How many improvisors in Austin?

[Marc Majcher]

150-200, counting only people who have finished a class cycle and stayed in the game./

Let's just go with 183, then.

[trabka]

I have 176 Facebook friends in common with Jastroch (of which probably 98% are improvisers, and of those 70% are probably ColdTowne based improvisers), so more than that, and probably significantly so.

[kaci_beeler]

I'm going to guess 275+ active improvisers, people living and performing in Austin.

I have around 230 mutual friends with most improvisers, though there are a lot of new people from all the different theaters that I am just now getting to know. Plus lots of New Movement people I've never met.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

if we're truly connected onstage...there is only one improvisor.

[EmilyBee]

if we're truly connected onstage...there is only one improvisor.

I LOVE THIS.

[Jastroch]

We've got (currently) 75 students
We've graduated over 150 people.
We have at least 50-60 active, non student performers.
The weekly Student/PErformer newsletter goes out to 418 people.

[hujhax]

there's 1.8 million people in Austin

WHAT THE WHAT

<checks US Census>

OK, fuck, don't do that to me. It's OK, people, there's still 790,000 people in Austin. Peter must have done his count during SXSW.

are we including outlying areas? given the number of improvisors who commute in from Round Rock, Bastrop and other surrounding areas, the sample population might not be constrained to the city limits or Travis County alone...

(fuck, my Census training just kicked back in...)

Calm yourselves.  I just blindly nabbed the figure from wikipedia:  "The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan area, which had an estimated population 1,783,519 (2011 U.S. Census),[9] making it the 34th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States."



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peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

I play the accordion.  In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.
      -- Daniel Handler

[mia]

Well, as a fancy math/improvisor type, I'll approach this from the other side. If a really elaborate equation is what you want, how about:

dx/dt = n(t)*g*s*c + i - o*x(t) - q*x(t)

where

x(t) = number of improvisors at time t
t = time since improv started in Austin
n(t) = number of theaters at time t
g = avg number of graduating classes per theater per year
s = avg number of students per class
c = avg percent of those students that become improvisors in town
i = number per year from out of town
o = rate that leave town per year
q = rate that stop doing improv per year

Of course, I don't know what any of those values are. I'm a mathematician - we don't deal with actual numbers.

I feel Todd's equation is *integral* to finding our true answer.

However, there is one flaw - everyone knows that the number of people per year from out of Austin-town is a very real number, not the square root of negative one!

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

WHAT THE WHAT

<checks US Census>

OK, fuck, don't do that to me. It's OK, people, there's still 790,000 people in Austin. Peter must have done his count during SXSW.

are we including outlying areas? given the number of improvisors who commute in from Round Rock, Bastrop and other surrounding areas, the sample population might not be constrained to the city limits or Travis County alone...

(fuck, my Census training just kicked back in...)

Calm yourselves.  I just blindly nabbed the figure from wikipedia:  "The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan area, which had an estimated population 1,783,519 (2011 U.S. Census),[9] making it the 34th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States."



--
peter rogers @ home | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

I play the accordion.  In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.
      -- Daniel Handler

you mean i was RIGHT? and this is how i find out? you TELL me?

(sorry, warming up for the quote show tonight... )

[Nancy]

74 groups submitted, but I'll wager there's a huge number of performers who aren't represented. Not to mention students.[/quote]

Brad Hawkins is in 74 troupes....impressive!

[Mike]

150-200, counting only people who have finished a class cycle and stayed in the game./

Let's just go with 183, then.

Not 185?

[HerrHerr]

487.

[valetoile]

there are 323 people in the Hey Austin Improv Community What Are You Doing Tonight? Facebook group, and I know that's not everyone. I would think around 400 is a reasonable estimate.

[Marc Majcher]

150-200, counting only people who have finished a class cycle and stayed in the game./

Let's just go with 183, then.

Not 185?

Two of them moved to Chicago and LA.

[beardedlamb]

is there any money in the AIC budget to hire a census worker to go door to door? "Good afternoon, just wanted to check to see how many improvisers you have living in your home."

well, for OOB, we had 74 Austin groups submitting, too, and each year we have around 300 local performers in the festival. Ceej's answer is my favorite but i would like to make one small adjustment.

my guess is 487 humans, 2 dogs.