OUTDOOR THEATER PROGRAM

Over the course of this workshop, actors will work with professionals to hone their ensemble skills and learn the basics of improvisation and sketch comedy. Students will be introduced to short and long-form improvisation in this hilarious, heartfelt workshop. Over the course of the workshop students will master multiple improv games and use their learning as a lens in examining the world they are creating and inhabiting in their social lives.

We will pay special attention to encouraging and engaging each voice in “the room” to be heard throughout the process. Students will also develop a reflective practice of journaling inspired by a number of prompts throughout this course. We will generate ideas, create situations and settings, identify absurdities, write and perform our own sketches and bring them to hilarious conclusions.