Das Improv Festival

Thank you!

Das Improv Festival 2024, Oct 2nd – 6th

Thanks to all the performers, teams, staff and volunteers who helped make Das Improv Festival 2024 an incredible time!

3 Amazing headliners

Performances and workshops from birds (Los Angeles), Old Yorkers (New York City) and The Free Association (London)

Shows

5 days of long form improv shows from over 30 teams from around the world!

Get a Festival Pass for access to shows – individual tickets to shows will only be sold at the door and only when available shortly before shows start at each venue!

Shows

Workshops

20 workshops covering everything from musical improv to two-prov, for beginners to advanced players!

Workshop registration provided by our partner The CCB Training School.

Workshops

Headliners

birds is a narrative musical improv group starring Ross Bryant, John Hartman, Zeke Nicholson and Ashley Ward with Zach Marsh on keys. Based on an audience suggestion birds creates a brand new musical right in front of your eyes as a one night only experience! The group has been performing together in various iterations for more than 8 years, primarily at UCB in Los Angeles and are thrilled to be making their debut in Germany at Das Improv Festival!

Old Yorkers

Long-Form Comedy Improv from some of NYC’s best Veteran Improvisers. Featuring Matt Cutler, Erik Tanouye and Kris Wiener.

The Free Association

The Free Association presents This Doesn’t Leave the Room. A scandalously fun night of daring, confessional improv comedy. This critically acclaimed, sell-out show brings together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv. Every show is inspired by confessions, secrets and the hottest goss from our live audience and very special guests. Previous guests have included Jamie Laing, Tatty Macleod, Phil Wang and Ania Magliano. Featuring Graham Dickson, Naomi Petersen & Alex Holland

Venues

Both of our venues are an easy 5 minute walk from one another in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin

Comedy Café Berlin

Our main venue and sponsor organization, home to Berlin’s best alternative comedy shows

Roseggerstr. 17

Ida Nowhere

Our partner venue, a non-profit artist’s collective

Donaustr. 79

Code of conduct

We take the safety of our performers and audience seriously! Read more about our Code of Conduct, developed in partnership with Comedy Café Berlin.

Code of conduct

About the festival

Das Improv Festival started in 2019 and then was forced into hiatus in 2020 for… reasons…

We returned with a bang in 2023, and are now an annual improv festival showcasing high-quality comedic improv, in English, for an international audience. Our focus lies on both grounded and game-based long form improv comedy (including long form musical improv).

Das Improv Festival is now a production of Das Improv Collective zur Förderung von Improvisationstheater e.V. (say that 3 times fast), a nonprofit organization we formed in 2024 to promote the improv and comedy cultural scene in Berlin. As a nonprofit festival, our goal is to grow sustainably, create a fair and equitable place for international improvisers to share their art & vision, and to create a community for comedy performers in Berlin. All of our proceeds go to compensating our festival headliners and producing the festival.

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