Sipumziwe (Pags) is a Cape Town based actor, improviser and member of The Long Shots Improv Comedy Troupe. After graduating from UCT in 2010 with a degree in Film and Media, he began attending drop in classes with The Long Shots. The team was impressed by his singular ability to be the loudest person in a scene (the improv stuff they figured they could work on) and soon afterward he was invited to join. Since then he’s regularly taught and performed improv at venues and events around the country, including at the Mama City Improv Festival, which brought improvisers from all over the world to Cape Town for a week of high quality improv shows and workshops.  He currently resides in Gardens, Cape Town with a man from Venezuela.

James is an improviser and trained actor currently studying for a Bachelors of arts in Acting from the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company (www.fourthmonkey.co.uk) in London. James has trained as an improviser with the Courtyard Playhouse from the age of twelve, progressing rapidly through their Youth Programme until he was asked to join the Playhouse’s ensemble players in 2019. He has since performed in all of their major shows before directing Tennessee Williams Improvised at the age of 18.

James has trained in Los Angeles with Impro Theatre (www.Improtheatre.com) and in London with Keith Johnstone. He has a passion for teaching and has been an instructor at the Playhouse and a mentor for young performers since 2019.

Before leaving Dubai to study acting in London, James created a brand-new improvisation format in the style of a 2prov with co ensemble member and artistic director Marie Vercruyssen and improviser-musician Paul Jones.

Viviane has been an improviser since 2006 and an ensemble member of the Steifen Brise in Hamburg since 2011. In 2012 she finished her acting studies with a diploma in stage performance and has never left the stage since then.

She is a trainer for Improvisation Theater, Acting and Roll Work. She is teaching in Hamburg at the School of Comedy and in national and international Festivals. She leads the Theaterschool Online and Impro in Schools of the Steife Brise and shares the artistic direction of the ensemble with Thorsten, since 2019. For two years she has been the first chairwoman of the Törn Association which, among other things, organizes the international TÖRN festival in Hamburg every two years (in which she is the artistic director).

Together with Verena Lohner, she is the winner of the Audience Award and Jury Award at the 14 Theaterfestival "Impronale" in Halle for the self-developed format zwei. Frauen.

Jacob Banigan is a Canadian living in Austria, teaching and performing impro around Europe. He has been improvising since 1990, when he joined Rapid Fire Theatre to play THEATRESPORTS in Edmonton. Jacob was Artistic Director of Rapid Fire for nine seasons, creating CHIMPROV, The RFT Improv Academy, and Canada’s biggest impro festival IMPROVAGANZA.

Living in Graz, Austria, ensemble member of Theater im Bahnhof, he is director of the impro show MONTAG. In 2012, Jacob premiered the improvised solo show GAME OF DEATH. Jacob has lead workshops across the world for such esteemed groups as Dad’s Garage (Atlanta), Extempore (London), Die Gorilas (Berlin), Stockholms Improvisations Theater, and il Bugiardini (Rome).

Banigan is currently Senior Lecturer on Improvisational Theater at the University for the Performing Arts Graz. He is a member of English Lovers in Vienna, Gordon’s Big Bald Head in Edmonton, and Rocket Sugar Factory everywhere.

Feña Ortalli began his acting career in 2001. In 2006 he created Global Impro, an impro troupe dedicated to national and international collaboration and exchange. He's currently based in Madrid where he performs and teaches with the most important companies in the city; and participates in several national and international festivals.

His latest show, “El Capricho del Rey” (with Diego Ingold) has been selected to be part of several festivals all over Europe. Since 2011 he writes, edits, and directs Status, a digital magazine about improvisation, published in seven languages. He's also the author of the book “Impro: Dynamics of the Unexpected” (2018). Since 2001 he has taught and performed in over 60 cities all over the world.

Performer, director and teacher interested in exchanging, interacting, playing and sharing experiences with different artists around the world. He´s passionate about the body in movement and its possibilities, that´s why he explores it through acrobatics, improvisation, clowning, physical theater and object manipulation to create new forms of expression in performing arts.

As a performer he´s been touring around the world since 2003, with different projects in festivals, companies, and collaborating with artists in these areas. He is well known in the international scene as an impro, physical theater and clown teacher.