Winnipeg Improv

The 11th Winnipeg If… Improv Festival hits the city November 9-14. Presented by the Gas Station Arts Centre, the festival brings to Winnipeg special guests from New York City, Los Angeles, Edmonton, and Toronto for five nights of sensational and improvisational theatre. Tickets for the Winnipeg If… Improv Festival are available through the Gas Station Arts Centre website at www.gasstationtheatre.com or by calling (204) 284-9477. This year, the festival features five nights of theatre shows and two days of workshops. The festival kicks off on Tuesday, November 9th with a free "Festival Sampler" show at The King's Head Pub. Hosts Stephen Sim and Lee White of CRUMBS will do scenes with out-of-town guests and local players in this Improv Festival tradition. The Festival Sampler show is a part of the ongoing Free Laughs Comedy Series that puts on free live comedy shows at the King's Head every Tuesday night. The festival continues on Wednesday night...

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival keeps experimenting with improvisation and with the calendar of when we even have a festival. This year's festival will be Nov 9th - 14th at the Gas Station Arts Centre right in Osborne Village. Soon we will be releasing who will be coming and what will be going on... exciting right? And while you wait for more festival information... how about a creepy picture of a giant baby.

With the Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival starting up next week. It is time to look back at festivals past (and passed) to name drop and share who has graced the stages here for this festival. In no particular order: David Shepherd from the Beginning of Modern Improv Unexpected Productions from Seattle (Randy Dixon, Amanda Roundtree, Paul Levy, John Faga and Greg Stackhouse) Rapid Fire Theatre from Edmonton (Kevin Gillese, Amy Shostak, Julian Faid, Ian Rowe, Chris Connelly, Marc Shulte) The General Fools from Regina (Mike Fly, Amy Matysio) Phil Van Hest from Los Angeles Kevin Tomlinson from England PROJECTproject from Toronto (Julie Dumais) Mike Grajewski from Toronto Iron Cobra from Toronto (Becky Johnson and Graham Wagner) Rene Dellefont from Atlanta Monster Theatre from Calgary/Vancouver (Ryan Gladstone and Bruce Horak) Instant Theatre from Vancouver (Alistair Cook, Dave Morris and Ryan Biel) Vancouver Theatresports League (Jason Bryden and Taz Van Rassel) Plus of course th...