Four Corners: A Kinkonauts Improv Festival

The Kinkonauts

The Kinkonauts, Calgary's Improv Lab, has delighted audiences with extraordinary unscripted theatre since 2006. Every show is a unique, never to be repeated adventure. Enjoy the tightrope thrill of performers living completely in the moment. Improvised stories and characters you'll still be laughing about at the bar later. 

This year's festival features the Four Corners Collective: artistic directors from improv companies in Calgary, Red Deer, Victoria and Portland. Get ready for an exciting weekend of improv that feels like theatre.

Schedule

8pm - Thursday, March 28 - All Request Heartache | Four Corners Collective
8pm - Friday, March 29 - Push Button | 10 Minute Play Festival | Four Corners Collective
3pm Matinee - Saturday, March 30 - Heartstrings | 10 Minute Play Festival | Festival Jam 
8pm - Saturday, March 30 - Push Button | 10 Minute Play Festival | Four Corners Collective

Featuring

10 Minute Play Festival. Two fully improvised 10-minute plays, so good you’ll wish they could be performed again. Starring Caleb, Dom, Isabelle, Jenn, and Rob.

All Request Heartache. Sara Simpson and Nicole Zylstra present a deep dive into the warm emotional waters of the heart.

Push Button. Jessica Belbin and Natalie Johnstone bring you fantastic long form improv with a bevy of characters, feelings and laughs!

Heartstrings. Siobhan Cooney and Aurora Huszti present ‘Heartstrings: An improvised theatre experience.’ Step into a world of raw, unscripted emotion as these talented performers craft a long-form, grounded improv experience that delves into life's intricate relationships.

About the Performers: 

DOMEKA PARKER
From Portland
Domeka Parker is owner and Artistic Director of Deep End Theater in Portland Oregon. Raised by professional actors who excelled in scripted and improvised theater, Domeka was gifted with a childhood full of creative inspiration, lessons in acting, stage craft, improv and getting by on very little money. She has trained under some of the worlds most prolific performance instructors and has been teaching improvisational theater for 13 years. Domeka has dedicated the past 10 years to developing an approach to improvisational theater that creates exceptional, innovative and provocative theatrical work. Her philosophy and pedagogy create inspiring and capable student performers and supports, develops and strengthens the work of professionals.

JENNA GOLDADE
From Red Deer
Jenna Goldade is a graduate of the RDC Theatre Program and the RDC Motion Picture Arts Program. She is currently the Artistic Director of Against the Wall Theatre in Red Deer. She is the co-creator of Bull Skit! the comedy night that happens monthly in Red Deer, and producing Bull Prov! Calf Skit! and many more hilarious shows with ATW. She has performed with the Canadian Improv Guild (Calgary), Loose Moose Theatre (Calgary), Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton), Seattle International Improv Festival, and iO (Chicago). Training credits include Second City improv and writing Intensives, iO Summer intensive, Loose Moose Theatre, and Rapid Fire Theatre. She is a teacher, improviser, producer, writer, director, and lover of the arts!

DAVE MORRIS
From Victoria
Dave Morris is a speaker, teacher, and storyteller, but mostly he's an improviser. He's been teaching, producing and performing improvisation around Canada and the world for the last 15 years. He is the artistic director of the award-winning Paper Street Theatre co. in Victoria B.C., was a long-time volunteer and regional director for the Canadian Improv Games, and performs his one-man improvised storytelling shows to high acclaim. He has performed and taught at festivals around the world, including Seattle, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Chicago, and many more across Canada. He's busy often, but can always be busier.

OWEN CHAN
From Calgary
Owen Chan is a high school drama teacher, improv enthusiast, and passionate supporter of live theatre. He came to teaching and improv at the same time as a member of the UBCi Improv Club in Vancouver, and is happy to have been a coach of dozens of improv troupes over the past decade. As a founding member of The Kinkonauts Owen has performed in Calgary and on stages throughout North America, including Improvaganza and the Prairie Bowl at Rapid Fire Theatre in Edmonton. During his down time you might find him juggling, playing board games, chilling with his cats, or wearing bow-ties.