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For over 20 years Planet Ant has served as a hub of improv performance and education. Ant Works brings this historic theatre’s same improv excellence to the world corporate training.

We know that every client is unique. That’s why we’re always happy to help you choose what workshop, production, or entertainment need you have and what we can do to suit you best.

Everything we do is customizable.

Our most popular offerings are our improv workshops.

  • LOCATION: Yours, ours, or online. We can rent space to facilitate or travel to your destination.

  • LENGTH: 2 hours, 2 weeks, 2 years? Our training can keep your groups entertained and learning for any amount of time.

  • ATTENDEES: Our staff can accommodate groups into the hundreds with a minimum of 5 recommended.

  • TIME: Our instructors are available for booking 24/7.

  • COST: We can get you an estimate for your specific needs within 24 hours.

  • Public speaking is an essential skill that can help you advance your career, grow your business, and make lasting impressions. How you speak is often as important as what you say. We’ll work on developing the soft skills that build your team’s confidence and help them to effectively convey ideas to any audience.

  • A strong team is the core of any good business. Teamwork encourages personal growth, increased job satisfaction, and reduced stress. Our experts will take your team through exercises that strengthen relationships by improving active listening, effective speaking, and collaborative problem solving skills.

  • Communication can make or break a business. Whether it's with a client or within your team, it's important to get it right. Our communication experts will tune up your team through a series of fun and engaging exercises that will get your group laughing while learning strong and decisive communication skills they won't forget.

  • Innovation starts with creativity. Creativity starts with imagination. Our experts will help your team use their imagination to unlock their creativity within. They will learn new skills to think outside the box, brainstorm dynamically, and take risks to explore the infinite possibilities of every moment.

  • Leadership skills are important at every level. A strong leader knows how to present their ideas with clarity, share new knowledge, and give direction to their team. We’ll help your team strengthen their interpersonal toolkit so that they can lead with agility, spontaneity, and creativity.

  • A happy team is a more productive team. Reward your group with genuine enjoyment and hearty fun. Our experts will lead games and exercises that will help your team bypass the thinking mind to make room for play and levity, boosting morale and productivity while having fun and strengthening relationships.

Whether you’re a small team looking for something fun or a large organization looking for an entire week of team building Ant Works can make it happen.

Any kind of team is right for our training. With its basis in agreement, teamwork and communication, applied Improv training connects people into groups based on a culture of ensemble.

No matter your need of training or entertainment our experts will make sure you get a perfect fit.

Creating comedy is what we do. Hire us to put a spin on a work meeting, create a hilarious video, host your game night, or even create a live gameshow about your organization from scratch. We’re experts in having fun and getting others to tag along.

  • We’ve been performing improv and writing award winning comedy for 30 years. We can bring our talents to your business with…

    Live Improv comedy shows

    Corporate Meeting Levity

    Scripted comedy shows made just for you

  • Besides our lauded performances, we have a host of professional film and graphic design experts that can create uniquely comedic content that’s not only funny but honest.

    Online Game Hosting

    Short videos for meetings

    Live interactive video online

    Unique scripted content that gets your point across

    A hilarious powerpoint? Yes.

Ant Works is a natural outgrowth of the Planet Ant's improv colony. Since 1993 Planet Ant has been a home for Metro Detroit’s comedy scene.

We have had tens of thousands of people through our doors in that time. Some of them are now familiar faces on film and TV. Luminaries such as Keegan Michael Key [Key and Peele], Marc Evan Jackson [Brooklyn Nine Nine], Sam Richardson [Veep], Tim Robinson [I Think You Should Leave], Nancy Hayden [Detroiters], and Jaime Moyer [Bobs Burgers] are just some of the names that have called Planet Ant home.

Currently Planet Ant’s training center has an ongoing student population in the hundreds, and a facility that puts on more than 750 unique shows per year.

In our 30+ years as a comedy destination in Metro Detroit we’ve always taken our comedy seriously.