Gabe Mercado

(He/Him)

Gabe brings decades of experience as a corporate trainer, communications specialist, startup mentor and improvisational theater actor and director to Koppett. His pioneering work popularizing improv theater in the Philippines started in 2001 after he trained with Paul Sills at the Wisconsin Theater Game Center. His group SPIT has performed to critical acclaim in festivals and venues all over the Philippines as well as Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. He has taken workshops with Charna Halpern and Keith Johnstone and is currently the president of Third World Improv, the premier improv theater school in the Philippines.

Gabe has worked with different corporate, government and humanitarian clients across Asia. Memorable engagements include leading a presentation skills workshop for government employees in Bhutan, sharing applied improvisation people management skills with the leaders of an international bank in Bangkok and co-designing and conducting workshops on using improvisational skills in disaster situations throughout different areas in the Philippines affected by super typhoon Haiyan.