Impro Theatre ACT

11/06/2026

One Night Only by Impro ACT
June 28 @ Smith's Alternative

is 4 super-entertaining, inspiring, and completely different shows that showcase what Impro ACT students have been learning this quarter, and it's super popular, so if you are improv-curious or you just want a truly feel-good time to finish-up the weekend, book early - some sessions do sell-out.

Read what each session is and book tickets, here: https://www.smithsalternative.com/events/one-night-only-97374?

Sunday June 28, 6pm - 9pm | "One Night Only" Impro ACT student showcase - from 6pm, four different improvised theatre shows at $15 per session or $40 for all four sessions; 6.00pm, 6:50pm, 7:40pm, and 8:30pm.6.00pm..

09/06/2026

International Special Guest Workshop – “Bold Choices” with Rahel Otsa (Estonia)
Sunday July 12, 2026, 12:00Midday-5:00pm, @ Level 1, 131 City Walk, Canberra City. Book now: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/BNEVJADHPGLW8

Bold choices

Improvisers tend to be nice and polite people and sometimes we forget that on the stage we and our scene partners are playing characters not themselves.

So we make choices that we think would be nice and safe for our fellow actors in real life.

But the audience wants to see stories that are larger than their everyday life. They want to see someone confessing their love or leaving their job and travelling the world or facing a conflict with an old friend because they might never get to do those things themselves.

So, let’s have a look at how we can make those stories happen. And who knows, maybe we’ll get to inspire our audience through them as well.

Rahel Otsa

A thoughtful and dynamic improviser who created one of the first improv theatres in Estonia; Jaa !mproteater (2009-2019), Rahel is the main producer of the International Improv Festival Tilt in Tallinn (currently on hiatus) and has taught improv. In 2022, she opened up her own improv school in Tallinn called Rahel Otsa Improkool. Her workshops have been appreciated in Europe but also Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal and China.

Canberra improvisers will remember Rahel as a guest at Improvention and as a teacher who replaced Artistic Director of Impro ACT, Nick Byrne for a whole quarter in early 2020, so book fast before all her previous fans do 🙂

Book now: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/BNEVJADHPGLW8

09/06/2026

mproINvention 2026 Guest Announcement #1
Kaisa Kokko-Palmer (Finland)

The incredibly inspirational Kaisa Kokko-Palmer (Finland - photo by Susanna Hyvarinen) is our first announced guest for the exciting new 2026 festival concept!

Now we’re announcing guests, registrations are going to really take off, so time to bite the bullet and get an earlybird booking number so you get the best choices of tutors.

The price of packages will go up slightly, very soon, but I’m giving you a little window before that happens. Grab a deposit or package, now: https://impro.com.au/improvention-packages/

When Kaisa first came to Improvention some years ago, it was immediately obvious I’d made one of the best guest selections ever.

She’s got all we want for this event: she’s got broad-based theatre experience and delivers workshops and performances from that real point of strength and diverse possibilities, (you absolutely will learn new stuff and have your mind and heart opened), she cares deeply about her students and respects your diversity, too, she’s full of ideas she’s passionate about and that’s contagious, she’s bringing her partner Sara, who is a great improviser, too (bonus!), she’s fot her own school in Helsinki, but travels the world doing this and knows exactly how to give you the best experience ever, and….well…, she’s from Finland, isn’t she?

I mean, if you were at the last Improvention, you know how we lost our minds and hearts to Finland, so prepare yourself for another impro-crush, and get a package or deposit to make sure you get to choose Kaisa as your tutor and show director: https://impro.com.au/improvention-packages/

Impro INvention Dec 7-13 2026

* Everyone who can make three or more consecutive days, including at least one weekday, does one or two multi-session intensives with the same tutor/s and group of participants, guaranteed to result in participation mainstage show/s!

* More time and options for social events, professional networking and sightseeing, OR just do a further intensive resulting in a show.

* Still an opportunity for additional one-off workshops.

