Experience Level: Beginner – Intermediate
In this class, you’ll practice various quick character-building techniques to rapidly create and develop characters in scenes. Engage in methods that will unleash the unique characters within you and add depth and variety to your performances. This is a 2-hour class designed to refine some of your character work and will focus on only a few key techniques to ensure deep learning.
Experience Level: Intermediate
In this class for intermediate-level improvisers, we will do scene reps to strengthen our improv instincts. We will start by focusing on ‘healthy’ tried-and-true practices for initiating and building successful scenes in improv comedy. Thereafter, we will strengthen the reality of the world we are building to create a solid foundation for sustained comedy.
Experience Level: Beginner – Intermediate
In this challenging and stimulating class, we will delve into one of the core principles of successful improv: accepting and building upon offers. Through new exercises and techniques, we will learn how to instantly drop ideas, create new ones in the same breath, and change worlds on a dime without a second thought. We will learn to listen together, find the greatest want, and create the most rewarding scenes. We will stretch our mental gymnastics and fluidity to wow audiences while also fostering spontaneity, enhancing creativity, and supporting our fellow improvisers in crafting unforgettable performances.
Experience Level: Advanced
Requirements: Narrative 101
Building on the fundamentals of narrative improvisation from Narrative 101, Narrative 201 takes a deeper dive into the art of storytelling on stage. This advanced course is all about enriching your narrative improv with more complex layers: deepening character development, expertly navigating characters through obstacles, heightening stakes and tension, and crafting arcs that reach satisfying conclusions and resolve loose ends.
By the end of Narrative 201, you’ll be adept at weaving together actions and consequences that enhance the story and ensure your characters grow and change in meaningful ways. Prepare to take your improvisational storytelling to new heights, creating unforgettable narratives that resonate with depth and excitement.
Experience Level: Advanced
Dive into the essence of advanced longform performance with this introductory course to the Monoscene. You’ll learn to confidently inhabit the moment, creating evolving characters and relationships alongside fellow performers in a compelling 15-minute mini monoscene that captivates both you and your audience.
We will focus on skills such as:
Seize your moment in the spotlight! Enroll today and unlock the secrets of monoscenes that captivate audiences and performers alike.
🎠Performance
As part of the course, you will put your newfound skills to the test by performing La Ronde live on stage as part of Inconspicuous Comedy Nights. This is a unique chance to showcase your abilities and gain valuable experience in front of a paying audience.
Experience Level: Advanced
Mastering the fabled La Ronde format will elevate your improvisation prowess and take you to the next step in your journey.
Through this 4-week course, we will learn this challenging and rewarding staple of long-form improv, honing in on the performance skills required by La Ronde and applicable in many other long forms:
Take the stage with confidence! Reserve your spot and discover firsthand why La Ronde is a favorite amongst the most experienced performers around the world.
🎠Performance
As part of the course, you will put your newfound skills to the test by performing La Ronde live on stage as part of Inconspicuous Comedy Nights. This is a unique chance to showcase your abilities and gain valuable experience in front of a paying audience.
Experience Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Embark on a 6-hour journey into character development and disrupting stereotypes with ‘Characters: Point of View and Subversion.’ This immersive experience delves into diverse archetypes, transcending genres, eras, and locales.
Uncover versatile characterization techniques applicable to any scene. Learn to craft engaging character viewpoints that draw audiences into their minds. Embrace the power of unspoken moments to convey emotions and intentions through silence. Master character archetypes, creating unexpected twists.
Join us in this enlightening workshop to unlock the secrets of character creation that resonate across narratives. Discover character treasures within your imagination and emerge as a skilled storyteller capable of captivating any scene.
Enter the boundless realm of character exploration, where personas come alive to shine in any scenario.
Experience Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Have you ever considered acting out a pizza parlor like it’s a medical drama, urgently doing ‘surgery’ on a hole in a pizza?
Or delving deep into the shadows of a kindergarten as kid detectives hunt down the culprit behind Cindy’s broken toy before nap time?
These aren’t just fun ideas. They’re prime examples of “mapping” – the art of transplanting well-known stories and themes into unexpected settings and drawing parallels between the two to create funny and unexpected long-form comedy scenes.
In this 6-hour deep dive, our emphasis will be on:
* Identifying and selecting universally recognized stories and scenarios.
* Transplanting these situations into novel and quirky environments.
* Committing to these silly scenes with truthfulness, commitment, and consistency.
Whether you’re an improv novice or a seasoned performer, come join me for a silly day of serious learning.
Experience Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Prerequisites: Improv Essentials: Two Person Scenes and Long Form Basics or equivalent
In this dynamic workshop, participants will learn how to deliver on the unspoken contract we write with an audience, including setups, payoffs, and conclusions. And how there is an arch in every show.
Through fun, fast-paced group work, we will discover; How to spot the plots and subplots of each scene; How to keep track of the bigger picture; When to drop the big reveal; And how to work with your fellow players to deliver the endings that the audience is and sometimes is not expecting.
This course is perfect for those looking to hone their listening and communication skills. And strengthen their lateral thinking and group work.
Experience Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Any choice can work and be believable as long as it’s justified.
Justification is the quickest way for an audience to connect to a character and for a show to become enthralling.
This three-hour intensive class will explore how to make the crazy seem logical. Through new and challenging exercises, participants will learn how to get into the mind of and understand the choices of any character they create.
While also learning the importance of justification and believability when reacting to a rapport with the audience.
These skills are ideal for anyone who wants to make bolder, bigger movies on stage. And learn that there is no such thing as a bad choice as long as it’s Justified.
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