5:00PM Welcome Jam
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Come jam with other performers!
Teams
Friday July 31, 2026
6:00PM The Hotspurs!
ComedySportz Stage - Glassboro, NJ
From over the bridge, deep within the heart of the New Jersey wasteland, comes The Hotspurs! ready to provide humor and antics alongside the improv greats from around the country! Come on out and watch New Jersey's #1 improv comedy troupe as they navigate the chaos of various suggestions provided by YOU and try to make sense of the chaos (or add to it), you definitely won't want to miss it!
6:00PM Better Later
Sidequest Stage - Philadelphia
Sure you want your improv now but sometimes it's better later!
6:25PM Ladies Night
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
This show is for the ladies!!!! Kat and Amy met in PHIT’s Improv 301 class. They share a love for mint tea, complaining, and Indian snacks. With so much in common, just wait until you see their onstage chemistry. Tears and laughter guaranteed, and that’s just what’s happening on stage.
6:25PM Just Friends
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
We're JUST FRIENDS. We swear. That's it. We hang out, perform improv, kiss a little. That's it. No reason to look further into it
6:50PM The Inside Jokers
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
The Inside Jokers say you had to be there and we open each show with "And Here You Are!" We are a Philadelphia-based indie improv team that formed in 2024, bringing together a diverse group of talented performers from a local improv school. Known for their high energy, enthusiasm, and emphasis on community. They’ve performed at popular venues like Oomprov at Brauhaus Schmitz, Revenge Comedy at Fat Lady Brewing, and hosted their signature game show “Jokes On Us” at the Sawubona Creativity Project. They have performed at the Happy Valley XL fest and up and down the east coast in Brooklyn and Baltimore.
6:50PM The Temple Parliament
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
The Parliament from Temple University is performing some incredible long form Harolds that will definitely be worth the ticket price (probably)
7:15PM Drain Cleaner
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Sore Throat? Cough? Post-nasal drip?? Our long-form improv show will have you cleared up in no time! After all, laughter is the best Drain Cleaner
7:15PM Family Over Everything
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
A 201 class that wouldn’t let the chat die because it really gives you that hugging sensation
7:40PM Mouth Stuff
ComedySportz Stage - Baltimore, MD
Mouth Stuff is a Baltimore-based long-form improv troupe known for transforming personal stories into wild, high-energy performances that blur the line between comedy and chaos. They’ve brought their signature style to stages across the country, including the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival (Austin, TX), XL Festival (Happy Valley, PA), 2nd Best Fest (Richmond, VA), and Last Word Comedy Festival (Williamsburg, VA).
7:40PM Post Modern Family
SideQuest Stage - Utica, NY
Families don’t just fall apart—they evolve. Post Modern Family is an improvised comedy about a single dad and his two adult children figuring out what family looks like after divorce. Inspired by a single audience suggestion, each performance creates a fully unscripted story filled with awkward reunions, unresolved tension, and moments that are as heartfelt as they are hilarious. It’s messy, honest, and unexpectedly funny—because even when life falls apart, family doesn’t just disappear- they evolve.
8:05PM Third Wheel
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Two of us are married and one of us is Jim!
8:05PM Underwear Quilt
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Underwear Quilt is a brand new, five-person team in the Philadelphia indie scene. The show opens with the team sharing their opinions about their favorite and least favorite things, and then creating scenes with wild characters that have weird fixations. Hilarity ensues!
8:30PM Neighborhood Watch
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Neighborhood Watch returns for one last patrol. Neighborhood Watch was a staple of the pre-pandemic era of the Philadelphia improv community. As a team, besides producing their own shows across the city, they also performed in festivals and improv theaters all over the East Coast. Come out for a safe hit of nostalgia for one more watch.
8:30PM Hot Dog with Mustard
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia/New York City
Hot Dog with Mustard is a longform improv trio that goes both crazy and stupid. It is made up of three best friends who have been performing together for 7 years and hope to perform together for another 100.
9:00PM It Doesn’t Matter
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Doesn’t Matter: Mary Carpenter & Thomas Fowler will improvise. They've done stuff like blah, blah, blah and been in etc, etc. You get to see them take chances with each other. It could be interesting and funny. It could not. In the end it…
9:00PM Sad Trombone
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia/Boston
Join improv veterans Ralph Andracchio and Steve Kleinedler as they take inspiration from the stories of terrible gifts you've received and turn them into odd characters, weird relationships, and awesome improv.
9:25PM Scooter Practice
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Scooter Practice is an indie improv team formed in 2019 on the streets of Philadelphia, known for their chemistry on stage.
9:50PM BABE
ComedySportz Stage - Richmond, VA
Two weirdos who travel through space and time to deliver you an inter-dimensional improv show that will have you on the edge of your seat, asking yourself, "what the hell is going to happen next?!
