ENTERTAINMENT TESTIMONIALS

Medtronic
Grace Gorringe
Director Leadership Development

"I am writing to tell you how thrilled we were with the Brave New Workshop performance last week at our annual World Wide Human Resources Leadership Conference. The response has been off the charts. Everybody loved it and filling the auditorium with laughter was the perfect way to cap off a successful conference. Your performance was an absolute highlight of our week and this was reflected in the surveys we received from the attendees. On a 5 point scale, you were rated as a 4.8. Just outstanding!

We greatly enjoyed working with you throughout the creative process and could not be happier with the end product. We were all amazed by your ability to accurately customize the performance, given the information we provided to you. Thank you for your understanding of our need to have control and input throughout the creative development. It was a new experience for us and certainly well worth our investment in your collective talents. All I can say is thank you so much because it was great.

Again, my deepest gratitude for helping us to pull this off and for making it such a huge success. I am confident there are endless future opportunities for Brave New Workshop in the corporate business environment to provide learning and insights using the creative process. We hope to work with you again in the near future."

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Marshall Fields
Saunya Peterson
Senior Director Internal Communications Group

"I wanted to write and tell you just how happy the executives were with your performance. All of them were already familiar with the scripts, yet when actually performed, they were gripping their stomachs in laughter and some even in tears. The feedback from the entire merchant team has been overwhelmingly positive. We've received many comments from the merchants about how much they needed to laugh, how relevant the humor was, how great the performances were and how the scripts seem to capture exactly how they were feeling. We've heard that the scripts did a good job of acknowledging some of their bigger challenges and that they truly felt appreciated. That was no small task given everything they've endured in the last year. Thanks to you, Caleb and the rest of the team. You created an experience that our merchants will soon not forget. Thank you for that!"

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General Mills
Kurt Guelder
Senior Financial Manager

"Thank you again for your recent involvement in our Champions of Finance Awards. I have heard nothing but very positive comments about your performance from those in attendance, including Jim Lawrence, our CFO. Jim nearly called your actors out for a curtain call during his closing comments. Any fears I had as to how you could possibly incorporate all of the awards categories and important themes into sketches, let alone make them entertaining, were alleviated by your attention to detail and level of performance. The sketches were a fun way for us to introduce the awards and your actors were great. The bar has definitely been raised for next year’s planning team. They have already discussed that hiring you to perform again next year is the way for us to go. Many thanks to you and your team!"

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Schwans
Kelly Hilgert

"Katy {McEwen},
I just wanted to write you a quick note to thank you and your entire staff for an AWESOME performance on Thursday night. The group absolutely loved your skits
and thought you did a wonderful job.
They were still laughing Friday morning at breakfast. That's definitely a good sign!! :)
The customized skit was perfect...you really nailed the information that we passed along to you.
Thanks for all of your hardwork and for making our Sales & Marketing Meeting a memorable experience for everyone!"

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Pragmatek
Flip Crummer
Client Relationship Executive

"...please extend our thanks and appreciation to the crew that spent Sunday and Monday with us in Brainerd. It was an unqualified out of the park grand slam home run... I could go on and on but I'll just say it was even better than I hoped, and I'll be in touch with you for our future fun/training needs as they arise."

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Musicland Group
Marcia Sample
Creative Director

"Just a note to say what an ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS job the entire Brave New Workshop did at our recent National Conference. They took basic information about our company and our everyday tasks and turned our mundane into a hilarious improv...Our regional managers and directors LOVED it. The audience was literally falling off their chairs with laughter. I very highly recommend the Brave New Workshop for any corporate event. Brave New Workshop's emcee, Caleb McEwen, was such a hit, that by the 4th day of the conference people were asking for his autograph, his photo and demanding him back for next year. Thank you and we will be doing business again."

