HUGE began in 2005 as a collective of artists producing new improvised works at various venues throughout the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Responding to growth in audience demand and widespread interest in improv classes, HUGE was incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2009 and opened the doors of its first long-term home (a 100-seat theater/education venue at 3037 Lyndale Avenue, Minneapolis) in 2010, managed by Roy, Lennes and Bernard, who also served as the first Board of Directors, later joined by Molly Chase.

[4] In August 2017, a story in City Pages reported that HUGE's landlord, Julius Jaeger De Roma, donated $500 to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's 2016 campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.

[5] Upon this revelation, HUGE's board of directors denounced De Roma and began conversations about moving the theater to a new space.

[1] The theater also hosted classes for beginning improv students and workshops for more advanced improvisers.