9:50PM Schmooty!
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia, PA
Schmooty! is an indie improv team based in Philadelphia that takes the audience on a journey from grounded characters to surreal heights. The team performs in towns across Pennsylvania and has appeared at festivals including Steelstacks, Baltimore Improv Festival, Third Coast Comedy in Nashville, and the iO Festival in Chicago.
10:15PM The Dow Jones
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
The Dow Jones finds delight in the unpredictable gains and losses of the human experience. Audit The Dow Jones and find yourself fully invested in a high-yield comedic enterprise. Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government - The Dow Jones is too big to fail.
10:15PM Jesse & Joe
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Jesse & Joe discover interesting characters, storylines, and relationships that happen simultaneously in one singular location.
Saturday August 1, 2026
4PM Festival Welcome
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Producers welcome fans and performers in a celebration of the Adrienne Theater.
4PM Macguffin
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
A performance from young people at the MacGuffin Theatre and Film Company, located on the second floor of the Adrienne Theater. The Macguffin Theatre gives young people a place to experience the entire acting process of theater and film, performing in original and adapted works that speak to the challenges that face our students and community. Our inclusive education and producing company creates a supportive, dynamic space for students as they discover their identity, gain self-confidence, and become advocates for the arts.
4:15PM Barbara, A Mother
ComedySportz Stage - Pittsburgh, PA
Oh, my! Mother’s little darlings have gone and made an improv team. Let’s hope they remembered their manners and left those potty mouths back in Pittsburgh.
4:15PM Shoes Off!
SideQuest Stage - New York City
Shoes Off! is an all-Asian improv team from NYC. We take our shoes off to keep the floor clean, because the only thing filthy here is the comedy. Expect fast scenes, reckless choices, and the kind of chaos that would disappoint your parents.
4:40PM Happy To Be Here
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Just a ragtag group of best friends performing some of the craziest scenes you ever did see! Featuring regular performers at UCB and all stars of the NYC indie improv scene!
4:40PM Postcards to No One
SideQuest Stage - Los Angeles
We ask questions about one of the audience member’s most recent vacation — where they went, funny moments, weird details, etc. And The team then performs improv scenes inspired by those details and memories.
5:05PM short rib
ComedySportz Stage - Chicago
short rib is an improv duo from Chicago with Philadelphia improv roots. We are bff's who love each other, and love being weird for beautiful audiences like yourselves.
5:05PM Dental Dam It!
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Dental Damn It is a queer improv duo comprised of Susannah Holub and Lo Cuevas.
5:30PM Teschmacher
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Teschmacher is a high-energy improv show where one audience interview becomes a wild celebration of their story, bursting with hilarious, fast-paced scenes. You spill it, we spin it.
5:30PM Problem Child
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Problem Child starts with a question most of us heard growing up: “what the hell is wrong with you?” An audience member shares a real problem, and from there the group builds a world that feels both familiar and just a little off. The piece is typically performed as a tight 20-minute set. It opens with stories from the cast before expanding into scenes that revisit themes, characters, and patterns inspired by the initial suggestion. The group prioritizes emotional commitment, clear relationships, and a strong point of view.
6:00PM Pork Chop Express
SideQuest Stage - State College, PA
Watch and be amazed as your favorite action movie inspires our trained Improvisers to bring you explosive VHS-flavored, katana-wielding action! Martial arts! Ridiculous slow-motion gunplay! High Stakes revenge! Be there for all the eye-melting, off the wall Improv action!
6:30PM The Clubhouse
SideQuest Stage - Ferndale, MI
Go Comedy’s Long Form Resident Company is made up of 24 of the finest improvisers in Southeast Michigan. Our troupe has performed at the Happy Valley Improv Festival, We the People Improv Festival, Traverse City Comedy Festival, Grand Rapids Improv Festival and the Kalamazoo Improv Festival.
7:00PM ComedySportz
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
ComedySportz is an improv comedy show that thinks it’s a sporting match. The comedy is made up on the spot, but the competition is real! Two teams, The New jersey Turnpikes and The Philadelphia Whiz Wits, battle each other in a series of improv games and scenes; whichever one gets the most laughs from you, the Loyal Fans, wins! We are Philly’s longest-running show.
7:00PM Remain Dog
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Remain Dog is a mashup of two former PHIT Harold Teams. Tell us about an upcoming event and we'll give you our best interpretation of what that event will be like!
7:30PM Zero
SideQuest Stage - New York City
Zero is an improv team based in New York City. Members include Matt Pozzuolo, known for his work with Peter & Matt (PIT 2025 Improv March Madness Winners), GUPS (Brooklyn Comedy Collective Home Teams), Kind Regards (PIT House Team), The Great American Shit Carnival (UCB), and Improvised The Office (UCB); Shenba Vairavan, known for UCB Lloyd Night — Barley (UCB House Team), Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan (Brooklyn Comedy Collective Home Teams), Little Birdy (Pinebox Rock Shop), and Twin Dog; Chris Fitzgerald, from GUPS (Brooklyn Comedy Collective Home Teams), Howdy Stranger, Big Little Guys, and Improvised The Office (UCB); and Lizzie High, from Twin Dog, Little Birdy (Pinebox Rock Shop), The Bellhops (PIT House Team), and Improvised The Office (UCB).
