About Five Man Job:  Five Man Job formed in 2001 and has been a fixture of the Minneapolis and national improvisation community ever since.  Five Man Job energized the local improv scene by producing the smash hit show, the Improv A Go Go (which celebrates its fifth anniversary show May 20th) as a showcase of improvisation of all styles and hub of the rapidly growing local improv community.

 
Members of Five Man Job appear on the Brave New Workshop stage, and have received rave reviews at improv festivals across the country including Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and several appearances at the Chicago Improv Festival.  By organizing the Twin Cities Improv Festival, they hope to focus attention on their hometown .  To this end they teamed with the Onion, a natural fit for improv comedy, and the Brave New Workshop to showcase local improv groups at the nation’s oldest comedy theatre.
 
"The Minneapolis scene is really cool and recognized by people in improv circles in other cities, but here at home it’s one of our best kept secrets. We’re hoping to change that." - Butch Roy, Five Man Job

About the Brave New Workshop:  The Brave New Workshop has been writing, performing and producing sketch comedy and improvisation since 1958-- longer than any other theatre in the United States. Founded by former circus performer Dudley Riggs and currently owned by husband and wife John Sweeney and Jenni Lilledahl, the little storefront theatre on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis has become a legendary comedy institution, where audiences enjoy improv and sketch comedy nearly every night of the week.  The company's talented performers create satirical, irreverent, and intelligent original works. Alums of the Workshop stage include Louie Anderson, Pat Proft, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Mo Collins ("Mad TV"), Peter MacNichol ("Ally McBeal", "24"), Melissa Peterman ("Reba"), and Cedric Yarborough ("Reno 911", "The Boondocks").  The Brave New Workshop's corporate services division trains and entertains companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, Visa, and Target.  Additionally, the Brave New Institute school of improvisation boasts the most comprehensive improv training curriculum in the country.

"We were thrilled by the success of last year's Twin Cities Improv Festival, and hope to host this exciting event for years to come. This is a great opportunity to show off the quality improv Minneapolis has to offer." - Erin Farmer, Brave New Workshop