Australia's premier institution for improv training and performance. Home of The Bear Pack, the cast We are Sydney’s first and only dedicated improv theatre.
Improv Theatre Sydney is a creative, inclusive and world-class school for students of improvisation. Improvisation is a collaborative method of creating live, spontaneous theatre. We teach people how to conceive original scenes in the moment, spontaneously discovering ideas, relationships and worlds – all from a single audience suggestion. Our performance ensemble and student alumni includes Alex
Lee (The Checkout), Bridie Connell (ARIA award-winner, Tonightly), Sam Mac (Sunrise), Kyran Wheatley (triple j), Susie Youssef (The Project), David Collins (The Umbilical Brothers) as well as award-winning comedians Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie (The Bear Pack), Tom Walker (MICF Award nominee), Bec Melrose (2018 Raw Comedy winner) and more. In addition to improv classes, we also offer sketch, stand-up, and other speciality courses written and taught by industry professionals (Tonightly’s Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, Hughesy, We Have A Problem head writer Penny Greenhalgh). We’ve facilitated corporate workshops for national and international clients including Google, Commonwealth Bank, EY (Ernst & Young), Buzzfeed, Sydney Thunder, Barnados Australia and Stryker. Improv is by its nature participatory and is emboldened by a diversity within its audiences and performers. ITS aims to provide a space where all people can perform together, embracing the mosaic of Sydney’s multiculturalism, religious plurality, gender and sexual diversity. Above all, we believe that improv is and should be an enjoyable experience. Don’t think, have fun. Welcome to ITS. We would not exist without Giant Dwarf Theatre. Improv Theatre Sydney acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the lands on which our company is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.
18/06/2026
ITS SOAP OPERA returns for four dazzling weeks! Starting Sat 27 June, we visit the sleepy village of Algernon, UK, in 1790. A new factory with a steam engine has been built. Who will go work for the factory and who will fight against it? What promises are made, what hearts are broken? Find out in… GETTING STEAMY!
Catch each tantalising episode with a 4-show discounted pass, or just drop in for an episode or two (we'll catch you up!). It's the event of the season baby!
17/06/2026
Mind reading at SUPERSPEED! A classic theatresports warmup: start with any two words, find the middle word, keep going til you match.
16/06/2026
Wanna help organise our Comedy Festival in November? We're looking for an organised and proactive Assistant Producer to be our operational engine.
Full job description in our bio.
✍️ Applications close this Friday 19 June.
11/06/2026
challenge! can you guess who's ACTUALLY miming drinking water using invisible object work? (please say yes)
09/06/2026
🍊 there's ALWAYS more juice! With NZ improv superstar Ryan Knighton, learn how you can find even more to play with in a scene by following your curiosity and squeezing out gold with your scene partners.
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📅 Workshop Sat 27 Jun, 1-4pm
09/06/2026
We are jam packed this weekend, with good times, good tunes, and good jokes. See you there or see you SQUARE x
04/06/2026
Bartenders at our theatre may or may not have an improvisation background
03/06/2026
Take surface level choices and turn them into something of substance!
📅 Characters From The Heart: a speciality improv workshop on Sun 21 June with
01/06/2026
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a regular week of irregular comedy. Jumpscares, gossip, rude wait staff -- it's all going down at ITS.
31/05/2026
The actor has a script, the improviser doesn't - they've got to figure it out together in this theatre x comedy show!
📹 ft. Esha Jessy and Edan Lacey
📅 ITS Flipping The Script, monthly on Saturdays: next up June 6!
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