Improv Jam - Hosted by Avinash Verma

Kaivalya Plays and Nautankibaaz Improv presents

IMPROV JAM 

Hosted by Avinash Verma

An improv jam featuring games and activities in the Improv Comedy Mumbai style. Open to all skill levels. Participate in scene-based games and support your fellow performers. Advanced improvisers will have the opportunity to direct games.

Wednesday 21st August, 8pm to 9pm at National Media Center Gurgaon. For more information and tickets, visit bit.ly/improvjam21 or Whatsapp 9818925599 (Gaurav). 

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Avinash Verma is an accomplished actor, comedian, and improv teacher with over a decade of experience. He has proudly represented India at the Seattle Improv Festival in the USA and performed alongside improv star Ryan Stiles from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". Avinash has also shared the screen with renowned Bollywood actors including Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Boman Irani, and Arshad Warsi. As a coach, he has trained students from prestigious institutions such as the American School of Bombay, Xavier’s College, IIT Bombay, and many more. Avinash regularly performs with Improv Comedy Mumbai and collaborates with veteran comedians across the country.

ABOUT NAUTANKIBAAZ IMPROV COLLECTIVE

Nautankibaaz Improv Collective is an Indian Improv collective of working professionals, bringing learning, joy and laughter through the tenets of Improv. Over the last 6 years, they have built together a community of 600+ improv lovers and practitioners in Delhi NCR, who use improv in their daily life and profession to become more spontaneous, aware and joyful.  They perform, teach and do everything improv! See more about their work on @nautankibaazimprov on all socials.

ABOUT KAIVALYA PLAYS

Kaivalya Plays is a performing arts and production company led by Varoon P. Anand as its Artistic Director and Gaurav Singh Nijjer as its General Manager. Since 2012, they have built transcultural associations across India and the world. Their artistic work includes original, devised theatre performances that are multilingual, interactive, and hybrid, use technology and media on stage, and are built using techniques of improvisational, documentary, and physical theatre. Through a focus on education, training and community, their work spans diverse offerings of programs across artistic development, language learning, mental health, gender, accessibility, and transcultural collaboration. They have received multiple artistic commissions and grants through their collaborations with Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi, Goethe Institut Delhi, MediaFutures and other cultural partners. Their recent artistic work includes I, Josef (2024), The Pillowman (2024) ABSURDO (2023), Mining Hate (2023), Funes The Memorious (2021), Lifeline 99 99 (2021), Unravel (2019), amongst others. Most recently, they were awarded the Creativity Pioneers Fund 2023 by the Moleskine Foundation. Read more about their work on www.kaivalyaplays.org