Steve Hobbs
Hometown: Markham, ON
Steve has trained relentlessly with the Impatient Theatre Co. over the years, kicking down classroom doors and taking names. Over the course of his training, he studied long form techniques at lengths with Kevin Patrick Robbins, Allison Hogg, and Sean Magee. He's also studied under IO Chicago's Jeff Griggs, and IO West's Doug Sarine, as part of the Dirty South Improv Festival 2008.
His longform training started at age 16 under Second City TourCo performer Rob Norman, who force-read him Del Close's Truth in Comedy and occupied his Saturday nights. Since then, he's enjoyed playing and competing in a variety of shows ("The Stoned Pony Blues show" @ Bread n' Circus, "The Pud", PROJECTproject's "The Kid is Hot Tonight"), and within the ITC spent years playing on the now-retired harold team "The Little American Bastards".
Most recently, he's been a featured monologist for the ITC's armando-style sensation Munchausen, and loved teaching ITC 201 Class "Game and the Scene" in early 2009.
Steve currently plays with harold team "The Nakatomi Protocol".
Steve performs with...
Andy Auld: Andy is a graduate of the Humber College Comedy Writing and Performance program, The Second City Training Centre conservatory program and has studied longform improvisation with ITC artistic director Kevin Patrick Robbins since 2003.
Adrianne Gagnon: Adrianne studied at the ITC Training Centre with Kevin Patrick Robbins, is a graduate of The Second City Toronto Training Centre conservatory program and studied at Chicago's iO Theater with many improv luminaries.
Ken Hall: Ken recently co-produced, co-wrote and performed along side ITC's own Isaac Kessler in the criticaly acclaimed 2-Man No-Show as part of Toronto's 2009 Fringe Festival. 2-Man No-Show was awarded Patron's Pick and was critics pick for both EYE and NOW Magazine (the latter giving 2-Man No-Show an astounding 5 out of 5 N's).
Alexandra Lean: Alexandra began her improv journey at Brock University where she was the club president of Brock Improv for two years. She is a graduate of the theatre program at Brock where she was the recipient of the F. Janet Doleman Prize for excellence in playwriting. She is a graduate of the Television: Writing and Producing program at Humber College.
Erin Lovely: Erin recently completed the five-week summer intensive at the iO Theater in Chicago, where she studied with Alex Fendrich, Bill Arnett, Shad Kunkle, Jet Eveleth and Jason R. Chin.
Wayne Molinski: In September of two thousand five, Wayne stood naked and nervous as to what direction he wanted his life to go. Then in a blinding flash of obviosity, longform improv rose up and said "I may just look like a path for now but if you choose to follow me I will turn into a road." So Wayne followed and a road it did become.
Kevin Patrick Robbins: Kevin is the founder and artistic director of the Impatient Theatre Co. and the developer of the ITC Training Centre's core curriculum. He has been a featured instructor at the Chicago Improv Festival and is a lead instructor at the annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival.
Steve has trained relentlessly with the Impatient Theatre Co. over the years, kicking down classroom doors and taking names. Over the course of his training, he studied long form techniques at lengths with Kevin Patrick Robbins, Allison Hogg, and Sean Magee. He's also studied under IO Chicago's Jeff Griggs, and IO West's Doug Sarine, as part of the Dirty South Improv Festival 2008.
His longform training started at age 16 under Second City TourCo performer Rob Norman, who force-read him Del Close's Truth in Comedy and occupied his Saturday nights. Since then, he's enjoyed playing and competing in a variety of shows ("The Stoned Pony Blues show" @ Bread n' Circus, "The Pud", PROJECTproject's "The Kid is Hot Tonight"), and within the ITC spent years playing on the now-retired harold team "The Little American Bastards".
Most recently, he's been a featured monologist for the ITC's armando-style sensation Munchausen, and loved teaching ITC 201 Class "Game and the Scene" in early 2009.
Steve currently plays with harold team "The Nakatomi Protocol".
Steve performs with...
Andy Auld: Andy is a graduate of the Humber College Comedy Writing and Performance program, The Second City Training Centre conservatory program and has studied longform improvisation with ITC artistic director Kevin Patrick Robbins since 2003.
Adrianne Gagnon: Adrianne studied at the ITC Training Centre with Kevin Patrick Robbins, is a graduate of The Second City Toronto Training Centre conservatory program and studied at Chicago's iO Theater with many improv luminaries.
Ken Hall: Ken recently co-produced, co-wrote and performed along side ITC's own Isaac Kessler in the criticaly acclaimed 2-Man No-Show as part of Toronto's 2009 Fringe Festival. 2-Man No-Show was awarded Patron's Pick and was critics pick for both EYE and NOW Magazine (the latter giving 2-Man No-Show an astounding 5 out of 5 N's).
Alexandra Lean: Alexandra began her improv journey at Brock University where she was the club president of Brock Improv for two years. She is a graduate of the theatre program at Brock where she was the recipient of the F. Janet Doleman Prize for excellence in playwriting. She is a graduate of the Television: Writing and Producing program at Humber College.
Erin Lovely: Erin recently completed the five-week summer intensive at the iO Theater in Chicago, where she studied with Alex Fendrich, Bill Arnett, Shad Kunkle, Jet Eveleth and Jason R. Chin.
Wayne Molinski: In September of two thousand five, Wayne stood naked and nervous as to what direction he wanted his life to go. Then in a blinding flash of obviosity, longform improv rose up and said "I may just look like a path for now but if you choose to follow me I will turn into a road." So Wayne followed and a road it did become.
Kevin Patrick Robbins: Kevin is the founder and artistic director of the Impatient Theatre Co. and the developer of the ITC Training Centre's core curriculum. He has been a featured instructor at the Chicago Improv Festival and is a lead instructor at the annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival.
