BATS Improv is San Francisco’s most highly acclaimed and longest-running improv company and school. BATS Improv is a professional theatre company and an artistic community that cultivates and innovates the craft of improvised theatre through engaging, playful, creative performance and training. Karen is honoured to be the Co-Artistic Director and a member of the Main Stage Company!
The Iron Stage: An Improvised Game of Thrones: San Francisco based theater group that performs a fully improvised show set in the world of Game of Thrones. Be prepared for murder, war, sex, and, well, probably more murder with The Iron Stage: Improvised Game of Thrones. We present fully improvised, never-seen-before, never-to-be-seen-again episodes in the style of the favorite fantasy series. The Iron Stage is Karen Brelsford, Shawn Brick, Laura Derry, Rez Graham, and Laura Wood.
RagTag Improv is a group of experienced improvisers who love to get together to put on shows for all kinds of audiences. Our shows are 100% improvised, engaging, and a fun night out. Live spontaneously--come on out to see something new!
Double Feature TM: Two improvised “films” unfold simultaneously as four actors, playing numerous characters, collaborate to create a theatrical experience that juggles a pair of completely different stories. The results are not only entertaining, but often suspenseful and moving.
“Four Actors, one musician and one light technician create two original feature-length stories and it is completely, hysterically outrageous… you’re left with only with aching cheeks and the sense of giddiness that comes from experiencing fearlessness.”-JoAnne Tobias, The San Francisco Guide
Creator: Rafe Chase
Cast: Karen Brelsford, Laura Wachtel, Rafe Chase, and Rez Graham
San Francisco Improv Collective: brings variety to the San Francisco improv community by featuring creative troupes with unique formats. SFIC offers fully-improvised theatre based on YOUR suggestions, presenting both "long form" and "short form" improv styles. Alternatively funny, thought-provoking, and always entertaining, the Collective's shows keep the audience engaged. Take a leap with the SF Improv Collective for an evening of laughter, variety and adventure! Don't miss what 7x7 SF called "One of the 17 Ways to Laugh Your Ass Off in San Francisco!"
Season 5: Space: Set in the year 2020, a crew of astronauts blasted off to a faraway Galaxy with a mission to replace the crew of an interstellar space station. They arrived to find the station damaged and all of the crew missing and presumed dead, except for one mysterious ... android. An original tale was improvised as Interstellar meets Gravity.
Season 4: Kingdom of Thrones: set in a Medieval Castle in the fictional European principality of Thronavia, circa 1342. Populated by peasants and ruled by royalty, it was an epic tale that evoked the fairytale world of Once Upon a Time and the dangerous intrigue of Game of Thrones. It ran 30 spectacular episodes October 2013 to April 2014.
Season 3: Bedlam-by-Sea: took place at the Crown Jewels hotel and pub, in the fictional English seaside town of Bedlam-by-Sea. Running from January thru April 2013, the quirky characters evoked the world of Fawlty Towers.
Season 2: Carnies: followed the lives, loves and foibles of a troupe of travelling side-show performers during the great Depression, circa 1931. The quirky, ragtag bunch of side show performers travelled across the Canadian Prairies, putting up shows for the townies and upon departure, leaving behind a trail of chaos and mayhem. Sin City: Carnies was held over and ran for a spectacular 30 episode season. The show was nominated for an 'M' Award Favourite New Production.
Season 1: DIE-NASTY: The show featured the hi-jinks, foibles and shenanigans of the Craigdarrochmactavishes, a wealthy family whose fortune was built on the invention of typewriter-ribbon. Set in1984 - the era of Madonna, Miami Vice, Knots Landing, Duran Duran, big hair and Lycra - they faced peril amid intrigue, lust, and betrayal.
RagTag Improv is a group of experienced improvisers who love to get together to put on shows for all kinds of audiences. Our shows are 100% improvised, engaging, and a fun night out. Live spontaneously--come on out to see something new!
