line is it Anyway,” you’ll enjoy this live performance. In fact,
SAK was a starting place for the careers of Wayne Brady as well as writers, actors and producers for
sketch comedy shows “Mad TV,” “Saturday Night Live,” and sitcoms such as “Scrubs,” “The Office,”
and “30 Rock.”

3250 Riverside Park Dr., Vero Beach, FL 32963
772-231-5860 772-234-5298 (Fax)

Contact: Oscar Sales, Jr.
[email protected]
772-410-0476

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Current and past SAK performers have gone on to write or appear on the Disney Channel, Showtime,
HBO, Warner Brothers, Broadway, ABC, CBS, NBC, and more!

Witness the talented entertainers from SAK Comedy Lab do what they do best – make everything up
right before your eyes! This energetic and interactive show will feature SAK Comedy Lab pros as
they perform a series of hilarious scenes with outlandish characters and inventive songs, all created
spontaneously, with nothing to spark the comedy except suggestions and ideas from the AUDIENCE!
SAK Comedy Lab performances take place on the Waxlax Stage for these Thursdays only:
June 5 & 19, July 10 & 31, and August 14 & 28

Performances take place at 6:30pm and 8:30pm each show date. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased
by calling the Box Office at 772-231-6990 or online at www.riversidetheatre.com
Riverside Theatre, America’s largest professional theatre in a small town, is located at 3250 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963.

Riverside Theatre is located at 3250 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963. Riverside Theatre programs are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Riverside Theatre is a member of the Cultural Council of Indian River County, the Indian River Chamber of Commerce, and the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce.

ABOUT SAK COMEDY LAB
SAK Theatre enjoyed its humble beginnings in Buffalo, Minnesota when a troupe of four individuals with a
background in evangelical street theater began performing at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in 1977. After a few years, opportunities arose for SAK to perform at multiple festivals simultaneously. The original troupe trained additional performers and SAK grew from four to twelve.

In 1982, while performing at a festival in Largo, Florida, entertainment scouts from the Walt Disney Company came looking for entertainment acts to populate the World Showcase at the newly opening EPCOT Center. SAK Theatre Company was now an official corporation and moved its base of operations to Florida.

For seven years, SAK produced, performed and managed live audience participatory comedy shows for Walt Disney World in the U.K. and Italy pavilions, as well as countless other shows performed in and around the parks. SAK also continued to appear at festivals, expos and fairs around the world well into the 1990’s, and was employing over 30 full-time performers, production and office staff.

In 1991 after the Disney contract ended, SAK Theatre Company opened the SAK Comedy Lab on Church Street in downtown Orlando. This first venue was a 99-seat comedy theater dedicated to performing original comedy plays (many developed through improvisation) and improv shows. It was at this time when the SAK signature improv comedy competition “Duel of Fools” was born. Every Friday and Saturday night for almost three decades, two teams of improvisers have battled against each other to see who could make up the funniest scenes, sketches and songs based on audience suggestions. It’s been a hilarious bloodbath.

Two venue changes and nearly 30 years later, SAK Comedy Lab still thrives in the heart of downtown Orlando at its beautiful 250-seat theater. Since its inception in 1991, the “Lab” has grown to become one of the largest theaters and training centers for improvisation in the Southeast. It currently serves over 50,000 patrons a year as well as major Central Florida organizations such as the Orlando Magic, Advent Health and Darden Restaurants with its team training and corporate comedy shows. SAK is currently experiencing unprecedented breakaway growth and looks forward to entertaining audiences for another three decades and beyond.

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