Improv Everywhere has achieved cult status as the most influential pranksters of the Internet age, receiving over 50 million views of their videos on YouTube. In one of their biggest pranks, staged in January 2008, Improv Everywhere organised nearly 2,000 people to take their pants off on the subways in ten cities around the world. Their website www.improveverywhere.com documents all of the latest activities and details about the group.

In Causing a Scene, the group's founder Charlie Todd gives a unique behind-the-scenes view of the creation, execution and aftermath of the ingenious stunts of the most influential pranksters of the Internet age, complete with photographs and illustrations. In addition to covering pranks the group has already staged, Causing a Scene gives audiences the tools to set up similar events in their own cities. Readers will learn insider tips on how to cause the biggest scene, no matter where you live - all with the unique, good-natured, and uplifting spirit that has made Improv Everywhere famous.

Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, the world's largest and most successful prank collective. He has been producing, directing, performing, and documenting the group's work for over seven years. Charlie has been featured on the US 'Today Show', ABC's 'Nightline', 'This American Life', and VH1's 40 'Greatest Pranks', as well as on 'Sunrise' in Australia. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal , Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, and countless international newspapers and magazines. Alex Scordelis is a senior agent of Improv Everywhere.

'Improv Everywhere is reliably hilarious to millions of people. The masters of mischief' - Martin Bashir, ABC News Nightline

'Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people' - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian