Winnipeg Improv

 The Winnipeg if... Improv Festival ends. The curtains close. The mimed objects get packed up in the mime boxes. The D&D show hangs up their swords. The lights go up on the Bat and the lights go down on stage. The CRUMBS get swept up. Outside Joke goes inside. Everyone gets on a plane and flies to their homes. And everything is good. What a tremendously successful festival. Thank you to everyone who came to the shows, were in the shows and helped make the festival run smoother than ever. Thank you: Sarah Michaelson for holding the fort down while I was gone and for finding all typohs. Hunnicutt and Mama Cutsworth for Dj so well and so much. Angela for taking everyone's money with a smile. Tristan and Luke for curtains and projecting. Joe Bill for inspiring everyone. Mark Little for taking a chance on improv again. Kirsten for rocking the stage. Jules for not dying and for "killing it". Jessie for forcing Lee

 Joe Bill will soon be in Winnipeg. This should make everyone very excited because... Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Scenic and Comedic Improvisation in the world today. He currently teaches, performs and does corporate training at iO Chicago, is an Artistic Associate for The Chicago Improv Festival, and acts as an Artistic Adviser for a number of Improvisation and Comedy Theaters all over the world. Joe and a number of very talented friends, under the Artistic Direction of Mick Napier, co-founded The Annoyance Theater in Chicago in 1990. His passion for teaching Improvisation soon kicked into high gear as a unique approach to Improvised Scene and Character began to be articulated by a number of teachers at Annoyance, including Mick Napier, Mark Sutton, Joe, David Razowsky, Bob Fisher and Susan Messing that focused on Improvisers "Taking care of themselves, in order to take care of others in a scene". You can and should take works