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Conor Bradbury
Kyah Green
Liz Johnston
Sean Tabares
Julian Frid
Ted Hambly
Isabel Kanaan
Stephanie Malek
Kaitlin Morrow
Seann Murray
Prepare for adventure in Toronto's premier unscripted adventure comedy! Take up the 20-sided Die of Power and roll
to determine the success or failure of our intrepid heroes as they face all the dangers the Realm of T'Rannah (read: Toronto)
has to offer, be they the nefarious rogues of Sneaky Deeds, or the eldritch machinations of undead Lichipsters, or even the
mighty, fire-spitting Drake!
AND as always, stick around after the show for BOARD GAME NIGHT with GM Sean Tabares, to raise
a mead and a fistful of dice/cards/your imagination with your favourite hapless heroes and deadly NPCs.
D&D Live! is: Conor
Bradbury as RONOC the Necromancer, Kyah Green as FINLEY the Rogue, Liz Johnston as MERIDERR the Druid/Assassin, Sean Tabares
as TABITHA the Troll and your legion of deadly NPCs: Julian Frid, Ted Hambly, Isabel Kanaan, Stephanie Malek and Kaitlin
Morrow Dungeons Mastered by Seann Murray
10$/8$ in costume! Get your tickets early online! (https://baddogtheatre.com/calendar/
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Joe Bill
Shane McClean
Ashley Comeau
Brandon Hackett
Ayaka Kinugawa
Christy Bruce
Ken Hall
Jan Caruana
Bio coming soon
Gary Rideout Jr.
Pat Thornton
Bio coming soon
Dan Beirne
Jamie Cavanagh
Jamie and Dan is Jamie Cavanagh and Dan Beirne, two improvisers you are watching become friends before your very eyes! Recently introduced to the scene as a duo, their combined improv experience, stacked on top of each other, is really quite tall. You might recognize Dan from TV’s Fargo or an Interac Christmas commercial, and you might recognize Jamie from Soulpepper Theatre or from a commercial for Mattress Mattress the Mattress Store. Their improv is sure to inspire, thrill, and delight!
Jordan Black
The Black Version is a completely improvised show that started at the Groundings Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010 to sold out
crowds and great reviews. Rolling Stone magazine calls the show “Hot” and the cast a “Comedic A-Team”. LA Weekly says the
show is “Red Hot” and “Scores more than its share of belly laughs” while the LA Times calls the show “A Winner”.
The all
African American cast of regulars includes show creator Jordan Black along with other comedy veterans Cedric Yarbrough, Gary
Anthony Williams, Daniele Gaither, Phil Lamar, and Nyima Funk all under the direction of Karen Maruyama. Special guest performers
include Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele (former original cast members), Wayne Brady, Maya Rudolph, Tiffany
Hadish, Niecey Nash, Jerry Minor, Angela V. Shelton, Misty Monroe, and others who come and perform in the show from time
to time.
This talented cast has vast film and television credits ranging from Mad TV and Saturday Night Live, to The Boondocks
and Reno 911. The show begins when the director asks the audience to suggest a popular film title and then the cast, right
there on the copy, improvise the “Black Version” of that film. The show regularly performs at the Groundlings Theater and
the Largo at the Coronet.
Becky Johnson
Joe Bill
Tim and Kayla & Becky and Joe
Come see two of Chicago's finest improv sons, Tim Baltz and Joe Bill, pair up with two of Toronto's most darling improv
daughters, The Sufferettes (Becky Johnson and Kayla Lorette), in this one-time-only double bill for the ages.
One hour. Four heads. Eight hands. Two formats. All improvised.
Phil LaMarr
Performing with ILLUSIONOID:
An improvised story based on your suggestions in the style of old-time radio programs, ILLUSIONOID will weave a tale with
twists and turns that are completely unexpected… especially to them! Join Paul Bates, Lee Smart, and Nug Nahrgang as they
take you on a journey into the future, from the past… TODAY!
AND Performing with The Dub:
The Dub takes your favourtie movies and re-edits them to make a completely new movie, all thanks to the best improvisers
in North America adding their voices underneath!! In the past we’ve had The Matrix with no Matrix, Jurassic Park with no
dinos, Blade Runner with no Blade….running…?...and even Ghostbusters with no ghosts!
Kayla Lorette
Tim Baltz
Tim and Kayla & Becky and Joe
Come see two of Chicago's finest improv sons, Tim Baltz and Joe Bill, pair up with two of Toronto's
most darling improv daughters, The Sufferettes (Becky Johnson and Kayla Lorette), in this one-time-only double bill for the
ages.
