How many improvisors in Austin?

[HerrHerr]

It's now 492.

[sara farr]

I'm sticking with my original post and estimating -- "300"

• current students (not yet performing)
  current core theater members
  current troupe performers
  rogue improvisers/performers (not currently in a troupe)
  ... adjusted for no overlapping duplicates between categories

-- Each theater has about 10-20 core performers, aka company members that don't overlap with other theaters (15 avg * 5 = about 75 total)
-- Then there are those 80 who are in a troupe
-- Then there are about 30 improvisers who float between and regularly get cast in shows across multiple theaters.
-- Then there are those 15 who are interns/techs or improv helpers
-- Then there are those 100 who aren't currently performing in a show or troupe but who may think of themselves as "(out of work) Austin Improvisers"

-- Minus the 10 that leave ATX each year.
-- Plus the 10 that move to ATX each year.

Also, it's just fun to think of the AIC as "300"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVoqZ8[/youtube]
(substitute "Sparta" with IMPROV and "Spartans" with IMPROVISERS"... and "Persian" with "Planners" or another foil to improv)

[Ruby W.]

I have 265 friends in common with Marc Majcher - all of whom are improvisers (i'd assume)

but I maybe have 10 coldtowne friends on facebook. I have 0 new movement friends on facebook. and practically no Institution friends of facebook. Oh - and I have pretty much no Gnap! students who I know on facebook either. So....I'm saying definitely over 500.

[scott.hearne]

I have 265 friends in common with Marc Majcher - all of whom are improvisers (i'd assume)

but I maybe have 10 coldtowne friends on facebook. I have 0 new movement friends on facebook. and practically no Institution friends of facebook. Oh - and I have pretty much no Gnap! students who I know on facebook either. So....I'm saying definitely over 500.

I'm a Gnap!/Merlin Works student! You know me! right? Right? Right!!!

STH