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Email Pro, ft. Chris Duffy

  • Streaming online 312 W 36th St New York, NY, 10018 United States (map)
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Email Pro is a recurring 60-minute livestream based on Ivan Anderson's long-running email performance art. The show consists of writing and sending emails to strangers, whose email addresses are provided by members of the chat audience. The emails themselves consist of parodies of self-help, absurd distortions of what it’s like to be a person, and frantic attempts to tell the truth and be helpful. Writing and sending them serves as a vehicle for improvised standup comedy and a very glitchy masterclass in using email.

This show features special guest Chris Duffy. Chris Duffy is a comedian, television writer, and radio/podcast host. Chris currently hosts TED’s How to Be a Better Human podcast. He created and hosted You're the Expert, a live show and podcast where three comedians try to guess what a scientist studies all day, and wrote for both seasons of Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas on HBO, executive produced by John Oliver. Chris' writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, National Geographic Glimpse, Makeshift Magazine, and The California Sunday Magazine. He has performed live in venues as big as a sold out Lincoln Center and as small as a walk-in closet (also sold out). Chris is both a former fifth grade teacher and a former fifth grade student.

Praise for Email Pro:
"Almost surprisingly captivating"
Exeunt

"Ivan Anderson: all around the guy you go to to find out what is cool and funny"
Front Row Center

"Borders on self-reflection, absurdity, and spam"
Innovations in Socially Distant Performance

"Ivan Anderson has created an entirely original, completely improvised show around the concept of writing and sending emails to strangers, and the result is the highly entertaining and incredibly creative Email Pro."
Broadway World