Winnipeg Improv

The Winnipeg Improv Festival returns again. Bringing you the best of improv, comedy and theatre live on a stage. Players from across Canada and the USA collaborate with locals performers bringing you the the MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF THEATRE!   Stay tuned for more details. Full schedule and guest announcements are coming soon!

While the Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is coming soon, right now we have a little theatre festival in Winnipeg that is coming even sooner.  The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is a time to finally enjoy theatre in Winnipeg. It is the time when everyone drops everything and focuses on theatre. Much like during the Winnipeg Folk Fest everyone gets really into folk music or during the Winnipeg Jazz Fest every gets really into jazz. The Fringe festival is when theatre artists can enjoy audiences! The improv and comedy scene here in Winnipeg welcomes the Fringe as a time to really stretch and try out new shows, to gain new audiences and to do a whole bunch of shows in a great environment. The Fringe is the best! Here are a couple shows to check out: Stephen & Caity make sure the Winnipeg Improv Festival happens, they also do a show themselves. This year it will be a sequel/part two/re-working of their hit last year. " Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore " becomes " Com

There is improv in Winnipeg. It's everywhere if you know where to look. This website will give you the scoop. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here are things. 1) The Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is based out of the Gas Station Arts Centre. GSAC WEBSITE 2) The Canadian Improv Games Manitoba trains the next crop of improvisers at High Schools across the province. BUY ONLINE TICKETS NOW MORE INFO ABOUT THE CIG 3) Shows around the city. We swear there will be improv and comedy shows happening all over the city! LINK  4) Improv workshops for the advanced player all the way to the beginner just wanting to give it a try. We swear there will be improv workshops happening! 5) Resources for your improvisation. Improv suggestion app by Dave Morris LINK Improv suggestion website by Vinny Francois & Gil Browdy LINK The Improv Encyclopedia (of games) LINK

Another Winnipeg if... Improv Festival comes to a close. We would like to send a HUGE thank you to everyone involved. The guests we brought in to be in the Festival Ensemble were incredible. Randy Dixon leading the workshops was a treat and Winnipeg will be inspired by his words for years. The festival created a new element in the Local Ensemble, bringing together 13 members of the improv community to work and perform. It was such a tremendous success. The Sketch Ensemble was the same, as it was a new element and was created to foster the growing sketch comedy scene. Kevin McDonald from The Kids in the Hall lead the ensemble in creating brand new sketch from improv tools. Thank you to all the volunteers and all the audiences and all of Winnipeg!   Kevin McDonald and the Sketch Ensemble  The Festival Ensemble enjoying some late night games after the first show  Stephen and Kevin about to do some early early morning TV  Randy Dixon onstage with the Festival Ensemble

The 2016  Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is almost here! GET TICKETS ONLINE NOW We will be flying in some amazing guests performers from Seattle, Los Angeles, Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto, Port Coquitlam and Winnipeg (well, the guests from Winnipeg will maybe take the bus). WHAT'S THAT? YOU WANT THE FACEBOOK EVENT? We will showcasing Improvisation as well as collaboration with Sketch Comedy and Stand-up Comedy . Not only will we be showcasing some great out of town improv shows, we also also invent some improv shows of our own. We will be creating a Festival Ensemble of players, as well as a Local Ensemble of players and a Sketch Ensemble of players. What does this mean? It means we will be making up some amazing new improv and hilarious new sketch comedy. The improv ensembles will be directed by none other than Randy Dixon (Seattle's Unexpected Productions) and the Sketch ensemble will be directed by Kevin McDonald (The Kids in the Hall) . You will

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival returns for the 17th time!  The festival started in the year 2000 and has brought to Winnipeg the very best in the "made up arts". From some of the original gurus and creators of the modern improv movement to improvisers who have gone on to write and star in TV and movies. For years we've had amazing improv artists from around the world descend on Winnipeg and mix it up with the amazing local improvisers.  Stay tuned right here for details to be released! If you are interested in applying to be a part of the "Local Ensemble" and be a part of the team that puts the festival on, apply HERE: APPLICATION LINK

Next Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is happening OCT 11th - 15th, 2016 Thank you to all the staff at the Gas Station Arts Centre for helping produce this amazing festival. Be on the look out for some AMAZING and BIG news about the upcoming improv festival this FALL! The Big Stupid Improv Show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival is happening! Advanced Tickets on sale NOW Big Stupid Improv Facebook Event Link Thank you to all our performers. The local improv stars who took the time to grace our stages. The out of town performers who came to Winnipeg to impress us with their style and be impress by our town. Thank you to all the crew of volunteers the festival has, our improv community, that makes all the gears work and makes the festival run smooth. Thank you to all the audiences who come out to the shows, laugh at the jokes, gasp at the stories and applaud at the art we make up only once.  opening night packed at the King's Head (this is where Step

The Winnipeg Improv Festival is Sept 29th - Oct 3rd, 2015 BUY a Festival Pass and see every single show! BUY tickets online now and see the shows you want! The Gas Station Arts Centre produces the festival and is the main stage of the festival and the headquarters. Every night there will be a night of things being made up. The opening show is of course the FREE sampler show at the King's Head Pub on Tuesday, Sept 29th and then the rest all happens at the Gas Station Theatre in the heart of Osborne Village. Official festival schedule is online!  See members of the amazing: North Coast (Live hip hop improv from NYC) They will be joined onstage by the 2015 Female beatboxing world champion Kaila Mullady! Dad’s Garage (from Atlanta) Rapid Fire Theatre (from Edmonton) Kevin McDonald (from The Kids in the Hall) Kal Barteski (Her  live scripted artwork)   CRUMBS (WPG) Outside Joke (WPG) DnD Impro