The Calgary Improv Brier: “Improv, Hurry, Hard!” will be March 12 and 13, 2010 in The Epcor Centre. There's an open invitation to improv teams to compete for a cash prize and the winner gets a showcase appearance in the Calgary International Improv Festival, September 30-October 3, 2010. If you'd like to submit a team, please email crhilton@shaw.ca.

USA

• Chaos Comedy (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• Fool Disclosure (Fort Collins, CO)
  
• FORK (Denver, CO)
  
• The Box Performance Space (Albuquerque, NM)
  
• Convoy (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• SkyPunch! (Newport, RI)
  
• Sea Tea Improv (Hartford, CT)
  
• USS Rock N Roll (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Caca Happens! (Croton on Hudson, NY)
  
• ComedySportz Sacramento (Sacramento, CA)
  
• Cult of the Stage Monkey (Lafayette, LA)
  
• Friends of the Museum (New York, NY)
  
• Rhonda (New York, NY)
  
• Helicopter Dance Off (Long Branch, NJ)
  
• ICU - Improv Comedy Underground (Mobile, AL)
  
• The Improv Society (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Village Idiots Improv Comedy (Rochester, NY)
  
• Jonny Whiteboard (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• La Nuit Theater (New Orleans, LA)
  
• Laughter For A Change (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Improv-Ka-Bob (Tustin, CA)
  
• One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Portland Playback Theatre (Portland, ME)
  
• Pull The String Productions (Columbus, OH)
  
• Spontaneous Combustion (San Francisco, CA)
  
• The Escapists (Portland, ME)
  
• The Gentleman (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• The Unmistakables (Mount Vernon, WA)
  
• Trapped In A Rumor (Concord, CA)
  
• Twinprov (Oklahoma City, OK)
  

Canada

• Dangerous Portion (Vancouver, BC)
  
• Montreal Improv (Montreal, QC)
  
• KCVImprov (Kingston, ON)
  

World

• W Goracej Wodzie Kompani (Gdansk, Poland)
  
• Belgische Improvisatie Liga (Vlaanderen, Belgium)
  
• The Improvements (Stockholm, Sweden)
  
• The Lunetics (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  
• Taichung Improv (Taichung City, Taiwan)
  
• Stupid Lovers (Bremen, Germany)
  
• The Party Quirks (Islamabad, Pakistan)
  
• The Improvisors (Wellington, New Zealand)
  
• TAP - Theater am Puls (Bern, Switzerland)
  

You didn't get on a Harold Team because ...

(via @jose602)

YesAnd.com has started twittering and promises a revamped website come May 1.

Groups Added:

Avian Players Improv Workshop (USA - New York)
Crache-Texte (World - France)
Dutch Blitzkrieg (USA - Pennsylvania)
EXiT 185 Improv Troupe (USA - Arizona)
The Extant Jesters Improductions (Canada - Ontario)
Grand Theft Impro (Canada - British Columbia)
Improv 4 Kids (USA - New York)
Improv Jones Boston (USA - Massachusetts)
ImprovXpress (World - UK)
Istanbulimpro (World - Turkey)
KICASS (Canada - Nova Scotia)
Laiva (World - Latvia)
Left Right TIM (USA - Colorado)
Light Rail Pirates (USA - Arizona)
Mail Order Bride (USA - Arizona)
Pirates of the Dotombori (World - Japan)
Red Dirt Improv (USA - Oklahoma)
Rumor Has It Improv (USA - California)
Theatre By Proxy (Canada - British Columbia)
Underage Sugar Addicts (USA - Illinois)
Under Pressure (USA - Washington)
VAMP Shows (USA - Indiana)
Wingin' It (USA - Pennsylvania)

Trust Us, This is All Made Up, a feature length documentary about Chicago improvisors TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi -- stars of the long-running show TJ and Dave -- will premiere in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. There is also a showing scheduled for April at the Independent Film Festival Boston.

(via Coudal)