The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Matt Peiken

Local newsmakers, civic leaders, journalists, artists and others in the know talk with host Matt Peiken about the growing, complicated city of Asheville, N.C.

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The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Episodes (194)

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The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Apr 6, 2025
44 minutes
30 MB

Like a lot of artistic corners of Asheville, the city’s improv theater scene is far more robust than you’d expect in a town this size. A natural extension of the scene's growth is the Asheville Improv Festival, debuting May 7-10. Longtime Asheville journalist Matt Peiken is also a longtime improviser. He used the occasion of the upcoming festival to gather four important players in the scene—Gillian Bellinger, founder of Misfit Improv; Laurie Jones, co-founder of Adesto Theater, Tim Hearn of Speakeasy Improv and Tom Chalmers, the founder of Asheville’s longest-running improv troupe, the Reasonabl...

The Overlook with Matt Peiken

Asheville Improvises its Way to a New Festival

Matt Peiken

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