Improv Nerds (Detroit, MI) The Improv Nerds are thrilled to return to the Detroit Improv Festival this year! The troupe features The Detroit Creativity Project Youth Advisors and their coaches. When they aren't performing, troupe members also lead youth improv workshops and evaluate the DCP's improv programs. Their local appearances include the Planet Ant Black Box Stage, Detroit Women of Comedy Festival, Michigan Afterschool Conference, and Youth Driven Spaces Conference.

Awkward Besties (Detroit, MI) We're the Awkward Besties! A socially questionable cluster of professionally awkward friends from Metro Detroit. 

Shallow Water Blackout (Grand Rapids, MI) High-energy, satisfying, and always unexpected. Pack your floaties, because there’s no toe dipping with Shallow Water Blackout. Our callbacks go deep. Our collective wit is as wet as a lifeguard’s whistle. Our Yes-and-ing harmonies reverberate like storied sea sirens from the murky abyss. You know…in a good way. We’re highly experienced long-form improvisers who are always up for a swim. Audiences simply can’t resist! True to improv, no two shows are alike except for our strong chemistry on stage and passion for the craft. 

Super Scaries (Chicago, IL) Super Scaries: The Improvised Horror Musical is back - and more terrifying than ever. Super Scaries presents a completely made-up narrative musical that conjures an entirely new nightmare each night - never seen before, never to be seen again. The cast crafts a chilling tale from one audience suggestion of an ordinary object that turns out to be anything but. A cursed hairbrush that steals your best friend. A radio that won’t stop whispering your name. A key that unlocks something best left closed. Equal parts terror and hilarity, Super Scaries is a darkly funny dive into fear, fate, and the unexpected, before it's gone forever by the final note.