Bitten By BATS Improv Festival at BATS Improv

Bitten By BATS Improv Festival honors the myriad ways in which BATS Improv has helped create, shape, and enrich the San Francisco Bay Area improv scene.An incredible number of improvisers who have met in the BATS community, when studying at the BATS School of Improv, or when playing with the mainstage BATS Company, have gone on to join other ensembles, create their own groups, and innovate the artform of improvisation. BATS Improv has invited some of these spontaneous theatre makers back to the Bayfront to showcase the talent of this amazing community.Matinee: 11am - 1:30pm features Phasers on Stun, The Right Now and ragtag improvMatinee: 1:45pm - 4:15pm features The Iron Stage and DemimondeEvening: 4:30pm - 7:30pm features Un-Scripted, Improv Playhouse of San Francisco, and The Trifecta Proceeds from this festival will go to the Light Up BATS capital campaign aimed at raising $150,000 to replace the old lighting grid in the Bayfront Theatre with a beautiful new LED lighting system, which will bring higher quality lighting instruments, a smaller carbon footprint, and more versatility to the top-notch improv theatre happening on the BATS stage.
Ages: ages 18 and up