Cale Bain

INSTRUCTOR: Cale Bain

WORKSHOP: Everything's Political - Satire

Cale Bain has been performing improv since 1988 and teaches, directs and produces with companies, troupes and festivals all over the world.

He trained through the Second City Theatre Company though has lived in Sydney, Australia since 2006 where he was the director of training at Impro Australia, where he was also the producer and director of Theatresports® to sell-out audiences at the 1700-seat Enmore Theatre. He started Sydney’s first longform improv show, Full Body Contact No Love Tennis that lived for some ten years before becoming the founding artistic director of Improv Theatre Sydney. Cale was the improv director for Foxtel‘s Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia.

Cale’s philosophy on improv is relationship focused, and he feels strongly that the core principles we use in improv can make our everyday lives better. He is evangelical about improv’s social impact and has received grants to apply improv in workshops on resilience with people seeking asylum, leadership skills with at-risk young people, and communications of first-in-family tertiary students.

In his other life, Cale is an academic, with a PhD in humour, journalism and discourse. He lectures regularly on sociology, representation, humour theory and media powers. His wife takes his headshots.