Join The Low Bar

Join The Low Bar

The Low Bar is looking for one or two excellent improvisers, with a particular interest in creating and producing comedy content alongside live performance.

We’re building an ambitious improv troupe across live shows, original filmed comedy and our own London comedy night. We want to make genuinely excellent work, develop a distinctive voice and build a real audience around what we do.

You need to be a great improviser first. But we’re especially interested in someone who is excited about helping drive The Low Bar’s digital comedy output, developing ideas, organising shoots, creating or editing content, and helping us grow across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

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Why this matters

What we’re building

The aim isn’t simply to do more improv. We want to build a troupe, an audience and a body of work we’re proud of.

Over the next year we’re:

  • Developing our live formats, with an eye on a professional-standard show for Edinburgh Fringe.
  • Growing our monthly comedy night, Elephant in the Room, into a genuinely great London comedy night.
  • Putting a much bigger focus on original digital comedy across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.

We already create and publish content, but we want digital to become a much bigger part of what The Low Bar does.

We’re looking for someone who is excited to help drive that work forward, from developing ideas to creating and publishing great comedy.

The people joining now will have a real opportunity to shape what The Low Bar becomes.

Experience & training

  • Strong improv training through Hoopla, The Free Association or comparable training elsewhere, or equivalent performance experience.
  • Experience with narrative, long-form or character-led improv is particularly useful.
  • Experience performing regularly with an existing team is a plus.
  • Confidence creating strong characters, relationships and stories collaboratively.

Who we’re looking for

Generous, committed performers who make bold choices, create strong characters and enjoy building stories collaboratively.

We value performers who can let moments breathe, commit emotionally and build genuine relationships rather than constantly reaching for the next joke.

Warmth, reliability, curiosity and generosity matter. We want people who are excited to contribute to the wider troupe, not simply turn up for rehearsals and performances.

For this round of recruitment, we’re particularly interested in people who enjoy making comedy as well as performing it.

Initiative matters. If you have an idea for a sketch, format or video, we want you to be the sort of person who gets excited about helping make it happen.

Digital & creative skills we’re looking for

We’re particularly interested in experience across some combination of:

  • Comedy content development — coming up with sketches, characters, formats and repeatable ideas that work on camera.
  • Social-first comedy — understanding hooks, pacing, packaging and what makes people stop, watch and share on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
  • Video editing — turning original ideas, rehearsals and performances into entertaining short-form and long-form content.
  • Film & video production — cameras, lighting, sound, shooting comedy or generally knowing how to make filmed work look and feel good.
  • YouTube & social growth — understanding audiences, analytics, thumbnails, titles, testing and iteration.
  • Content production — organising shoots, keeping a content pipeline moving and helping take ideas from concept to publication.
  • Graphic design / visual creative — thumbnails, artwork, posters and social assets are useful too.

You absolutely don’t need to do all of these.

You also don’t need a huge following or professional production credits. We care much more about whether you’ve actually made things and put them into the world.

That could mean sketches, a YouTube channel, a comedy account, a podcast, filmed characters, producing a show or simply regularly making your own creative work.

How to apply

Tell us about:

  • Your improv training and performance experience.
  • Your current or recent teams and projects.
  • Why you’re interested in joining The Low Bar.
  • Your experience making comedy or digital content.
  • Anything you’ve created, filmed, edited or produced that you’re particularly proud of.
  • Links to your Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, website, projects or performance footage, where available.
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