El Impródromo

El Impródromo was established by Jesús Martínez Herrera and collaborators from the same UNAM-trained generation of Mexico City improvisers who built Complot Escena from 2000 onward. The school's claim to be the first institution in Mexico dedicated exclusively to teaching and researching theatrical improvisation reflects the underdeveloped state of formal improv pedagogy in Mexico City during the early 2000s, when most improv activity was embedded within broader theatre training programmes. Martínez Herrera's career trajectory, moving from UNAM graduation through Complot Escena and El Impródromo to Casa del Humor, represents one of the most sustained individual contributions to building a professional improv infrastructure in Mexico.

El Impródromo approaches improvisation as a research discipline as well as a performance practice, situating its teaching within a school framework that implies sustained inquiry into technique rather than one-off workshop delivery. The school's identity as Mexico's first dedicated improv institution gives it a foundational role in the country's improv pedagogy, with a focus on training students to construct fully realised theatrical narratives without script or rehearsal.