What is Improvolution?

Founded by GROUNDLING alumna Holly Mandel in 2001, IMPROVOLUTION! is an improv school, performing group and dare we say philosophy of how to live, create, and collaborate on and off stage…(yes, we dare!) We stand firmly behind our motto that improv IS for everyone. If you want to learn it, we can teach you. It’s not about being funny or clever or aggressive. It’s about getting behind the part of yourself that is fearless, creative, open, and likes working with others.

Improv is now more or less 50 years old. So we’re curious to find out what can improvisation and performance look like on the cutting-edge? How can it evolve from it’s current format to express something new, something more real and more relevant?

That’s why we’re called IMPROVOLUTION. Improv + Evolution/Revolution. (Get it? Yes, we like it too.) Interested in what’s next. And interested in how to push the edge and help catalyze the next stage in improv comedy and performance.

How can improv unleash a new level of creativity within individuals and between people where cooperation, support, positivity, and not-knowing are the foundation?

Something that can inform who we are – individually and collectively – that can push us to grow, transform and expand what we are capable of?

And did we mention it’s incredibly, undeniably-amazingly-almost-addictivly fun?! Well…it is.

Come join us! you know you want to…c’mon, admit it. No, we all know you do…everyone’s talking about how much you obsess about it…seriously…

Listen to an interview with Holly about this ‘improv-olution’