The Countdown Improv Festival — North America’s biggest improv comedy festival — is thrilled to announce its 2026 lineup! Featuring almost 140 different trio, duo, and solo improv acts from 20 different states, the festival will occur in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, from Wednesday, August 5 through Sunday, August 9.

Shows will take place across four separate stages at two different locations: the HC Ybor Performing Arts Building (1411 E. 11th Ave) and The Commodore (811 E. 7th Ave). Tickets and a full schedule will be available very soon.

_______ & Josh (Los Angeles, Calif.)
2zin Tarandon (St. Louis, Mo.)
The A Team (Davie, Fla.)
The Absent-Minded Professor (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
An Evening With… With Tyler and Chuy feat. Tosin (Austin, Texas / New York, N.Y.)

Anomaly (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Baebladez (Madison, Wis.)
B&B (Portland. Ore.)
The Bayshore Puke Boyz (Tampa, Fla.)
Bechdel Test Dummies (West Palm Beach, Fla. / New York, N.Y.)

Big Bang (Boston, Mass.)
Bingewatch (San Francisco, Calif.)
Chet F. Blacklagoon (Houston, Texas)
Bogoslawa (Clearwater, Fla.)
Boo Brothers (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Bros 2 Men (Miami, Fla.)
Bryan vs. Music (Portland, Ore.)
Butter Hamlet (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
But of Mind (Juneau, Alaska)
Camera (Madison, Wis.)

The Captain’s Wheel: Celebrity Edition (Tampa, Fla.)
CatBird (Boynton Beach, Fla. / San Antonio, Texas)
CatBomb! (Chicago, Ill.)
Cats & Dogs (San Francisco, Calif.)
Cheeze&Crackerz (Sarasota, Fla.)

Chef Kevin’s Country Slop-Bucket: LIVE! (Riverview, Fla.)
Choir Boi (Madison, Wis.)
Clark Brooks Sings “The Doors” (Tampa, Fla.)
CLUTCH (Miami, Fla.)
The Commodorks (Tampa, Fla.)

Cowboy Kevin (Riverview, Fla.)
Crossed Wires (Madison, Wis.)
Curmudgeons (Austin, Texas)
Cuzzins (Miami, Fla.)
Dancing with Disaster (Chicago, Ill. / Schenectady, N.Y.)

Dark Side of the Zoom (Schenectady, N.Y. / Austin, Texas)
Daddy’s Little Nest Egg (Boca Raton, Fla. / New York, N.Y.)
Dimensional Riff (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
DuBois (Jupiter, Fla.)
Dueling Richards (Boynton Beach, Fla. / Statesboro, Ga.)

Exes (Baltimore, Md.)
Fever Dream (New York, N.Y.)
Flava Flavor Flavour (Chicago, Ill.)
Fleeting Reminiscence (San Francisco, Calif.)
Folk’d Up (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Four First Names (Orlando, Fla.)
Free Tacos (Delray Beach, Fla.)
The Friendship Show (Raleigh, N.C.)
From Justin to Kelly (New York, N.Y.)
Future Memories (Miami, Fla.)

Gamesome Frolic (San Francisco, Calif.)
The Haiku Lady (Tampa, Fla.)
HANDY (Dallas, Texas)
Hannah LIVE: A One-Han Show (Baltimore, Md.)
He Said She Said (Richmond, Va.)

He Said/They Said (State College, Pa.)
HighNoon (Spokane, Wash.)
Honk & Wave (Tampa, Fla.)
Hot Mess! The Musical (Kansas City, Mo. / Chicago, Ill.)
Greg Hudson Presents “The Countdown Hall of Fame Hour” (New York, N.Y.)

