Level 1: Beginning Improv

8 Mondays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, starting January 12, 2009

IMPROV 101 - This workshop is for beginners with no practical experience in theatrical improvisation. This workshop will cover basics such as: overcoming inhibitions; listening; agreement; working as an ensemble; full use of your body; as well as starting to find characters.

Level 2: Intermediate Improv

8 Sundays from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, starting January 11, 2009.

IMPROV 202 - This intermediate level workshop is designed for people who have completed Improv 101, or who have a limited amount of experience with improvisation. The focus of this workshop will be on creating and sustaining improvised scenes. It will also further explore improvising characters and environment, as well as introducing elements of rhyming and wordplay.

 

Level 3: Advanced Improv

8 Tuesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, starting January 13, 2009.

IMPROV 303 - This is a performance-level workshop designed for people who have completed Improv 202 or who have at least some experience performing improvisation. In addition to introducing improvisation with music, this workshop will teach styles, games, and approaches to performing for a live audience. This workshop will culminate in a final performance to which the students may invite family and friends.

Introduction To Long Form Improvisation 

8 Sundays from 3:00 pm to 5:00pm, starting January 11 2009

This course is designed for anyone interested in learning the craft of scene-based improvisation. By slowing down our work, we will focus acutely on the improv fundamentals of listening, agreement and patience. We will not look to inject our scenes with “funny” ideas but rather find the patterns and relationships that will build to a comedic crescendo. Students in the class will learn a number of Chicago-style improvisational forms as they learn to produce honest and realistic scenes from scratch.  

All workshops are $175.00. If you are interested, please contact us before January 9 2009.  All workshops are eight weeks, each class is two hours.

About the Instructors

Michael Davis - Level 1
Michael has been performing with ComedySportz for five years.  Along with being the Marketing Director and performer for ComedySportz Indianapolis, Michael is a professional actor, appearing at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre, Amercan Cabaret Theatre and many other Indianapolis stages.

Andrea Lott - Level 1

Andrea is a professional actor who has performed with ComedySportz for four years. In addition to performing and refereeing regularly at ComedySportz Indianapolis, she also performs with SafeHouse, the social issues theatre troupe, and was a member of the ACT Out Ensemble.

Woody Rau - Level 1 & 2
Woody as been delighting ComedySportz fanz with his shenanigans since 1993. He also appears the feature film Lil Treasure Hunters (as seen on Showtime Networks) and the soon to be released Easy Money. Woody is also a playwrite and director.

Dave Ruark - Level 2 & 3
Dave is a founding member of ComedySportz Indianapolis, having been a member of its progenitor, Below the Belt. Dave has performed in dramas, comedies, musicals, musical comedies, and musical dramas at many Indianapolis theatres, including the Phoenix and the American Cabaret ones. He has taught introductory and intermediate acting classes at the Phoenix Theatre. Dave is a big fan of Doctor Who, good music, and Target .

Ed Trout - Level 1, 2 & 3

Ed is the artistic director of ComedySportz Indianapolis and responsible for its training programs. He was a founding member of the group and is one of its current owners. In addition to his ComedySportz duties, Ed is a busy actor, director, and lyricist.

KEVIN MCKERNAN-Long Form (guest instructor)

Kevin performed and directed improvisation during his four years at Indiana University. After graduating, he went to Chicago where he studied with The Second City, ImprovOlympic and Annoyance theaters. He is a founding member of the Chicago team "The Bryan Room.” In the past ten years, McKernan has performed as well as taught short-form, long-form and sketch comedy to students of all ages. He thinks the lessons of improv are the secrets to life.

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