David Innes (Melbourne) is an experienced improvisor, teacher and director of impro. He has performed in two NZIF shows - Time Lord in 2013 and Grain of Truth in 2015, both shows of which he devised and created.
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Jason Dunn has been performing improv in Sydney for 7 years in short-form formats and a wide range of long-form shows. He has learned from Sydney-based and several international visiting teachers, and has never accepted anything they said at face value.
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Wiremu Tuhiwai is an improvisor, actor, teacher and a co-creative director of the Wellington Improvisation Troupe. He has been improvising within the windy borders of Wellington for just shy of 10 years. He has performed for many seasons with Wellington Improvisation Troupe and with Best on Tap.
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Jaklene Vukasinovic is an improvisor, performer and teacher from Melbourne, Australia. Her love of music, dance and drama drew her to theatre at the University of Melbourne, where she began improvising with student collective Off The Cuff in 2006
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Cale is the Artistic Director of Improv Theatre Sydney, the improv director of Whose Line Is It Anyways Australia (yes- the TV show!) and was the Director of Training with Impro Australia. He was the founding Artistic Director of FULL BODY CONTACT NO LOVE TENNIS, running longform improv weekly for almost a decade in Sydney.
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Jonathan Briden is a veteran performer, teacher, and director, with almost 30 years of improvisation, dozens of shows, and over 1,000 performances. He has taught improvisation across 4 continents, and established improv groups in England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He has worked extensively with many of the great teachers of modern day improvisation, including David Razowsky, Bobbi Block, Keith Johnstone, Uta Plate, Steve Jarand, and many more.
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Katherine Weaver is an improvisor, actor, teacher and director from Melbourne. She has been improvising with Impro Melbourne for over 10 years and is currently co-artistic director. She has performed for many seasons with Impro Melbourne in such shows as Theatresports™, Gorilla Theatre™ and Maestro™
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Created especially for NZIF 2016, Improdome is our nightly competitive team show, full of scenes and games that could tickle your funny bone, warm your heart, or shock your senses! Anything could happen (but mostly improv). Every night will be different and at the end of the week, we will have our first ever Improdome champion team!
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To many in Wellington, the New Zealand Improv Festival (NZIF) is a celebration of improvised performance; to those within the industry, it is also an opportunity to develop skills and foster collaboration between national and international practitioners. With its most comprehensive workshop programme yet, NZIF is delighted to have almost 100 practitioners registered to participate in a week of improvisation masterclasses led by some of New Zealand & the world’s most experienced and talented improvisors and directors.
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