- Calgary Young People's Theatre
- Dirty Laundry
- The Improv Guild
- Loose Moose
- The Kinkonauts
- Outside Joke
- Vancouver Theatre Sports League
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Since 1999, Dirty Laundry has kept Calgary audiences in stitches with its brand of improvised comedy and weekly cliffhangers. Each episode keeps the audience coming back to find out what happens next on their 'soap'. And at Dirty Laundry, the characters find out at the same time as the audience, because it's completely improvised. |
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The Curiously Canadian Improv Guild was formed by 4 actors in the fall of 2004. Rick Hilton, Dave Duncan, Ken Gardener and Rob Mitchelson. They are a non profit theatre society operating as an actor's co-op. Their goal is simple: present improvisational theatre and provide a social outlet for the members to have fun and share views on improv. They started at the SAIT Orpheus theatre and then moved to play one winter season at the Uptown. From there it was 2 1/2 years of late night comedy on the Plaza stage in Kensington. During this time the Guild also presented hundreds of workshops, many corporate functions and festivals and grew the co-op to its current size of 12 full members and many many associates and guests. Currently The Improv Guild are the hosts of the Calgary Improv Festival and present improv demonstrations every Friday night in their studio, 2504 Macleod Trail South at 8 pm. Workshops are run every Monday at 7 pm in the studio. |
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The Loose Moose Theatre Company, which was formed in 1977, has an international reputation for innovation and excellence in improvisational theatre. Techniques for training and presenting improvisation which have been created by co-founder and former Artistic Director Keith Johnstone, and developed at Loose Moose are currently used worldwide. The Loose Moose also acts as a training centre for individuals interested in improvisational theatre, and we are very proud of our many alumni that are now working in the areas of film, television, and stage.
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The Kinkonauts were sprung from the loins of two Calgarian improv duos: Rock Awesome (comprised of Lauren Cochrane and Mandy Sellers) and The Patriarchy (comprised of Owen Chan and Jason Lewis) in early 2007. The Kinkonauts got their start performing in competitions hosted by the Curiously Canadian Improv Guild and moved on to hosting their own shows in early 2007.
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Outside Joke is a six-piece improv group hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. They perform their own long form style of what they have self-dubbed the “improvised anti-musical”, weaving stories using words and ideas from the audience, and creating songs from those digested suggestions that pull characters and storylines together. |
