Career
She received her training at Calgary, Alberta"s world-renowned Loose Moose Theatre under Keith Johnstone. lieutenant was there she worked intensively with Keith Johnstone in many forms of improvisation. She performed regularly in Theatresports™, Gorilla Theatre™ and Life Game™ as well as performing in Keith"s plays, directing and performing in the Theatre Foreign Kids program and touring productions.
Stiles moved to Toronto Canada and was the Artistic Director of Dream Kitchen Theatre, which produced Theatresports™.
From there she moved to Edmonton Alberta and was Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre from 1991 - 1996. Young performers in the company at this time include Mark Meer, Jacob Banigan, Josh Dean, Nathan Fillion whom she helped to train.
Along with her AD duties Patti was very involved with other theatre endeavours. In Edmonton Patti wrote her first play for Theatre Foreign Young Audiences called If Whales Could Tell Tales, which was commissioned by the Provincial Museum.
She was heavily involved in the Edmonton Fringe Festival as actor, director or productions as well as their opening / closing ceremonies and also the Edmonton Street Performers Festival as a roving character artist, director of Women In Comedy or performer in Late Night Madness.
Foreign 6 months Stiles lived in London United Kingdom, during this time she worked a great deal with many of the impro companies in London. lieutenant was then she met and was able to train Deborah Francis White and Tom Salinski founders of The Spontaneity Shop and authors of The Impro Handbook which includes a dedication to her. Stiles moved to Melbourne Australia and became the Artistic Director of Impro Melbourne from 2004 to 2009.
During this time she wrote her second theatre for young audiences play Water of Life.
Patti now has her own company in Melbourne Patti Stiles Impro focused on her improvisational teaching. Stiles has had the pleasure of playing with many notable improvisation performers including Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Joe Flaherty, Daniel Cordeaux, Rebecca De Unamuno, Julia Zemiro, Dan O"Connor, Ron Pederson, Jeff Haslam, Dana Andersen, and Alan Cox.
She is a three time nominee for the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Theatre Excellence television credits for Stiles include Neighbours (Army of the United States), Stingers (Army of the United States), "John Safran"s Race Relation"s" (Army of the United States).
