Improv Comedy / Acts
AU JUS
Carrboro, NC — Spice up your night with the furthest thing from dry wit that DSI has to offer. One suggestion sets them off, and you are just the guest of honor to… (more)
Amuse Bouche
Charlottesville, VA — Amuse Bouche reps UVA. Holla. (more)
Aphasia
Chicago, IL — APHASIA is a long form improv group based out of Chicago, Illinois. The three person group features Brett Lyons, Jeannie Cahill and author of "Guru; My Days with Del Close",… (more)
BUST
Chicago, IL — BUST is a fast-paced, character-driven long form improv creation featuring Emily Tamblyn and Jaime Landolfi. The piece is inspired by a single audience suggestion and utilizes character monologues and relationship-based… (more)
Banana Breakup
Carrboro, NC — High-flying comedy from two frenetic improvisers powered by Red Bull. (more)
Bastards Inc.
Cambridge, MA — Bastards Inc., a foursome based out of Cambridge, MA, was born in a basement and has been creating the most unique improv comedy in the Boston area for four years. (more)
Beatbox
Chicago, IL — THE BEATBOX Is A Critically Acclaimed Show That Fuses Fast-Paced Longform Improv And Classic Hip-Hop. Scenes Are Cut, Mixed, And Transformed By Chicago's Freshest Comedians And A Human Beatbox. (more)
BillyHawk
Hollywood, CA — BillyHawk are Brian O’Connell (the Billy of the name, but you’ll have to ask him) and Jeff Hawkins, two improvisers from IO West in Hollywood CA. They first met as… (more)
Boston
Toronto, ON — Boston is a ragtag group of improvisers from all over the Canadian province of Ontario. They're crossing to border to blast you with their high energy scenes and fast-paced comedy. (more)
Boy Toy
Austin, TX — Emphasizing trust, immediate support, urgency, commitment, focus, and the information provided, Boy Toy runs an energetic, well-grounded, tasty and classic HAROLD just like mom and pop used to. (more)
Boys Club for Men
New York, NY — Boys Club for Men performs longform improvisation. Based in New York, BCFM includes performers with a wide array of backgrounds from Chicago, New York, and Carrboro. (more)
CHHS Improv Co.
Chapel Hill, NC — CHHS IMPROV (more)
CHiPs
Chapel Hill, NC — The Chapel Hill Players" (CHiPs) is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's premiere improv and sketch comedy team. (more)
CUBED
Philadelphia, PA — The cubicle-bound neighbors of CUBED bring workplace-comedy improv that relies heavily on audience suggestions and participation. CUBED’s highly interactive show allows the audience to write memos, provide their company’s name/service,… (more)
Casual Sex Offenders
New York, NY, USA — Casual Sex Offenders is a New York based, long form improv troupe trained by the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City, IO, The Annoyance Theatre, and ImprovBoston performing The Harold and… (more)
ColdTowne Tourco
Austin, TX — ColdTowne Theater is Austin's main stage for alternative comedy, featuring the smartest, brightest, and hardest-working comedians in Central Texas. (more)
Comedia Fresca - Cedar Ridge High School
Hillsborough, NC — Comedia Fresca, Cedar Ridge High School's improv team has been performing for 5 years. (more)
DHARMA
Toronto, ON — The Department of Heuristics And Research on Metaphysical Applications (DHARMA) is an organization comprising three of Toronto's top improvisers, gathered to find solutions to common improvisational problems. (more)
Death by Roo Roo
New York, NY, USA — Festival favs. (more)
Drum Machine
Minneapolis, MN — Drum Machine is Jill Bernard's one-person unscripted muscial featuring multiple characters in scenes, monologues and songs accompanied by the mad beats of the Zoom-Rhythmtrak 123 which Bernard calls, "Nature's finest… (more)
Easy Baked Improv
Mount Berry, GA — Easy Baked Improv is a primarily short form improv troupe from Berry College in Rome, GA. Notorious around campus, we perform a mixture of traditional, well-known improv games and original… (more)
Einstein meets Elvis
Altanta, GA — Einstein Meets Elvis (JaCKPie - Atlanta) This award-winning JaCKPie touring team brings together an all-star cast to rock your socks off! (EmE is not responsible for lost socks.) (more)
FrankenReagen
Chicago, IL — FrankenReagen- where structure meets freedom, comedy is born. The group began as a closely knit class enrolled in Chicago's famous Improv Olympic Theater and they ended up hosting their own… (more)
FuseBox
Richmond, VA — John Sexton and Mandy Leigh Butler have made an art out of blurring the line between artistically profound and painfully awkward. (more)
Grandma Hates Technology
New York, NY — Mike Weiss is a professional stand-up comedian and improviser who has performed on national radio and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Jessica Weiss is a comic book creator,… (more)
Griggs, Robbins & Thom
Toronto, ON — Griggs, Robbins and Thom features two of Canada's top improvisers and some guy named Jeff Griggs. (more)
ImprovBoston Mainstage
Cambridge, MA — No rules. No boundaries. Just spectacular comedy and incredible improvisation. (more)
Jinx
Washington, DC — JINX is longform improv comedy that doesn't go for the cheap punchline. We figure, you can either laugh or cry at the human condition, so have yourself a good cry,… (more)
Junior Varsity
New York, NY — JUNIOR VARSITY is an improv ensemble formed by their director, Armando Diaz, one of the co-founders of the Magnet Theater in NYC. They have been a team for almost three… (more)
Let's Try This!
