Improv is in the News!

September 2016
Co-founders Marc Evan Jackson and Beth Hagenlocker have a conversation with Pallet Magazine about how improv training is impacting their students in The Improv Project.

August 2016
Nancy Hayden, Board member and writer for Comedy Central’s Detroiters and Jaime Moyer of Disney’s K.C. Undercover talk with Fox2 News about The Improv Project and the Detroit Improv Festival.

The Detroit News talks with Marc Evan Jackson of the DCP and Margaret Edwartowski of Y Arts about how Detroit’s improv scene is an incubator for talent and how it is helping Detroit students.

December 2015
Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele tells the Detroit Freep how improv can help young people in Detroit.

Los Angeles improv troupe The 313 hosts sold-out improv show at the Detroit Film Theatre to highlight the DIA’s 30 Americans exhibit.

January 2015
Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele talks with ConciergeQ about The Detroit Creativity Project and improv.

December 2014
WXYZ Channel 7 interviews Phredley Brown, musical director of Bruno Mars about The Detroit Creativity Project and using improv in music.

November 2014
The Detroit Party proceeds will help add 200 new students to The Improv Project in 2015. The Detroit Free Press was there to cover the event.

September 2014
Chevy’s In the D talks with Marc Evan Jackson about the power of improv and The Improv Project.

July 2014
Encore Michigan sits down with The Detroit Creativity Project and Y Arts to discuss their collaboration.