One hour. Four heads. Eight hands. Two formats. All improvised.
Amy Shostak
Tom Hill
Amy Shostak and Tom Hill are a Vancouver improv duo who derive a near unreasonable amount of joy from playing with and for audiences. Tom is one-half of the Canadian Comedy Award-Nominated Hip.Bang! Amy is a former Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre and half of world-touring duo Rå Power. At Big City Improv Festival, they will be performing their signature form GRAFT, which is inspired by the horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined and grow together.
Hosted by Kayla Lorette
Laugh Sabbath is excited to be a part of this year's Big City Improv Festival. This will be a memorable night of improvised
comedy featuring the Laugh Sabbath comedy collective trying their best and some awesomely talented special guests who actually
know how to do improv!
LAUGH SABBATH is a comedic force in Toronto and is recognized for showcasing some of the most creative
and talented comedic minds in all of North America! A Toronto comedy staple since 2006, the legendary Laugh Sabbath comedy
collective has been a major influence in shaping and impacting Toronto's comedy scene for over a decade. Acclaimed by critics
year after year as one of the top comedy shows in the city and beloved by fans as a cult classic. The weekly shows held Thursdays
at Comedy Bar feature a rotating ensemble of radical and exciting comedians performing stand-up, characters, sketch and musical
comedy.
Steph Malek
Kyah Green
“Recommend For You” is a live improvised streaming service. Want to see Film Noir meet Documentary? Would you watch Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a French Arthouse Movie? Would you love to see an action flick directed by Wes Anderson? Six performers offer up customized categories based on every genre, actor or director imaginable, but what you watch is up to you! Recommend For You is the hilarious, genre-bending, cinematic comedy you’ve been searching for. Netflix has nothing on this.
Adrianne Gagnon
Alastair Forbes
A mix of heart and laughs, Kitty and the Bee focuses on the misadventures of one couple as they navigate the (sometimes) treacherous waters of everyday life. Based on an audience suggestion, each show is completely un-scripted and no two shows are ever the same!!
Lisa Amerongon
Paul Bates
Liz Johnston
Sam Loeb
Alex Tindal
AJ Vaage
At Focus Group you will see some of Torontos best improvisers watch videos from the strangest corners of YouTube and use those videos to inspire scenes. It's comedy mined from the dark web.
Hosted by Tom Hearn
A Kiki - Tom Hearn host a Kiki of queer identifying improvisors! Tom will pair off our gaggle of queer improvisers. Each improviser won’t know who they’re performing with until their names are called.
Kris Siddiqi
Phil LaMarr
The Dub takes your favourtie movies and re-edits them to make a completely new movie, all thanks to the best improvisers in North America adding their voices underneath!! In the past we’ve had The Matrix with no Matrix, Jurassic Park with no dinos, Blade Runner with no Blade….running…?...and even Ghostbusters with no ghosts!
Hosted by Jason Agnew (Sunday Night's Main Event)
The only professional wrestling themed comedy show where "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" meets "Fear Factor" meets "WWE: Survivor Series"!!! 6 comedians take to the stage in and play both with and against one another as the audience gets the opportunity to eliminate them one by one til only two finalists remain. They are then blindfolded and barefoot as the stage is covered in over 50 live and loaded MOUSETRAPS as they play one final scene!
Hosted by Mark Little
"It's like Match Game, but it sucks!" ~ Mark Little
Aba Amuquandoh
Adele Marie Dicks
Alex Kolanko
Colin Sharpe
Emily Richardson
Erica Gellert
Gillian Bartolucci
Matt Nadeau
Marshall Lorenzo
Samantha Adams
Tim Blair
Tricia Black
Tom Hearn
featuring: Tim Baltz
Sunday Night Live is the flagship show of Toronto's Comedy Bar, written by and featuring The Sketchersons. Modeled after
Saturday Night Live, the show features all-new sketches, live music, and a special guest host every week. Past guest hosts
have ranged from local comedians and artists, to celebrities like Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Scott Adsit and John Lutz
(30 Rock), Paul Brittain (Saturday Night Live), James Adomian (Comedy Bang Bang) Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald (Kids
in the Hall), and Bret "The Hitman" Hart.
The Sketchersons are a multiple Canadian Comedy Award-nominated and winning troupe,
who write and perform the weekly show Sunday Night Live at Toronto's Comedy Bar. Over its twelve year history, the Sketchersons
has featured some of the best upcoming comedic talent in the city.
