Comedy Café Berlin House Team Secret Lovers perform a Deconstruction. Then Belfast's Turnstyle bring their quick wit, chaotic style and pathos to the stage.

A Musical Extravaganza! The Shakedown perform a blend of catchy songs, wild improv scenes, and a generous helping of raw emotion. Then Kaleidoscope presents "Lights Up!" - a brand-new, completely improvised musical that’s as unpredictable as it is unforgettable!

Destiny’s Stepchild improvises authentic BIPOC experiences blended with the hilarious, awkward and surreal. Then SIPS performs the Slacker, a game-focused form with no edits.

Come one come all to Das Jam! You’ll get a chance to mingle and play with all the wonderful, talented performers that make up our incredible roster of teams this year. Free to all, no passes or tickets required!

Don’t let your freak flag touch the ground, let’s have that flag FLY! Game is all talk until we activate it through our physicality, character and location. That is where the real fun begins, allowing us to make new, interesting and surprising moves. In this workshop with Amanda Breen, UCB's Training Center Director and former...

Every scene needs an initiation. And yes, for those of us whose brains are capable of doing the quick mental gymnastics necessary to construct a perfect premise initiation on the fly, premise initations are great. This workshop is for the rest of us. In this workshop, we're going to drill down to the bare bones...

This scenework-focused workshop will help you use what you know play to the top of your intelligence. We'll cover making real, grounded choices and using specifics based on the information that you have floating around in your brain to create characters, game and to drive your scenes and make you and your fellow improvisers look...

Comedy Café Berlin House Team Capiche perform a headless Harold, then Matthew Lists Nuts do long-form improv, UCB by way of Glasgow.

THD perform their signature format including improvised scenes and songs that often explore weird worlds and unusual characters. Then A Likely Story present a totally made up tale inspired by YOUR suggestions.

It's That Time of the Month has some of Berlin's favourite female and queer improvisers perform a living room. Then Date Night make one enemy in the crowd, interview-style, inspiring a montage.

A Slacker Special! Local team Tambourine Solo perform their twist on the form, followed by Sandwich, an LA-based indie team of funny people performing their own version!

Action Jackson improvise from a true life monologue inspired by an audience suggestion, followed by Convoy doing a slacker.

Heinous is wicked, deeply evil, and shockingly reprehensible. But it is also two sweeties who love to have a good time and be silly! Ok, but let’s go serious promo mode: Heinous is a duo of queer, veteran improvisers delivering sharp, chaotic, and unhinged comedy. Oscar Montoya and Amanda Breen combine their talents for a...

Bear Milk reveal the absurdity lurking just beneath the surface of everyday life, followed by Fluff performing Ship Happens: A slice of life set on a ship.

A trifecta of improv! Local team Slumber Party bring a late night dream energy to the stage. Then Nearly Terminal promise to turn any giggle into a gaggle. Ending with Shark Therapy doing their fast-paced, goofy and often meta brand of improv.

Between the Lines takes the very first line and last line of a book, then improvise everything in between. Then The Non Recyclables take drop silly, over the top characters into long-form scenes.

Health Plan perform a deconstruction. Then 90s loving nostalgia indie team Gusher does some fast paced improv.

Welcome to Smörgåsbord, an improv show dedicated to the most messed up improv ideas you can think of. Improvisers reach deep into the recesses of their subconscious, and invent and perform improv formats that should only exist for 5-10 minutes before they disappear back to the hell dimension whence they came.

This workshop will concentrate on the foundation of scene work and how it applies to more complex relationship-based scenes. The focus will be on sustaining, balancing and making strong choices for the sake of the scene regardless of how many people are on stage. Using exercises that isolate certain aspects of scene work, we’ll break...

In this workshop we will approach scene-work through the lens of character. The goals: to unearth authentic, relatable characters from within the scene, to create characters that are in service to the relationship with your scene partner, and to create opportunities to surprise yourself on stage.

This workshop will focus on demystifying and clarifying what we mean when we talk about "playing the game." We'll work on finding what you think is funny and building a scene around it and performing scenes that play game in real, honest and fun ways. We'll cover creating fun and clear games organically and from...

Everyone always says the key to game is the first unusual thing. But what if you can’t find the unusual thing? How do you get one? Do you feel like you have to force weird elements into a scene? This workshop focuses on making strong, grounded choices. We’ll work on ways to make clear, efficient...

Ever been in a scene and realized that all you did was sit and talk to your partner, or never quite made the location work for you? Well, get out of your head and into your body! This workshop is meant to make you incorporate physicality through object work and space work to help us...

We're taught that clearly establishing the who, what, where at the top of a scene is crucial. But are you living in and seeing your where or just telling us? In this workshop with UCB's Training Center Director and former Director of Improv, Amanda Breen (AB), you'll learn how to build and actively use your...

Regardless of how much experience you have with improv, you've got a lifetime's worth of experience with emotion. In this workshop from Alex "watches all comedy like a robot studying humans" Berg, you'll learn how to take your natural emotional responses and use them as the foundation for choices that will fuel the game of...

Three Berlin teams in one show! All-In Therapy brings to life broken but lovable characters; Rooster Sisters performs a Governor and Marge performs a monoscene.

Comedy Café Berlin House Team Handshake perform the local form The Governor. Then Tiptoe creates an original show using audience recollections of their hometowns.

Berlin's longest-running long form improv group GLB bring their fast-paced antics to the Das stage, followed by the all-female cast of trash bag wearing weirdos Bad Magicians performing “high art meets low bullshit.”

