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Applications Open Soon for Jamie Hawkins-Gaar Memorial Scholarship at Dad’s Garage

Applications open next month for a Dad’s Garage scholarship program to honor the life and legacy of Jamie Hawkins-Gaar. This is the third cycle of this scholarship, after taking a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic. Applications will be accepted March 15 through April 16. Dad’s Garage will announce the winning group in mid-May and the team will begin performance coaching in August 2021, to run through July 2022. Jamie died from an undiagnosed heart condition on February 4, 2017. He was 32 years old. A good friend of the Dad’s Garage family, Jamie was a vivacious creative professional—a screenwriter and director who developed and directed a considerable library of online sketches that garnered hundreds of thousands of views.  Improv comedy was very much central to Jamie’s creative passions, and Dad’s Garage is proud to collaborate with his wife Katie Hawkins-Gaar to create a new scholarship program that continues Jamie’s legacy of continually creating awesome work.  The Jamie Hawkins-Gaar Memorial Scholarship is open to improv teams based in Atlanta. Improv teams are groups of like-minded individuals who perform short- or long-form improv geared towards a specific concept or interest. The scholarship will provide one team with twice-monthly coaching sessions from Dad’s Garage, for a full year, for free. There is no limit on how many....