Patti Stiles

Patti Stiles is an actor, improviser, director, instructor, author and playwright who specialises in improvisational theatre. She was trained by Keith Johnstone at Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary, Canada.

She has an infectious enthusiasm for improvisation. Mix this with her insightful improvisation technique, strong narrative skill, emotional depth and her spirit of play, and it is no wonder she is responsible for inspiring many hundreds of people to improvise. Her understanding of Johnstone's work and philosophy, combined with her own discoveries and her wealth of experience on the world impro stage, has made her a popular teacher with performers and companies wishing to create spontaneous theatre with fine skill, strong narrative, heart and elegant style.

Patti has taught and performed in North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, UAE and the Oceania region for numerous improvisation companies, festivals, and theatre schools and in the corporate arena. She has served as Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre (CA), Dream Kitchen Theatre (CA), Impro Melbourne (AU) and the International Theatresports Institute (CA), and a founding member of the award winning Die Nasty – the live improvised soap opera (CA). Patti performs Our Play with duo partner Joe Bill and has created or co-created the shows Lugares, Momentos De La Vida, How The West Was Improvised and Quotable Women.

In 2021 she released her first book Improvise Freely, which has received an enthusiastic response from improvisors, teachers and impro companies around the globe. In 2022 it was translated into Italian.

The Canadian press has given her the titles "Impro Doyen" and "Queen of Improvisation".