Vinny's Info
Vinny Francois has over 20 years of experience as a professional improviser and is an award-winning instructor. A founding director of the Montreal Improv Theatre, he has performed in more shows and venues across Canada than he cares to count. He also is Executive Producer of Mprov: The Montreal Improv Festival.Vinny plays in and directs his mash-up of an Armando with a Ted-Talk, "Learn Real Good". He has co-produced four improv shows for the Montreal Fringe Festival and directed the tragic improv show “It’s Not You, It’s Me” in Canada, the US and the UK. He has appeared in improv festivals in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, Ottawa, Toronto, Victoria, Winnipeg & Vancouver (Best Workshop, 2016) and was the inaugural Ensemble Director for the Improvised Play Festival in 2017. Vinny has also performed and held workshops in Dublin, London, Paris, Antwerp, Geneva, Tallinn, Canberra, Melbourne, & Wellington.
Vinny is excited to share the thrill of doing improv with anyone willing to learn.
For more info: http://www.vinnyfrancois.com
"Vinny gave three workshops when he was visiting Tallinn and I had the honour to take part in all of them. I loved his teaching because he was very present and took good care of his students. You could feel that it was less important for him to just run through the curriculum and more important to get the students to learn and practice what they needed the most." - Rahel Otsa, Jaa !mproteater (Tallinn, Estonia)
"Vinny walks the talk. His workshops were very popular with participants and are still talked about today." - Neil Curran, Founder “Improv Fest Ireland”
"I was really impressed by Vinny’s teaching. A nice balance of providing group thoughts and some individual analysis, which was very perceptive." - A student