Step Out

10/08/2026

🎭 ONE TIME I LOST MY CAT ON A CAMPING TRIP 🐱

Watch Crystal, Doug, Kristi, Nina, Elliot and Zoe bring this hilarious true story to life!

This is what happens when you give professional improvisers a real story and let them run with it.
Pure spontaneous magic! ✨

Here's the thing: these humans are PAID performers now. They're not students. They're skilled improvisers creating comedy that keeps you laughing long after the lights go down. 💛

And they're available for hire!

Planning an event? A celebration? A corporate gathering? Want to bring the laughter and creativity to YOUR space?

The Step Out! Improv Troupe can do that. We create spontaneous comedy magic tailored to your crowd. 🎉

But first—come see them at their show!

🎭 OFF ROUTE: SQUAMISH IMPROV COMEDY
Saturday, October 17th @ Trickster's Hideout
Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm | Link in bio for tickets or head to https://www.stepoutbc.com/improv-shows

P.S. We're still looking for more "One Time I..." stories for the show!

Have a wild story? Comment below with your "One Time I..." moment, tag 2 friends, and you could win a free ticket! 🎟️

10/06/2026

🎭 YOUR 2026-2027 STEP OUT! ADVENTURE AWAITS! 🎭

Mark your calendars, Squamish! We've got an INCREDIBLE lineup of shows, workshops, and experiences coming your way this season (plus ongoing classes happening every week night!) 💛

🎭 OCTOBER 17th - OFF ROUTE: Squamish Improv Comedy

The Step Out! Improv Troupe's breakout show. Fast-paced games, bold scenes, spontaneous magic.
THIS IS NEXT WEEKEND! 🎟️
👉Link in bio

✨ NOVEMBER 14th - SlowProv with David Milchard

An improv workshop for everyone. Recharge, reconnect, and rediscover your joyful creative self with the co-founder of The Comedy Department!
👉Link in bio

🏔️ APRIL 1ST-4TH - Big Kids Improv Camp

Our second edition of this transformative 3-day retreat blending improv, meditation, breathwork, and somatic practices in the mountains. EARLY BIRD PRICING ends December 31st—secure your spot now!
👉Link in bio

Plus: Three Squishy Squamedy Shows, two more Off Route performances, and workshops throughout the season!

Check out the full calendar above. 📅✨

Whether you're looking to play, learn, or just laugh your heart out—there's something for everyone this season! 💫

Which event are you most excited about?
Comment below! 👇💛

10/01/2026

🎭 WIN A FREE TICKET TO OFF ROUTE! 🎭

We need YOUR wildest stories! 💛

For our upcoming show on October 17th, we're playing "One Time I..." and we need TRUE stories from YOU to make the game come alive!

Think:
One time I lost my cat on a camping trip...
One time I accidentally stayed at a brothel...
One time I fell in a hole and sprained my ankle...

We want the REAL, the WEIRD, the WILD, and the WONDERFUL! ✨

🎟️ THREE lucky stories will win a FREE TICKET to Off Route on October 17th!

HOW TO ENTER:

1️⃣ Follow Step Out and Trickster's Hideout
2️⃣ Like this post
3️⃣ Tag 2 friends who need to hear your story
4️⃣ Comment with:
• Your "One Time I..." story (1-2 sentences!)
• Who was there with you?
• What's their relationship to you? (friend, family, lover etc.)
• Where did this happen?

BONUS: Share this post to your stories for an extra entry! 📲

📅 ENTRIES CLOSE: October 8th
🏆 WINNERS ANNOUNCED: October 9th

The best stories will be performed at Off Route on October 17th—and you'll get to see your story come to life on stage! 🎭💫

Let's go! Drop your stories below! 👇😂

https://3common.com/offrouteoct17

09/29/2026

🎭 LOOK AT HOW FAR WE'VE COME 🎭

This is the Step Out! Improv Troupe at their last student showcase in June. But here's what's changed: they're not students anymore. They're performers. Professional performers. 🔥

For 3 to 5 years, these humans showed up to classes. They played. They grew. They built trust and connection with each other. They learned the craft. They fell in love with improv.

Now? They're ready to share that craft, that connection, that passion with YOU.