I Am the Show (Chicago, Ill.)
It’s All About Amy (St. Augustine, Fla.)
Ivories Guy (Orlando, Fla.)
JACKIE: The Improvised Martial-Arts Movie (San Diego, Calif.)
Jawesome (Madison, Wis. / Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Jeremy Irons Hierarchy feat. MagixGirlz (Mesa, Ariz.)
Johnny Toothpick: Bumbling Improv Gumshoe (Portland, Ore.)
Kapusta Improv Troupe (Sarasota, Fla.)
Kat ‘n’ Nate (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
Kidney Stone Kids (Orlando, Fla.)

Oliver Klosov: One Night Only (Portland, Ore.)
Late Bloomers (St. Petersburg, Fla. / Denver, Colo.)
Leaves of Three (Los Angeles / San Francisco, Calif.)
Leeker Takes You To… (St. Louis, Mo.)
Life During a Storm (Various)

T.J. Mannix in LimboLand (New York, N.Y.)
Looking for My Keys (St. Louis, Mo.)
Loops and Lols with Dartanion London (Bellingham, Wash.)
Love Hammer (Portland, Ore. / San Francisco, Calif.)
lvlforimprov (Baltimore, Md. / Dallas, Texas)

The Magnificent 7 (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Making Space (Madison, Wis.)
Media Boys (Chicago, Ill. / Portland, Ore.)
Milk Sarton (Various)
Mixed Emojis (Clearwater, Fla.)

Mornings with Pattie (New York, N.Y.)
My 4 Dads (San Antonio, Texas)
Nashbuff (Tampa, Fla.)
NC-17: Nick and Conor (Houston, Texas)
Not Therapy (San Francisco, Calif.)

On Eagles’ Wings (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
One Hit Wonder-Full (St. Louis, Mo.)
Ophelia’s Rope (Houston, Texas)
Our Daughters’ Friend (Bonita Springs, Fla.)
PATSMASHPROV (West Palm Beach, Fla.)

Peter the Lonesome Boy (Providence, R.I.)
Pitts & Friends (Chicago, Ill.)
Playtime with Patrick & Preston (Chicago, Ill.)
Potty Time (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
¡Punctuation.Marks! (Miami, Fla.)

Purple Couch (San Francisco, Calif.)
Ralph Squared (Naples, Fla.)
Ready Set No! (Baltimore, Md.)
Real Housewives of Hell (Utica, N.Y.)
Salted Carmel (Madison, Wis.)

Salud and Happy Days (Tampa, Fla.)
Scary Buttons (Gainesville, Fla.)
“serious” (New York, N.Y.)
Silly Gooses (San Diego, Calif.)
Sloogle (St. Louis, Mo.)

Slumber Party (Various)
Small Uncle (St. Louis, Mo.)
Solovela (Plantation, Fla.)
Somos Caballos (Miami, Fla.)
Splonge (Sarasota, Fla.)

Sweaty Dee (Seattle, Wash.)
Swept Away! A Soap Opera (Madison, Wis.)
Tacklebox (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Tater Tits (San Diego, Calif.)
That’s What She Said Improv (Oklahoma City, Okla.)

Together/By Myself: A Solo Improv Experience (Miami, Fla.)
Too Shy Guys (Dallas, Texas / Austin, Texas)
Touch Baseball (St. Louis, Mo.)
Townies, with T.J. Mannix (New York, N.Y.)
The Tritones (Baltimore, Md.)

Two Loonies (Tampa, Fla. / Bradenton, Fla.)
Untitled Jacob Moyer Project (Madison, Wis.)
Waiting for Stuff Man (Dallas, Texas)
Matt Walker’s “Green Room Coffee Boyz” (Tampa, Fla.)
Wallares (Orlando, Fla.)

Welcome To Your Apocalypse (Austin, Texas)
Wet Hot American Dreams (Tampa, Fla.)
What If? (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Whatever Fate Decides (Providence, R.I.)
Where There’s A Will, There’s A John (Sarasota/St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Whorizontal Style (Madison, Wis.)
Wine and Weasels (San Francisco, Calif.)
Wreck League (Orlando, Fla.)