Missimp needs you!
Are you a confident improviser looking to get yourself out there and entertain the masses?
Are you tech savvy and want to make digital content?
Are you watching youtube videos and listening to podcasts thinking, “pfffft, I could do better than that”?
Well pfffft no longer! Now is your chance!
Apply to join AV Club now!
What are we looking for?
Missimp is recruiting both cast and crew members to join AV Club, a new group that is making online content for Missimp.
We need:
- Improvisers to perform during recording sessions. These recording sessions will consist mostly of short form games and scenes, similar to the format of a drop in or gorilla burger.
- Crew to help set up and operate the equipment during a recording session. This will include video and sound recording equipment, as well as lighting equipment and set dressing.
- Editors editors will process the material after the recording session and edit the footage ready to be published online.
Why you should get involved!
AV Club is laying the ground work for producing digital content with improv, so we can take our talent and flaunt it to the world.
Cast and crew will learn the skills, get the experience, produce the work, and get themselves published.
With a recording session every month, there are plenty of opportunities to make something fun.
Your time has come! Sign up for AV Club now!
To sign up as either a cast member, a crew member, or both, please click the following link to fill in the application form.
We are aiming to recruit new cast and crew members for 5th August 2026, so initial recruitment will close at the end of the day on 31st July 2026. The form will remain open after that point for people to express their interest in joining.
A’s to some Q’s
The best way to learn is to do, and so the recording sessions are built to be a safe space to perform and learn.
Recording sessions are about getting a batch of scenes and games recorded and in the can. Each scene or game is its own little chunk of content. The very best bits can be clipped and released as a short format clip, the full scene can be published as video, and the whole thing can be combined into a longer format compilation.
This process of recording batches of content means we don’t need to use every scene, so we cut scenes and games to make sure that the quality can stay high, as well as getting rid of faffing between scenes. It also gives performers a safety net, so they can ask questions and take risks. If a scene doesn’t work, it can be consigned to the cutting room floor without any fuss or bother. There will be loads of opportunities to make a fun clip and get published, and we needn’t worry about getting every scene right.
The cast and crew can be a rotating group who aren’t required to be at every session, offering opportunities to more people in a flexible way.
In short; the ideal candidate would be experienced, ambitious and supportive.
We aren’t spending time on the basics of improv in the recording sessions, so people will need experience as an improviser, and a good general knowledge of how games and scenes work. They would also need to be comfortable with their performance being broadcast by Missimp to the public via socials and other online media platforms. It would also be a benefit to be interested in the production side of the content, be that video or audio.
But the most important part of being in AV Club is the same as everything else we do in Improv. Its to be an encouraging and supportive team player for the other people who are working on the project. Producing the content can be hard work, and so the chemistry of the cast and crew is an important part of making the project a success.
We don’t expect everyone to fit this description, and there will always be exceptions, but if you’re excited by the opportunity and want to get involved, then AV Club might be a great opportunity for you.
Unfortunately, AV Club is not an opportunity for people who are brand new to improv. Learning the basics is something best done in a safe space, rather than in front of a camera or microphone. While there is a lot of learning involved, there will be less time focused on building core skills and competencies for this group.
If you think you’ve got the chops, then you are certainly welcome to apply, but experience is a criteria for selecting who gets cast.
If you are looking for opportunities to learn the basics and try out improv, feel free to take a look at Missimp’s Improv Fundamentals course, or swing by our weekly drop-in to give it a go.
Recording currently takes place on the first Wednesday of every month.
That means the following recording sessions are currently scheduled for 2026:
- 5th August
- 2nd September
- 7th October
- November is NCF, so no recording session is scheduled, but AV Club will support filming the NCF shows
- 2nd December
Currently, the timing of the session are as follows:
6pm to 7pm – set up
7pm to 7:30pm – finish set up and have a break
7:30pm to 9pm – recording session
9pm to 9:30pm – pack away
With a rotating cast and crew, not everyone needs to be available for every recording session, so AV Club offers flexibility to more people.
We are currently recording the AV Club at The Malt Cross, but lets face it, you already knew that didn’t you. Its typical. We can’t get enough of those lovely so-and-so’s at The Malt Cross.
Nope, this is a closed group. So if you aren’t part of the cast or crew, you’ll be asked to leave.
Not at all. You can do both roles.
The restriction is that you can’t perform on a shoot when you are part of the crew, and vice versa.
Nope. This is a volunteering opportunity. Nice try though 😉
Hell yeah! If you need a clip for something like a show reel or an application, you can absolutely use AV Club clips. Just let us know and we’ll get you the files.
No worries. By recording scenes and games in batches, we can pick and choose what gets published. If you accidentally dox yourself (its already happened once), we can edit it out. If you’re unhappy with a scene, you can pop a producer a private message and it will be consigned to the cutting room floor.
AV Club is being produced and hosted by Richard Minkley. Richard has been around Missimp for quite a while, taking his first improv course in 2016 (bluuuurghluuuugh! I’m so old. why am I so old. uuuuuuuuugh).
Richard studied digital media production at Confetti, and went on to work as a video journalist at Notts TV, where he won the Royal Television Society Midlands award for Outstanding New Talent in 2017.
He has experience editing television, recording and producing podcasts, as well as performing and directing at the Lace Market Theatre. Richard has even recorded and produced an oral history of Missimp that sits in the archive of the local studies department of the city central library. And thats not to mention a bunch of Improv projects over the years with Missimp.
AV Club, as a great green philosopher once said, is like an onion. It has layers.
One layer is a show, where we can perform our improv to an audience outside Nottingham.
One layer is a space to learn, where we can pick up the skills, both technical and performative, required to make digital content.
One layer is an experimental space, where we are constantly trying out ideas and refining the process as AV Club develops.
