The Brisbane Improv Festival is a celebration of Brisbane's diverse and talented community.

From the 22nd - 29th July 2023 Big Fork Theatre will host the return of the Brisbane Improv Festival after a successful 2022 Festival. Celebrating all things improvised comedy, the Brisbane Improv Festival will showcase some of this city’s best and most innovative comedians and performers as well as visiting guests across eight nights of live shows and workshops, handpicked to deliver you the funniest week of improv this side of the river!

Opening the 2023 Brisbane Improv Festival:

Standing on the Corner
Presented by Big Fork Theatre (Brisbane, Qld)

This show is experimenting with character focused improv and randomised direction! With even less control in a performance can the tenants of improv be upheld?!? Do we limit performances based on habits that can only be broken in THIS format?!?

Let's Build a Format
(Sydney/UK)

A rag-tag crew of expert improvisers have been assembled by Brisbane Improv Festival with one goal: to create a brand new improv show! In the afternoon, these performers will meet to invent a format that has never been seen before. In the evening they will perform it for the very first and very last time. Who knows what will happen? The performers sure don't!

The Brisbane Improv Festival will adhere to all current COVID restrictions and requirements. More info