Das Improv Festival

Great Grandkids! / Destiny's Stepchild
2024-10-04 20:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
Berlin darlings Great Grandkids make a triumphant return after a 7 year hiatus, joined by one of Berlin’s latest indie superstars.

Haircut / Hot Pursuits (SuperCut)
2024-10-04 20:30 - 21:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
A super sharp Berlin indie team pursued by an equally sharp Danish team in this double header.

Wet Teeth / Loo-Prov!
2024-10-04 19:15 - 20:15 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
Don’t be grossed out, Berlin indie team Wet Teeth and London’s Loo-Prov will improvise the hell out of this show.

Pizza Studio / True Stories Told Wrong (Sunday Morning)
2024-10-04 19:15 - 20:15 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
CCB’s most delicious House Team is followed by True Stories Told Wrong by Canadian team Sunday Morning.

All-in-Therapy / Ovuladies
2024-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
All-in-Therapy invites you to take a seat as they overshare then CCB Cage Match runners-up Ovuladies will unleash their mayhem.

Terminal Velocity / The Bullfish Paradox / Panic Snooze
2024-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
A triple threat of CCB indie teams.

I'm Obsessed With You with Graham Dickson (Friday)
2024-10-04 13:30 - 16:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
The connection you have with your scene partner will define the success of your scene.
In this workshop I’ll try to convince you that everything you need for a successful scene is the faith and love that you have for your partner(s). We will be militant in our observations of them to discover offers we might miss otherwise. We’ll get out of our heads by putting all of our attention on them. We’ll devote ourselves to saying yes to their offers, even when it seems scary or illogical, and learn to relinquish control over where the scene is heading by placing our trust in them. We will obsess over being obsessed with them.

Yes Yes Y'all (A Freestyle Rap Workshop) with Ross Bryant
2024-10-04 13:30 - 16:30 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
Rhyming off the top of your head can be the most intimidating part of improvising musically, but with practice you can get out of your head and find your flow.
Even if you’re a novice, this workshop will get you up and rapping in minutes.
Open to intermediate to advanced long form improvisers.

The Improv Free Form with Alex Holland
2024-10-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
It’s easy to get into a set formula when performing improv formats and lose the exciting feeling that anything can happen.
In this workshop we’ll look at getting into a flow when performing as a group and incorporating everything that happens into how you play. We’ll be generating warm-ups and exercises ourselves, using them to inspire scenes, and transitioning from one to the other to create something that’s part warm-up, part group-game, part scene, part show, and everything in between.
The goal of the workshop is to foster a sense of total support, where you embrace everything that happens, incorporating it not just into your scene but into the grammar and structure of your performance.
Open to intermediate to advanced improvisers.

Back from the Brink with Naomi Petersen
2024-10-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
Ever been on stage and felt like your show was tanking? Of course you have! Everyone has bad days, whether you’re ten minutes or ten years into your improv journey. In fact, bombing on stage is a rite of passage for every improviser. And listen, I don’t want to take that away from you, because fundamentally it will make you a better performer. But it’s never too late to turn things around.
In this workshop we’ll explore how you can bring your shows back from the brink through teamwork, trust and commitment. No cheap tricks or short-cuts; just confident, connected improv that will make you fall in love with your show again and bring your audience along for the ride.

Smorgasbord
2024-10-03 23:59 - 2024-10-04 01:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Welcome to Smörgåsbord, an improv show dedicated to the most messed up improv ideas you can think of. Inspired by the DCM (the UCB improv festival) “bit shows” we invite you to reach deep into the recesses of your subconscious, and invent and perform an improv format that should only exist for 5-10 minutes before it disappears back to the hell dimension from whence it came.
Here are some bit shows that have existed:

La RondeNiro – A La Ronde where all the characters are Robert De Niro
Frat Prov – A large group game where everyone plays a frat bro
Tell me your dark secrets for a slice of pizza
10 minute sound and movement
10 minute solo sound and movement
Country Music favorites (nobody can sing)
6 women playing 3 men in trenchcoats
Toploading – 9 minutes of opening, 1 scene

People System / GLB
2024-10-03 23:00 - 2024-10-04 00:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
A retired CCB House Team takes the stage once more, followed by one of the founding teams of the entire Berlin improv scene.

birds
2024-10-03 21:45 - 22:45 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
birds is a narrative musical improv group starring Ross Bryant, John Hartman and Ashley Ward with Zach Marsh on keys.