8:00PM Raaaatscraps
SideQuest Theater - New York City
The most popular improv comedy show in NYC is coming to Philadelphia for one of their last shows! The rotating cast of improvisers have been seen on Broad City, Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Severance, Somebody Somewhere, High Maintenance, Search Party, Crashing, 30 Rock, The Other Two, The Blacklist, Succession, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, WeCrashed, Black Mirror, Fallon, Succession, John Oliver, Colbert, in multiple Marvel movies, and many more.
9:00PM Felt Footage: An Improvised Jim Henson Movie
ComedySportz Stage - New York City
A fully improvised puppet show in the style of a lost Jim Henson movie. Felt characters, live theatrical “editing,” and a story that goes off the rails but never loses it's heart.
9:00PM The Live Direct Show
SideQuest Stage - Los Angeles
The Live Direct Show is a live, unscripted performance where three improvisers challenge themselves, and each other, to break the rules of improv and see what's on the other side. Part rehearsal, part experiment, part show, it's a behind-the-curtain look at what happens when performers stop playing it safe.
9:25PM Hell Yeah!
ComedySportz Stage - New York
Hell Yeah! creates high-energy, fully improvised musicals. With a blank stage, a piano, and a burning desire to sing about our feelings, we build an entire narrative based on a simple audience suggestion. The product is a hilarious, touching show that’s never been seen before, and will never be seen again.
9:25PM Not Yet Rated
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Not Yet Rated is one of the longest-running improv shows in Philadelphia. By creating a fully improvised movie, Not Yet Rated has thrilled audiences for almost a decade. Whether it's a rom-com, horror, or action film, Not Yet Rated has delighted audiences with its storytelling and use of ridiculous tropes.
9:50PM Cat and Vegas and the Temple of Boom
ComedySportz Stage - New Jersey
Be a part of the coolest improvised concert experience of your life! Cat and Vegas and the Temple of Boom bring sweet rhythm and rhyme to the stage for on-the-spot co-writes inspired by YOUR suggestions. Raise your hand to become part of the band when they ask for volunteer instrumentalists! Prepare for the weirdest writing-sesh of your life. ARE YOU READY TO SOFT ROCK?
9:50PM Full of Bones
SideQuest Stage - New York City
Full of Bones is composed of Tony Ferraro, Robert Johnston, Meredith Dietz, Mark Burns, Chris Tucker, and Madeline Wolfson. They have been described as having "broken brains" and being "rotten to the core". Full of Bones promises to deliver a phrenetic, absurd, and straight up silly hour of improv that's guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.
10:15PM No Diggity
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Improv inspired by old school Hip Hop and R&B.
10:15PM No Straight Man
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
No Straight Man is a dynamic, high-energy duo featuring Philadelphia improvisers Aaron Jones (Jonesy) and Will Murphy. Based on audience stories about the odd, exciting, or unexpected; Murphy and Jonesy bring ridiculous characters and wild adventures to the stage.
12:00am Terror Trove
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Terror Trove is a love letter to horror cinema that is part TED Talk, part improvised parody, and all madness. Whether you love or hate scary movies, you'll leave thinking, "Wow, are those two alright?"
Sunday August 2, 2026
3:00PM ComedySportz Jam
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Come jam with other performers!
3:00PM Bonus Jam
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
A jam so big we think it needs two stages!
4:00PM Cherry Bomb
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
BOOM! Watch out! Cherry bomb is here to perform EXPLOSIVE 3 person improv to an audience like you
4:00PM Family Reunion
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Family Reunion is a Philadelphia-based indie musical improv team creating one-night-only musical theater experiences through grounded storytelling, sharp comedy, original songs, and spontaneous choreography.
4:25PM Hey Hi Hello
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Hey! Hi! Hello! We're a group of Philadelphia improvisers who have a passion for silly characters and can't help but bring out the weird in each other.
4:25PM Fish Casino
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Born out of the Yes, End Competition, Fish Casino is keeping the family business alive. The only place in town with fish poker chips. 🐠🎰
4:50pm Misterios: Family Matters
SideQuest Stage - Austin, TX
Family Matters is an improvised comedy show that is inspired by your family gatherings. A funeral, a wedding, or a will signing? Misterios has been to them all. Family Matters dives deep into the chaos of chosen family, blood family, and everything in between. Real-life drama and unfiltered chisme get flipped into sharp, hilarious comedy right before your eyes.