Atlanta, GA — Let's Try This! is Georgia Tech's improv comedy troupe, and the oldest college improv troupe in the South. This year actually marks our 20th anniversary. Performing shortform, longform, and anything… (more)
MC Frontalot
San Francisco, CA, USA — MC Frontalot was born Marcus Chesterfield Frontweather on the front steps of the capitol building in 1973. The fronting has increased exponentially since. Fourteen years of rap stardom, nineteen world… (more)
MISTER DIPLOMAT
Carrboro, NC — MISTER DIPLOMAT has been making audiences laugh since 2003. (more)
MOTEL
Atlanta, GA — For 6 years The Basement Theatre in Atlanta has been producing exciting improv. They have created over a dozen formats which have been performed across the country. (more)
Made of BEES
Richmond, VA — Made of BEES is a talented, energetic, and charismatic group of improvisers that performs fast paced, aggressive improvisation. With just one suggestion, these improvisers thrust you into a world of… (more)
Mano A Mary
Los Angeles, CA — Mano A Mary is the two-person improv team made up of one part Mano, one part Mary. (more)
Marjean
Cambridge, MA — The Marjean cast is a sassy crew of men and women who delight audiences with their playful mix of the standard Harold structure with provocative environmental embellishment. Physically and verbally… (more)
Maxitor Presents: Harold to the Max
Cambridge, MA — Exploring new possibilities within a time-honored improvisational form, Maxitor takes Harold to 11! (more)
Middle Management
Richmond, VA — There are no casual Fridays for Katie Holcomb, Matt Newman and David Pijor. This is long-form improv comedy at its finest and they mean business. See what happens when Middle… (more)
Midnight Society
Austin, TX — Midnight Society is a monster and Coldtowne Theater is their Frankenstein. (more)
Mock Turtle Soup
Clemson, SC — Mock Turtle Soup, straight out of Clemson, SC. MTS has been around for about 8 years, performing short-form and long-form improv for Clemson University and the surrounding area. (more)
Mr. Lizard
Philadelphia, PA — Mr. Lizard is an improv group with one college football fan (Charles Rosen) and one guy who likes to make waffles (AJ "Milkshake" Horan). Somehow we overcome these difference to… (more)
Mythical Newsroom
Washington, DC — Mythical Newsroom devotes itself to character-based longform improvisation that seamlessly meshes the fantastical with the mundane with commitment and conviction. (more)
NCCAF All-Stars
Carrboro, NC — NCCAF All-Stars are different every show. Be surprised. (more)
Nakatomi Protocol
Toronto, ON — Nakatomi Protocol is an explosive improv team from Toronto, Canada. Right from the start of the show Nakatomi will dazzle the audience with incredible feats of balancing, gymnastics, clowning and… (more)
Natural Selection
Various — More than five lions is a pride. More than five parrots is a pandemonium. More than five comedians improvising together for the first time is the best of both those… (more)
New & Improv.'d
Harrisonburg, VA — New & Improv.'d is James Madison University's only improvisational comedy troupe. (more)
Nobody's Token
New York, NY — What would happen if the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” moved to “South Park”; or if the Cosby’s lived next door to “The Family Guy?” (more)
NouN
Boone, NC — Created in 1999, NouN has been giving App State and the surrounding high country quality entertainment with shows ranging from dormitory lobbies, to summer camps to Legends; a large venue… (more)
Penzano
New York, NY — The five twentysomethings of Penzano met in New York in 2008 as students of the Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center, where they currently continue to train. They have performed at… (more)
Population 6
Baltimore, MD — Population 6 (Pop. 6) is an ensemble that brings a heady mix of dynamic verbal derring-do and physicality to all of their shows. The troupe performs various long-form improv styles. (more)
Rachel & Dave
Austin, TX — Rachel & Dave. They're funny. They're married. They're adorable. They perform improv. (more)
Rare Bird Show
Philadelphia, PA — You yell out a word. They turn it into comedy. Rare Bird Show has been a highlight act at some of the biggest improv festivals in the country. (more)
Resist Butch
Minneapolis, MN — Butch Roy and Jill Bernard (more)
SENIOR PGA
Carrboro, NC — SENIOR PGA performs regularly at the DSI Comedy Theater. Zach Ward and Jeremy McDonald improvised together in late 90's and after a decade of separation (one hit Chicago and the… (more)
Season 6
Washington, DC — Season Six shows are fun. We create characters around an environment and run the show through those characters. We dump them in ridiculous situations where escape is through strength of… (more)
Superbest
