Upcoming Shows:

Saturday, October 26

7:00: The Actor’s Nightmare!
Half-Scripted Comedy:
Imagine; you are an actor. It is the opening night of your starring role. There’s only one problem; you don’t know your lines. Actually, you don’t know if you’ve even heard of that play!
That is the heart of the improv form The Actor’s Nightmare. Six of Lancaster Improv’s bravest players will face their fears and go off script against actors that have the common sense to come prepared. Will there be a happy ending? One can only hope!

8:30: Ernest Presents: Masterpiece Theatre
Watch Ernest create a masterpiece right before your eyes. The audience supplies the title of a play that has never been written, and Ernest will bring it dramatically to life. Ernest transports you into a world of characters and relationships crafted on the spot.

BYOB

$12 at the door

Upcoming

Improv 101: An Intro to Improv

About the Class: This is an 8 week long class that will teach the fundamentals of long form Improv Comedy. Topics covered include agreement with a scene partner, character creation, listening as a character and an actor, and exploring the worlds created in scenes. The class ends with a graduation show where the students can show their friends and family the skills learned. Students must be 18 or older for this class!

This class runs Mondays from 7pm-9pm on the dates: 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9, and 12/16. You can miss no more than two session to be eligible for the class show! Class show will be Saturday 12/21 at 5pm! Ticket sale ends at 11:30pm on Saturday 10/26!

About the Teacher: This class will be taught by Shannon Maguire. She has been performing for 10 years, the first 4 with her college team, Mad Cow Improv from Elizabethtown college. For the past 6 years, Shannon has been performing with Lancaster Improv Players on various teams, as well as coaching now-retired teams. She has completed LIPs Improv 101 and 201 class.

Classes:

Intro to Stand-Up with Brandon!

About the Class: YOU can do stand up. This class will include exercises for generating material, supportive feedback and plenty of opportunity to test out your skills on stage. Over the course of four sessions, you will craft your own five minute set of original stand up comedy.

Following completion of the class will be a to be determined performance.

Class Schedule: This class will meet four times on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm. This class meets 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, and 12/3.

Sale for class ends Sunday 11/10 at noon. There are only ten spots for the class, so do not wait if you want in!

About the Teacher: Brandon Koss has been doing stand up comedy since 2014. He has performed in comedy clubs, night clubs, improv theaters, theatre theaters, movie theaters, music venues, punk houses, coffee shops, tattoo shops, a multi-level pizza restaurant in California, a virtual golf place in Illinois, outdoors, six different states and more awful bars than he can remember.

About Us

Lancaster Improv Players (LIP), founded in 2015, has performed throughout Pennsylvania.

LIP became an independent nonprofit organization in 2019.

We opened up our first improv theater at 10 S. Prince Street in August 2019.

In May 2020, we moved nearby to our present location at 16 S Prince Street in Downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

LIP teams perform on our stage weekly.

We offer an entertaining mix of long- and short-form, crafting an unforgettable experience for the audience!

Giving Back

Lancaster Improv Players gives back in many ways, find out more:

Support Us

Lancaster Improv Players is a 501(c)3 nonprofit formed in Pennsylvania. We are based out of our theater in Lancaster, PA. Please consider donating to support our work

Latest Update

Hi folks,

Lancaster Improv Players has shows going 3 weekends a month and we want to see you! The best way to stay on top of what’s coming up, be it shows, classes, or our Touring Company’s appearances is via our mailing list, sign up below to keep in touch.

Much love,

The Lancaster Improv Players