Sofia International Improv Fest 2026
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🎆Sofia International Improv Fest 2026 will take place 23–27 September 2026 in Sofia, Bulgaria ✨
⭐ Five days of world-class improv with one of the most welcoming improv communities in Europe.
❤ Let’s share the theatrical stage, create unexpected stories, discover big laughs, get to know artists from all over the world. Together.
Lineups, workshops, and applications to perform will unfold soon.
Subscribe for more info at: https://www.soimprovfest.com/
The theme this year will be:
👉Organic Improv
Real People in Real Time 👈
The night-shows program is here:
👉 DAY 1 - (Opening Night)
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-1-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Snap Kings: Snap Kings Snap Sofia (USA)
Strong commitment, high stakes, big action, and even bigger grins. Crucial Dudes doesn't hesitate to dive headfirst into kinetic scenework. The support shown between Andy and Alex, who have performed together for almost 20 years, is endearing and a wonder to watch. Strap in for a wild ride that spills off of the boundaries of the stage and into your psyche.
⭐Shizi Pro Team (Bulgaria)
⭐Almost friends: The Shape of Friendship (Latvia)
Almost Friends is an improv group of four performers from Riga, Latvia. Together for more than ten years, their friendship shines on and off stage. Their shows blend warmth, playfulness, and spontaneity, inviting the audience to laugh, reflect, and become their “almost friends” for an evening of unique and memorable moments.
Intermission
⭐Impro Köln: Tough Times (Germany)
Four friends. Four stories. One bond. A dystopian improv show about friendship.
They meet. They drink. They laugh—like everything is still normal. But the world around them is breaking: war, climate collapse, a system in ruins. They might have known each other forever. Or just found each other at the end of everything. Each of them carries something—memories, fears, secrets. And as the pressure grows, so does the question: What holds them together… and what tears them apart?
Because when everything else is gone, only one thing matters:
each other.
But will their friendship survive? You inspire us. We create the rest. Completely improvised. 100% real.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2026 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 2
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-2-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐The Forest: The Forest (United Kingdom)
The Forest is one of London's longest running indie improv nights for emerging and established teams. For over 6 years we've brought people together in London's flourishing improv and clowning community (past performers from the SNL UK writing team, Austentatious, UCB, The Free Association, Hoopla, Groundlings, Edinburgh Fringe and more!) "The Forest is a big, warm embrace of a show. A lovingly curated night of top-notch improv" - Graham Dickson of Austentatious & The Free Association
⭐The Lonely Bench: Momentum (France/Bulgaria)
"Momentum". It is inspired by cartoons, pantomime, clowning and silent movies.
Simona is a Bulgarian girl who doesn't speak French, Yann is a French boy who doesn't speak Bulgarian : it is all only possible without words.
Intermission
⭐CambiScena: Me, Myself and I (Italy)
“Me, Myself and I” brings to life a simple but powerful idea: none of us is just one person. We are made of many selves, many voices, many sides constantly trying to coexist.
On stage, three improvisers play the same character, each embodying a different personality chosen by the audience at the beginning of the show. As these three sides collide, collaborate, and clash, the performance explores how they relate to one another.
Shifting between reality and surreality, during the show to playfully uncover what really happens inside our heads when our inner selves confront one another.
And just to be clear: no real psychology is involved! We simply have fun with those moments when we’ve all been caught talking out loud to no one — or rather, to our other selves.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 3
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-3-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐The Imperfectionists: Dream World (Czech Republic)
The show begins with something real — a human moment, a relationship, a feeling — and lets it expand into the strange and fluid logic of dreams. From there, the ensemble follows what emerges in real time: images shift, stories transform, and characters drift through one another’s worlds.
While the stage world may become surreal, the performers remain grounded in authentic connection. Real impulses, real reactions, and deep listening guide the improvisers as they build a shared dream together moment by moment.
Scenes dissolve into one another, time stretches or collapses, and characters may return in unexpected forms. But everything grows organically from the performers’ relationships on stage and the emotional truth of the moment.
The result is a poetic, cinematic improvisation where something unexpected, human, and completely unrepeatable unfolds live before the audience.
⭐The Divas: Next Door Diva (Greece)
Four actors and one musician take the stage with no script, no score, and no safety net—creating a full musical performance from scratch, right before your eyes.
Drawing inspiration directly from the audience, they weave together an original story about a diva whose life seems to be falling apart.
Nothing goes as planned, mishaps pile up, and their dreams appear to slip further away—until, against all odds, they find their moment to shine exactly as they deserve.