Paul Bates
Lee Smart
Nug Nahrgang
Chris New
with special guest Phil LaMarr
An improvised story based on your suggestions in the style of old-time radio programs, ILLUSIONOID will weave a tale with twists and turns that are completely unexpected… especially to them! Join Paul Bates, Lee Smart, and Nug Nahrgang as they take you on a journey into the future, from the past… TODAY!
Friday, November 16 cast:
Baltz & Kris Siddiqi
vs.
Joe Bill & Leigh Cameron
vs.
Becky Johnson & Jamie Cavanagh
Host: Brendan Halloran
Judge: Scott
Yamamura
Friday, November 23 cast:
TBA
Let's get the Big City Improv Festival party started right with "competitive" improv from a whole bunch of wonderful guests and local faves.
Adam Cawley
Rob Norman
Two best bros test the very limits of their friendship as they navigate through strange new worlds in this 30-minute improvised, storytelling event. These Canadian Comedy Award Winners, Second City Alums and hosts of the improv podcast The Backline have performed at The Just for Laughs festival, toured across Canada, Mexico City, Denmark, Latvia, The US, Norway, Australia and more. Adam Cawley (Workin' Moms, Baroness Von Sketch Show) Rob Norman (CBC's Personal Best, Sunnyside)
Conor Bradbury
Julian Frid
Kaitlin Morrow
Seann Murray
Jon Blair
Part Batman, part Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Stakes is an Ultra-Action Gothic Comedy that follows a wealthy Ottawa industrialist with a secret life: as a vampire hunter! Get ready for motorcycle chases to industrial music, perching gloomily on church steeples and Blood Raves, Blood Raves, Blood Raves as Mercedes Loveless climbs the ladder of high society, ripping off rungs and plunging them into the dark hearts of the walking undead as she goes. But how high up does the vampire infestation go..?
Chris Leveille
Robert Ariss Hills
Rob and Chris have been performing together as a duo in Toronto since 2010. They have performed at a number of different shows in the city, including The Hangout, True Stories Made Up Plays, and Naked Fridays, as well as the Detroit Improv Festival, Big City Improv Festival, East Coast Improv Festival, Ottawa Improv Festival, Boston Comedy Arts Festival, and DuoFest.
Emily Chin
Regina Connolly
Stacey Fleurime
Karen Forney
Matthew Hartman
Michael McBurney
Michael Quigley
Matt Solter
Sarah Wojdylak
8-Bit is a short-form improv team from Arcade Comedy Theater in Pittsburgh, PA. Performing classic short form
games as well as some fun creations of their own, they put a premium on high energy, crisp gameplay/hosting,
and audience involvement.
They've gained notoriety around their hometown during their monthly mainstage showcase, in which they've produced
wild-themed shows such as PROPaganda, 8-Bit & the H8-Bit Takeover, and The 8-Bit Turkey Trot. Ever a band of
merry troublemakers, they're always on the lookout for ways to inject fun, new variations into what it means
to put on a quality short-form improv show.
Kate Fenton
Ross Hammond
Dana Puddicombe
Samara Stern
Antonis Varkaris
Jason Voulgaris
Things are going to get emotional when Abra Cadaver hits the stage. Watch as they introduce an instantly unforgettable cast of never before seen characters. Gasp as those same characters meet and interact in ways no one could have predicted. Weep as things come to a joyous climax that leaves everyone satisfied and no loose ends. Or maybe they'll just start singing (not a threat)
Dale Bernier
Vance Gillis
David Kaufman
After This, We're Going To Tokyo is David Kaufman, Dale Bernier and Vance Gillis, a trio of bozos who use the monoscene form to play a steady stream of loveable dummies, jerks and weirdos. Members of the troupe have performed at festivals in Toronto, New York, Hartford, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver and more and in 2017 they collectively won Montreal's four month-long Threepio competition, a round-robin tournament decided by audience voting.
Zohaib Khan
Ayaka Kunigawa
Daphney Joseph
Alia Rasul
Anesti Danelis
Coko Galore
Fabio Abreu
Hana Holubec
Patricia Tab
Monica Garrido
Shoana Sharmin
Babel is a multi lingual troupe where every performer speak in their native language (Japanese, Greek, Urdu, Kreole, Tagalog,...)
Bridget Cann
Holly Wyder
Charlene Roth
Keenan Mak
Florian François
Jack Burton
Jennifer Ashleigh Llyod
Unmasked is a show about individuals living in a world where super heroes have been banned and have to hide their powers. Until...
Jamie Cavanagh
Mat Mailandt
Blank Verse is a highly technical improv show, based on the works and style of William Shakespeare, and features decorated Canadian comedians, Jamie Cavanagh and Mat Mailandt. Every Blank Verse performance provides one hour of high concept improv comedy, extemporized on the spot in iambic pentameter.
