Drop In Improv
with Clifford and Dixie of the Fun Institute
Treat yourself to two hours of Fun with Adults. Bring your  intermediate improv skills and wake up all your senses, your instant instincts, get Rowdy and Play! We do Mental Jazzercise for the imagination and aerobics for the sense of humor. Stretching your mind and boundaries with humor and revelry. Each class explores a different aspect of Improvisational Acting. Participants start in group and partner warm-ups, and end by performing scenes and games for the class.

Laughter guaranteed! This is Your time to cut loose!

Pricing: Drop In Improv is an ongoing class with special pricing. The first class is free. The next ten are $20 per class, then you get the Friends of Fun Discount for $15 per class.

For more information visit: www.funinstitute.com

Long Form 
with Jeff Kramer of ComedySportz
Watching bad long-form improv is like never knowing when the dentist will stop drilling. Jeff Kramer, the founder and artistic director of San Jose ComedySportz will share with you the tools and techniques he's acquired over the last 22 years. Starting with the foundations of all good scene work, you'll learn several formats that ease the two most dreaded fears in long form: "Where do we go from here?" and "How do we end this thing?"

For more information visit: www.comedysportzsanjose.com

Directing Improv 
with Asaf Ronen of Yesand.com
How do you get your artistic vision across while allowing the performers to freely create? Asaf Ronen, author of the book "DIRECTING Improv" will focus on how to get the most out of a cast whether in a class or a rehearsal. Techniques will be learned in regards to creating lesson plans, orchestrating rehearsals, giving notes and how to help other improvisers reach their maximum potential. Directors will learn to create a vocabulary with their group so that they may also get directed. Those who don't direct will learn how to get the most out of their directors and how to better guide their own growth. There will be hands-on work as well as a Q&A to address personal concerns of the attendees.

Physical  Improv 
with Asaf Ronen
This class incorporates elements of clowning, mime, and environmental work and applies them to improv scene work. By freeing up the body, the student will discover new characters, different approaches to creating a relationship onstage, and tools to add variety to their scene work. Whole narratives will be created through simple gestures, freeing you up to completely different ways of communicating in improv.

Instructor: ASAF RONEN is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of YESand.com, a website devoted to improvisation, and is the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way. Having been involved in improv since 1990, Asaf has performed with NY Theatresports, ComedySportz, and several other troupes out of New York City, most recently the duo Imp. which does improvised vignettes using as few words as possible. As a coach and director, he has worked with the all-girl group goga, the improvised comic book adventure show Ka-Baam!!, and Death in the City, a dramatic longform improv piece, at the NY Fringe Festival. Asaf has taught improvisation in Canada,Great Britain, Norway and in seventeen of The United States at festivals or through regional theaters, as well as throughout NYC¹s public school system as a resident artist through LEAP, New Horizons and as part of Weist-Barron¹s ACTeen program. In 2000, he worked with Cirque du Soleil as a scout for improvisational talent. Currently, he resides in Austin, TX where he is Managing Director of the Austin Improv Collective and he produces, performs and teaches improvisation through Coldtowne Theater.

For more information visit: www.yesand.com

Kids and Teens 
with Glenda Dixon and Lee Ann Gray of the Funatics
Learn basic improvisational skills through improv games such as "Character Line","Emotional Birthday Party", "Six Sentences", and many more. These games will build a foundation for character development as the class progresses. You'll not only be having fun, but at the same time you will be improving listening and communication skills, staying present, the art of team building and making each other look good.

These two workshops are geared for Kids and Teenagers. The first workshop geared to those ages 9 through 12, and the second to those aged 13 through 16.

Instructors: Glenda Dixon has taken improv and acting workshops for the past twelve years. Glenda has also taught improv to teenagers for three summers for Scotts Valley Parks and Recreation and has been teaching workshops at retreats for UCSC staff since 2002 at least 2-3 times a year. Lee Ann Gray has performed in local theatre for over 20 years and is known in some circles as "Lulu the Clown." She has directed numerous children's productions and has taught theatre arts in schools from Santa Cruz to Los Gatos. She currently performs improvisation with The Funatics!

Song Improv 
with Barbara Scott and David Norfleet of True Fiction Magazine
Come experience the joy of making your own music! Starting with basic warm-ups and exercises , we’ll quickly move into solos, duets, trios, and group songs. Your song is perfect; how could it not be, you’re making it up! (This class is appropriate for all levels of musical experience.)

Instructors: Barbara Scott and David Norfleet have been teaching song improv, together and individually, for many years. Barbara is a member of True Fiction Magazine and BATS Improv; David plays keyboards with TFM, BATS Improv and Improv Slam. Barbara and David were also members of the improv a cappella ensemble Tonal Chaos.

Photo by Brien Burroughs.

For more information visit: www.truefictionmagazine.com

Work Slower, Go Deeper - Improv Scenework
with Dave Razowsky of Second City LA 
(**please note: this workshop is full as of 7/20**)
A scene isn’t made up of words, it’s made up of moments. Often it’s not what’s said that heightens the scene, it’s what’s noticed and acted upon. This workshop will focus on slow play, “deep tissue listening” and discovering how much is said when we take in the moments through patient playing, soaking in the lines in between what’s said, and honesty.
(**please note: this workshop is full as of 7/20**)

Heat!
with Dave Razowsky of Second City LA
David Razowsky’s master class will focus on getting the improvisers to the heat of the scene through immediate, emotional connections between players by listening not just with their ears but with their whole being. By allowing emotions to create scene work instead of the actor’s brains, the work tends to be more surprising and unexpected, and scenes will be created without the use of conflict or argument.

Instructor: David Razowsky, Artistic Director, was a cast member of ten Second City revues where he created material with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Jeff Garlin, among countless other performers. David has directed Second City Mainstage’s No, Seriously, We’re All Gonna Die, Second City LA’s, Encino Evil, The Second City Untitled Project, The Second City Detroit's acclaimed 19th Nervous Breakdown, and The Second City National Touring Company. David is an adjunct faculty member of the California State University, and has just returned from directing their mainstage production, Beeswax, a performance of original monologues created through improvisation by CSU students. He worked with Steppenwolf Theatre in 2005 on Balm in Gilead for the California State Summer Arts Festival, and directed two of Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago theatre’s productions-- RockStars, and their critically acclaimed Live at the Leidseplein - Your Privacy is Our Business. Both Boom shows were remounted for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. David has directed the Los Angeles premier of Hellcab at The Hudson Theatre, What’s Wrong with Getting Laid and Dairy Farm at The Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson Theatre. He is a co-founder of Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre.

For more information visit: www.secondcity.com