Blending comedy, spontaneity, and live music, the Divas create a vibrant, one-of-a-kind performance where anything can happen—and usually does.
Intermission
⭐Pillow Talk: Accidental Baby (USA/Bulgaria)
In this long-form improv comedy show, married duo Alexander Cabana and Radostina Peteva invite the audience to share their most awkward and disastrous dating moments, using those real-life confessions as the fuel for improvised scenes, bits, and playful challenges. No romantic mishap is off limits—from unrequited love to mortifying early-relationship blunders.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 4 (Closing Night)
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-4-closing-night-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐Dream Queens: Dream Queens Slumber Party (Netherlands)
The Dream Queens are the coolest group of girlfriends, the one you've always wanted to be part of: supportive, funny and slightly unhinged. Well, guess what? Tonight's girls night, and you're invited. Join the Dream Queens as they tell true stories from their lives to create characters and scenes in a world you won't want to wake up from.
⭐Alt Ceva: Jukebox (Romania)
Three songs. Three stories. You decide which will survive.
Jukebox is a three-act narrative long-form format where the soundtrack dictates the dynamics of every scene. The show begins with three audience-chosen songs, each generating a story seed. As the acts unfold, the audience votes on which narrative threads continue and which are ejected from the playlist — leading to a single final resolution.
Music drives everything: improvisers enter on the beat, dialogue peaks with the volume, and transitions land with the rhythm. A fully improvised show where the audience shapes the story from the first note to the last.
Intermission
⭐100 Songs an Hour: The Great, Improvised, Music SHOW! (Poland)
"The Great, Improvised, Music SHOW!" is a time spent gasping, laughing, smirking and, occasionally, shouting. Let the musical trio take you for a ride through a kaleidoscope of scenes, setups, realities and feelings. Every moment counts, then passes, then leads you on to feel something more - preferably awe and laughter, but no guarantees. Anything can happen and the only way forward is through the word of inspiration coming from your mouth, or the person next to you if they're significantly louder.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
🥕 Get a carrot and Save the dates. Tell your improv crew 🥕
⭐ Five days of world-class improv with one of the most welcoming improv communities in Europe.
❤ Let’s share the theatrical stage, create unexpected stories, discover big laughs, get to know artists from all over the world. Together.
Lineups, workshops, and applications to perform will unfold soon.
Subscribe for more info at: https://www.soimprovfest.com/
The theme this year will be:
👉Organic Improv
Real People in Real Time 👈
The night-shows program is here:
👉 DAY 1 - (Opening Night)
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-1-opening-night-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Snap Kings: Snap Kings Snap Sofia (USA)
Strong commitment, high stakes, big action, and even bigger grins. Crucial Dudes doesn't hesitate to dive headfirst into kinetic scenework. The support shown between Andy and Alex, who have performed together for almost 20 years, is endearing and a wonder to watch. Strap in for a wild ride that spills off of the boundaries of the stage and into your psyche.
⭐Shizi Pro Team (Bulgaria)
⭐Almost friends: The Shape of Friendship (Latvia)
Almost Friends is an improv group of four performers from Riga, Latvia. Together for more than ten years, their friendship shines on and off stage. Their shows blend warmth, playfulness, and spontaneity, inviting the audience to laugh, reflect, and become their “almost friends” for an evening of unique and memorable moments.
Intermission
⭐Impro Köln: Tough Times (Germany)
Four friends. Four stories. One bond. A dystopian improv show about friendship.
They meet. They drink. They laugh—like everything is still normal. But the world around them is breaking: war, climate collapse, a system in ruins. They might have known each other forever. Or just found each other at the end of everything. Each of them carries something—memories, fears, secrets. And as the pressure grows, so does the question: What holds them together… and what tears them apart?
Because when everything else is gone, only one thing matters:
each other.
But will their friendship survive? You inspire us. We create the rest. Completely improvised. 100% real.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2026 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 2
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-2-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐The Forest: The Forest (United Kingdom)
The Forest is one of London's longest running indie improv nights for emerging and established teams. For over 6 years we've brought people together in London's flourishing improv and clowning community (past performers from the SNL UK writing team, Austentatious, UCB, The Free Association, Hoopla, Groundlings, Edinburgh Fringe and more!) "The Forest is a big, warm embrace of a show. A lovingly curated night of top-notch improv" - Graham Dickson of Austentatious & The Free Association
⭐The Lonely Bench: Momentum (France/Bulgaria)
"Momentum". It is inspired by cartoons, pantomime, clowning and silent movies.
