Apollo 12
Phoenix, AZ
A founding troupe of The Torch Theatre, Apollo 12 attempts to play to the top of their game as well as the audiences' intelligence. Delving deep into literature, mythology and pop culture, Apollo 12 builds up ideas intellectually and then gleefully rips down those ideas bit by bit with a ruthless sense of playfulness.
The Festival Ensemble
Middletown, CT
Top performersHeather Marie Vitale (Washington, DC), Laura Zaro (Hayward, CA), Geoff Taylor (Baltimore, MD), Gillman Brenum (Oakland, CA), Sandy Handley (San Francisco, CA), Jess Kent (Omaha, NE) and Josh Jenkins (Henderson, NV) come together for a special festival performance under the direction of Tezz Yancey.
Galapagos
Phoenix, AZ
Having performed countless forms and styles of shows across North America since 2003, Galapagos's performances are now liquid metal shaped by the suggestion and the group mind. One of the founding groups of The Torch Theatre in Phoenix, they place full commitment, exploring the absurd as a team, and having a blast above all, especially when it involves hijinks like mixing lofty artistic ideals with shameless pop culture tropes. Galapagos is Bill Binder, Jose Gonzalez, and Jon Jarhmarkt, and they love you.
Get a Room
San Francisco, CA
We are a Troupe of Vintage Women "Get a Room" who play objects we gift each other from a room shown at the beginning of our set..We make these objects have strong, opinionated POVs and often run themes thru our shows that affect us as older women navigating our journey thru lives, well lived. !!
Gob's Improv Emporium
VR
We are Gob's Improv Emporium! We are a VR improv group that runs weekly improv workshops and hosts regular live improv shows. Our members include people from literally all over the world. We act as a central hub for fans of long-form and short-form improv that want to create, innovate, and have fun together in VR! We look forward to entertaining you!
I'm With Her
Phoenix, AZ
One evening, when Bill Binder's scene partner for a competitive show wasn't available, he asked fellow Torch performer Merrie Greenfield to sit in for the night. It was the night of the 2017 presidential inauguration, playing in a part of town representing a fair number of red hat sales during 2016. So the pair opted for a somewhat antagonistic team name.
Improv All-Stars
Oakland, CA
The Improv All-Stars are a collection of performers spread around the country who began performing together online in April of 2020. We perform and study at a variety of theaters including EndGames Improv, Florida Studio Theatre, ImprovBoston, Leela Improv Theatre and All Out Comedy Theater. We love comedy!
Leaves of Three
San Francisco/Los Angeles, CA
Michael J. Astrauskas, Geraldine Carolan, and Alex Lee all started improvising in the San Francisco Bay Area with Endgames and Leela, and became friends at Camp Improv Utopia. They take photographs together, they eat cottage pie together, and they improvise together based on their strong relationship.
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Morning Soap Improv
VR
Morning Soap Improv is a troupe based in virtual reality platform, VRChat. Morning Soap is a parody show of morning talk shows such as The View and Good Morning America with inspiration from comedy shows such as Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang Bang and The Onion’s today NOW which focus on long form improv and character work.
Nexus
VR
Nexus is both a virtual club that exists in the social VR platform VRChat and the improv troupe that brings its characters to life. Club Nexus is an immersive/social VR show that puts the audience in the role of Earthlings who have gotten the opportunity to be the first of their species to join the hottest night club in the known universe.
The Professionals
San Francisco, CA
The Professionals are an improv comedy troupe who perform a “docu-reality” parody that delves into the lives of characters with the hobby or pastime of the audience’s choosing. Created in 2016 and directed by Diana Brown, they developed their unique style as part of Leela's P.I.E. program before becoming an independent troupe in 2020.
Together/By Myself
Coconut Creek, FL
Together/By Myself is a solo improv show starring improv actor LD Madera. The show consists of characters that are all created by LD and engage in various scenes and monologues. Everything in the show is completely improvised on the spot, and inspired by one simple question: What's important to you?
Unicorn Kingdom
Earth
Unicorn Kingdom creates realistic, relatable characters and then puts them in odd worlds with odd characters, to play with what we expect versus what we imagine. Unicorn Kingdom formed in 2020 as a house team of InterCity to allow InterCity community performers from around the world to perform together in more than just a jam, and play in events in other improv communities.