4:50PM Swear Jar
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Swear Jar takes an idea from the audience and uses it to give voices to ridiculous characters, objects, and sometimes even each other, all the while calling attention to the oddest aspects of everyday life. They never know where they're going or where they'll end up. Watch the chaos as they figure it out.
5:15PM Hippie and Frenchie
ComedySportz Stage - Lancaster
Hippie and Frenchie is an improv duo from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, comprised of Rachel Stern and Alain Epp Weaver. Inspired by a suggestion of an unusual place, they discover comedy in the hopes, passions, foibles, and flaws of people (or spirits, or monsters, or animals, or objects) not unlike ourselves.
5:15PM Partial Refund
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Partial Refund is seven strangers who came together from all different levels of improv for one competition. We may not have won the trophy, but we built something better a team with real chemistry, big laughs, and a wild energy you can’t fake. By the end of the show, the last thing on your mind will be asking for a refund.
5:40PM Macbeth (aka "The Scottish Improv Team")
ComedySportz Stage - New York City
Every week in New York City, the Magnet Theater house team Macbeth (aka "The Scottish Improv Team") creates totally improvised comedic shows featuring dramatic twists, absurd leaps of logic, unexpected detours into the surreal and supernatural, and curtain-dropping finales that leave us all understanding less than when we started.
5:40PM Ermine and Pearl
SideQuest Stage - New York City
2 old broads a little trashy and a lot classy
6:05PM The Hawthornes
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
The Hawthornes are a Philadelphia-based improv team. Having met at Hawthorne park over the summer, the team have performed at venues all across Philadelphia. You can find them most commonly at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar once a month.
6:05PM Teen Angst
SideQuest Stage - Baltimore
Teen Angst is an improvised teen movie with all the trappings and tropes of those classics (from whatever era means classic to you).
6:30PM Thrice The Drama
ComedySportz Stage - New York City
Life isn't just punchlines - it's messy, beautiful and real. That's what Thrice The Drama brings to the stage one unscripted moment at a time. Our audience will be captivated by the compelling story that organically unfolds before their eyes.
6:30PM ANITA FAJITA
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
Winners of the Yes, End! Improv competition, ANITA FAJITA asks audiences the important question - "What do YOU needa?". Bringing high energy, wild choices and chaos energy to their performance. The sizzle really do be sizzling.
7:00PM The Alexanders
ComedySportz Stage - Washington Crossing, PA
Scene Salad tosses together the depth of long form with the snap of short-form games, creating a lively, fast-moving show packed with energy, variety, and unexpected turns.
7:00PM GASP! Improvised Murder Mystery Monoscene
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
GASP! A Murder Mystery Monoscene is an improvised show where the cast is murdered one by one. Will the cast find the killer before it's too late, or will everyone fall victim?
7:30PM Make Good Improv presents, "Late Night Reruns: An Improvised Sitcom"
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
You ever turn on the tv late at night, to find yourself watching season 5, episode 12 of a sitcom you've never seen? Make Good Theatre Company presents "Late Night Reruns: An Improvised Sitcom," where our live studio audience will witness the creation of a full length, completely improvised episode of a "long running" sitcom! With character tropes, love triangles, commericals and more, every show is completely unique!
7:30PM Peter & Matt
SideQuest Stage - New York City
Peter & Matt (@peterandmatt) are an improv duo who perform regularly in New York City and the greater Philadelphia area. They are the winners of The People's Improv Theater's 2025 Improv March Madness Tournament. You can catch them in shows such as "Two Much w/ Peter & Matt" (Monthly show at PIT), "Peter & Matt &" (Recurring show at UCB), and "Peter & Matt & Friends" (Monthly show at The Rat). They perform regularly at venues such as UCB NY, iO Theater, The PIT, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Caveat, The Lab, The Royal, Newtown Theater, New Hope Arts Center, Dharma Bums, Sidequest Theater, and many more. They have performed in festivals such as iO Fest, The Yo Adrienne Improv Festival, PIT Indie-pendent Day Fest, Happy Valley's XL Fest, and more.
8:00PM 6 Different People
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
Join Six Different People as they create magical new worlds right on the spot - full of delicious surprises, unfiltered chaos, and relatable slice-of-life moments inspired by an audience suggestion.
8:00PM Barko
SideQuest Stage - Philadelphia
BARKO weaves improvised comedy from nothing to a twisted end. Award-winning physical theater artist Nick Gillette, martial artist/philosopher Pim Van, and polymath clown/writer Sam Miller. Finding laughter in the everyday, this show highlights organic discovery and inspired action. BARKO is slapstick at the speed of life.
8:30PM Rat King
ComedySportz Stage - Philadelphia
The Philadelphia improv trio controversial in rodent circles! Observe as three veteran buffoons attempt to portray three normal people and fail spectacularly!
