Asaf Ronen

Asaf Ronen
Primary Theater	The Institution Theater
Years Active	2007-Present

Asaf Ronen is an improv performer and director. He co-runs The Institution Theater.

Summary

Asaf Ronen is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of YESand.com, a website devoted to improvisation, and is the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way. He has been involved in improv since 1990, starting in college and working with Theatresports, ComedySportz and directing his own longform improv troupe, Hiatus, where he helped create original formats.

Asaf has taught improvisation in Canada, Great Britain, Norway and in twenty-two of The United States. His directing credits include the all-girl group goga, the improvised comic book adventure show Ka-Baam!!, and Death in the City, a dramatic longform improv piece, at the NY Fringe Festival. He was a producer on Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, a documentary on legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that had its world premiere at Austin's South by Southwest Festival and was a writer on the soon-to-be-released Days of Delusion.

Asaf has taught throughout NYC's public school system as a resident artist through LEAP and New Horizons and as part of Weist-Barron's ACTeen. In 2000, Asaf worked with Cirque du Soleil as a scout for improvisational talent.

Troupes

• Baxter and Bernard
• Confidence Men
• The Plagiarists

Shows

• Flying Theater Machine (touring performer)
• Hitchcocked!
• Holy 1960s Batman, Batman! (director)
• Hyperlinks (director)
• Improvised Shakespeare
• The Joss Whedon Pajama Party (director)
• Ka-Baam!! (director)
• Live TV Tuesdays: Firefly (director)
• Only Three Will Survive (director)
• The Rubber Room (director)
• Sickest F***ing Stories (director)
• Spirited (director)
• The Suitcase (director)

More Information

• Interview with Asaf Ronen on The Theft Forum: part 1 (Asaf's history with improv), part 2 (Asaf's thoughts about improv).