The ultimate in corporate edutainment, our shows & workshops are powerful immersive experiences that deliver the laughs and powerful life skills! We host groups at our Times Square NYC Theater and tour venues DC to Boston and beyond! EMAIL for dates. Below are three options featuring one teaching artist for up to two hours for just $500. For large events, book a team of professionals for improv comedy shows, murder mystery events and more. We can host day time events Monday thru Friday before 6pm at our Times Square NYC Theater.
IMPROV WORKSHOP
IMPROV WORKSHOPS are amazing tools to develop strong teams and leaders, replacing 1000s of books and lectures that merely discuss concepts, goals and techniques. Simply playing these games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, self confidence, self awareness, listening, focus and more. We teach all to replace ego and insecurities with simple choices, active listening and supporting team. These are all cornerstones of “YES! And…” the #1 governing principle behind Improvisation. YES AND… Improv is also the best route to Psychological Safety, the #1 factor in Team Success. The #1 skill in comedy is LISTENING, which is also the #1 factor in a good leader. We use a version of these workshops to train team building, leadership, sales, customer service, conflict resolution, professional development for teachers, medical staff and more. Ideal for 5 to 30 participants, this workshop fits anywhere your team can stand in a circle including a small conference room or private home.
YES AND! THE EXPERIENCE
YES AND… THE EXPERIENCE is a 100% immersive imprv comedy game show, hosted by one of our professional teaching artists with years of comedy experience. Guests are invited to the stage to play a series of games. In many ways this is a hybrid show and master class in Improv, the ultimate in EDUTAINMENT. While the guests experience a show, all emerge with many of the benefits of a workshop. This show has been popular at team building events, corporate and family gatherings at restaurants or event private homes and offices. Ideal for 10-100 guests.
MADCAPPED MYSTERIES
Our newest show combines the power of improvisation and the popularity of true crime comedy drama. The opening minutes are akin to our popular game HUMAN MAD LIBS and the first scene of any LAW & ORDER episode. Using the guests to fill in the blanks, the entire audience helps establish a crime, naming a fictional victim, and building crime scene details. For the next 20-30 minutes the detective runs around the room and briefly interrogates guests, each assigned a character in our story. Each encounter delivers inspiration for another character. We meet the mayor, chief of police, forensics, coroner, family, friends, coworkers, teachers and other potential witnesses. Before long many guests (perhaps all for smaller events) have been part for the show. At this point, the detective identifies 3-5 stand outs as our prime suspects. The audience is deputized and broken into teams to interrogate suspects, collaborate and deliberate a final solution to the crime. Our detective reads many of the solutions aloud and picks a winning team. We present silly prizes to the winning team and the best actor, voted by your peers.
CONTACT US to book high energy, high impact, inexpensive edutainment for your team
Corporate Events
The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Merck, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)
College / University Tour
EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy show has played the big stages (500+ seats) and smaller intimate venues (50-200) and even Greek Houses of Syracuse, Seton Hall, Princeton, Georgetown, Vaughn, Molloy University, Montclair State University, Bloomberg College, High Point University, Williams College, Lynchburg College, Southern New Hampshire University, Ferris State, Mount Isa, Misericordia, Sacred Heart, Hastings College, Pace University, Vaughn, College Misericordia, University of Vermont, Stone Hill University, Yeshiva University, Columbia University, NYU, Hofstra University, Cooper Union, John Jay College, Fordham University and more.
More Improv Touring Nationwide
Additionally, EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH has toured 1000s of public and private events at The Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Wolf Trap, The Argyle Theater, Emelin Theater, Gerold Opera House, 72nd Street Pier, Cherry Point Marine Base, Disney Resorts, Ohio National Guard, Connecticut DCF, First Nights Winchester VA, Binghamton First Night, Haddonfield First Night, Chateau Briand, Babylon Carriage House, retirement homes, numerous libraries, YMCA, JCC, Parks and Recreation, 1000s of k12 schools and summer camps in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska.
Artistic Director, Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows.
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