"With this festival Randy Dixon and Unexpected Productions have created something like a good virus. They are infecting people from all over the world with new ideas, artistic challenges, and a deeper understanding of the art and craft of improvisation. All this gets spread by the festival participants, they take it back to their respective work places where it can grow and affect other people - fellow players and audiences alike - and therefore makes a change in people's lives all over the world. "
Mignon Reme, Co-Artistic Director Hidden Shakespeare Hamburg, Germany

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"This festival is priceless. For a performer, it's a rare opportunity to mix among differing cultures, languages and aesthetics, while all the time this diverse group is becoming an ensemble under the focus and guidance of new and differing directors. For a teacher and director, the value of the event reverberates long after we've scattered back to our five countries. I immediately began using new techniques and discussing new ideas from the festival with my students and company members, but also found that the festival led me toward the answers to several important questions I had been asking before heading to Seattle." 
Tom Johnson, artistic director The Brody Theater, Portland, OR)

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"I recommend this festival to anyone who feels they know every thing about improvisation. It's like summer camp for people who want to learn about the bleeding edge of improvisation. Without the Seattle festival the world would be doomed to improv mediocrity."
Alistair Cook, Artistic Director Instant Theatre Vancouver, BC, Canada

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"Of the many festivals I've attended around the country in the last three years, Seattle is far and away the richest experience. Because of your core values, you create the best of what a salon of gathering artists should be, with an emphasis on the guts of improvisation, sharing, learning, expanding our work, and pushing our edges. The experience is still dripping from my lips and I want more."
Kristen Wheeler Playback Theater West Denver, CO.

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