Andrew Bushell
Cameron Algie
Cassie Barradas
John Richardson
Justine Cargo
Leigh Cameron
Linda Paolucci
Liz Johnston
Matt Folliott
Nkasi Ogbonnah
Pete DeCourcy
Susan Debreceni
Quentin Matheson
Blast From the Past is inspired by childhood show-and-tell (except now we're all adults). At each show, we invite
real people to join us on stage to SHOW real items from their past and then TELL us the stories behind them.
Each of these real-life childhood memories are then reimagined into completely made up scenes by our talented
improv cast
What types of items do our show-and-tellers bring? Any item from the past they've held on to for all these
years. From diary entries to tattered teddy bears, homemade board games and pen pal letters, if it had a special
place in your childhood than it’s a story we want to see shared on stage!
So travel back to a time when life was simpler, when peanut butter was still allowed in school and facebook
meant putting your face in a book. What a nostalgic treat!
Liz Johnston
Kyan Green
Stephanie Malek
Kaitlin Morrow
Isabel Kanaan
Jillian Welsh
Celebrating the ridiculous phenomena that was 'the female Ghostbuster effect', Women Ruin Movies re-imagines your favourite movies with an all female cast and the intention to ruin your childhood.
Cat London
Vegas Lancaster
See what happens when New Jersey's best singer-songwriter, Cat London, and New Jersey's worst stand-up comedian, Vegas Lancaster, join forces for the coolest impromptu musical experience of your life. Cat and Vegas and the Temple of Boom is a snazzy improvisational songwriting duo, performing on-the-spot piano and guitar-driven songs inspired by live-audience prompts. Are you ready to soft rock?
Brittney Drysdale
Sam Roulston
Brittney Drysdale and Sam Roulston are Champagne Boyfriend. They're just two idiots doing improv on stages all across North America and also Africa! Champagne Boyfriend will be performing in Mama City Improv Festival 2018 (Cape Town). They were once described as having "nearly no personal boundaries on stage" which they have decided to take as a compliment. It's not a Champagne Boyfriend show unless Sam and Brittney spit take white wine into each other's faces. You can follow Champagne Boyfriend on Instagram @champagneboyfriend.
Alexandra Best
Andrea Marston
Leanne Miller
Jillian Welsh
We're a coven of comedy witches brewing up spells and scenes on stage.
Marcel St. Pierre
Kerry Griffin
Ralph MacLeod
Gord Oxley
"The Coincidence" is the signature format of The Coincidence Men, blending long-form narrative with the lightning-quick rapid-fire delivery and elements of shortform from a single suggestion. Common elements between characters, relationships and narrative similarities are discovered, echoed, explored and mined for dramatic impact, synchronous narrative and maximum laughs.
Sara Meleika
Sehar Manji
Jiva Kalan
Kadi Diop
Joy Ross-Jones
Stacy Gagnidze
Anthony Assaf
Zaid Bustami
Howard Mitnick
Colour Outside the Lines are a diverse ensemble of improvisers, who draw inspiration from personal stories of family, moving to new places and blending traditions to create silly, heartfelt comedy. Over the past year, Colour Outside the Lines have performed to sold out audiences, including at MPROV, Ladyfest Montreal (2017 & 2018), and OFF-JFL. Colour Outside the Lines have been proud to be frontrunners of representation in Montreal’s improv scene, and look forward to making their Big City Improv debut!
Ted Hambly
Allana Reoch
AlessandaVite
Watch out Topanga! Get out of the way Shawn! Move it Mr. Feeney! cause here comes Corey Matthews! These three Toronto improvisers and Boy Meets World fans are coming at you with their vast knowledge of pop-culture, scenes and trivia to bring Improv that will hit you like growing up in the 90's. As Shawn Hunter would say "I don't have a family!"
David Kaufman
D.J. Mausner
Crybabies is a fast-paced duo made up of major league idiots, D.J. Mausner (winner of Just For Laughs’ Homegrown competition, JFL42, writer Baroness Von Sketch Show) and David Kaufman (Off-JFL/JFL-Stage). With a focus on New-York-style game-based play, Crybabies explores the worlds of sad sacks, goofballs, and contemptible misfits. Recently they performed a two person improvised fringe show at the Montreal Fringe Festival and were nominated for Best Comedy. Outside of regular performances in Montreal, as a duo they have appeared in OFF-JFL, MPROV, The Ottawa Improv Festival, and the Big City Improv Festival. They perform a two-person Pretty Flower.