'Off Route' is their breakout show—a night where they take everything they've learned, everything they've built together, and elevate it to a whole new level.

This isn't a student showcase. This is what happens when a community of improvisers steps into their power. ✨

But here's the thing: Step Out! is community-first. So we're making sure EVERY current improv student gets a discounted ticket for themselves or a friend. Because this is what we celebrate together. 💛

📅 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH
🎪 Trickster’s Hideout
🚪 Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pm
🎟️ Get tickets: through link in bio 👉 or at www.stepoutbc.com/improv-shows

Come witness the elevation. Come celebrate these incredible humans stepping into their next chapter. Come experience improv at its finest! 💫

09/24/2026

🎭 MEET THE STEP OUT! IMPROV TROUPE 🎭

Swipe to meet the humans behind the magic! 💛

These seven incredible performers have been taking classes with me for 3 to 5 YEARS. They've played together through every season, created really strong bonds, and fit together so beautifully—complimenting each other's strengths and lifting each other up when things get tough. 🤝✨

They are no longer students. They are PAID improv performers, ready to spread their wings and show Squamish what they're made of! 🔥

What started as a community of humans saying "Yes, And" to play, growth, and connection has evolved into something extraordinary. This troupe embodies the Step Out! way: they show up vulnerably, they trust each other deeply, and they create magic together. 💫

And now? They're ready for their moment!

🎭 OFF ROUTE: SQUAMISH IMPROV COMEDY
The troupe's first breakout show
Saturday, October 17th @ Trickster's Hideout
Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pm
Tickets: through link in bio or at www.stepoutbc.com/improv-shows

This is what community growth looks like.

This is what happens when humans commit to each other, to their craft, and to the joy of play.

This is the Step Out! way in action! 💛

Come witness the magic. Come support your friends and neighbors as they take the stage. Come experience improv at its finest!

Get your tickets now! 🎟️✨

09/22/2026

I had some thoughts. So I talked about them. 🎭💛

In this little ramble, I’m talking about something I think about A LOT: curious listening. 👂✨

Most of us think we’re pretty good listeners. But often, someone starts talking and our brain immediately jumps in:

🧠 Building an agenda — convinced we already know the answer
😰 Constructing a response — worrying about what to say next

And just like that? We’ve stopped listening.

The other person is still talking. But we’re gone. 🌀

And here’s the wild part: we often don’t even realize it’s happening. Our nervous system is running in the background, deciding whether the conversation feels safe. 💛

This is exactly where improv comes in. 🎭

You cannot do improv without curious listening. It’s how you build a scene, respond to your partner and stay present.

And when you practice it repeatedly through playful, low-stakes games, something starts to shift. 🌿

You become calmer. More present. More connected.

Not because you’re trying harder to listen — but because you’re giving your nervous system repeated experiences of being safe in conversation. 🦋

And we do ALL of this through play. 😂🎪

Because what better way to develop a skill that affects your relationships, your work and your ability to truly connect than to laugh your way there? 🔥💛

Beginner improv starts October 1st! 🌱

Only 2 spots left — and curious listening is just ONE of the things you’ll walk away with. 👂✨

👉 DM me or email [email protected]

(And yes, I did say that word weird. 🇦🇺😂)

09/14/2026

New show, same laughs 😆

Off Route is our new Improv Comedy show featuring the Step Out! Improv troupe starting October 17th!!

Come have a laugh with us: https://3common.com/offrouteoct17

On October 17th, the Step Out! Improv Troupe takes the stage to create unscripted magic right before your eyes!

Get ready to giggle, gasp, and grin at Off Route—a night of spontaneous comedy that brings raw, unscripted hilarity to life!

Find tickets through the link in our bio 👆

09/07/2026

We asked our Step Out! community:

"What do you feel has been your greatest takeaway for life from taking improv classes?"

And honestly? Their answers say everything. 🌟👇

"It's helping me not take everything so seriously and just relax a little more in my life and let myself hang out in a more authentic way!" 🌿

"Greater confidence, stress release, quick thinking." 🔥

"How fun it can be to improve life and communication skills!" 😂✨

"Life is a big improv class! Yes and! Go with the flow and have a positive attitude, it will take you far!" 🦋💕

10 weeks. That's all it takes. 🌟

10 weeks of showing up, playing, laughing, and being human with a room full of people who started out as strangers and became something so much more. 💛

And what you walk away with? It doesn't stay in the room. It ripples out into everything. 🌊

The way you handle stress. 😮‍💨➡️😌
The way you communicate at work. 💼
The way you show up in your relationships. 💕
The way you talk to yourself. 🧠
The way you move through the unexpected moments in life. 🎲
The way you give yourself permission to just... be. 🕊️

Because here's the truth:

Life IS a big improv class.

