FAQ

The Dutch Cast are a group of six improvisers who live in the Netherlands. They will be guaranteed to play together with the International Cast in shows directed by our awesome directors on the Main Stage of the theater, for which they will be paid.

If you’ve got some experience with improvisation and being on stage, feel free to apply! As an organization, we want to create a group looking for a wide range of energies, styles, backgrounds, life experiences, and worldviews. We don’t have a hard and fast rule of ‘X years of experience’, but we can tell you what improvisational skills the Casting Directors will look for, in order of importance:

Ability to play as part of a group, to work with others

Ability to be directed in rehearsals and to apply it on stage

Ability to deliver solid scene work with a variety of partners

Ability to make spectacular choices with awareness of the stage

Ability to adapt and show a wide range of competences

And just to be complete, our non-improvisation criteria are:

You’re available on the 5th of November for the Dutch Casting Day

Living in the Netherlands, both during the Dutch Casting Days and the festival

Available for the entire festival (25th of February to 4th of March 2023) for rehearsals during the day, and shows in the evening.

Able to perform in English, understand and be understood, at a fluent second language level

The Dutch Casting Day is held on the 5th of November 2023.

We will send out a link to the application form via this newsletter (and our socials, and our website) on the 22nd of September 2023. The deadline for sending in your application is the 22nd of October 2023.

We have 48 spots open for applications and they will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. If all spots are filled you will be put on the waiting list.

Apply for the Dutch Cast!

Joining the Dutch Casting Day costs 40 euros. With that money we pay the venues where we hold the audition. As an applicant, you will get (at least) a workshop in the morning out of it, as well as a ticket to the show in the evening.
If you’re in a situation where money is tight, we have several scholarship spots open for 20 euros. You can let us know in your application if you’d like to make use of this.

We designed the Dutch Casting Day so it will take one day (the 5th of November) and you will know at the end of the day whether you’re in the Dutch Cast or not. It consist of three parts:

Workshops in the morning.

Rehearsals in the afternoon.

Shows in the evening.

Everyone who applied will have workshops in the morning. In the afternoon, 18 of the applicants will continue to rehearsals, where they will be guided by a director for the shows they put on in the evening! After the final show the Dutch Cast will be announced.

Remember to login to your festival friend account before going to the workshop schedule page. The only way we know if you are a friend is if you are logged in as one. Sounds logical when you think about it right?

Just add the “I want to become a friend”-product to your cart first and then add all the workshops you want. After checkout your account is also automatically upgraded to festival friend for the next edition. Next we’ll also mail you to get your account details to automate the yearly payments to prolong our friendship for years to come.

To make things easy. You register once. After that, it’s browsing, shopping and looking at your order history. And we won’t sell your data to data mining companies. Promise.

Sorry, we don’t take back or refund your ticket. You can try to trade them at our facebook page though.

We stopped doing the waiting list, as the festival does not take back tickets, over the past few years we could hardly match any people on the waiting list. While at the same time, others exchanged their tickets through our dedicatedfacebook group. Disappointment all over…

All shows are performed the Zonnehuis in Amsterdam Noord.

We are working on the workshop locations and will let you know as soon as possible

Doors open at 18:00. We’d love to see you there and get excited about the night’s shows together!

Feel free to arrive fifteen minutes early. It’s a nice moment to get to know everyone!

Absolutely! There’s a bar that serves drinks.

Check out our information about Teaching at the festival.

Check out our information for Groups that want to play a show during the festival.

Check out our information about Directing a show at the festival.

Check out our information about Hosting a Jam at the festival.

We offer three options:

You can get a full refund.
You can donate part or all of it to IMPRO Amsterdam.
You can get a voucher for a workshop for the next IMPRO Amsterdam Festival.

We give no reimbursement and you can’t return the ticket. You are free to find someone else to sell your ticket to. Try posting your ticket on our Facebook group page. Most workshops sell out and a lot of people will be glad to get a second chance at securing a spot at the workshop.