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THE GAMES END TODAY!
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Inspired by Squid Game, Duck Duck Moose is an improvised Canadian dark satire of twisted children’s games and desperate contestants, with one willing audience member plucked from their seat and thrust into the competition to see what kind of Hero they emerge as.
What will they do? Chase money and glory? Or, as the fallen pile up, will they take a stand against the games? This show thrives on unpredictability. The cast fully embraces whatever our Hero says and does.
It’s a risky, raucous, Renaissance-style improv show that incorporates and justifies the Hero’s choices, delivering a fast, funny, melodramatic fight for survival, tempted by riches and rife with comic peril alongside plenty of mock-death scenes.
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We are so stoked to bring this crazy, ridiculous show to Granville Island's Improv Centre for the Vancouver Fringe festival! Who will be Hero ? Can they win? Will they even survive? They will have to defeat a company of archetypes, desperate characters all facing certain doom, trying to redeem themselves one last time. It's a gleefully awful display of the rich manipulating the poor for their own entertainment, created live on the spot by a stellar cast of experienced actors and improvisors.
Tal is an actor, educator, and voice-over artist making his Vancouver Fringe debut. With a BFA in acting , his stage work includes Bard on the Beach, Stratford Festival, Young People’s Theatre, Toronto Fringe and many more. He’s a Dora Award winner and was a TIC House Team member for 3 seasons. Of his many Film & TV credits catch him in Big Blue (CBC) and Shaq’s Garage (Kartoon Channel). He’s thrilled to bring Duck Duck Moose to Fringe—well, to those who survive.
Emma is a Vancouver-based actor from Ontario with a BA in Theatre from York University. She has appeared in Wild Cards (2024) and The Presence of Love (2022), with more projects on the way. A member of The Improv Centre's House Team Program, she loves making people laugh. Off screen, she works as a professional photographer and is on a mission to find Vancouver’s best fried chicken sandwiches.
"Lucky" is a Vancouver-based comedian who performs at The Improv Centre on Granville Island. In addition to acting in projects like Travelers (2016) and C.A.R.E (2019), she teaches and coaches drama and public speaking. She has hosted CBC News and appeared on CBC Radio. A Studio 58 graduate, Lucky values her strong artistic foundation and looks forward to future creative projects across Canada.
Michelle Kee is a Vancouver-based comedian, actress, director, producer and very clearly, a recovering overachiever. She’s trained with Blind Tiger Comedy and is a current House Team ensemble member at The Improv Centre. Her style blends big characters with narrative chaos and a deep love of movie tropes.
Sarah is an improviser from Vancouver, BC. She has been part of the conservatory program at Tightrope Theatre since 2023, and performs in the monthly Sideshows & Maestro!
Ryan has been performing improv for a solid chunk of his adult life. He is involved with various improv theatres around Vancouver as well as the improv group Embezzlement. Being an avid fan of money he is also a big fan of Squid Game and is looking forward to putting the Canadian version out into the world!
Kenneth Seto Tynan is a Vancouver-based improviser, performer, and writer with over 10 years of experience. He has worked with Rushed Productions and Ensemble Theatre Company, and appeared in projects like Power Rangers (2016), Child's Play (2018), and Zero Chill (2021). Kenneth will be in Tron: Ares this October and performs with Regency Impro and Fistful of Kicks.
Adam Sondergard is an Improviser, Writer, YouTuber, and Podcast Host based in Burnaby, BC. With 14 years of experience in Calgary, Chicago, and the Lower Mainland, he aims to make you laugh. He also writes and hosts videos for Linus Tech Tips, reaching over 16 million subscribers, and discusses music on his podcast, Vinyl Verdict.
Kohei is a Japanese actor and improviser who was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He began his acting career while still in high school, working with professional theatre companies in Japan. He started training in improv at Blind Tiger and Tightrope Improv Theatre in 2022; he has been a member of Maestro Ensemble since 2023 and a member of the House team at The Improv Centre since 2024, performing on stage biweekly.
Born in Nigeria and raised primarily in Greater Vancouver on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam First Nations, Mobolaji loves reading or writing, watching movies, or doing improv. She started doing improv in Vancouver with Blind Tiger three years ago and has also been part of the House Teams at The Improv Centre for three seasons now.
A desperate Company of Poor Choices:
The Asshole, The Sidekick, The Seer, The Sarcastic Teenager, The Stubborn Parent, The Expert, The Celebrity—
plus one unsuspecting audience member who becomes The Hero.
Meanwhile, grotesque, filthy-rich benefactors (straight out of Commedia dell’Arte) cheer and cackle as contestants fall.
Will the Hero take the prize... or rebel against the twisted game itself?
The Host (and Referee) swings a hockey stick of doom, eliminating players who fail.
And no one’s told the contestants this game is played to the death.
The challenges are absurd. The eliminations are pure melodrama.
And the whole thing is soaked in Canadian tradition — like it or not.
Because it’s ridiculously fun. But also...
Duck Duck Moose channels the spirit of traveling medieval actors—poking fun at the powerful, celebrating the underdogs, and turning dark times into laughter.
Come for the chaos. Stay for the satire.
And maybe cheer for a hero who chooses something better than greed.
Getting this show together has been a labour of love, duct tape, a whole lot of chicken wire, and late-night rehearsal jams where we’ve died in as many melodramatic ways as humanly possible. And every so often, we stop, look around, remember we are fully grown adults and ask ourselves: “What the heck are we doing with our lives?”
Like the players in the game, maybe we made a few poor choices along the way… and now here we are, hanging it all out there to bring you a smile, a laugh, or—hopefully— a hell of a good night.
And so, as artists have done for thousands of years (and probably will for a thousand more), I place my hat on the sidewalk and humbly ask: if you can spare some change to buy us a coffee, we’d be grateful. Your support helps make ridiculous Fringe-worthy ventures like this possible.
Originally trained in musical theatre, Gordon Woolvett is a Gemini award winning Canadian actor, improviser, and lifelong poor decision-maker whose career spans decades across early Canadian TV, sci-fi, horror (YTV Host, Andromeda, Supernatural , Bride of Chucky), stage performance, and comedy.
With Duck Duck Moose, Gordon set out to create a live Canadian parody of Squid Game, blurring the line between the game and the show. One willing audience member becomes the hero — thrown into an absurd world of desperate characters, dark comedy, and actual games. But the real game is: can they resist the seductive pull of the rich, or will they play right into our hands?
At 55, Gordon still hasn’t grown up. He performs as an alumni member of Tightrope Theatre’s Maestro Ensemble and is now in his second season on House Teams at The Improv Centre. His upcoming play, Love Scenes and Revisions — a satire that pokes fun at romantic comedy — blends digital and stage performance to explore disconnection, misunderstandings, and full-blown relationship chaos, all born from (you guessed it) more poor choices… just with fewer hockey sticks. And nobody dies. hockey sticks.
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