Austen Alexander
Romilly Belcourt
Yosef Dynar
Ajahnis Charley
Melissa Giacomini
Michelle Jedrzejewski
Meaghan Johns
Connie Manfredi
Ashley Miniaci
Rhys Naylor
Amelia Rose Ritthaler
Gauravi Shah
Curious George Washington is a longform improv troupe based in Toronto, Ontario. CGW regularly performs the Armando, and various Harold formats in comedy venues across the city. They are currently Toronto’s only longform improv troupe specializing in the Musical Harold. Born out of The Assembly Longform Program in early 2018, Curious George Washington has performed in the Toronto Celebration of Improv and Haroldfest 2018 in Toronto.
Daphney Joseph
Florian Francois
DaFlo is the french class you wish you had in school. Daphney and Florian are 2 bilingual improvisors, they
will take you on an bilingual world. Comedy is universe language.
Each scene will be in both language.
Sam Roulston
Brittney Drysdale
Nico Rice
Cydney Connell
Jason Reilly
Alex Kolanko
Patricia Taborda
Anthony Hall
Christina Nicolau.
Everything is game with DVG. We're a longform troupe that supports hard and plays stupid. There's no such thing
as a bad offer. We're known for being playful and mischievous.
We once got an entire audience on stage for a group game...three times at the Del Close Marathon. They loved
it.
We're known for shaking the hand of every audience member before every show. We'll typically do a "Hot-tage"
(a montage set) or a Harold.
Jordan Armstrong
Kevin Matviw
After performing to sold out crowds in the Edinburgh Fringe, Second City veterans Jordan Armstrong and Kevin Matviw return to BCIF with their own brand of quick-witted and catchy musical improv. "...Saturday Night Live Worthy" (Globe and Mail). "Our Bellies hurt from laughing" (Comedy Central UK). "Poetic & melodic arrowheads fleck’d with the Flight of the Conchords" ⭑⭑⭑⭑ (Mumble Comedy).
Karen Eichler
Andrew Spragge
Defiant Monkey Improv is a two person improv team from Western New York that performs both short and long form, describing their show as “theatrical improv”. The two people are Karen Eichler and Andrew Spragge, and they are married. To each other.
Delta Squad in its current form is: Daniel Fishbayn
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Mike Dineen
Rabiya Mansoor
Rebecca Chess
Robbie Grant
Mark Heeney
Delta Squad is a ragtag team of screenwriters, theatre directors, law students, and tuba players with a shared love of embarrassing ourselves on an improv stage. Formed in 2016 from the ashes of the U of T Improv "Training Squad" (thus our cheeky name), Delta Squad's longform sets are fast-paced and wicked fun, full of cinematic flare, memorable, larger-than-life characters (see our theatre majors for any complaints), and enough pop culture commentary to sink a ship. You want references? We got em.
Michael Davidoff
Adam Eschborn
Meghan Joyce
Peter McCoy
Scott Wojtanik
Sal Winston
Dream Cheese is a spicy, Buffalo-based improv troupe that serves long-form sets based on popular internet websites. We use audience suggestions to search through missed connections, message boards, and blogs for inspiration. Come see people of the internet and their experiences explored and expanded IRL!
Guled Abdi
Gillian Bartolucci
Emily Bilton
King Chiu
Justin D’Angelo
Carolyne Das
Devon Henderson
DJ Mausner
Franco Nguyen
Mark Shyzer
Beginning with true stories and inevitably ending in chaos, the Rat King weaves true stories together into an uproarious, heartfelt, wildly inventive improvised tapestry.
Maya Cieszynska
Elliot Caroll
Kyle Stevenson
Anne McMaster
Danny Avila
Antonis Varkaris
AJ Charley
Alaric McKenzie-Boone
King Chiu
Campbell Parsons
Eña presents their signature format, THE FEED. Your feed connects you, informs you and controls you, but does your feed really know you? Log in for this hilarious and absurd ride as we uncover the life behind your lock screen and the humanity that exists behind your phone's notifications.
Jonathan Shaboo
Jessalyn Ferguson
Lauren Griffiths
Jimmer Lowe
High octane sensual comedy brought to life by the 2017 BCIF TKO Tournament Champions.
Nicole Dunn
Filipe Dimas
Alex Kolanko
Andrew Bushell
Simon McCamus
FAKE COPS perform an original form that involves drawing inspiration from the preceding scene to create a butterfly style of cause-and-effect that connects each scene together while establishing a common theme. We are known for our ability to incorporate unexpected and unusual call-backs. We are quick to connect themes, deconstruct issues, and heighten scenes in absurd and funny ways.
