What is GATHER Improv?
GATHER Improv is a collection of improv schools, practitioners, teachers and students. What started as a small festival-vibed retreat has become a community of gorgeous spirit. We have hosted GATHER Improv Fest and adjacent events for the last 5 years, with an emphasis on the development and connection of the Irish improv community.
The Irish improv scene is vibrant, with creative tendrils in theatre, film, podcasts, sketch, stand-up, corporate, and education. We are a community who believes that a rising tide raises all ships.
We are proud to say that we have worked with a cornucopia of Irish improv organisations such as Stoke Improv, Grand Stretch, MOB Theatre, Pretty Good Improv, The Improv Playground, Ross Curran Improv and so many more experts in the improv world.
Grand Stretch and Gather Fest!
The Grand Stretch and Gather Improv Fest is coming up the 6th-12th July 2026 at DU Player’s Theatre at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin!
Grand Stretch’s Darren Yorke will be running daily workshops Monday-Saturday: Six gorgeous workshops in theatre-making through improvisation.
Click to learn more about and book a Grand Stretch Workshop
Gather Improv will be curating evening shows, a community jam, and the new Gather Sunday Moss – a daytime workshop that experiments with the energetic connectivity through play.
Click to learn more about Gather Improv shows and Sunday Moss