The Forest offers a big, warm embrace of a show, followed by Smoking Cat presenting a high-energy Harold fuelled by a deep, international bond.

Convoy is Alex Fernie, Alex Berg & Todd Fasen and they have been performing their brand of fast-paced and hilarious improv together for 20 years. Their weekly show at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles was described by Time Out LA as "what can happen when a few players know each other's brains so...

Laughing Matter mixes weird science with even weirder improv, followed by UCB's Heinous bringing their mayhem to the stage once again.

Inspired by amusing, often baffling, news headlines featuring the infamous Florida Man, Gator Nuggz creates their own headlines with the audience. Then Macrodose does consciousness-raising two-prov team. Ending with Cold Cuts doing some East Coast inspired improv.

Saved by the Beep do a Harold enhanced with bold sound and movement. Then Grannskapet (The Neighborhood) invites you into the secret, absurd, and relatable lives behind your walls.

Birdwatchers explore the present and past of 2 characters reminiscing. Then Blumpkin Abbey explores what happens above and below stairs in the weird world of the British aristocracy

Grab your foam sword, strap on your pointy ears, and get ready to delve into the world of fantasy for an epic quest, as suggested by you, the audience! Every show features a new party of adventurers hacking and slashing their way through a fully improvised quest, inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, the classic fantasy...

It’s like a regular improv jam, but you sign up as a team instead of an individual. Your team can be people you’ve never played with before, people from today's amazing workshop, people you met at a regular jam, etc. Of course, it could also be people you already play with, but there’s simply not...

Make a mark at the beginning of every set by doing an opening that is right for your team! In this class we will go over various openings to see which ones feel more fun and have premises that the team can use! We'll incorporate the openings and do scenes showcasing how framing a premise...

Everyone always says the key to game is the first unusual thing. But what if you can’t find the unusual thing? How do you get one? Do you feel like you have to force weird elements into a scene? This workshop focuses on making strong, grounded choices. We’ll work on ways to make clear, efficient...

Tired of words? Yeah, me too. The Silent Soundtrack is a form that challenges you to quit relying on saying clever and witty things and instead use body language, spacework, and facial expressions to fill the void. Whether or not you plan on pursuing Silent Soundtrack as a form into itself or you're just looking...

Three local teams take the stage! Truthpaste takes normal occasions and improvises until things start to break. Then Tony, Tony & Tony does a show of games and surprises. Ending with Instant Crush doing montage style improv.

Comedy Café Berlin House Team Brace! Brace! perform a Deconstruction, followed by Dream Queens - a long-form improv show that’s basically Space Jam meets Little Women.

Smash Cut created live cinema right in front of your face! Then Silent Soundtrack perform in silence inspired by a curated playlist from the audience the improvisers are not privy to.

Turtle Logic brings sharp, character-driven, and unpredictable comedy to the stage. Then London's Slumber Party craft a show based entirely off your audience gossip, on the spot.

In “The Confession” the audience’s deepest darkest secrets get turned into improv scenes. Then former CCB House Team Thunderclap! take the stage by storm!

Husband and Wife improv-duo Stephnie Weir and Bob Dassie have performed their signature show "WeirDass" throughout the U.S, Canada and U.K. Legendary fixtures in the Chicago improv scene, they are renowned for their dynamic, hilarious, heartfelt brand of character-driven comedy. Bob Dassie has traveled the world performing and teaching improvisation. He’s graced the stages of...

Three fantastic teams take the stage in the first of our 3-set blocks. A Very Capable Boy are a duo from London, followed by local dynamos HUMAN NIGHTMARE, and closing the set we've got Maggie and Pissman, a duo from Glasgow, Scotland!

Fünfdollar improvise what can best be described as “a fever dream…with jokes.” Followed by Belfast's Belly Belly performing a loud and hearty Harold.

Born both out of the Los Angeles community's desire for a new structure, and as a way to combine elements of both grounded scene-work with game/premise-based play, the Tres Leche Form pulls from my experience of playing with smaller groups (WeirDass, Dasariski, Quartet), different forms (Harold, La Ronde, Pretty Flower) and hard-hitting game/premise play (Asssscat,...

Let’s make our scenes pop! This workshop, taught by Amanda Breen (UCB’s Training Center Director & former Director of Improv) is all about making your scenes more fun, surprising and deeply connected. We’ll tap into the love language of gift giving as we unleash a whole toolbox of gifts you can offer your scene partners:...

Tired of games involving a "voice of reason/unusual one" or "peas in a pod"? This workshop focuses on playing games where you’re in a weird world. Rather than the scenes we usually find ourselves in, with a voice of reason or peas in a pod, we’ll work on creating scenes where the entire world the...

Have you ever felt like you're in a group scene and felt absolutely overwhelmed by the chaos? Well, worry not because in this workshop, we'll work on group scenes that thrive on focus and specificity while also being fun! Learn to turn off your brain and go with the flow of group scenes where we...

Join us and Das 2026 headliners & instructors for a conversation about improv, performing and whatever else comes to our brains! Then we'll open up the floor to questions from the audience. Featuring Alex Fernie, Bob Dassie, Oscar Montoya and Stephnie Wier, and moderated by the Das Programming Team.

It’s the final show featuring the Das 2026 headliners! Don’t miss this chance to come together one last time as we close the festival and wring out those final drops of improv from the Das Improv Festival hosts, headliners and teams.