Transactors Improv Company

About Us
Transactors Improv is the oldest active improvisational theater in the South. Our work focuses on emotion, physicality, character, commitment, teamwork, and fun. Our approach to improvisation revolves around discovery rather than invention.The company formed in 1983 at The ArtsSchool in Carrboro, N.C., as a children's theater. Much of its work was scripted, but over time the group metamorphosed into a professional touring company performing improvisational theater for audiences of all ages.Transactors Improv performs primarily in theaters, festivals, colleges, and schools in the Southeast, although it has appeared in places as far-flung as Boston, Montreal, Minneapolis, Colorado Springs, and Austin. The company has been heard on National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Co. Transactors Improv also teaches people of all ages in a wide variety of venues, from corporations and colleges to elementary schools and arts camps.If you're looking for improv in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Transactors has regular shows at its home theater, The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, and other venues, including Common Ground Theatre in Durham. Members of Transactors Improv have had the opportunity to study individually and collectively with the leading lights of improv, including Groundlings founder Gary Austin, Joe Bill, Del Close, Martin de Maat, Charna Halpern of ImprovOlympic, Annoyance Theater's Mick Napier, Second City, Paul Sills, and Mark Sutton.Based in Chapel Hill, N.C., Transactors Improv is a not-for-profit corporation, supported in part by grants from the Orange County Arts Commission and the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency receiving partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.