Improv Playhouse of San Francisco

Specialties

Improvisational Theatre.

History

Established in 2008.

Improv Playhouse of San Francisco was founded to produce the highest quality improvisational theater in the San Francisco Bay Area, and also to showcase that work in regional, national and international venues.

We have performed in numerous cities across the United States and abroad.

Meet the Manager

Tim O.

Manager

Tim has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco-​based groups, including BATS Improv, the renowned True Fiction Magazine, and with the acclaimed troupe 3 For All. In 2008, he founded a new improv group, the Improv Playhouse of San Francisco. He has appeared in numerous plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films, Suckerfish and Security. With Stephen Kearin, Tim co-​wrote, and originated the role of Dirk Manly in, An Evening with Dirk & Blaine.

Tim has performed and taught improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre, BATS Improv, Stanford University, and many other venues nationally (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville, Atlanta, etc.) and internationally (Amsterdam, Beirut, Belgium, Hamburg, Helsinki, London, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv). He has served many times as the Director of the BATS Improv Long-​Form Intensive.