Lisa Rowland has been improvising, teaching and training in the Bay Area and beyond for more than 15 years.  After graduating from Stanford University, she joined the mainstage company of BATS Improv, Northern California's most renowned improv performing and training center, and has been teaching and performing improvisation across the United States and internationally ever since.  You can find Lisa teaching improv as part of the BATS School of Improv, as well as at schools around the Bay Area.  She recently returned to her alma mater and is teaching improvisation at Stanford University.
         Lisa has developed and delivered improv-based trainings around creativity, presence, collaboration, teamwork and communication to companies and teams in professional settings around the country, including including jetBlue, Google, Genentech, Virgin America, Oracle and Accenture.
          Lisa has played with headlining troupes for several national improv festivals and was a guest instructor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2013 and 2014.  Lisa was voted Best Actor in the San Francisco Bay Guardian readers' poll in 2012.