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unusual facts about Improv


Bex Taylor-Klaus

In high school, Bex performed in her school's Improv Troupe - she loves comedy and Improv - and with friends started a Junior-High Acting Troupe to train young actors.


Adam McKay

He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's Improv Olympic, where he was a member of the improv group, The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn, Miles Stroth, and Ali Farahnakian, and Child's Play Touring Theatre.

Andrew O'Keefe

In 2001 he was a member of the Australian Theatresports team that won the Just for Laughs Improv Tournament at the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Anthony Lovett

He also appeared onstage as an improv performer with April Winchell and Paul Rugg.

Ché-Shizu

Ché-SHIZU (シェシズ)is an underground Japanese improv/folk group consisting of Chie Mukai (向井千恵) and others.

CHiPs Improv

"The Chapel Hill Players" (CHiPs) is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's premiere improv and sketch comedy team.

Chris Grundy

Grundy started his career as a performer in improv comedy groups in the Denver, Colorado area such as Chicken Lips, Impulse Theater, and Rattlebrain Theater.

Dan Bakkedahl

After moving to Chicago, he made a name for himself at the Improv Olympic performing in the influential two-man improv show ZUMPF with his teacher Miles Stroth.

Dan Fishbach

During Fishbach's tenure at The Groundlings, the improv company inked a New Media deal with Sony for short digital sketches.

Dannah Phirman

Phirman teaches sketch comedy writing and improv, and has performed in two-person shows like Eye Candy (with Danielle Schneider), which went to the 2002 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and Special Delivery (with Paul Scheer), a parody of a British children's show in which postal workers rummage through people's mail in search of heartwarming lessons and edibles.

DC Pierson

He attended Mountain Pointe High School where he started acting and performing in a short-form improv group.

Drew McCreadie

He is a member of Urban Improv improvisation troupe and Canadian Content sketch troupe, whose members have/do include The Simpsons comic book writer Ian Boothby, Comedy Inc. star Roman Danylo and Air Farce actress Penelope Corrin.

Edith Gonzalez-G.

Her comedic persona has performed in several comedy clubs such as Jon Lovitz and The Ice House Gonzalez has also performed at all the top comedy clubs including The Improv, The Laugh Factory, The Comedy Store and many other venues.

Farai Chideya

She graduated from Harvard in 1990, Magna Cum Laude, and was a member of the improv comedy troupe The Immediate Gratification Players.

Frenetic Five

Improv is the leader of the group, and a dedicated MacGyver fan with a similar ability to devise improbable solutions to challenges encountered during the course of the game.

Get Up with It

Upon the album's reissue in 2000, Alternative Press gave Get Up with It a rave review and called it "essential ... the overlooked classic of psychedelic soul and outlandish improv ... representing the high water mark of Davis' experiments in the fusion of rock, funk, electronica and jazz".

Greg Benson

Benson is a sometime member of the ACME Comedy Theatre improv troupe in Hollywood, where he first worked with writer/actor Wil Wheaton, who has since appeared in a variety of Benson's projects.

Heinz Riegler

After contributing lyrics and vocals to a song on Adam Franklin's solo project Toshack Highway, Riegler went on to collaborate with Lawrence English and Tam Patton (Full Fathom Five) in the Brisbane-based experimental/improv group I/O3.

Ike Reilly

The band is also well known by fans of TJ and Dave, an improv duo with Chicago actor and improviser David Pasquesi who perform regularly at the IO Theater in Chicago.

Improv Asylum

In addition to the theater in the North End, the Improv Asylum has also held shows in New York City and Los Angeles.

Jai Rodriguez

Rodriguez regularly guest performs in Cookin' With Gas , a long-running all improv show, at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.

Jim Zulevic

Zulevic hosted the weekly radio show "Second City Radio" on WCKG-FM, and taught improv classes at Columbia College Chicago and The Second City.

Jimmy Brogan

Within his first year and a half of doing stand-up he was a regular performer at the Improv, Catch a Rising Star and the Comic Strip.

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

which was also the date of the second season premiere of Real Husbands of Hollywood, a comedy-improv reality television parody on BET created by Hart.

Kirsten Gronfield

Kirsten Gronfield (born November 29, 1977) is an American improv comedy actress.

Laird Macintosh

Macintosh is a member of the The Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based sketch and improv comedy troupe.

Lee Garfinkel

He also tried his hand at stand up comedy performing at the Improv in New York and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles.

Martin de Maat

About that time, friend and colleague Sheldon Patinkin asked Martin to join the staff of the recently created The Second City Training Center, the theater's official improv training program.

Miles Stroth

Stroth was a member of seminal improv team The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ali Faranahkian, Neil Flynn, Adam McKay and Ian Roberts.

Monika Smith

She has performed at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Los Angeles and UCBNY, The Second City Toronto Touring Company, and at The Second City L.A., Chicago Improv Festival, iO Chicago, iO West, Del Close Marathon, and more.

Nancy Hower

Following the success of Memron, Nancy teamed up with fellow Memron producers Robert Hickey, John Lehr, and Evie Peck to create a comedy improv series titled 10 Items or Less.

Nick Johne

Nick majored in microbiology at the Ontario Agricultural College and began his improvisational career in Toronto, where free improv classes were being taught at the Harbourfront Centre.

Patrick Bristow

Bristow is also an alumnus of the Los Angeles landmark sketch comedy/improv troupe The Groundlings, where he still occasionally performs improvisation comedy.

Saheb Sarbib

He collaborated with the Portuguese avant-garde improv ensemble Telectu, playing several times with the duo, including the first edition of the Festival de Jazz de Lisboa.

Sam Golzari

He has also worked with Tony Shalhoub on the film AmericanEast, as well as an all-improv mockumentary, Juan Francis: Live, produced by Norman Lear.

Sarah Saltzberg

She has appeared off-Broadway as Helen in The Donkey Show, Cherry in Sinfully Rich, as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in her one-woman show Dear Diary (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade.

Shahi baaja

Michael Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra has been playing this instrument in a free-improv duo with Chris Corsano since 2006.

The Quarry Lane School

Current Upper School clubs include Band, Jazz, Orchestra, Chess, Drama, Photography, Journalism, Economics, Environmental, Red Cross Club, Arts/Literary Journal, Improv Club, Leadership and more.

The San Francisco Improv Co-Operative

The SFIC produced master classes by some improv teachers including Charna Halpern (IO Theater), Mick Napier (Annoyance Theatre), David Razowsky (Second City Los Angeles), and Ian Roberts and Matt Besser (Upright Citizens Brigade).

Tim Perkis

"Perkolator" 1999 Pieces all made by mangling live recordings of improv ensemble sessions with Henry Kuntz, Matt Ingalls, Gino Robair, John Shiurba, Ed Hermann, Dave Slusser, and Matthew Sperry.

Tom Lenk

Tom Lenk was a member of Tangent, an improv group, with slam poet Steve Connell.

Umar Rana

After performing in many improv shows and stand-up comedy events, in September 2010 Umar founded Comedy Masala.

Viola Spolin

Spolin was associated for many years with the Jane Adam's Hull House as well as other locations where she and her assistant teachers taught improv workshops to children.


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