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Augustine Medical
Ken Ericson
Training Manager

"On behalf of Augustine Medical, thank you for the excellent performance the Brave New Workshop actors gave at our recent National Sales and Marketing meeting. The feedback I received has been fantastic. Everyone loved it and expressed that it was a perfect way to end the evening...Most impressive was how the ensemble personalized their performance. From the limited information I provided the creative director, came show that the audience believed had been custom-designed. Please express our gratitude to the actors who performed the show. They were professional, fun, quick-witted and a joy to watch...Perhaps the biggest compliment that I can provide is the number of people who asked if we were going to book you next years as well."

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LSS Data Systems
David Pettigell
Technical Advisor, Business Opportunities

"Everything was extremely well done. Caleb was excellent to work with. Even at the last moment we threw him a curve and he was very gracious and saw to it that everything went well for us. We really enjoyed the presentation. Our clients were extremely happy. The feedback was extremely positive. Overall, just a wonderful experience working with you guys. Don't hesitate to have people call me for a referral."

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Government Training Service
Rich Spencer
Project Leader

"You guys EXCEEDED my expectations. And I was already excited and couldn't wait to see you perform because I was familiar with you -- but it was even way BETTER than I expected. We couldn't believe how you took our information and customized it and made it work. And that's very, VERY impressive!

It was far and away the best conference we've put on due in large part to adding humor and Brave New Workshop. We brought it up a level. Don't know how we're going to top it next year.

We'd love to work with you again, and certainly, with [Creative Director] Phil Lusardi, if he's available. He was professional, thorough, creative, personable... an incredible blend or skill and professionalism. The biggest hit [of the show] was Caleb McEwen's 'Dr. Von Schnelling' mock speaker. The intro was so credible and his act so good -- they didn't catch on for seven minutes or longer. The second most mentioned bit was 'Panel of Experts' -- which [the attendees] insisted be reprised the next day."

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Minnesota Department of Health
Elisabeth Atherly
FAS Grants Coordinator

"Thanks once again to you, Phil (Lusardi), and the cast for a wonderful performance at the FAS Summer Institute. The participants gave it rave reviews and were pleasantly surprised that we opened the conference with such a lively session...Thanks again for your great work."

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Lacek Group
Mary Smalley

"...I wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that we had a wonderful time at our holiday party. I've only had positive feedback from people here at TLG (The Lacek Group). Your teams did an excellent job of entertaining and taking care of us. I hope we have the opportunity to use your services in the future. Again, thanks for the fabulous job!"

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Coldwell Banker Burnet
Leonard D. MacKinnon
Sr. VP Marketing & Communications

"Last week Coldwell Banker Burnet had the opportunity to enjoy the hilarious comedy of several members of the Brave New Workshop Theatre at our 2nd annual retreat at Superior Shores Resort in Two Harbors, MN. Under the creative direction of Phil Lusardi, this talented group of performers brought us 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' and the second night their original improvisation was absolutely side-splitting...The Brave New Workshop will be a perennial consideration for future events. thanks for the good time!"

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Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Steve Benson
President

"Where do you get your ideas? Coming from those of us in the cartoon profession, that is meant as a compliment for your performance before the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) in Minneapolis...The quick-witted, quick-wicked spontaneity of your performance was shocking - shocking, I say - and served as a nice, irreverent cap to our week in your fair city...Thanks for putting on such an innovative show."

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Grand Avenue Business Association
Char Mason

"...We received rave reviews about the entertainment for our attendees including over 160 Grand Avenue business owners, city officials, and other St. Paul VIPs...The goals we gave the Brave New Workshop were fairly lofty...entertain our members with a customized corporate live improv show, make our members laugh at themselves, incorporate Grand Avenue "buzz" words and themes and make our live auction more fun and profitable. I am happy to say that we achieved them all and more... We can't wait to invite you back!"

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Rollouts Incorporated
Michael Kraemer
President

"Brave New Workshop's hilarious performance at our 'All Systems Go!' event last Saturday was a huge hit. As promised, Jeff Hopkins and crew delivered 45 minutes of spontaneous, inventive, fast-paced and funny material, expertly 'customize' with insider Rollouts humor and jargon (we particularly loved the soap opera spoof 'starring' our own staffers)...Your team's hard work, talent and professionality paid off for our own hardworking installers, project managers and their guest. Thanks so much for an evening of great fun."

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