Washington, DC — You know that moment when you realize, suddenly, that you're in love with someone? Your eyes meet in a way they've never met before, and for a moment time stands… (more)
Suspicious of Whistlers
St. Louis, MO — Suspicious of Whistlers is a long form improv troupe from St. Louis, MO. Founded in September of 2003 by a group of very funny Washington University students, we have been… (more)
The 708
Carrboro, NC — It's time for something amazing. Any ordinary object you suggest becomes a larger-than-life experience that inspires the team for all the scenes that follow. (more)
The Francis Bacon Experiment
Buffalo, NY — The Francis Bacon Experiment began in June of 2008. This year at NCCAF will consist of Kate Harlow, Kim Buchner, and Theresa Burke. (more)
The Glamping Trip
Austin, TX — Using personal monologues as a starting point, these mainstays of (more)
The Immortals
Cambridge, MA — The Immortals are Sasha Goldberg, Lindsay Wiroll, Taylor Newhall and Harry Gordon. All Immortals are or were members of ImprovBoston's Mainstage and a variety of other shows and Troupes at… (more)
The N Crowd
Philadelphia, PA — The N Crowd is a short form improv comedy troupe that has been performing in Philadelphia since April of 2005. Since then, The N Crowd has performed over 300 times… (more)
The New Deal Gets Bailed Out
New York, NY — Join the three gentlemen of The New Deal as they reach across the aisle in an effort to convince Rep. Pelosi and Senator Reid they should get their money for… (more)
The Real Housewives of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA — Backstabbing. Gold-digging. Charity Fundraising. The Real Housewives of Philadelphia has all the familiar drama of your favorite cable reality show, completely live and completely unscripted. (more)
The Whethermen
Charlottesville, VA — The Whethermen were formed in Fall 1997 and is the oldest improv comedy group at the University of Virginia. Throughout the year, they perform at benefits, intermissions, and other school… (more)
This Improvised Life
Cambridge, MA — An improvised show about a tv show based on a radio show about real life stories. (more)
Thy Will be Done
Boston, MA — Thy Will Be Done is a fully-improvised story of a man and a woman struggling to find love. In Thy Will Be Done, Will Luera and Alison Royer navigate the… (more)
Toast Improv
Columbia, SC — TOAST Improv is the University of South Carolina's improv troupe, consisting of eight members. TOAST is about to turn ten years old. They want a bike this year for their… (more)
Total Panic
Austin, TX — Total Panic is the newest house troupe from Austin's premier improv venue, ColdTowne Theater. Formed in early 2009, this group has come out swinging - sometimes their fists, sometimes from… (more)
Unfurled
Austin, TX — A musician, a neuroscientist, an engineer and a marine wander into the ColdTowne Theater in Austin, TX and exit an improv troupe. (more)
Unleashed! Improv
Rochester, NY — Unleashed! Improv is Rochester, NY's premiere long-form improv troupe. (more)
Veal
New York, NY — Veal is a musical improv group that takes the Harold form and mishmashes it with the audience’s suggestion of fictional town. They bring these towns, and their soundtracks, to life… (more)
WDWMKR
Toronto, ON — Fuelled by some of the best and brightest up-and-coming female improvisers in the city of Toronto, this femme squad (pronounced "widowmaker") is anything but dainty. (more)
Wildcard
Chicago, IL — Born of the ashes of many-a-dissolved improvisation factions, direct descendants of the improv Gods perched high a-top Mount Chicago, a group of individuals have come together, as one, to present… (more)
Witt's End
Ann Arbor, MI, USA — Witt's End is the University of Michigan's premiere long-form improv comedy ensemble. Witt's End strives to create scene-based, character-driven, and most of all comedic improv. By performing throughout campus and… (more)
Wizard's Duel
New York, NY — Wizard's Duel all met in New York City before any of its members lived there. Five years ago Josh Lay, Cory Cavin, and Will Grandberg took a class at the… (more)
onesixtyone
Washington, DC — Without the Beatles, there would have been no Wings. Without Wings, Guns N' Roses would never have re-recorded 'Live and Let Die,' which was a great Bond theme, but easily… (more)
rom-com
Chicago, IL — rom-com follows the genre of the romantic comedy beat by beat, meet-lose-get. the audience suggests how/where we meet and why we break up and the story is told through scenework… (more)
underage sugar addicts
Chicago/Evanston, IL — the underage sugar addicts (usa) are a teen improv ensemble that has been together since 2003. the ages of the members are 13-18 and are independant, meaning not affiliated with… (more)
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