Four Day Weekend

Founding (1997)

David Ahearn, Frank Ford, and David Wilk founded Four Day Weekend in Fort Worth, Texas in 1997. The company launched with a focus on long-form improvisation and quickly established a regular audience in the Fort Worth arts district. The founders had trained in Chicago before returning to Texas to build a permanent improv institution.

Permanent Venue and Growth

Four Day Weekend secured a permanent home on Houston Street in downtown Fort Worth, giving the company a stable base for its growing programming. The company built a reputation beyond its local audience through touring shows and corporate entertainment work, performing for Fortune 500 companies and at national conferences.

Corporate Programming and Ongoing Operations

Four Day Weekend became one of the more prominent corporate improv entertainment companies in the Southwest, developing a substantial private events and team-building arm. Public shows continue at the Fort Worth venue, and the company has remained active for over twenty-five years as one of Texas's primary improv institutions.

Four Day Weekend presents long-form ensemble improvisation built around audience suggestion and spontaneous narrative. The company balances public theatrical programming with a substantial corporate entertainment practice, applying improv principles to keynote performance, team-building workshops, and conference entertainment. Its programming serves both theatrical and commercial performance contexts.