Changes are afoot in the NZ Improv Trust leadership! Is it time for you to get involved?
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At our closing event, our performers, directors and participants came together to celebrate the best (and worst) of our achievements across the two weeks. Check out the winners and nominees below!
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Welcome to Festival 2021, friends! Submissions are now open for NZIF 2021’s performance and workshop programme, and we are thrilled to be supported by Creative NZ and the Arts Grant they just gave us. Read on for more!
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NZ Improv Fest invites improvisors everywhere to join us in celebrating the art form we all know and love this 2-11 October, from wherever they are and wherever they're at. Join us in Wellington, or connect with us online - we may be kept apart physically by the circumstances of the world but we can always be together in creative spirit!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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