Dead Parrots Society

Toby Childs says he got his first taste of how appealing improvisation can be as a student playing in a jazz band led by Methow Valley musician Terry Hunt. Childs became hooked on the concept as it applies to humor, and has been making up funny stuff ever since.

Now he’s doing it for a…

Spanning two nights and featuring teams from across North America, including the Upright Citizens Brigade and three current and DPS alumni “blenders,” multiple teams will fill their 20-minute slots with their own unique brand of hilarity at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 29-30, and 8:30 p…

The Dead Parrots Society will be making Western more spontaneous with its first ever improvisation festival, which will bring improv teams from all over the U.S. and Canada to campus at the end of May.

At the festival, six university improv teams will come to Western: University of…

Western Washington University’s improvisation group Dead Parrots Society is going to nationals in the College Improv Tournament for the fifth year in a row.
The team won first place at the Northwest regional match of the tournament Saturday, Jan. 17, in Seattle, advancing them to the…

The iDiOM Theater, 1418 Cornwall Ave., is starting late-night events and one of them is a series of poetry and jazz slams.

At 10 p.m. on the last Friday of every month, Tobias Childs, a Dead Parrots Society alum who has performed at the Upfront Theater, will host the Jazz Jam and Poetry…