Vancouver TheatreSports League

Vancouver Theatresports League
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Genre	Theatresports
Date of premiere	1980
Location	1502 Duranleau Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3S4
Creative team
Performers	Brian Anderson, Andrew Barber, Elizabeth Bowen, Chris Casillan, Nathan Clark, Ted Cole, Roman Danylo, Graeme Duffy, Dan Dumsha, Eric Fell, Angela Galanopoulos, Jeff Gladstone, Tom Hill, Denise Jones, Ellen Kennedy, Devin Mackenzie, Alan Marriott, Lauren McGibbon, David Milchard, Allen Morrison, Margret Nyfors, Scott Patey, Bill Pozzobon, Michael Robinson, Randy Schooley, Shaun Stewart, Michael Teigen, Taz VanRassel, Pearce Visser
Sound	VJ Delos-Reyes, Brendan Kelly, Laura Skelton
Lights	Su Scarfe, Amy Wilding, Megan Lai
Other information
Executive Director	Jay Ono
Board of Directors	Marlie Oden, Doug McCann, Gary Arca, Jeffrey Goldberg, Robert Phillips, Roland Monteiro, Claire Brown, Sarah Hentschel
Program advisory committee	Jay Ono, Brian Anderson, Nathan Clark, Denise Jones
Instructors	Nathan Clark, Graeme Duffy, Pearce Visser, Margret Nyfors
Official website

Coordinates: 49°16′17″N 123°08′09″W / 49.271427°N 123.135962°W / 49.271427; -123.135962

Vancouver Theatresports League (VTSL) is a Vancouver based professional improvisational theatre company, best known for providing an impetus for the present worldwide interest in TheatreSports at Expo in 1986. The improv techniques pioneered by it are now used for everything from corporate training to TV parodies. In 2014 they started The Improv Comedy Institute, an educational offshoot of the company.

It is located at Duranleau Street across from the Kid’s Only Market on Granville Island, where a unique building was renovated into a 186-seat fully licensed Improv Centre with the help of $200,000 savings by VTSL plus a $500,000 Heritage Canada Grant and a $300,000 term loan from Canada’s largest community credit union Vancity. It performs improvisational comedy Wednesdays through Saturdays. Until 2010, its previous homes were City Stage, later renamed The Back Alley Theatre, the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre and The Arts Club Revue Theatre.

Current shows include Rookie Night, Off Leash, Improv After Dark, and TheatreSports. VTSL is also a six-time world champion in comedy improvisation. VSTL has had two television shows, Instant Comedy which aired as two specials on A&E in 1997 and The 11th Hour, a sketch comedy series on the CBC that ran from 1999-2000. VTSL has been for 25 years the host of The Massacre (previously The St. Valentine's Day Massacre) Tournament and international competition.