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Along with this, they host "house" improv teams made up of improv students or graduates from their classes. In the past decade, professional improvisational theater groups have gradually started working more with corporate clients, using improvisational games to improve productivity and communication in the workplace.
Unexpected Productions (UP) is an improvisational comedy company in Seattle, Washington, USA. From their home at the Market Theater in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market, in Post Alley, [1] Unexpected Productions produces year-round shows, teaches improv classes, and hosts the Seattle International Festival of Improvisation.
Improvisational-theater festivals, also known as improv-comedy festivals or improv festivals, are venues where multiple improvisational-theater groups perform. They are usually not limited by improvisational style, though they may limit entrants to professional-only or collegiate-only.
The Groundlings is an American improvisational and sketch comedy troupe and school based in Los Angeles, California.The troupe was formed by Gary Austin in 1974 and uses an improv format influenced by Viola Spolin, whose improv techniques were taught by Del Close and other members of the Second City, located in Chicago and later St. Louis. [1]
[30] [31] They also run an annual UK improv festival [32] and improv marathon. [33] [34] In 2015, The Free Association opened in London as a counterpart to American improv schools. [35] In 2016, The Glasgow Improv Theatre started putting on shows and teaching classes in Glasgow, growing the improv scene in Scotland. [36]
Improv A Go-Go is a weekly showcase for local improvisational theatre (or improv) groups in the Twin Cities. Produced by Five Man Job and hosted by Strike Theater, it runs most Sundays during the year. [1] Each week, there are 4-5 improv groups that perform for roughly 20 minutes each.
HUGE ran improv shows six nights per week. [1] The theater also hosted classes for beginning improv students and workshops for more advanced improvisers. [ 4 ] HUGE was the site of the annual Twin Cities Improv Festival, a creation of the theater's staff designed to increase the presence of improvised theater in the Twin Cities . [ 4 ]
iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as ImprovOlympic) is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago. The theater teaches and hosts performances of improvisational comedy. It was founded in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern. [1] [2] The theater has many notable alumni, including Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert. [3]