Winnipeg Improv

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...

Another Winnipeg if... Improv Festival comes to a close. We would like to send a HUGE thank you to everyone involved. The guests we brought in to be in the Festival Ensemble were incredible. Randy Dixon leading the workshops was a treat and Winnipeg will be inspired by his words for years. The festival created a new element in the Local Ensemble, bringing together 13 members of the improv community to work and perform. It was such a tremendous success. The Sketch Ensemble was the same, as it was a new element and was created to foster the growing sketch comedy scene. Kevin McDonald from The Kids in the Hall lead the ensemble in creating brand new sketch from improv tools. Thank you to all the volunteers and all the audiences and all of Winnipeg!   Kevin McDonald and the Sketch Ensemble  The Festival Ensemble enjoying some late night games after the first show  Stephen and Kevin about to do some early early morning TV  Randy Dixon onstage with t...

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival returns for the 17th time!  The festival started in the year 2000 and has brought to Winnipeg the very best in the "made up arts". From some of the original gurus and creators of the modern improv movement to improvisers who have gone on to write and star in TV and movies. For years we've had amazing improv artists from around the world descend on Winnipeg and mix it up with the amazing local improvisers.  Stay tuned right here for details to be released! If you are interested in applying to be a part of the "Local Ensemble" and be a part of the team that puts the festival on, apply HERE: APPLICATION LINK

Next Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is happening OCT 11th - 15th, 2016 Thank you to all the staff at the Gas Station Arts Centre for helping produce this amazing festival. Be on the look out for some AMAZING and BIG news about the upcoming improv festival this FALL! The Big Stupid Improv Show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival is happening! Advanced Tickets on sale NOW Big Stupid Improv Facebook Event Link Thank you to all our performers. The local improv stars who took the time to grace our stages. The out of town performers who came to Winnipeg to impress us with their style and be impress by our town. Thank you to all the crew of volunteers the festival has, our improv community, that makes all the gears work and makes the festival run smooth. Thank you to all the audiences who come out to the shows, laugh at the jokes, gasp at the stories and applaud at the art we make up only once.  opening night packed at the King's Head (this is where Step...

The Winnipeg Improv Festival is Sept 29th - Oct 3rd, 2015 BUY a Festival Pass and see every single show! BUY tickets online now and see the shows you want! The Gas Station Arts Centre produces the festival and is the main stage of the festival and the headquarters. Every night there will be a night of things being made up. The opening show is of course the FREE sampler show at the King's Head Pub on Tuesday, Sept 29th and then the rest all happens at the Gas Station Theatre in the heart of Osborne Village. Official festival schedule is online!  See members of the amazing: North Coast (Live hip hop improv from NYC) They will be joined onstage by the 2015 Female beatboxing world champion Kaila Mullady! Dad’s Garage (from Atlanta) Rapid Fire Theatre (from Edmonton) Kevin McDonald (from The Kids in the Hall) Kal Barteski (Her  live scripted artwork)   CRUMBS (WPG) Outside Joke (WPG) ...

The dates for the 2015 Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival have been announced.  Look for us from Sept 29th to Oct 4th at the Gas Station Arts Centre. GSAC LINK More details to be announced soon. Go improv!

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.