The Brisbane Improv Festival is excited to be hosting 22 Improvisation Workshops as part of the 2022 Festival with facilitators from all over Australia and New Zealand.

Discovering Our Place
Facilitated by Matt Wilson with music by Andrew Morrisby (PROTEA Impro, Tasmania)

Join Matt and Andrew from PROTEA Impro (Hobart, Tasmania) as they take you through creating an entire town on stage from scratch. From the smells of the local bakery to the sound of music wafting from the record playing in the upstairs apartment across the road. You will create unique and intriguing characters to inhabit the town and interact with the rich cultural fabric of the places we build. Join us as we uncover Our Place.

Please note that any Festival shows cast from workshops is at the discretion of the show's director and is not guaranteed. Please go into workshops with a view to learning new improv skills and having fun. Any performance opportunity is a bonus.

About Matt

Matt Wilson has worked for over 25 years as an improvisor, actor, and director. He has performed with companies such as Terrapin, Tas Theatre Company, Blue Cow and Round Earth.He directed the Tasmanian premieres of shows such as Sweeney Todd and Trainspotting among many others. As an improvisor he has appeared in the long form festivals : Hobart’s Festival of Improvised Theatre and Imprognosis at The Burning Desire festival. As well as Understudied: Tales From the Hollywood Backlot with Anna Renzenbrink. No Script Sherlock with Rosemary Cann. A Turn About the Room: Improvised Jane Austen. The Underground ArtsBar, Theatresports, SciProv science week Impro, and Imprognosis’ The Holey Book. He is one half of the prize-winning impro duo Harris and Tweed with Rowan Harris (with whom he co-created the Our Place format).. He can also be seen in the film clip to A. Swayze and the Ghosts Mess of Me and briefly in the feature film Van Diemens Land.

The Brisbane Improv Festival will be following all current COVID-19 safety guidelines and will also require all workshop participants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the wellbeing of all participants and facilitators - please note this is a extra requirement mandated by the Festival.