Trent talks with Jutta Tilvis (FIN) who interviews him about what it’s like to build an improv community, leveling up as a teacher, and how to know when you’re ready to be a mentor. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Hila di Castro about her experience as an actor, how she learned to trust herself, and how she got started teaching improv around the world. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Feña Ortalli (ARG/ESP) about his background as a performer at kid’s birthday parties, how to create a perfect duo show, and how his love for fútbol and writing come into his improv. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Gavin Methalaka (IND) about his experience as a professional actor, the importance of artistic diversity in improv, and being patient during the exponential growth of improv in India. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Gosia Różalska (POL) about teaching improv in University, the growth of the International Improv scene, and how studying film fits into the world of improv. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Laura & Gael Doorneweerd-Perry (NED/FRA) about being an international improv couple, their world improv tour, and how they’ve seen each other grow. Support www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with Chris Mead (UK) about how he got into improv, why he’s such a nice guy, and the differences between performing with The Maydays and how that compares to his other group Project 2. Support Yesfinland www.yesfinland.com/support Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki & Gert Leja Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – yes@y…

Trent talks with Dan Seyfried (FRA) about French improv, and his group La Carpe Haute’s explosive presence on the international circuit. Support YesFinland www.yesfinland.com/support Subscribe & Follow iTunes / Jakso.fi / Spotify Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki & Gert Leja Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected]…

Trent talks with his good buddy Ryan Millar (CAN/NED) about his experience with improv, writing his improv book “Take it Easy”, and his choice to get a “real job” after life as a professional improviser. Support YesFinland www.yesfinland.com/support Subscribe & Follow iTunes / Jakso.fi / Spotify Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki …

Support YesFinland www.yesfinland.com/support Subscribe & Follow iTunes / Jakso.fi / Spotify Credits Host – Trent Pancy Producer – Ville Välimäki & Gert Leja Intro Music – Samuel Teini Contact – [email protected] YF Podcast

This episode’s guest is Comedian Petri Hankonen. Stand up has been Petri’s life since the early 2000s. He took first courses in 2003, organized by legendary Markku Toikka in Mikkeli. He has done about a hundred gigs in just under a year and have gained experience and got to run into in incredibly real and unique types. Both colleagues and clients. …

Janne is a Tampere located improviser originally from Laukaa, Central Finland. He is happy to be on stage and gets excited about new opportunities, whether it was a new improv show/project, being a guest on a podcast, shooting an advertisement or writing a poem book! He can’t live without comedy and is constantly trying to find the funny everywhere…

This week’s podcast guest is a comedian Jamie Macdonald, a half-Finnish, Scottish-Canadian, mostly socialist, kinky, gay, transgender guy whose stand-up comedy basically covers all of those topics as well as the occasional pun. He’s active in Finland’s alternative comedy scene, co-running Comedy Idiot in English, Feminist Comedy Night and Feminist …

Picture: Teemu / Vasta Films Oy This week’s podcast guest is Tuure Pitkänen, a Tampere based Improviser and one of Trent’s first improv students in Finland. Tuure works as a trainer at an IT company in Tampere, and does improv whenever he has the possibility. He started learning improv about seven years ago, and currently performs with several grou…

This week’s podcast guest is a Tampere based Stand Up Comedian Johanna Tohni. She is an Improviser, Improv teacher, Drama Instructor, MA, Mom, Woman, 40 and in the episode they go trough Johanna’s growing success in the field of comedy and talk about the maturation of the Finnish audiences. Trent and Johanna also talk about their shared love to ske…

This week’s podcast guest is the YesFinland company co-producer Ville Välimäki. Trent and Ville first met in 2015 at Trent’s improv classes in Tampere and later he started working as an Intern for Trent and for the Finland International Improv Festival and currently he is doing his Thesis about producing this podcast. In today’s episode they talk a…

Welcome to the YesFinland Podcast! The YesFinland Podcast explores the comedy industry in Finland and beyond. Host Trent Pancy has conversations with comedians, improvisers, writers and anyone else who impacts the Finnish Entertainment scene, where they discuss what it takes to be a part of the budding world of Finnish comedy. Show Notes YesFinland…