Rob Lewin
Ben Sosa Wright
Robyn Bacon
Elliot Ritter
Fanny Pack is a roaming pack of weirdos that delivers high-flying characters and death-defying yes-and's. Swing by the big top for the most amazing (pretty funny) night of your life (the month of October)!
Andy Assaf
Dimitri Kyres
Andy Assaf and Dimitri Kyres mashup high concept storylines to improvise the obscure works of the great recluse
and absolutely real author Frank J. Mythic using slideshows that they themselves have never seen before to
inspire the setting of their scenes. Horror, mystery and intrigue await you and will leave you horrified, mystified
and… intrigued.
Directed by: Marc Rowland
Carolyne Das
Michael Mongiardi
Carolyne Das and Michael Mongiardi are a real couple who expose the details of their relationship for your amusement! They will improvise scenes from their relationship, but with a twist ... they play EACH OTHER. Everything is revealed and nothing is held back! This unique form brought them to the finals at the World's Biggest Improv Tournament in 2016 and 2017, and hey, it's cheaper than couples therapy!
Charlene Elizabeth
Daniel Moniz
Arun Kirupa
Carly Watt
Simon McCamus
Jennifer Ashleigh Lloyd
Andrew Cromwell
Kevin Matviw
Hurt Vonnegut is one of the hottest up and coming improv troupes to come out of The Assembly. With an anarchistic, game-based style, Hurt Vonnegut's sets are consistently a highlight and always leave audiences buzzing.
Jordan Armstrong
Like regular karaoke except very different! Toronto's best musical improvisors create amazing songs on the spot with the help from the UNREAL Well Dressed Magic Band!
Dina Senior
Bradley Doyle
Paul Fedj
Lacie Victoria
Mickie Krish
Erica Sherwood
Tino Notarianni
Genevieve Jones
Max Whitworth
Abbey Metcalfe
Brie Watson
We perform competitive short-form improv games with audience voting & a judge presiding. Lots of Niagara v. Toronto content opportunities!
Kirsten Rasmussen
Matt Folliott
K$M is Kirsten Rasmussen and Matt Folliott and of course a dollar sign. Kirsten and Matt have been performing together for two years, their aggressive fast paced style was born out of slaughtering houses at Catch23 on the regular. They've toured together to the Vancouver International Improv Festival and thw Montreal Improv Festival to great acclaim and individually have toured all over North America, the Carribbean, Berlin and Australia. This year have been nominated for Best Improv Troupe in the Canadian Comedy Awards.
Tom Hearn
Anders Yates
Tricia Black
Monica Garrido
Candace Meeks
Flick Penmen
Nate Callens
AJ Charley
King Chiu AND MORE?! YOU BET. Depends on show length?
Kinsey Fail is Toronto's queer Improv troupe. We take real life stories and spin them into queer absurdity!
Alex Brown
Martha Graham
Laura Buchanan
Kate Hammer
Nicky Fournier
Lil Strawberry Bitch is a narrative! From a simple suggestion we will take the audience through the highs and lows of 5 different characters as they navigate a fictional world. Are we all apple farmers trying to win the biggest apple contest? Maybe! Are we townspeople in a town on the brink of economic collapse and the only thing that will save the town is a massive benefit concert in the town’s centre? Could be! Find out with us!
Nuverre Naami
Tom Novik
Listen, Stupid hails from the mean streets of Detroit. Well, actually the nicely paved streets of the suburbs, but they still bring the city’s hustle and honesty to every show. Nuverre Naami and Tom Novik have been performing together since 2013 and are often asked by audiences how long they’ve been best friends. It’s sweet and a little awkward, but speaks to their strong connection on stage. They’ve performed in shows, events, and festivals across the US and Canada. This duo loves to play all kinds of characters while patiently exploring and showcasing everyday relationships and encounters.
Moniquea Marion
Brie Watson
Linda Julia Paolucci
Keenan Mak
Ian McIntyre
Jason Voulgaris
Bridget Cann
Brody Trottier
Marlon Rando is one sexy daddy of an improv team boasting high energy long form improv with a deep focus on crazy situations and characters. We're gonna give you an improv set you can't refuse!
Miguel Gauthier
Cydney Connell
Robbie Grant
Tara Federko
Trevor Haldane
Laura Commisso
Taylor Davis
An episodic, improvised, over-the-top cop dramedy!
Dani Alon
Chris Hannay
Aspiring parents Dani Alon and Chris Hannay celebrate the secret lives of the people who raised you, inspired by the real story of an audience volunteer. Dani and Chris are founders of the Improv Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, and have performed in just about any kind of improv show you can think of.
