About Us!
About the Company
Gumball Theatre’s shows involve you, the audience, putting your own ideas – whether it be a word, a line of dialogue or the name of your least favourite Backstreet Boy – into our onstage gumball machine.
We then draw out these fabooshy suggestions and create scenes on the spot from them!
At the end of the night, the audience member who’s suggestion has inspired the most popular scene of the night, will go away with an illustrious prize-pack, at least some of which will comprise gumballs.
The company was founded in 2010 by comedian and improviser Jenny Wynter, who says she is excited about creating improv like Brissie audiences “have never seen it before. Especially if they have never seen it before.”
Meet Our Mainstage Cast:
Marc Buckingham
Marc has been improvising since the golden age of Theatresports in Queensland in the early 90's. He has been He spent a significant portion of his life in the UK hereafter, improvising with groups including 100% Fiction, Impromania and the Boolean Brothers.
ON returning to Brisbane in 2004 he was a long time member of EDGE Improv for many years and now his journey has lead him to Gumball Theatre - his next stage of improv evolution...watch him pupate...
Jenny Wynter
Well known on the Queensland stand-up comedy scene and for her blog Comic Mummy, Jenny cites improv as her first love. In 2006 she was awarded the Lord Mayor's Fellowship for New & Emerging Artists which saw her train across the USA with the likes of Second City and more. In 2007 she moved to Canada where she spent 2 years improvising with world-renowned improv company Loose Moose Theatre. In 2010 she participated in a Masterclass in New York with Gary Austin (founder of The Groundlings) and more. www.jennywynter.com
Ed Chalmers
Ed is an enigma, such that the true depths of his improv history and experience can never really be captured in words.
Still, we will try.
Soon.