And the sooner you learn to say YES, AND to what it throws at you, the freer, more confident, and more authentically YOU you become. 🦋✨

Improv can help if you:

😰 Feel anxious or overthink social situations
🤐 Struggle to express yourself authentically
🎭 Feel like you're always wearing a mask
🧠 Want to think quicker on your feet
🤝 Crave real, meaningful human connection
😂 Simply need to laugh more and stress less
💕 Are ready to show up more confidently in every area of life

🌱 BEGINNER IMPROV STARTS OCTOBER 1ST

No experience needed.
No performance required.
Just you, showing up for yourself. 💛

⚠️ Only 5 spots remaining ⚠️

All other levels are now full, but there is still time to grab your spot in our Beginner class before it's gone too! 🔥

📅 Starts: October 1st
👉 Register through link in bio, DM me or email [email protected] to register.

Tag someone who needs this. 👇💛

09/03/2026

"Never thought I'd willingly put myself into the performing arts... but this has been so fun and I'm looking forward to more." 🎭💛 Step Out! Community member.

And here's the thing, improv has nothing to do with performing. ✨

We already perform every single day. 😔

The masks we wear at work.

The version of ourselves we show up as in social situations.

The carefully curated responses.

The people pleasing.

The shrinking.

The overthinking every word before we say it.

That's the performance. 🎭

What improv actually does (the way I teach it) is the opposite.

It's about taking the mask OFF.

Coming back to yourself.

Rediscovering the parts of you that got buried under years of conditioning, expectation, and playing a role you never auditioned for. 🦋

And sometimes? If you've been performing for long enough, you might not even know who the real you is anymore. 💕

Improv can help you find out. ✨

Improv can help if you:

😰 Feel anxious in social situations
🤐 Struggle to express yourself authentically
🎭 Feel like you're always wearing a mask
🧠 Overthink every interaction
🤝 Crave deeper, more real human connection
🌿 Want to feel more present and less in your head
💕 Are ready to rediscover who you actually are beneath it all

Our Beginner class starts October 1st and there are only 5 spots remaining. 🌱

No experience needed.
No performance required.
Just you, exactly as you are, ready to play. 💛

Troupe & Short Form Play (Advanced) start next week 🎭

Improver & Intermediate start the week after 🌿

This community will not make you perform.

It will invite you to just be. And sometimes, that's the most radical thing of all. 🦋✨

👉 Register at https://www.stepoutbc.com/improv-classes, or send me an email ([email protected]) to grab one of those last 5 spots!

Who's ready to take the mask off? 💛🎭

08/27/2026

This is why Step Out! exists. 🎭💛

In 2020, something shifted. 🌍

I watched the world pull back from each other.

I saw social anxiety show up in people who had never experienced it before.

I watched technology slowly replace the warmth of real human connection.

I saw people struggling to just... be human with each other. 😔

And I thought: enough. 🔥

The idea for Step Out! had been living in me for years. But it took watching what was happening to people, to our natural ability to socialize, communicate, and connect, to finally make me pull the trigger. 💛

So I did it. I started Step Out! ✨

And what I have witnessed over these last 5 years has blown my heart wide open. 🦋

People who came through the door with shaking hands and nervous smiles 👉 growing in confidence beyond what they ever thought possible.

People who didn't know a single soul in the room 👉finding each other, building friendships that have become some of the most meaningful of their lives.

People who had never tried improv before 👉discovering just how vital social and communication skills are for every single facet of life. 💕

What I have built with Step Out! is a place where people can come exactly as they are.

No performance required. No experience needed.

Just a willingness to laugh, play, connect, learn, and grow. 🎪🌿

That's it. That's Step Out! 🎭✨

And we're just getting started. 💛🔥

Fall classes now open for registration 👉 link in bio! 🌟