The Playground Presents After Hours Improv Night - 15th August

Improv comes home to the theatre!

The Playground is pleased to be hosting After Hours, featuring different improv groups from both Ireland and beyond.

Join us on Saturday 15th August for a special night where we have the incredible Ron West performing with a specially selected group of performers.

In the second half, we'll have a jam where anyone can take part. Just put your name in the hat and take part in some fun scenes.

About Ron

Ron has been working for The Second City on and off since 1984. He has won Joseph Jefferson Awards for his direction of CURIOUS GEORGE GOES TO WAR for the Second City ETC and his adaptation of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AT SHEPPERTON for Chicago Shakespeare. With Phil Swann, he is the co-author of the musicals THE PEOPLE VS FRIAR LAURENCE, deLEARious, and NEIL SIMON’S MUSICAL FOOLS (yes, that Neil Simon). In recent years, he has delighted audiences with his staging of The Second City’s perennial holiday favorite Twist Your Dickens in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland.

No stranger to the big and small screen, Ron was both a consultant and cast member on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as having parts in 3rd Rock From The Sun, Malcolm In The Middle, Burn Up Excess and Seinfeld to name but a few. He has also appeared in a number of movies including Backdraft and Sour Grapes.

You can find out more about his improv and sketch work here: https://theronwest.com/