Jordan (he/him) is the Artistic Director of Instant Theatre Company and is an improviser who has been performing and teaching in Vancouver for fifteen years. He began while studying at UBC with UBCimprov, and continued training and performing with Vancouver Theatre Sports League, Instant Theatre Company and Blind Tiger Comedy. He currently performs regularly with Vancouver’s Grad School Improv. Jordan has coached UBCimprov and CIG, as well as directing several shows a year with Grad School Improv.

Tanaz (she/they) is the Marketing & Social Media Coordinator of Instant Theatre Company, is a queer Iranian actor, writer, filmmaker with professional training from Vancouver Film School, SFU and other amazing mentors. Her creations manifest as movement art, poetry, screenwriting, and playwriting. She is based in Vancouver BC, stolen lands of Coast salish peoples. She is commited to build a relationship with and honour and uplift the voices of the lands and coast salish peoples as a direct response to colonialism. Her work is centred around somatic awareness, activism, and play. As a director and instructor she works from a collaborative, non hierarchical and trauma informed lens. She is committed to bringing her diverse experience as a queer BIPOC immigrant to the process, dismantling systems of oppression like a warrior goddess.

Nikolai (he/him) is an actor and improviser based in Vancouver who has been improvising for 25 years. He has performed with multiple improv companies including Rapid Fire Theatre, Instant Theatre, The Improv Centre, and the Spontaneous Shakespeare Company. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a BFA in Acting in 2010, and has been in various Film & TV productions, including Deadpool 2, Riverdale, Superman & Lois, Yellowjackets, and many more. Nikolai has also been teaching improv and acting for the past 10 years, with a specific focus on both short and long-form improv, as well as scripted work in both scene studies and filmed projects.

Rachel (she/her) is a trained theatre actor and singer, with over 10 years experience in Improvised Comedy. She started out with “The 11 O’Clock Number!: The Improvised Musical” with Grindstone Theatre in Edmonton, Canada and is in her 3rd season with The Improv Center (formerly Vancouver Theatresports) on Granville Island, where she performs, coaches, and teaches weekly. She has trained at The Annoyance in Chicago, at Magnet Theatre in New York, and has led workshops as far away as Germany. Rachel’s passions are narrative long form, musical improv, and genre parody, but she loves showing people how to reconnect with their sense of play, remove their fear of failure, and take their skills to the next level.

Zach (he/him) is an actor, improviser, and educator living on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver). Zach has a BFA in acting and BEd from UBC. Zach has completed Canada’s national voice intensive, trained with Theatre for living, and studied clown with John Turner. Zach is a member of the Spontaneous Shakespeare company and Sin Peaks the improvised soap opera. Zach has been improvising actively since 2011 performing in improvised musicals, puppet shows, hip-hoperas, soap operas, and Shakespearean style plays.

Annie (she/her) has lived and performed improv in and around Vancouver since 2001. She has competed in the Canadian Improv Games and done improv with UBCi, Blind Tiger, Instant and is currently on the musical improv team CanonFire. She loves narrative, long-form and character driven comedy. She also loves The Simpsons, hot dogs and the New York Times Crossword.