Workshops
Get ready to take your comedy skills to the next level with our one-off specialty workshops! Featuring stand-up, musical improv, sketch, or improv with special guest instructors, these workshops are the perfect opportunity to learn from the best in the business and hone your craft. Don't miss on this exciting chance to elevate your comedy game and have a blast doing it!
Workshop Listings
Take your skills and knowledge to the next level! We are thrilled to invite you to our special guest workshop you will gain valuable insights and practical tips from the best in the industry. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to enhance your abilities and achieve your goals. Register now and secure your spot!
1-Day Spacework Intensive
Dec. 14th at 3:00 PM - Join this workshop with Von Daniel to enhance your Space work! The improv concept that refers to object work and how to pantomime. As improv scenes typically include minimal or no props, costumes, or set pieces, performers utilize spacework to illustrate these objects to an audience. And Von's got the tips and tricks to make it work for you.
Creating Interesting Characters with Frank Caeti Workshop
Dec 21st at 2:30 PM - This workshop focuses on building interesting improvised characters. Using a simple approach of one choice at the top and subsequent nuanced choices as the scene proceeds leads to memorable characters and informs vocal quality, point of view, want, and disposition. When we become the character, content choices become easier, and scenes get more fun!
Frank is an alumnus of the world famous comedy theater The Second City, performing for their National Touring Company and resident companies in Las Vegas and Chicago. He continues to write and direct for The Second City, most recently co-writing and directing The Revolution Will Be Improvised at the Kennedy Center and Hits Home at Kansas City's Starlight Theater.
He was a series regular and contributing writer on the long-running FOX show
MADtv. Other television credits include: Modern Family, Key and Peele, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Adam Ruins Everything, Chicago Fire, Reno 911, NCIS, and over three dozen commercials. Regional theater credits as a performer and director include: Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, and Dallas Theater Center. Improv credits include: UCB, Westside Comedy Theater, iO, and Comedy Sportz.
Frank co-wrote a web series produced by Key and Peele for Disney Digital, which was developed into a television series by Sacha Baron Cohen’s Four by Two Films. Frank has developed with Sony Pictures Television, written for Warner Bros.' Animation, and written plays that have premiered in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Off-Broadway. He currently has two pilots and a feature that he hopes someday will be produced and shared with the world.
Yes and Yes: within Two Person, Three Person, and Group Scenes! A Jaime
Moyer Workshop
Sat Jan 25 - Yes and Yes: within Two Person, Three Person, and Group Scenes! Let's figure out how to avoid scenic bargaining and plot driven improvisation. This class will help awaken the spirit of following the follower so together we can build something great! Working basic structure and emotion to heighten, Jaime will side coach and help bring your scene-work to its fullest potential!
Ladies Love Improv with Jaime
Moyer
Sun Jan 26th - Ladies Love Improv is a workshop is for female and female identifying attendants only. We will work on strong initiations, committing to character, game, and extreme yesand. A must for the improviser who finds herself looping into the same character norms time and again! We'll break that mold, and a glass ceiling or two while we are at it!
Jaime Moyer is an actress and writer who resides in Los Angeles. She has voiced two characters on Bob’s Burgers, and has had recurring roles on many sitcoms including: The Great North, Night Court, Modern Family, AP Bio, Netflix series The Big Show Show, and Disney’s hit show KC Undercover. Jaime also appeared on Parks and Recreation, Bob Hearts Abishola, 2 Broke Girls, Jennifer Falls, Detroiters, Future Man, and more. Jaime wrote for three seasons of Nickelodeon’s LEGO City Adventures, where she helped create many memorable original characters. Jaime has a lifetime love affair with live theater, and also has numerous stage credits. She is also an alum of The Second City – Detroit where she wrote and starred in original revues. Jaime occasionally appears as Guillermo’s wife on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE, and she was awarded the sole prize of Maestro at the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin, TX in 2011. She has taught improvisation all over the world, and has headlined numerous improv festivals.