Irreverent Improv

07/20/2023

🎭🐧 Join us THIS SATURDAY for an unforgettable experience with "Penguin Posse" - a high-energy, interactive comedy show featuring talented improvisers from American Improv Theatre and Irreverent Improv. Let your suggestions inspire hilarious characters and outlandish scenes, then sit back and laugh at what transpires. Purchase tickets at OceansideTheatre.org. 🎉🎭

07/14/2023

Expanding things in Oceanside!

Oceanside Theatre Company has launched Improv at the Brooks, a multi-faceted program of improv comedy classes, workshops and performances.

06/04/2023

Looking forward to teaching this great workshop at Cornerstone Improv!

**NEW WORKSHOP**
"FIND THE RELATIONSHIP" with Chris Shurland
SUNDAY (6/25) 10AM - 1PM

At the heart of any great improv scene is the relationship between the characters, but improvisers fall into the bad habit of talking about everything else. This workshop provides tools for improvisers to quickly find the relationships in scenes and make it about the most important thing: how the characters on stage feel about each other.

Chris Shurland is a Chicago-trained improv teacher and performer currently based in Southern California. He had the good fortune to be trained by some of the nation's best improv teachers when he completed the training programs at Second City, iO, and Annoyance Theaters and attended numerous workshops and classes across the U.S. and Canada in improv, clowning, and physical comedy.

He has since gone on to perform with several independent and house teams in Chicago and California and teaches improv nationally and internationally. Chris can currently be found developing the improv program for the Sunshine Brooks Theater in Oceanside and performing at theaters and festivals with Chicago-based duo Legends of Public Access, Bay Area-based duo A Couple of Tools, as well as locally with Finest City house team Banker’s Kill.

REGISTER HERE: https://buytickets.at/cornerstoneimprov/929006

09/23/2022

A huge thanks to the players from Santa Barbara Improv, Carp Improv, and Jest Improv. A giant thanks to Jeff Ringgold from American Improv Theatre. An even bigger thanks to Laura and Rick Hall. And the biggest thanks to the audience for coming and watching our silliness Sunday night - without you, we couldn't do this.

05/27/2022

Trying to fire up workshops again after several cancelations due to the virus that shan't be named. First stops are Ventura and Santa Barbara in the next few weeks.

03/24/2022

Fingers crossed that we can get going in full swing again. Jeff Ringgold & Chris Shurland (and John Abbott when in the west) are ready to play with our newly re-named team: i2 The Experience.

03/19/2022

Excited to have a guest spot at Santa Barbara Improv's long form show tonight (8pm, 1535 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA).

03/02/2022

After a couple stalls in getting up and running thanks to $ #%ing covid, Irreverent Improv team Pandamonium is opening for Cat Alvarado at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria, CA this Saturday March 5, 2022 at 7pm. Looking forward to finally getting rolling (again).

12/24/2021

Merry Christmas from the folks at Irreverent Improv!