Emily Richardson
Jess Grant
Tom Hearn
Chris Leveille
Nina Van Horn is four weirdos looking for a good time.
King Chiu
Katherine Fogler
Jennifer Lloyd
Anne McMaster
Chris O'Neill
Nico Rice
Shohana Sharmin
Not Oasis presents: The Overshare. It's the improv comedy version of that person you *just* met who tells you
how, whilst in the womb, they consumed their twin and at night they dream its dreams. Inspired by audience
suggestion, we deliver a super-brief yet deeply-revealing personal monologue and the scenes flow from there.
More truth-bomb laden mini-monologues serve as edits. Let's just say, you really get to know (and love) us
in 15 minutes.
Phatt AL
Nicole Passmore
Mat Mailandt
Ryan Sheedy
NOTORIOUS is an explosive live theatre event that combines freestyle rap with high-energy improv comedy. You've never seen anything quite like it, and, since every show is unique, you never will again. Find out what all the hype is about because NOTORIOUS rhymes with comedy.
Martha Stortz
Ted Hambly
Spencer Thompson
Devon Henderson
Peter Stelmach
Gordon Neill
Shohana Sharmin
Orson Whales is an Assembly House team that mashes up longform, absurdism and theatricality. Performing in festivals like Big City Improv Festival , Toronto Haroldfest, Del Close Marathon, Detroit Improv Festival, and the winners of Toothache (2015), the Whales base their sets loosely on the Harold with lots of room for weird tangents, interesting callbacks, and child detectives. Join us for an exciting journey through existential dread.
Emily Richardson
Martha Stortz
MK Morris
Candace Meeks
Kyah Green
Chelsea Larkin
Alternate: Jackie Twomey
PERSONS is a dynamic improv troupe made up of all female /non binary members, joining together from all corners of the Toronto improv scene! PERSONS competed in BCIF's TKO competition last year and beat out weeks of troupes to make it all the way to the top 2! Each member of Persons brings a ton of comedy experience and a unique comedic perspective and personality, that you won’t see from any other troupe! In a montage loose harold style, with strong POV’s and some silly characters in between, PERSONS are the troupe to watch!
This show features a rotating cast. The cast selected for BCIF would be consisted of Second City Mainstage
Tour Co
Boat Co alum
as well as current SC faculty members. (And *maybe* some BCIF special guests)
POPAGANDA is a celebration of music and improv where duos take inspiration from specific musical genres to create scenes and worlds completely on the spot.
Bobby Homer
Korri Birch
Candace Meeks
Carolyne Das
Linda Julia Paolucci
Chris Besler
Erica Gellert
Chris Middleton
Bridget Cann
John Beauchemin
Carley Thorne
Tom Hearn
Antonis Varkaris
Anesti Danelis
Quentin Matheson
Nkasi Ogbonnah
Susan Debreceni
Alia Rasul
Chris Gilholm
Riverdale: Improvised recreates all of the sexy drama of the CW teen drama, Riverdale, and fills in all the sepia toned mysteries the show left out! Sex, Lies, Hot Tubs & Improv!
Yaw Attuah
Danny Avila
Chanelle Berlingeri
Alfred Chow
Brian Edwards
Alison Haines
Michelle Laplante
Neil Mathur
Josh Tibbetts
Trevor Tranter
Sarah Jurassica Parker presents: The Battle. Two teams perform longform improv while the reps from each side compete in HIGH STAKES (silly) challenges. All mediated by one lucky (and exasperated) audience memnber.
Alaric Mckenzie-Boone
Grace Smith
Mark Heeney
Marko Bezić
Samantha Wyss
Melissa Gerskup
Christopher Seeney
Emma Decort
Rhys Naylor
Coached by the inimitable Andrew Bushell
Have you ever been scammed? Yes? Then Scam Algie wants to hear about it! We’re a fun and energetic longform troupe that takes the audience's most outrageous stories of scams, swindles, and shady deals and spins them into hilarious scenarios.
Tricia Black
Kyah Green
Alexandra Hurley
Reid Janisse
Ayaka Kinusawa
Stephanie Malek
Josh Murray
Nicky Nasrallah
Connor Thompson
Jenna Warriner
Every night is opening night when you make up a musical! Songbuster creates fast paced, engaging and highly ridiculous musicals from audience suggestions.
