Long Form Improv Jams
Flat Improv is partnering with World’s Greatest Improv School (WGIS) and Queen City Comedy to offer online improv performance opportunities, including Open Online Improv Jams. Friday Online Improv Jams were offered by WGIS since 2020. Flat Improv is continuing the Friday online jams that started & were offered at WGIS from 2020-2024 and Queen City Comedy. These shows are now fully run and financially supported independently on a volunteer basis by Flat Improv with the help of your community support.
Join us in these free, online long-form improv jams! Please consider a small contribution to these jams to help them continue! Your hosts (and Flat Improv) are volunteers and are not financially supported by any theaters or schools. These are FULLY VOLUNTEER RUN – please be kind, we are not a business like schools are, and none of us earn money through improv!
Jon us in these free online long form improv jams! VOLUNTEER RUN!
Please consider a small contribution to these jams to help them continue! Your hosts (and Flat Improv) are volunteers and are not financially supported by any theaters or schools. Flat Improv covers the labour of all organization and management as a COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER.
How it works:
- Sign up below to get a link & attend! The link will take you to a zoom room.
- You will receive the jam link as soon as you register. Search for “Flat Improv” in your email if you don’t see it.
- New to online improv? Check out these improv tips and join us!
All jams are at 11am PT or 5pm PT on Fridays. There might not be a jam every week. Sessions depend on host availability.
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Improv Jam Sign Up
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What’s in this Jam? How long is it?
- Our jams include warm-up exercises (often some kind of scene work), and then some long form sets. We often divide the group in two and each team will get a chance to perform!
- Improv Jams, by definition, do not include teaching. They are not improv classes. We will always explain how to do the form in advance, and we do NOT pick anything very advanced or difficult. If you’re new, join us and try!
- We do different long form improv types – it depends on the jam and the host! The host will explain how they work. New to long form or online improv? Check out these improv tips about editing long form, and join us!
- These online jams are at least an hour long. Some jams might be a little bit longer than an hour depending on how many people show up! If you need to leave on time, simply tell your host and we’ll do our best to get you in an earlier set!
- Jams are free but please consider supporting our costs and time using the sign-up form so they can continue. You can always re-register at any time and add support if you wish!
- You can join our email list The Improv Report to be notified about jams (and more online-improv offerings and opportunities!)
What is an improv jam, anyway?
An improv jam is not a class and does not typically include notes/feedback or teaching improv concepts. It is an opportunity to try new things, improvise with new people, gain experience/reps, and meet people in an organized space! You will receive a detailed explanation of all exercises and forms we do in advance! You will learn and develop your skills.
This is an ALL LEVELS JAM! If you are new to improv, or online improv, just tell your host and they will help you out. We also sometimes have special workshops you can take to learn improv!
About your Hosts
Jen deHaan
Jen deHaan created Flat Improv (and started hosting improv jams) in 2022. She has taught long form improv classes at/with WGIS (World’s Greatest Improv School), Compass Improv, Highwire Improv, and Queen City Comedy. Jen was also the WGIS Online School Director.
Jen founded StereoForest.com where she creates, produces, and improvises or talks about improv in some shows/podcasts too such as the Neurodiversity & Improv podcast, Brenda Blouse: Independent Crime Enthusiast, Grack Public Access, and the Bad at Business podcast.
Jenice Matias
Jenice Matias is a storyteller, actress, singer, dancer , improviser ,writer and solo performer. She has written and performed several solo shows and comedy sketches for UCB, the PIT and the Magnet theater in NYC. She is the recipient of the Jason Chin Scholarship from the Maydays improv theater in London and the Montreal Improv theater in Canada. She is a Slam winner Storyteller. Her stories can be heard on popular podcasts. She currently performs with Queen City Comedy and Extreme XStreamed/podcast. To see her videos go to Jenicematias.biz.
Keri Kokke
Keri Kokke has been an improviser for several years and has been teaching improv for well over 0.58 years! She performed as a member of Fun! but Stressful at The World’s Greatest Improv School. Billy Merritt uses her improvised shenaniganry to advertise his classes.