kevINda Gets Some Press!

Here's a snippet of Steve Heisler's article. Click this link to read the full article, and this link to read the Chicago Sun-Times article from earlier this week.

- Inda

Time Out Chicago / Issue 163 : Apr 10–16, 2008

Diverse engineering

African-American sketch and improv comics continue to create.

By Steve Heisler

“Audiences tend to be surprised,” says Inda Craig-Galván, half of the politically charged sketch duo kevINda. “They’ll come up to us after our show and say, ‘You guys are so smart.’ It’s like they expected us to buffoon and do Jimmie J.J. Walker.” She isn’t talking about some long-ago show or backwoods venue. Her group—which will join Schadenfreude at Steppenwolf’s Celebration of Chicago Sketch Comedy Monday 14—performs for Los Angeles industry folk and audiences at national comedy festivals. The reality is that even for African-American sketch and improv groups that find success, the going remains rough.

kevINda storms Steppenwolf Monday 14, and Pimprov struts to CIC Saturday 12.

There's a lot more! Read the article!!!