BATS Improv is committed to creating a healthy and anti-racist theatre community which embeds spontaneous and creative risk-taking within a safe, inclusive environment. We aim for our leadership and casts to represent our region’s populations and cultures, to tell a broad diversity of stories on our stage, and to reduce barriers to participation to ensure improv is accessible.

The BATS Conflict Process set forth below is a part of the BATS Equity Action Plan to seek to cultivate an equitable environment with accountability and freedom from harassment. It is intended to support our leadership, staff, employees, company members, coaches, board members, guest artists, students, and audience members. This process provides tools to uphold our Community Standards and hold ourselves and each other accountable. It is applicable to breaks from the Community Standards as well as to other forms of conflict.

We maintain the Conflict Process on the website as a form of transparency and accountability to BATS community members as well as the larger improv community. Other theatre companies are welcomed to use this framework as a starting point to develop their own conflict process.