Alan cut his improv teeth with VTSL in 1980 and appeared in the original productions of two early shows, A TheatreSports Hamlet (Rosencrantz) and Suspect (creating the part of Aldous Bacon.) In 1985, Alan moved to London England to complete his theatre training at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and ended up staying. Twenty three years later, after building up a highly successful career as a voice over artist (the voice of Scoop and seven other characters on Bob the Builder- US, Victor Volt the double BAFTA award-winning series The Secret Show), training practically the entire London stand up circuit in improv skills, introducing London, the National Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to Theatresports, starting ground-breaking companies like the Impro Musical Company, Impropera (a fully improvised opera using professional opera singers), Impro Lab (London’s first improvised play), and Grand Theft Impro – London, Alan realized finally that Vancouver was just too pretty a place to stay away from. Hello Vancouver, it’s great to be back!

Alan has also recently created Grand Theft Impro- North Shore and has just finished writing a book on improvisation and thinking entitled “Genius Now.”