Simona is a Bulgarian girl who doesn't speak French, Yann is a French boy who doesn't speak Bulgarian : it is all only possible without words.
Intermission
⭐CambiScena: Me, Myself and I (Italy)
“Me, Myself and I” brings to life a simple but powerful idea: none of us is just one person. We are made of many selves, many voices, many sides constantly trying to coexist.
On stage, three improvisers play the same character, each embodying a different personality chosen by the audience at the beginning of the show. As these three sides collide, collaborate, and clash, the performance explores how they relate to one another.
Shifting between reality and surreality, during the show to playfully uncover what really happens inside our heads when our inner selves confront one another.
And just to be clear: no real psychology is involved! We simply have fun with those moments when we’ve all been caught talking out loud to no one — or rather, to our other selves.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 3
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-3-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐The Imperfectionists: Dream World (Czech Republic)
The show begins with something real — a human moment, a relationship, a feeling — and lets it expand into the strange and fluid logic of dreams. From there, the ensemble follows what emerges in real time: images shift, stories transform, and characters drift through one another’s worlds.
While the stage world may become surreal, the performers remain grounded in authentic connection. Real impulses, real reactions, and deep listening guide the improvisers as they build a shared dream together moment by moment.
Scenes dissolve into one another, time stretches or collapses, and characters may return in unexpected forms. But everything grows organically from the performers’ relationships on stage and the emotional truth of the moment.
The result is a poetic, cinematic improvisation where something unexpected, human, and completely unrepeatable unfolds live before the audience.
⭐The Divas: Next Door Diva (Greece)
Four actors and one musician take the stage with no script, no score, and no safety net—creating a full musical performance from scratch, right before your eyes.
Drawing inspiration directly from the audience, they weave together an original story about a diva whose life seems to be falling apart.
Nothing goes as planned, mishaps pile up, and their dreams appear to slip further away—until, against all odds, they find their moment to shine exactly as they deserve.
Blending comedy, spontaneity, and live music, the Divas create a vibrant, one-of-a-kind performance where anything can happen—and usually does.
Intermission
⭐Pillow Talk: Accidental Baby (USA/Bulgaria)
In this long-form improv comedy show, married duo Alexander Cabana and Radostina Peteva invite the audience to share their most awkward and disastrous dating moments, using those real-life confessions as the fuel for improvised scenes, bits, and playful challenges. No romantic mishap is off limits—from unrequited love to mortifying early-relationship blunders.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
👉Day 4 (Closing Night)
Single-night Tickets: https://www.shizi.bg/event-details/day-4-closing-night-sofia-international-improv-festival-2026
Price: 25 €
Full Festival Pass for all 4 nights of shows: https://www.soimprovfest.com/service-page/festival-pass
All shows will be performed in English
⭐Mixer Team - a warmup team from workshop participants
⭐Dream Queens: Dream Queens Slumber Party (Netherlands)
The Dream Queens are the coolest group of girlfriends, the one you've always wanted to be part of: supportive, funny and slightly unhinged. Well, guess what? Tonight's girls night, and you're invited. Join the Dream Queens as they tell true stories from their lives to create characters and scenes in a world you won't want to wake up from.
⭐Alt Ceva: Jukebox (Romania)
Three songs. Three stories. You decide which will survive.
Jukebox is a three-act narrative long-form format where the soundtrack dictates the dynamics of every scene. The show begins with three audience-chosen songs, each generating a story seed. As the acts unfold, the audience votes on which narrative threads continue and which are ejected from the playlist — leading to a single final resolution.
Music drives everything: improvisers enter on the beat, dialogue peaks with the volume, and transitions land with the rhythm. A fully improvised show where the audience shapes the story from the first note to the last.
Intermission
⭐100 Songs an Hour: The Great, Improvised, Music SHOW! (Poland)
"The Great, Improvised, Music SHOW!" is a time spent gasping, laughing, smirking and, occasionally, shouting. Let the musical trio take you for a ride through a kaleidoscope of scenes, setups, realities and feelings. Every moment counts, then passes, then leads you on to feel something more - preferably awe and laughter, but no guarantees. Anything can happen and the only way forward is through the word of inspiration coming from your mouth, or the person next to you if they're significantly louder.
🏅Special Guest Show
Our Special Guest Shows bring together the incredible teachers of the Sofia International Improv Festival 2025 for a series of unique, never-to-be-repeated performances.
🥕 Get a carrot and Save the dates. Tell your improv crew 🥕
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Rakovski 127, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Улица Георги С. Раковски 127, 1000 София, България, Sofia, Bulgaria
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