Improbable’s annual unconventional convention for everyone who is passionate about making change in Theatre and the Performing Arts is turning 20 in 2025!  

Devoted & Disgruntled is a nationwide conversation about theatre and the performing arts. Since 2006, Improbable has been using a process called Open Space Technology to facilitate these gatherings where everyone’s voice can be heard and no topic is censored. There are no key-note speakers and no fixed agenda - you decide what gets worked on at the event.

“Devoted and Disgruntled was born out of frustration. I was frustrated both with theatre and with myself. I knew things could be better in theatre and I also knew the way I responded to that situation could be more creative. I wanted to stop moaning and actually do something about it." - Phelim McDermott, Co-Artistic Director of Improbable

Does the question "What are we going to do about Theatre and the Performing Arts?" inspire you? Invigorate you? Infuriate you? Then join us and other like-minded humans at D&D20. If we’re going to change the world for the better, we all need time and space to collaborate on an equal footing. Devoted & Disgruntled is that time and space.