Kevin Vidal
Christian Smith
Explore a world of characters and relationships with the award winning – high energy duo, Soul Decision. Watch Christian Smith & Kevin Vidal as they weave in narrative while smoothly transitioning from scene to scene. They’ll make you dance, cry and hopefully cry. Oh and they’ll make you laugh!
Guled Abdi
Vance Banzo
Tim Blair
Franco Nguyen
TallBoyz II Men aims to take improv to new heights! The Boyz will improvise a longform show filled with physicality, emotion and Slam poetry. And it all starts with a suggestion from YOU. Yes, YOU! The audience member that is reading this. Now you've got to see the show, as it was foretold in this prophecy we just wrote. Fulfill you're destiny!
Kirsten Rasmussen
Leigh Cameron
The Bloody Marys is a hit improv and sketch comedy duo known for their fast paced, dramatic and oft gory style.
Made up of Second City Toronto MainStage Alumni Kirsten Rasmussen and Leigh Cameron, The Bloody Marys have
appeared in festivals across Canada and the US, including the Vancouver International Improv Fest, the Ottawa
Improv Festival, Big City Improv in Toronto, the Stumptown and All Jane Festivals in Portland, Oregon and Montreal’s
Zoofest/off JFL. They are also very proud to have won the Bad Dog Theatre Company’s coveted 2017 Globe Head
Trophy.
Beth Easton
Lenny Epstein
Gavin North
Julianne Snepsts
Paul Snepsts
Glen Wallis
Susan Wallis
Candace Wilkins
A mostly long form troupe, Taste That! strives to bring our small town tendencies of communalism, mutual support,
and straight up horseplay to our montages and formats. Some of our faves are: Small Town, Bucket List, and Armando.
But we like surprising ourselves and our audiences!
Gary Lehman
Chris Fortin
Shawn Golden
Chris Moody
Nuverre Naami
Our rotating cast performs Long Form improv which is character and relationship driven. The Pointless Form: The Bruce Lee, or Water Form. We look to emulate Bruce Lee’s approach to martial arts, through our approach to the art of improv. We are continually training, learning, and exploring various forms, and styles, so that we can be at our most improv ready state, able to use any element, at any given time.
Ashley Comeau
Alastair Forbes
Karen Parker
Connor Thompson
The Lusty Mannequins tell stories of weirdness and joy that tug on heartstrings, tickle brainpans, and then settle forever in the subconscious - there to be recalled at strange and inconvenient moments for the rest of one’s life. Also, Alastair stepped on a bird once, and that’s generally brought up at least once a show.
Cas Knihnisky
Emma Currie
Jason Dalgleish
Jason McNutt
Jay Reid
Josh Loewen
Kate Ethier
Katy Warren
Luke Stewart
Matthew Beard
Sam Alijda
Simone Dorie
Hayley Kellett
The Making-Box Brigade's signature show is Royal City Heroes. A longform improv show that celebrates a special guest through interviews and improv inspired by those conversations. We have had the pleasure of showcasing the Mayor of Guelph, Marie Zimmerman (ED of Hillside Festival), Sage Tyrtle (Storyteller), Burnaby Orbax (Freak Show Entertainer) and Royal City Brewing Co. We love finding our inspiration in our community.
Nina Adler
Tim Blair
Hamed Darr
Coko Galore
Michelle Hart
Andy Hull
Scott Lloyd
Andrea Marston
Natalie Metcalfe
Christina Nicolaou
Gavin Pounds
Sharjil Rasool
Alessandra Vite
We literally go into the audience and ask for people's trash and from that form a montage set borrowing from
both short form and long form improv
Andrew Kenneth Job
Alexander Joseph Parra
Those Guys (Alex Parra and Andrew Job) are a pretty funny improv duo that tries to tell the perfect hero's journey while constantly being side tracked by pop culture references and secondary characters. Oh and music!
John Beauchemin
Matthew Nadeau
Lance Byrd
Three handsome dudes with beards. Open improv
Devon Henderson
Jackie Twomey
TwoSon performs longform duo improv based on the old email addresses of audience members. Past shows have included surfer_lover@hotmail.com and kingofallthings@yahoo.com. Their show is quippy (not a word) and full of best friend energy that has been described as “a little too much.”
Kyle Warne
Bennett Steinburg
Victoria Watson-Sepejak
Tony Kuang
Mena Fouda
Robyn Bacon
Aiyana Harvey
Luke Morales
Aeden Taylor
David Conforti
Felipe Santos
U of T Improv Presents: Snake Oil, Minnesota. Our show is in the format of a La Ronde, or as they call it down south, a Larend. Take a tour and meet the residents of a small, almost Canadian town filled with intrigue, quirky characters, and rich history!
