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!
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.
Headliners
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
Ida Nowhere
Our partner venue, a non-profit artist’s collective
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.
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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