— FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: SATURDAY —
12PM SHOW: FAMILY-FRIENDLY HOUR!
This show is G-rated and good for families! Recommended for kids ages 8+.
BOOM CITY
Boom City is a VT team that performs a fast-paced short-form improv set, including some of your favorite games you’ve seen on Whose Line Is It Anyway, and some that you may never have seen before.
This ensemble team is welcoming some brand new members with their Big Pond set. Ooh la la, can you imagine the spontaneous shenanigans that will be unleashed on the Vermont Comedy Club stage?!
tobin tales
Tobin Tales comes from the brain of VT improviser Tobin Mollett, who uses a title suggested by the audience to cobble together a fully improvised story in the style of classic dark fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen. He inhabits all the characters and narrates all the text, accompanied by sound effects and accordion stylings from Kana Zink. It’s a tightrope walk through a land of talking animals, orphaned children, twisting forest trails, witches, giants, and terrible curses.
VCA Touring Company
VCA TourCo is known for their popular monthly “Good Clean Fun” series at Vermont Comedy Club (as well as corporate and private shows around New England)!
The Vermont Comedy Arts Touring Company is a high-energy team of some of the area’s best performers, creating fun, interactive short form comedy that’s good for all ages.
Bring the kids and laugh out loud!
p.i.g.
People's Improv Group is finally arising from the mire after a long summer of mucking about, excited to perform their signature set, “Hog in the Bog.”
P.I.G. is the improv team of the University of Vermont, and a frequent collaborator with VCC. Wiping off the dirt and muck of the pig pen, the People's Improv Group is prepared to deliver good, grimy gaiety!
loose caboose
Loose Caboose is a Providence-based improv team that's a little off the rails!
Get ready to laugh as this high-energy team takes a spin on the Spokane's signature charm, blending it with our their goofy and fast-paced flair.
As a crew of best mates, you can guarantee they’ll be having way too much fun on stage. All aboard the Loose Caboose!
robot love
Robot Love is a Hartford, Connecticut improv troupe that believes science can solve any problem.
Their team of highly qualified scientists creates 2 unique characters, fractionates their viewpoints and relationships, and synthesizes resulting themes, all under strictly ethical, repeatable laboratory conditions. With every simulation, our cutting-edge AI inches closer to experiencing...love. (Results remain inconclusive.) Side effects may include laughter and existential dread.
6PM SHOW:
hot priest
Hot Priest is an all-woman team of improv veterans based in Burlington, Vermont. Known for their sharp, playful comedy and genuine chemistry on stage, they're bringing their long-form improv show to you for a night that will never happen that way again, even if they tried. Which they won't, because hey, that's not how this works and they know that, okay?!
babushka!
Babushka! is a two-man, long-form improv show that has been a summertime favorite at Buffalo Infringement Festival since 2010, with regular performances at Alleyway Theatre since 2019 and Buffalo Improv House for the last two years. With over 50 years of improv comedy experience combined, Todd Benzin & Don Gervasi create an entirely improvised play based on a single audience suggestion, playing all the characters themselves, on-the-spot.
blind date
Blind Date is a team of improvisers that hail from the Sea Tea Improv Theater in Hartford, CT.
Put on your best dress, spray on that cologne, and come on out for some laughs! They’ll romance you with their first, second and third beats as you laugh at the chaos that happens on stage!
7PM SHOW:
all the worst people
All the Worst People emerged from the primordial ooze contained within a dumpster on fire. The team is made up of sentient trash pandas whose one desire in life is to make an audience forget about the world’s horrors for a spell.
Quick – what’s the worst word you’ve heard lately? This is what “All The Worst People” want to know, and they will work diligently to create a series of worlds based on that suggestion, weaving between the fabric of realities with fluidity and chaos.
was that me?!
Was That Me?! combines everyday life with cartoonish genre plots to create a fast-paced slacker-style set. Winners of Montréal’s 2025 Threepio Improv Tournament, they have been playing together for 5 years, and have a combined 30+ years of improv experience. Team members have been featured in festivals in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Hartford, Detroit, Austin, and Beijing! They’re excited to wow Big Pond crowds with quick-witted, relatable comedy!
please and spank you
Please and Spank You is a Boston, MA area team that uses YOUR memories of locations from your past to create an amazing long form set revealing the absurdities of American third spaces.
You provide the place and they will populate it with absurd characters that will leave everyone laughing.
8:15PM SHOW:
IFY & ERIKA SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM
It’s the Big Pond headliner improv show!
The world has so many problems that Ify and Erika are dying to solve.
Some of them may already have been solved, but they’re going to solve them better!
After that, they’ll take your questions and do some improv based on the enlightened talking points.
ABOUT ERIKA ISHII
Erika Ishii (all pronouns) is a prolific performer in videogames, animation, and improv comedy. A top name in voice acting, they have garnered over 100 voiceover credits in leading roles as Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Valkyrie in Apex Legends, and the titular main character in PlayStation’s prestigious hit game Ghost of Yōtei. Erika’s performance in Ghost of Yotei earned them recognition as the first games actor inducted into the BAFTA US Breakthrough cohort as well as a nomination for BAFTA Games’ Best Performer in a Lead Role.
On-camera, Erika is best known as a regular cast member on comedy platform Dropout in Dimension 20, Game Changer, Make Some Noise, and more. A pioneer in the world of “actual play” tabletop roleplaying game performance, Erika is the proud co-creator of record-breaking narrative play and storytelling collective podcast Worlds Beyond Number.
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.
9:30PM SHOW:
ALL STAR HOUR
Improvisers, assemble!
Some of of the festival’s best improv performers from Vermont and around the country team up with visiting headliner Ify Nwadiwe to have some high-powered spontaneous fun.
Don’t miss this no-holds-barred, prime-time show. It's a mashup of styles sure to lead to unadulterated mayhem!