Turtle Logic / Fluff
2024-10-03 20:30 - 21:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Recent CCB cage match champions and a London team that combines drama with “absurdly stupid comedy”.

Thunderclap! / Modern Family - an improvised mockumentary (Gbgimpro)
2024-10-03 19:15 - 20:15 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
A CCB House Team thunders on stage, followed by Gbgimpro from Sweden improvising a sitcom.

Mum's Gone to Iceland / Bloodthirsty
2024-10-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Two marquee indie teams that perform regularly on the CCB stage head up this double bill.

Foundations for Musical Narrative with Ross Bryant
2024-10-03 13:30 - 16:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
This workshop is focused on the opening and the first two scenes after it to establish a strong foundation for a musical narrative. Accompanied by Zach Marsh.
Open to intermediate to advanced long form improvisers with musical improv experience.

Trusting Realistic Object Work with Kris Wiener
2024-10-03 13:30 - 16:30 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
How many improv scenes are just two people standing and talking to each other? But how often is that how people actually interact?
This will be a workshop to practice object work and believable miming. We want to trust the silliness of making and eating an invisible salad while having a completely unrelated conversation with your scene partner.

The Still, Small Voice with Matt Cutler
2024-10-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Ida Nowhere, Donaustrasse 79, Berlin, Berlin, 12043, Germany
You shouldn’t need to be loud to have a big impact on a scene.
In this workshop, we’ll learn how to make choices that are small but mighty. We’ll also learn how to make space for those moves, and how to amplify their power.

Not Being Funny with Alex Holland
2024-10-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Everyone wants to know how to be funnier on stage. But the truth is that often what’s going to help the most is to get better at not being funny.
In this workshop we’ll almost exclusively look at the ‘not being funny’ part of the scene. In fact, if you make me laugh in this workshop, then you’re doing it wrong and I’ll get mad*! You’re already great at getting laughs, so now you’ll learn not to try too hard to get the funnies out, to invest in what’s really going on in the scene, and to trust that you’ll get back to the comedy when the time’s right.

Das Jam
2024-10-02 21:45 - 2024-10-03 00:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
A festival favorite – our opening night jam where everyone can play!

Action Jackson / Improñol
2024-10-02 20:30 - 21:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
One of Berlin’s longest running indie teams and a dynamic bilingual duo from Chicago.

Brace! Brace! / SOS - Save our scene!
2024-10-02 19:15 - 20:15 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Comedy Café Berlin’s latest House Team join a Swedish powerhouse quartet to kick off Das 2024!

Playful Voice of Reason with Naomi Petersen
2024-10-02 13:30 - 16:30 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Voice of reason is often misrepresented as the ‘boring’ part of the scene. Oh, It’s a vital role that allows us to frame and play game whilst keeping the baseline reality in check? Eurgh, fine! I’ll do it but I’m not happy about it. “I don’t want to have to eat my vegetables” etc.
In this workshop we’ll dig into the VoR and look at how much fun you can have in this role. We’ll practise how to play grounded without being ‘boring’, how to say no whilst being a part of the fun, and ask ourselves whether the VoR is even a ‘role’ at all.
Open to intermediate to advanced improvisers.

Two Prov with Ashley Ward
2024-10-02 10:00 - 13:00 | Comedy Cafe Berlin, Roseggerstr 17, Berlin, Berlin, 12059, Germany
Two Prov can be fun and rewarding but also taxing. With just two people on stage how do you identify points to edit while still being in the scene? How do you bring characters back into scenes when they were first played by your scene partner and not you? And how do you build a stage picture that keys the audience in to location and scene changes when it is always the same two people on stage?
This twoprov workshop from Ashley Ward, who often performs twoprov with her husband, will help you on the way to performing dynamic scenes that play to your strengths.
Open to intermediate to advanced improvisers. If you’d like to register with a partner, we recommend one of you register both participants at once.
