alan marriott born july 19 1971 is a canadian improv comedian improv instructor writer and voice actoralan moved to vancouver british columbia in 1980 to attend the studio 58 acting school he left studio 58 to join the first season of salmon arm summer stock youth theatre sassy and did two seasons with the company alan spent four years working with the improvisational theatre group vancouver theatresports and also played the character of aldous bacon in vsls original production of suspect an improvised murder mysteryalan moved to london england to complete his formal acting training at the london academy of music and dramatic art lamda upon finishing lamda alan began working in improv once again starting london theatresports and creating and playing in numerous different improv formats including hamlet improvised impro lear impro lab londons first 2 act improvised play the impro musical lust boulavarde a improvised soap opera and impropera a 2 act improvised operaalan has worked with or taught almost every improvisational theatre group in london including grand theft impro made up like tarts scratch showstopper the comedy store players dogs on holiday impro musical impropera brickbats volunteers south of the river with steve frost and jeremy hardy and his own current impro troupe the crunchy frog collectivecurrently he helps form and trains an impro troupe in vancouver bc titled 3rd and main and occasionally hosts their weekly shows at school creative every saturday at 800 pmalan has also done extensive voice acting work for radio and tv animation including mr fothergill travis and scoop on bob the builder and glar on planet 51 he also voiced victor volt in the secret show and the characters cowboy and indian in a town called paniche is the author of genius nowafter twenty years living and working in london england alan moved back to vancouver in 2008 and now makes his home in north vancouver british columbia he is the driving force behind improvmusical a one hour improvised musical based on a single audience suggestion which premiered in july 2010 and is currently playing at vancouver theatresports