Meet the Impro Theatre Team!

Mike Rock is the Producing Artistic Director, General Manager, Director of School, Director of Studio and a Faculty member at Impro Theatre. He first performed as a guest artist with Impro in 2011 before joining the professional company in January 2017.

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Mike has been acting and improvising professionally for over 30 years. At Impro Theatre L.A. he created and hosted over 80 episodes of the podcast Impro Talk. With Impro he has performed completely improvised plays at The Garry Marshall Theatre, The Broad Stage, The Pasadena Playhouse, North Coast Rep, UC Irvine and many more.

An actor, director, producer, improviser, v/o narrator and teaching artist, Mike's TV credits include This Is Us, Black-ish, The Goldbergs, Modern Family, After Lately, The Mentalist, Monk, Conan O’Brien, Law & Order, Celebrity Deathmatch, Guiding Light. and two comedy specials he co-created for Comedy Central. He’s been the voice of several TV shows including: NFL Replay, NFL Sound FX, Chelsea Lately on E!, Property Ladder on TLC and Car Kings on Discovery Network. He’s been a voice on KCRW FM and Eclectic 24 in L.A. and had two long-running shows at WORT FM in Madison, WI.

He was artistic director, producer and a co-founder of Madison WI Theatresports, founder, artistic director, producer of ComedySportz NYC. He co-created, produced, wrote & performed sketch comedy with The Bert Fershners in NYC, L.A. Just For Laughs Montreal, Edinburgh, Aspen, Austin and on MTV, VH-1 & Comedy Central TV. He was on the  improv faculty at The Nerdist School L.A. and has presented improv workshops for hundreds of high schools and colleges as well as team-building events at companies including: General Electric, Reebok, Trek Bicycle Co and The American Girl Doll Co.

Mike has acted in and voiced numerous network commercials including spots for: Acura, Bayer, Budweiser, BJ’s Restaurants, Burger King, Coca Cola, Dairy Queen, Dominos, Dunkin Donuts, Expedia, Footlocker, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, IHOP, Jiffy Lube, Kleenex, Kmart, LL Bean, Lexus, McDonalds, Microsoft, Nextel, Staples,The Truth anti-smoking campaign, Craftsman,Toyota, UBS Investments, UPS, Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, Wendy's, Yahoo and  is the “Wrong Answers Spokesperson” for Yext Answers.

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