Information about Bats Improv
BATS Improv (formerly known as "Bay Area Theatresports") is a non-profit improvisational theatre company in San Francisco. Founded in 1986, their unique style of acting-based improvisational theatre is well-known in improv circles around the world. BATS is the largest improvisational theatre company and school in Northern California.
BATS takes its inspiration from the work of Theatresports creator Keith Johnstone and from San Francisco's own tradition of experimental improvisation. BATS is known for the quality, depth, scope and variety of its improvisational theatre programming which includes the trademarked Johnstone formats "Theatresports," "Gorilla Theatre," "Micetro," and "The Life Game" as well as a variety of long-form and genre formats created in house by the BATS Company.
Over the past 20 years, BATS helped create and define a unqiue San Francisco style of long-form improvisation--a single-story 2-hour show, complete with intermission--which is distinct from improv seen in much of the rest of the country.
BATS is in residence at the 200-seat Bayfront Theater at historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and performs year round.
In addition, BATS runs a successful corporate training program, performs improv in schools as a popular participant in the Bay Area's Young Audiences program, and provides free improv workshops through its Laughing Stock program to people living with HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, cancer, and other chronic, life-threatening illness.
Notable BATS Improv alumni include: Affiliated improv groups include:
BATS takes its inspiration from the work of Theatresports creator Keith Johnstone and from San Francisco's own tradition of experimental improvisation. BATS is known for the quality, depth, scope and variety of its improvisational theatre programming which includes the trademarked Johnstone formats "Theatresports," "Gorilla Theatre," "Micetro," and "The Life Game" as well as a variety of long-form and genre formats created in house by the BATS Company.
Over the past 20 years, BATS helped create and define a unqiue San Francisco style of long-form improvisation--a single-story 2-hour show, complete with intermission--which is distinct from improv seen in much of the rest of the country.
BATS is in residence at the 200-seat Bayfront Theater at historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and performs year round.
In addition, BATS runs a successful corporate training program, performs improv in schools as a popular participant in the Bay Area's Young Audiences program, and provides free improv workshops through its Laughing Stock program to people living with HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, cancer, and other chronic, life-threatening illness.
Notable BATS Improv alumni include: Affiliated improv groups include:
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History
History of BATS ImprovReferences
Company's website Improvisational theatre (also known as improv or impro) is a form of theatre in which the actors use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously.
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TheatreSports™ is a form of improvisational theatre which uses the format of a competition for dramatic effect. Opposing teams can perform scenes based on audience suggestions, with ratings by the audience or by a panel of judges (who are usually trained improvisers
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Keith Johnstone is a drama instructor who has taught in England and Canada and more recently around the world. His teachings and books have focused on improvisational theatre and have had a major influence on the art of improvisation.
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City and County of San Francisco
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"The Painted Ladies"
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Greg Proops
Birth name Gregory Everett Proops
Born September 3 1959
Phoenix, Arizona,
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Birth name Gregory Everett Proops
Born September 3 1959
Phoenix, Arizona,
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Masi Oka
Birth name Masayori Oka
Born November 27 1974
Tokyo, Japan
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Birth name Masayori Oka
Born November 27 1974
Tokyo, Japan
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