— FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: FRIDAY —
5:00PM SHOW:
yes island
Yes IslAnd hit the villa (Burlington, VT) in the summer of 2025. They keep it hot, hot, hot while knowing when to cool it down for a chat down by the fire. They will take a suggestion and weave a show through organic edits for the lucky would be lovers. Will you leave the show laughing? Or falling in love with “the one?”
campfire dragons
Campfire Dragons is an intrepid band of heroes that was was forged in the fiery depths of an ancient mystical volcano. Armed with an array of instruments (forged in a completely different volcano), they weave story and songs into a fantastical tale, creating a fully improvised musical. Keyboard, violin, guitar, drum, and/or vocal cords may make an appearance.
mom.boy.dad
mom.boy.dad is a Montréal-based improv trio that experiments with bold, untested formats.
With the audience as co-creator, they conjure new rules, rhythms, and rituals that vanish after every performance.
6PM SHOW:
the babies
The Babies! (Jord, Bustice, and Nickles) is a VT-based team that brings you high energy, low intelligence improvisation.
It's like "Ben Schwartz and Friends" without Ben Schwartz. (Just some friends doing improv.)
Is it going to be the best improv show you've ever seen? Yes. Yes it is. What a lucky time for you.
THE MISERABLES
The Miserables are a Burlington-based musical improv team that are known for singing like angels and dancing all the angles.
They will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you wish you knew the lyrics so you could sing along.
mothra
Mothra (Queen of the Monsters!) is a longform improv duo created by Timothy Agius and Sara Parelhoff from NYC's Magnet Theater. So if you were looking for King Ghidorah, keep walking, pal!
Watch as two veteran improvisers spin out a fantastic world of deeply unwell characters and the destruction left in their wake!
7PM SHOW:
alice
Alice is a long-form improv team from Burlington, Vermont. Notorious for their cerebral performances and camaraderie over their mutual cowardice, Alice hosts a monthly show at Spiral House on Church St, and near daily corporate events for a respectful fee and thunderous applause. Alice is proud to be the only all-virgin team in New England, Quebec and New York.
MILLENIAL X-STREAMZ
Millenial X-Streamz is a VT-duo that is redefining musical improv.
No accompanist? No problem. Two millennials on opposite ends of the generation take karaoke requests and turn them into a musical in front of your eyes. They don’t know what the songs will be or when the music will start and stop!
meat sweats
Meat Sweats are what happens when Jamie and Jamie spend too long at Aunty Franny's All-You-Can-Slurb Brisket Buffet and Gravy Fountain and forget they had an improv show!!
Let's see if they can power through and give you the best long-form improv show you've ever seen, maybe.
8:15PM SHOW:
here on purpose
Here on Purpose is a Vermont team that asks the question: “Have you ever been somewhere you didn't intend to be until you were there and you thought wait this isn't what I thought this was going to be I must have made a mistake but you are there and you have to live with that decision and see it through?”
Them, too.
chesterfield
Chesterfield formed as a Montréal Improv house team, and performs monthly to some of the largest audiences at the theatre. Coached by improv veteran Dale Bernier, Chesterfield’s chemistry can be seen on and off the stage. The troupe performs the Living Room format, based on a friendly conversation. Prepare yourself for pure parasocial bliss as you watch them chat, then sit back and enjoy as they pull satisfying premises from their friendly banter.
KINGDOM KIDS
Kingdom Kids are a playful, imaginative trio of comedians who all grew up in the same rural corner of the world: the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont.
Today, they are some of the most experienced comedy performers and teachers in the Northeast. With a shared sense of humor that is equal parts smart, smart-assed, and silly, this team is always a wild, fun audience favorite.
9:30PM SHOW:
About Ify Nwadiwe
Ify Nwadiwe has a whole lot of hyphens! He does stand-up comedy (catch his solo standup show at Big Pond on Friday night!) and also acts in shows such as Workaholics, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and Adam Ruins Everything. He performs improv with The Big Team at UCB.
He is also a writer, working on shows such as Twisted Metal, Grand Crew, and Tigtone, and on video games like Apex Legends and Borderlands 4.He is the host of the nerdiest Panel show on the internet, Um, Actually on Dropout TV.
IFY NWADIWE - HEADLINING (STANDUP) SHOW!
It’s the only standup comedy on the festival!
Ify Nwadiwe (Dropout TV) performs his solo show for the Big Pond audience on Friday night (and improvises on Saturday night).
Don’t miss it!
10:30PM SHOW:
A ‘VERY ORGANIZED’ GAME SHOW
Local goofball Brian De La Bruere gathers photos, video, trivia and other ephemera and presents it to comedians in the form of extremely loose games, the rules and prizes for which are barely even established.
This show pits pairs of comedians from different cities against one another, playing such high stakes games as, "Who's That Neck?" and "Roy or Randy?"
Will anyone win? Maybe not. Will the comedians ask a lot of clarifying questions along the way? Probably. Will you be laughing? Most definitely. Don't miss it!