Podcast documenting and developing the London improv scene and beyond. In every episode we speak to a different improviser about their improv origin story and what they love about the artform.
Festival director Matt Sparkes talks exclusively about the Oxford Improv Festival, which takes place Thursday 29 January – Sunday 1 February 2026 at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. He mentions Mark Smith, Wing It Impro, Neil Curran, and Moses and Sparkes. "This year at the Oxford Improv Festival we are introducing the Improv Lounge. This will be a relaxed, playful space where improvisers and…
Rebecca talks about Stroud Improv, John Cremer, The Maydays, Lansdown Hall, creating community, find people to attend your improv classes, folk dance, improv for well-being, improv as a folk art, Lunchtime Improv with Rebecca Macmillan, the Bristol Improv Theatre, running improv during the day, Lloydie and Rebecca Spill The Afternoon Tea, Lloydie James Lloyd, Dead British, Pretend Company, Chris…
Isabel talks about musical improv, Awkward Actors, performing regularly, Oxford, living in a transitory city, performing for the first time, perfectionism, Subtlest Aria, Improv Discovery, Matt Sparkes, Thame, emotion, audience participation, Flo's Cafe, short-form, the Alphabet game, Paul Z Jackson, Improv in Six Acts, Hands Through, production, the Pattern Game, terms of endearment, connection,…
Simon talks about Scoops Improv Comedy, Ben Tucker, Ric Stewart, running a jam, New Choice, The Maydays, AndAlso Improv, The Actors, Barcelona Improv Festival, Tea & Toast Improv, Hitch Your Wagon: Improvised Cowboy Songs, Heather Urquhart, Joe Samuel, Isabella Crawley, Bla Bla Land, Tea & Toast At No. 9, The Museum of Relationships, Kathy Manson, the Brighton improv scene, monologuing as an…