The 2026 Countdown Improv Festival runs from August 5-9 and features over 130 separate improv groups from across the United States.


Click below to jump to a specific date.


Wednesday, August 5

All showtimes approximate

All Wednesday shows are at The Commodore | 811 E. 7th Ave.


7:00 p.m.

  • Where There’s a WIll, There’s a John
  • Kapusta Improv Troupe
  • The Haiku Lady

8:35 p.m.

  • Peter the Lonesome Boy
  • Two Loonies
  • The Commodorks

10:00 p.m.

  • HANDY
  • Boo Brothers
  • Jeremy Irons Hierarchy ft. MagixGirlz

Thursday, August 6

All showtimes approximate


7:00 p.m.

  • Wet Hot American Dreams
  • Jawesome
  • Anomaly
  • Ralph Squared
  • Mixed Emojis
  • Leaves of Three
  • Exes
  • It’s All About Amy
  • Waiting for Stuff Man
  • Salted Caramel
  • Chef Kevin’s Country Slop-Bucket: LIVE!
  • One Hit Wonder-Full

8:40 p.m.

  • Whatever Fate Decides
  • CatBomb!
  • Life During a Storm
  • But of Mind
  • Bryan vs. Music
  • Wreck League
  • ¡Punctuation.Marks!
  • Carpool
  • Mornings with Pattie
  • Whorizontal Style
  • He Said/They Said
  • Small Uncle

10:15 p.m.

  • Loops and Lols
  • B&B
  • Dancing with Disaster
  • Potty Time
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Ready Set No!

Friday, August 7

All showtimes approximate

6:00 p.m.

  • Chet F. Blacklagoon
  • NC-17: Nick and Conor
  • Ophelia’s Rope
  • Bros 2 Men
  • Scary Buttons
  • Pitts and Friends
  • Doc Doc Goose
  • Our Daughters’ Friend
  • Dark Side of the Zoom

7:15 p.m.

  • The A-Team
  • Camera
  • Dash vs. the World
  • Gamesome Frolic
  • Too Shy Guys
  • Sweaty Dee
  • Love Hammer
  • That’s What She Said Improv
  • Hot Mess! The Musical
  • Kidney Stone Kids
  • Tater Tits
  • Fever Dream
  • Looking for My Keys
  • “Free Tacos
  • __ & Josh
  • Salud and Happy Days”

9:05 p.m.

  • Somos Caballos
  • Wine and Weasels
  • An Evening With… With Chuy & Tyler, feat. Tosin
  • The Tritones
  • What If?
  • Silly Gooses
  • Swept Away! A Soap Opera
  • HighNoon
  • Baebladez
  • Untitled Jacob Moyer Project
  • lvlforimprov
  • Slumber Party
  • Milk Sarton
  • Antfarm
  • Hannah LIVE: The One-Han Show
  • Solovela

10:40 p.m.

  • Sloogle
  • Mom & Dad
  • Touch Baseball
  • Tiny Improv Festival

Saturday, August 8

All showtimes approximate

6:00 p.m.

  • PATSMASHPROV
  • Making Space
  • From Justin to Kelly
  • Bogoslawa’s Self-Help Seminar: A Motivational Experience (And Maybe Pierogies)
  • 2zin Tarandon
  • Ivories Guy
  • Cheeze&Crackerz
  • CatBird
  • Tacklebox

7:15 p.m.

  • Nashbuff
  • Crossed Wires
  • Cowboy Kevin
  • On Eagles’ Wings
  • Fleeting Reminiscence
  • Playtime with Patrick and Preston
  • Future Memories
  • Bechdel Test Dummies
  • Four First Names
  • The Absent-Minded Professor: An Improvised Lecture
  • DuBois
  • Daddy’s Little Nest Egg
  • Welcome to Your Apocalypse
  • Splonge
  • Dueling Richards
  • The Captain’s Wheel: Celebrity Edition

9:05 p.m.

  • Flava Flavor Flavour
  • “serious”
  • LimboLand
  • Jackie: The Improvised Martial-Arts Movie
  • Purple Couch
  • Together/By Myself: A Solo Improv Experience
  • Cuzzins
  • CLUTCH
  • Johnny Toothpick: Bumbling Improv Gumshoe
  • Butter Hamlet
  • Wallares
  • My 4 Dads
  • The Friendship Show
  • Not Therapy
  • Oliver Klosov: One Night Only

10:40 p.m.

  • I Am the Show
  • Bingewatch
  • Big Bang
  • Leeker Takes You To: An Immersive Theme Park Experience

Sunday, August 9

All showtimes approximate

All Wednesday shows are at The Commodore | 811 E. 7th Ave.


6:00 p.m.

  • Folk’d Up
  • Choir Boi
  • Kat and Nate
  • Media Boys

7:45 p.m.

  • “Clark Brooks Sings The Doors
  • Curmudgeons
  • Late Bloomers
  • Townies”

9:30 p.m.

  • Honk & Wave
  • Greg Hudson Presents “The Countdown Improv Festival Hall of Fame Hour”
  • The Magnificent 7
  • The Countdown Improv Festival Tenth Anniversary Ska-nsemble

Please note: performances, dates, locations, and times subject to change.