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  2. The Groundlings - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of improvisational theatre companies - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Pack Theater - Wikipedia

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    The Pack Theater is a theatre based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in improv and sketch comedy. In addition, the theatre operates a school for developing improv and comedy talent. The Pack Theater grew out of the Miles Stroth Workshop, "focused on advanced training for improv comedians."

  5. Upright Citizens Brigade - Wikipedia

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    An expansion in Los Angeles started in 2014. [22] In 2014, UCB announced the opening of UCB Theatre Sunset located at 5419 Sunset Boulevard for November 1. The venue played home to Upright Citizens Brigade's training center, an 85-seat theatre, cafe/performance space called Inner Sanctum, video production offices, and even retail stores on ...

  6. iO West - Wikipedia

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    iO West (formerly known as the "ImprovOlympic West") was the Los Angeles branch of the iO in Chicago. The theater was located at 6366 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, California. In addition to presenting nightly improv and sketch comedy shows, iO West also had training classes and was the home to the Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival. On ...

  7. The Second City - Wikipedia

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    Training Centers are located in Chicago, Toronto and Los Angeles. The Training Centers have grown substantially since the Second City Conservatory was established in the mid-1980s under the tutelage of longtime Chicago improv instructors and mentors Martin de Maat and Sheldon Patinkin.

  8. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Times added: "It has a population of about 3,500 Japanese ... Teaching classes in short form and long form improv. [34] Kollaboration founded in 2000 ...

  9. Second Nature Improv - Wikipedia

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    The troupe performs every Thursday night in USC's PED Building, providing free, comedic, one-hour shows. Second Nature regularly performs with other improv troupes from all over Los Angeles, and the United States. The collegiate troupe is known for the Fracas! Improv Festival, one of the largest intercollegiate improv comedy festivals in the world.