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Profiles  Come and meet the people involved in our 20th anniversary celebrations!
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Stephen Sim (Workshop Instructor, CRUMBS) |
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Stephen Sim has been performing since first being introduced to improvisation in the early 1990's. He has since toured Canada and Europe extensively with his improv company CRUMBS. Stephen has also taught master classes in improvisation all over Canada and Europe.
Stephen Sim is an instructor at the Prairie Theatre Exchange where he runs a longform improv intensive program. He also is an instructor at the Academy of Acting where he teaches the units on improvisation and stand-up comedy.
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Jonathan Argue (Producer) |
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Besides being the Managing Director of the Impromaniacs
for the past 18-something years, Jonathan Argue is producing the
Impromaniacs 20th Anniversary Performance / Workshop Series too! You
could say that between his awesome family, his full time job and his
love of Improv and the Impromaniacs, he's one busy guy... and he is!
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Jonathan believes strongly in growing the Impromaniacs artistically
through building meaningful ties with local, regional, national and
international Improvisational theatre companies. He's proud of the
connections that he has made and maintains with the likes of...
- AKA Improv (Vancouver, BC)
- !nstant Theatre Company (Vancouver, BC)
- Remilio Sheen (Victoria, BC)
- Bronx Cheer Comedy (Vancouver, BC)
- Dave Morris Is A (Victoria, BC)
- Spilt Milk (Victoria, BC)
- Caught In The Headlights (Nanaimo, BC)
- Vancouver TheatreSports League (Vancouver, BC)
- Bob Loblaw Queer Comedy Troupe (Vancouver, BC)
- Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton, Alberta)
- General Fools (Regina, Saskachewan)
- CRUMBS (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
- PROJECTproject (Toronto, Ontario)
- Without Annette (Montreal, Quebec)
- Upfront Theatre (Bellingham, WA, USA)
- Unexpected Productions (Seattle, WA, USA)
- Brody Theatre (Portland, Oregon, USA)
- Dad's Garage (Atlanta, GA, USA)
- Die Gorillas (Berlin, Germany)
- Yann van der Branden of Quicksilver Productions (Belgium)
- Yuri Kinugawa of Impro-Works (Tokyo, Japan)
- Narobov (Libjuana, Slovenia)
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Shawn Norman (Performance Director) |
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Shawn Norman has been improvising for about a decade. He comes to us from the Vancouver area where he participated in many shows, workshops and festivals. As a member of the Canadian Improv Games staff, he has taught and performed all across Canada. Last year, he represented the Impromaniacs at the Seattle International Improv Festival, where he had the pleasure of working with a cast from all across the globe. He has been with the company for almost two years now and is excited to be a part of the 20th anniversary season.
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Dave Morris (Improv Jam Coordinator) |
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Dave Morris is a storyteller, improviser, poet and musician. If there is one thing he loves, it's making art. He is honoured to be a part of honouring 20 years of improvisation done by the impromaniacs and what better way to show his appreciation then to actually help coordinate improv jams! The best part of improvisation is working with other improvisers. This is awesome. |
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Barbara Klehr (Workshop Instructor) |
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Barbara is "Gorilla", Actor, Improv-Teacher, Singer and
Singing-Teacher. Gorilla Harry Hawaii is one of Germany´s most
experienced Improv-Musicians. |
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Yann Van den Branden (Workshop Instructor) |
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Yann Van den Branden is the artistic Director of Quicksilver Productions.
He likes to divide his work as an actor between playing in regular theatre and musicals on one side and television work on the other side.
Yann played during two seasons in the Belgian version of Who's line is it anyway. Later on he even dared to host weekly a one hour live improv show on national tv. It became a very controversial live show.
In 2004 he created the Wake. An improv format that he brought to Stockholm, Seattle, Edmonton, Victoria, Ljublijana, Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam with Quicksilver. That Yann and his Quicksilver team know how to excel in fast and funny improv, became clear in 2006 when they won the World championship of theatresports.
As an actor, Yann has played in a lot of tv series. Several years ago
he started to write scripts himself. He created Booh!, a series full of
crazy ghosts, that found its way to national Belgian tv. He also
developed a new sitcom inspired on global warming for which he did not
only write most of the 88 episodes but also played one of the main
characters.
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theatre play about Marc Dutroux, a Belgian serial killer. Recently he played emperor Joseph II in Peter Shafer's award winning piece Amadeus. He loved his part in the musical TINTIN and the Prisoners of the sun where he played the double role of the butler Nestor and the
Great Inca. This musical ran for almost a year in Belgium, as well as in the Netherlands. |
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Yuri Kinugawa (Workshop Instructor) |
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Yuri is the artistic director of Impro Works (the longest running improv theater company in Japan) and Yellow Man Group in Tokyo, Japan.
Yuri is a professional actor and improviser. She has worked as a professional actor for theatre, TV, and film for about 20 years in Japan. Her international acting career started in 1996. For her role as Sayo in Memory and Desire, a Niki Caro movie, she was awarded Best Actress in the Stockholm International Film Festival. As best foreign performer she received the New Zealand Film Award.
She studied improvisation with Keith Johnstone and Charna Halpern since 1994, has performed in Japan, USA, Canada, Germany, France, Holland, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She was a member of the first winning team of Theatresports ™ in Tokyo, Japan. As a teacher, she created the program Business Impro Training ™ and has worked with many organizations, throughout Japan, businesses and non-profit organizations. She also worked for human services, government, health care, Schools and Universities on the use of creativity. She is the author of Impro Game, the first book about improvisation in Japan. In total she published four books about improvisation. Actually she is writing her fifth book focusing on Zen and Impro.
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