* Summer activities finish together on the Sunday 🙂

08/06/2026

Want to try the next improvisation class in Canberra CBD without committing to a whole short course, and right in the middle of the city?

Try Impro ACT's next Impro Winter Taster, Sunday June 14, from 2:00pm-4:00pm, and then decide without obligation, whether or not to sign-up to our classic short course (with optional start dates in late July), improving your theatre skills, and general happiness.

For this inspiring and fun one-off taster session, book here: https://impro.com.au/one-off-workshops/

04/06/2026

Want to see Canberra's new secret bar?
This Friday June 5 rock up from 5:00pm, Thank God It’s Theatre is back!!
@ Blank Cultural Platform, Level 2, 131 City Walk, Canberra City. Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/tgit

Canberra’s most casual, entertaining, and cost effective way to ease into the weekend, with some vopen mic variety from 5:00, very fun Sink or Swim improv show from 6:00, and cheap drinks.

Our new venue has a super cool, ‘secret door bar’ vibe, but it’s easy to get to, and you’ll be one of the people in the know.

Simply enter the glass auto doors leading into that arcade right next to King O’Malley’s pub, and walk through to the other end, and take the lift to Level 2 for all the good times.
See you there!

03/06/2026

Learn improvisation, starting July on Tuesday or Thursday evenings, and find exception new stage and life hacks, with the added bonus of weekly joy and laughter.

Be more spontaneous! Learn to improvise in Canberra now, just for fun, or for personal growth, or to improve every aspect of your public performance more than you'd imagine.

Enrol now to start Tuesday evenings from July 28 or Thursday evenings from July 30..... right in the CBD! (But don't delay - Impro Classes in Canberra are often sold out)

Learn to live in the moment, gaining fun and practical tools that you'll use every day, whether you're a performer or just want more confidence socially.

Disocver the most inspiring set of classes you'll ever join.
Improvisation at Impro ACT is heaps of fun, and all in a warm inclusive atmosphere.

This course is led by globetrotting Artistic Director Nick Byrne, who provides world-class training in the art of improvisation, in a way that will seem easy, whether your goal is professional performing arts, personal/professional confidence, socialising, or just the most fun hobby you'll start this year.

Join now here: https://impro.com.au/beginners-courses/

30/05/2026

An Improviser's Learning Journal
subscribe here: https://impro.com.au/learning-journal/

It seems I just keep writing this thing, and it seems that more and more of you are getting something from reading it, so I'm glad it's working out for all of us 🙂

On a classic Bulgarian train ride, a week or so ago, somewhere deep in the countryside between Sofia and Plovdiv, I glanced down at where the word count was up to (302 000), and I'd only just started the chapter in which I write out all of my original show formats that people are very welcome to perform, (or to invite me over to direct for you, of course).

In early 2024, I began to write down everything I feel I have learned, experienced, conceptualised, or produced, in the field of theatrical stage improvisation, including exercises and full course lesson plans, concepts, philosophy, travel anecdotes, teaching tips, inspirations and motivations, in every topic area imaginable from character to narrative to relatioship to music, etc, and now the show formats; everything.

It was originally intended to simply document my involvement in this life-changing area, regardless of how many people ever read it, and before my genes took me into a zone where I started forgetting stuff, but it seems that, instead, I keep remembering more stuff!!

So, instead of making it a book or five that people buy as single big pieces, I'm following the lead of the literary greats of the 19th Century, just releasing it as weekly journal entries.

Some of my earliest subscribers have over 100 entries, so far, and new folks join regularly. It's super cheap, so I don't think I'll be retiring on this, but I am certainly often found to be retiring with it.

So, hey, if you'd like to just read a few little bits of my writing, free, without the more detailed and more practical content, you can take a look at the profile page: https://www.facebook.com/an.improviser.s.learning.journal

Or if you'd like to try out a small subscription to get entries in your email that you can keep and compile forever, with loads more practical stuff you can use, you can do that here: https://impro.com.au/learning-journal/

Thanks, so much, to all my existing subscribers. Your positive feedback helps me know it's worthwhile and keeps me writing day after day ❤

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