About us
We make it up. Together.
Improv Circle is a live improv comedy company in Lagos, built on one belief: comedy is a skill, and it grows best in community.
Nigerians are some of the funniest people anywhere, yet a sense of humour is still treated as something you are born with. People who try to learn it alone tend to quit early, because there is nowhere safe to experiment. A circle fixes that.
Since 2024 we have built four things around that idea: education, performances, content and community. Together they give people a place to learn improv, try it on a stage, and bring it to a screen.
Our audiences and classes are mostly Nigerians between 18 and 45, with a good mix of women and men on stage and in the seats. Improv is for everyone, and that includes you. You should come to a show.
Education
We have trained two cohorts of improvisers on a curriculum adapted for Nigeria, so everyone learns from the same set of principles.
Performances
Students sharpen their craft in front of real audiences. Our shows run monthly in Lagos, with past shows in Ibadan.
Content
We record live shows, build writers’ rooms and make media that shows what improv can do, and that creates work for other creatives.
Community
Fans, collaborators and students building something together in the creative economy.
Meet the cast
Yimika
Reads out prompts and coordinates games.
Tolu
Shakespeare would be proud.
Betty
Unpredictable, unforeseeable hilarity.
Keji
Makes every scene he’s in sing.
Sunshine
Because there will be tears.
Ope
You never know what she’s going to say next, but best believe it’ll be unhinged.
Bayo
A walking Rolodex of movie trivia and accents.
Debbie
Takes scenes to the next level.
Osas
Uses her experience as an on-screen presence to be an on-stage darling.
Who we have worked with
Partners and brands
Venues
The Good House
We have also shared stages and projects with artists including Lady Donli, Dwin The Stoic and Taves.