Michael Short introduces students to the concept of Game, basic scene editing, and how to create second beats and connections. It’s all put together to make the simple longform structure, The Montage. Limit 12 students. For ages 18+. Thursday evenings, 6:30-8:30.

Learn how to transform information between scene partners into gifts to enhance storytelling and build a shared reality. Fine tune the art of listening to small details onstage. Practice building recognition of emotional subtext, tone, and physical cues. Move beyond “waiting your turn to speak” to being changed based on your partner’s response. Stacey Venzel leads this skills-based class that focuses on listening/scene building, object work, & scene initiation.

In Next Level Improv, students will learn additional edit techniques (focus edits, tag-outs), and how to pull premises from a monologue openings. Students will put this all together to create the improv formats the Armando and the Mono-Scene.