The New Zealand Improv Fest is over for another year, and we had such an incredible time! We hope you were able to join us for one of our many, many performances, and we hope you’re already planning how to make the most of your next festival. See you next time!

On Monday 13 October at 1:30pm, Susan Williams will be presenting a talk on Accessibility in Improv for the Forums Series 2019. This is a free, public event at BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, and she’s provided a handout for anyone who needs access in advance of the presentation.

I'm Taka Ueda from Osaka Japan, falling in love with the NZIF because of everybody's heart warming support to let me advance on the way to the next stage in international improv scene. I'm an improviser and an artistic director of IMPACT360 in Osaka Japan. It's the third time that I have took part in NZIF. Once in two years, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Susan Williams is an actor and improviser. She is also a queer, functionally blind, chronically ill, geek, and proud of it! This is her second year at NZIF, having made her debut co-teaching and co-directing Stories of the Darkest Night last year.

Luke is a founder of ImproMafia, one of Australia's oldest improvised theatre companies and has been improvising for nigh on twenty years. At NZIF 2019 he directs Corporation Theatre in Hooking Up / Trade, a queer double header on 17-18 October at BATS Theatre.

We are delighted to announce NZIF 2019’s financial assistance programme, which we hope will lower some barriers to participation. We especially encourage applications from improvisors often underrepresented at NZIF, including Māori and Pasifika, LGBTQI*, and people with disabilities.

Submissions are now open for the 11th New Zealand Improv Festival, held at BATS Theatre 7-19 October 2019. Join us!