Ever wanted to create and develop your own improv form? This two-day workshop will give you all the tools you need to do it! On day one, we’ll break down long-form improv into building blocks that we can bend, shape, and use in exciting and challenging ways. On day two, you’ll use what you’ve learned to create your own new forms, then put them on their feet. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be empowered to create never-before-seen forms that you can put in front of audiences “in the wild”, and continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in longform.

This workshop is all about honing your acting chops—digging into the emotional commitment of a scene, and completely connecting with your scene partner so that even silences are compelling. In the second half of class, we’ll work with the Gravid Water form—where one scene partner reads from a script, and the other one improvises their lines. If you can up your improv skill-set with grounded, believable acting, you'll be able to create unforgettable scenes.

The key to any good genre parody is to commit to it so fully, and portray it so accurately, that the audience almost can’t tell the difference between the joke and the real thing. With this as our guiding principle, we’ll dive into the exciting world of genre-prov by studying different genres of film, TV, and theatre, then learn to accurately mimic them by embracing and exploiting the tropes that made them famous.

The Harold is the oldest form in the long-form canon, but it doesn’t have to be tired or predictable— nor should it! In this workshop, we’ll experiment with ways to super-charge your Harolds and surprise your audience (and yourselves). We’ll use the space in creative ways, work on non-scenic group games, learn some stylized editing techniques, and develop a wider scope for second and third beat possibilities. Then we’ll put everything together and discover how joyful, dynamic, and exciting our Harolds can be.