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

A huge thank you to everyone who came to the shows, who performed in the shows, who helped make the shows happen! The 15th annual Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival has gone to sleep, to dream of the 2015 festival, which will wake up in the Gas Station Arts Centre in October sometime. CRUMBS backstage with Kevin McDonald right before the very last show of the festival. If you saw it, you know how great it was. The end of the DnD Improv Sci-Fi show... lightsabres were had.  The stage is all set for the FRANGLAIS show (French vs English Improv)  The live overdub of an episode of 90210. It was oddly way more hilarious than any episode of 90210 ever was while on TV. The chairs and the mics and scripts all laid out for an improv show? What? This must be the "Cold Read" show. It was great! Finally, the poster stands in the wall looking down on a festival well done. Thank you Winnipeg.

The 15th Annual Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival Sept 30th to Oct 4th An improvised “Overdubbing” of a TV show, a “Cold Read” of an unseen script, an epic improvised battle of English vs. French and so much more... The Gas Station Arts Centre is proud to present the 2014 Winnipeg if... Improv Festival . The very first Winnipeg if... Improv Festival happened all the way back in the year 2000. It’s hard to believe that the futuristic sounding year 2000 is now so far in the past. But here we are in 2014 and we all have computers in our pockets. For this year’s futuristic Winnipeg if… Improv Festival we will be teleporting in performers from Germany, Vancouver, Edmonton and from the other end of the our Galaxy (because we have the technology). Tickets for the Winnipeg if… Improv Festival are available through the Gas Station Arts Centre by calling (204) 284-9477 or using that fancy internet and purchasing them online. It is the year 2014 — we shou...