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The festival is held in Edinburgh, Scotland. We'll be announcing the exact venue soon!

Ed Improv Fest takes place across four days. We host workshops during the day with shows in the evening. Each night will have a headline show from special guest invited improv legends, including our grand finale - the All Star Armando on Sunday evening. Late night on Friday and Saturday are the jams. And we sometimes manage to fit in some community activities if there's any time left.

It's a jam packed weekend. Tickets are sold per show or workshop so you can schedule as many or as few things as you'd like.

All workshops and shows are in English.

Edinburgh International Improv Festival is brought to you by Best Mouse Ltd. If you were at the 2025 festival you’ll get the reference to our company name. This is a new company who now have the rights to run the festival. It is made up of Becky, Laura, Tom and Zach. They did not found the festival, but began running it in 2025, and some were involved in organising previous Ed Improv Fest’s so you are in good hands.

These are un-ticketed and take place late night on Friday and Saturday. You simply turn up, stick your name in the hat, and we try to get everyone some stage time. The jams are led by experienced members of the Scottish improv community.

Yes! You can still purchase tickets to workshops and shows if you are not performing in one of the festival’s shows. There are other opportunities to get involved - with social events and late night jams to take part in.

In keeping with our venue’s ticket policy we do not offer refunds for shows or workshops. You are welcome to transfer your ticket to another attendee. We will have a channel open on our Whatsapp group closer to the festival where you can privately arrange a swap.

We will try to support you with this where we can, but we do find that the closer it gets to festival weekend the busier we are with festival admin duties - so we do ask that you source and facilitate any transfers yourself.

contact@edimprovfest.com

We’ll try our best to get back to you quickly - but organising the festival is not our day job so you may not get an immediate response.