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In addition, BATS runs a successful corporate training program,
presents improv in schools as a popular participant in the
Bay Area's Young Audiences program, and provides improv
workshops through its Laughing Stock program to people living
with HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, cancer, and other chronic,
life-threatening illness.
Vision Statement
We are the leading center for improvisational theatre on the West Coast.
Mission Statement
• Perform, teach, develop, and promote improvisational theatre
• Be loose and have fun
• Create phenomenal improv
• Run fast to help audience, students, and clients
• Create strong and exciting improvisers
• Entertain and surprise audiences and ourselves
• And give generously to others
Core Values
Improv – We love the art and practice of improvising.
Telling Stories – We focus our work on discovering and telling stories.
Fun – We delight in the enjoyment of ourselves, our audience, our coaches, our staff, our clients, and our students.
Inspirational Environment – We foster trust, generosity, and shared vision to create a fun place to perform, teach, and learn improvisational theatre.
Risk Taking – We encourage innovation through experimentation, boldness and variety in our work, performances and formats.
Excellence – We expect each performer, coach, student and staff member to reach their own highest level of success.
Financial Stability – We enable the growth of our self-supporting organization through our theater and school.
Style
BATS-style improv is theatre that tells a story collaboratively. From comedy to drama, short scenes to full length epics these stories engage and entertain audiences with rich characters and relationships.
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