Dramatic Improv isn’t just
for one weekend a year!
We’re continuing the Dramatic Improv love
throughout the year with these great guest teachers!
So many classes, so many choices! Some classes are in-person in Chicago, and some are online. Check them all out!
In-person classes will take place at studio Momentum (DIRECTIONS HERE) in Chicago.
All online classes are via Zoom, with times noted in the Central time zone.
Refunds/cancellation policy
Workshops
Duo It with Shaun Landry
Duo It focuses on the joy of performance with only two people! Explore trust, timing, and collaboration through exercises that sharpen listening and bold choices. Whether you're seasoned or new, you'll build chemistry, discover shared rhythms, and learn to co-create spontaneous, compelling moments
Saturday, September 20, 12-2:30
$40
Fear is Your Superpower with Heather Marie Vitale
Fear is Your Superpower with Heather Marie Vitale
Saturday, September 27, 3-5:30 PM
$35
Scenic Super Senses with Tony Rielage
Read Minds! See right through your scene partners! Super Hearing!
Join us for this workshop focused on developing your hyper-focus and connection to your scene partners. Learn to read their every intention and turn that into forward movement in your scenes. Never miss a clue or gift, and learn how to effortlessly turn each moment into grounded scenes built on a strong emotional foundation.
Saturday, October 18, 11-1:30
$35
Shut Up The Fear in Your Head with Jimmy Carrane
Improv should be easy as having a conversation, if it's not, it's because you are in fear. The opposite of fear is connection.
Once you learn how to connect with your partner on a deeper emotional level you will go places you never imagined and you will surprise yourself, your scene partner and the audience. When this happens it means you are out of your head and into your heart. And the good news is with a Dramatic Improv background you will be able to do faster than you think.
In this workshop you will learn:
- All the answers for a scene are in your partner
-Connecting on a deeper emotional level
-Why it's so important to improvise one or two lines at a time
- Heightening your emotions
Sunday, October 26, 12:30-2:30 PM
$45
Truth in the Quiet: Improvising Modern Drama with Diana Brown [ONLINE]
Real life is full of humor, heartbreak, and the moments in between. In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn to create naturalistic, emotionally precise scenes in the style of Annie Baker, Dominique Morisseau, Sam Shepard, and Amy Herzog. Explore the power of stillness, subtext, and small but charged events. You’ll find the pathos and humor that grows naturally from character and circumstance, while building scenes that resonate with honesty and depth.
Sunday, September 21, 12-3 PM Central [VIA ZOOM]
$45
Connect. Feel. Relate. with Matt Elwell
How to build scenes with emotion and active relationships in the first 30 seconds.
Tired of scenes about stuff? Why do so many scenes end up being two people standing at center stage negotiating stuff, places, and people that we never see? This highly interactive, fast-paced elective uses group exercises and scenes to instill the habit of building the scene from the deep emotional relationship between the characters. Don’t have a deep emotional relationship? No problem! We’ll make one!
Saturday, October 4, 3-5:30 PM
$35
Dramatic Conflict: How to Say Yes by Saying No with Kenn Adams [ONLINE]
In this workshop we’ll explore the difference between conflict (arguing, criticizing, belittling, mocking) and dramatic conflict – having an objective that just happens to be in opposition to your partner’s. Conflict for the sake of conflict is painfully difficult to watch while skillful dramatic conflict is enthralling and at the heart of most great scenes. We’ll discover how to fight for your objective while honoring your partner’s offers and the emotional truth of the scene, raise the stakes by building on your partner’s offer rather than negating or minimizing them, play compelling scenes of dramatic conflict between two characters that actually love, respect and want what’s best for each other, and how to really “say, yes!” by accepting the “spirit of the offer” rather than simply being agreeable. (Very often the best way to say “yes” is by saying “no!”) After this workshop, you’ll truly understand the concept of dramatic conflict and be able to put it to work!
Saturday, October 18, 12-2:30 PM
$35