Welcome ›
Welcome to the official website of Calvin IMPROV. We are the one and only improvisational comedy team of Calvin College, and we are one of over 50 student organizations here at Calvin. Since 1988, we have been entertaining the Calvin Community and West Michigan with our comedy. We perform on campus about 3 or 4 times per semester in a number of different venues for free. If you aren't a Calvin student, we also are available for hire for private off campus shows. Either way, you've come to the right place to find more out about us.
You must be here for a reason. Let's see:
- Upcoming shows - Come see us the next time we perform!
- Hire us - We would love to perform for your event.
- The team - In case you have a crush on one of us, here's more info.
- Pictures or Video - We aren't much to look at, but here they are anyways.
What is Improv? ›
Improv is short for improvisation, or improvisational comedy. Essentially, we perform short scenes which are entirely improvised. That's right, no scripts, no lines, just funny. We don't make it all up, though. We take suggestions like locations, objects, occupations, or lines of dialog from you, the audience, and use them to generate a scene. You'll never see the same show twice!
For the more interested improv folks out there, we perform both longform and shortform improv, though we usually concentrate on shortform style. We usually do a few shows with longform in them in the spring, and they are only held on campus. Finally, we hold auditions every fall at the very beginning of the school year.
For the obsessive improv folks out there who have actually read this far down the page, we will have auditions again next Fall! Hope to see you then.
Links ›
Here are some websites we like.
- River City Improv - Calvin College Alumni Improv in Grand Rapids. They're our friends.
- Friday's at Calvin - Are you a prospective Calvin student simply wandering the internet looking at colleges? Come visit Calvin and see us live! Tell Ben we sent you.