Youth & Teen Virtual Impro classes

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Aidan Parker is a Vancouver-based writer, improvisor, actor, and teacher. He holds a BFA in playwriting, screenwriting, and creative non-fiction from the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing Program. He’s performed with various shows and companies, including the Canadian Improv Games, UBC improv, and Instant Theatre. He is currently a cast member of Fistful of Kicks, an Asian Canadian improv troupe. He teaches improv to students from a variety of backgrounds aged 6-45 for many institutions, including Instant Theatre, UBC Improv, The Canadian Improv Games, the East End Boys Club and Girls Group, the Vancouver School Board, and Improvcamp. Aidan Parker is the co-founder and director of Instant Theatre’s diversity initiative Colour Commentary, which aims to bring more people of colour into the improv theatre community. He is currently lead instructor for The Arts Club Theatre Company’s devised theatre programs, where he directs and builds shows with students from equity-seeking communities in the lower mainland. Recent theatre credits include a production of Macbeth (Carnegie Centre / The Honest Fishmongers), the semi-improvised The Tragic Comedy of Macbeth (Jericho Arts Centre), and SIB CITY which he created and directed with The Arts Club Theatre Company. Recent festival credits include: the Stumptown Improv Festival in Portland, the Improvised Play Festival in Austin, the Montreal Improv Summit, and the Vancouver Improv Festival. 

Sarah Ferguson is a Vancouver based actor, improvisor, and theatre-maker. She holds both a diploma in Theatre Performance from Mount Royal University, and a BFA in Theatre from Simon Fraser University. She has performed in and produced four of Tightrope Impro Theatre's (formerly Sour Dog Theatre) productions in both Calgary and Vancouver. Her previous Tightrope credits include Dog Sees God, 7 Stories, Queenpins of Ponoka, and Girls Like That. She was the lead instructor for Airdrie’s youth/teen theatre program Kids on Broadway for two consecutive years. Sarah taught Dance, Gymnastics, and Karate for 6 years to kids ages 4 months - 12 years old at The Little Gym of Airdrie. It was there that she learned how important Improvisation is to the motor skill development, and imaginations of kids. Tightrope’s values of “Always learn, always play” are one of the many reasons she is excited to be a part of the Youth and Teen Faculty.  Because she is a settler on the unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, she is critical of her own privilege as a witness and creator. She is excited to continue to be a student, performer, and supporter of Tightrope Theatre!