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Unleash your creativity and quick thinking with a variety of improv classes in NYC. Learn the art of improvisation, develop your comedic timing, and gain confidence in a supportive and fun environment.

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Improv for Everyone Online

Sunday Night Improv @ Virtual Classroom

Improv veteran Tom Soter, co-author (with Carol Schindler) of A DOCTOR & A PLUMBER IN A ROWBOAT: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO IMPROVOISATION, takes his long-running improv class to the web. In a supportive environment, students learn how to tap into their imagination, creating characters, delivering self-made monologs, and telling and performing in stories. “Tom is a great teacher who knows his stuff!” — Mike Bencivenga, playwright All levels...

(173) Beginner 15 and older
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Improv Level 2 (Online)

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 106 Cayler St, Brooklyn, NY

This class underlines the core philosophy of what we teach at the BCC: that loving the hell out of whatever is happening onstage is the key to strong, successful scenes. It will help remind you what you love about improv, slap you out of whatever fear is holding you back, and cut out the naysaying voices in your head that cloud your inspiration.  We will look at how we sometimes censor or bail on our choices out of a need to make the “right...

(4) Intermediate 16 and older
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$285

6 sessions

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Online Improv Jam - Adult Playground with Sam Van Wyk

New York Improv Theatre (8 Improv) @ Zoom

Need some much needed laughs? Want to learn a new skill set? Then come play! Part class / part adult playground, this session (available online worldwide — Canada too!) is for beginners looking to discover the art of Improv Comedy as well as more experienced players just looking to play and keep the creative forces flowing.  Teacher, Walt Frasier, is the author of IMPROV on ZOOM and Stand Up Comedy available for free via KindleUnlimited....

(73) All levels 16 and older
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Improvisation Clinic

Beacon Music Factory @ 333 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY

With instructors Nathan Bradley Allen and Pierce Allen Edelstein Have you ever been asked to “take a solo” but were unsure what to do? If your sense of how to really make a solo sing feels limited or if you feel stuck, this is a great opportunity for you.  In this workshop we will learn about tools for soloing over different pop, rock, blues, jazz, and R&B songs. You’ll come away with improvisation techniques that you can put to use...

All levels 18 and older
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Summer Drama Therapy for Teens

NY Creative Arts Therapists

Over the course of 6 weeks, teens will work together using improvisation, theater games, scene work and collaborative theater making in order to better express their feelings, problem solve social and personal situations, and have the chance to try on, take off, and explore all kinds of life roles, in order to figure out which ones fit best for them.  Each session is designed as a fun and creative way to help teens shape and express their specific...

(3) All levels 15 - 18 years old
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Sketch Comedy Writing Studio

IN Studios @ 115 W 29th Street, New York, NY

Accelerate your writing and acting career! Create your own original sketch comedy material and develop your professional writing portfolio. If you've ever wanted to write for late night TV, it all starts here. Got an idea, or pitch or pages to read? We'll guide you through the process and help motivate you toward your goals. Work with supportive, sketch gurus every week. No experience necessary. Desire to learn is required! Our writers/performers...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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$99

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Improvisation for Actors with Michael J. Gellman

ANDTheatre Company

Improvisation has been for centuries a theatre created by actors for actors.  Modern day Improvisation began as a playful method of training actors through the creation of story and the actors’ imagination. Let’s get back to the fun of exploring the actors craft for performance. Let's rediscover the playfulness within the play. Focusing on the tools necessary for performance (character, emotional and physical truth), actors will explore...

(149) All levels 19 and older
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Long Island Improv Comedy

New York Improv Theatre (8 Improv) @ 610 Carmans Rd, Farmingdale, NY

Tons of fun, Improv comedy class is one of the funnest and most effective ways to teach valuable life skills including Creativity (writing and critical thinking), Community (team, listening, eye contact, respect) and Leadership (Self-Confidence, Public Speaking).  Every class is 60-90 minutes of playing games (every skit and song in Improvisation is called a game). We warm up and build technique, develop a language of movement and team collaboration....

(73) All levels 16 and older
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$100

5 sessions

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Musical Comedy (Online)

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 109 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY

Comedy music is in. The NYTimes thinks so, audiences think so, and hopefully you do too. In this class, we’ll teach you how to find your unique musical and comedic voice: simultaneously. You will take what makes you tick and turn it into a musical act via learning songwriting techniques —and how they naturally correspond with finding a strong comedic game to each song.  We’ll learn how to use your own point of view and life experiences...

(4) All levels 16 and older
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$295

6 sessions

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Fall 2020 Comedy for Teens

New York Improv Theatre (8 Improv) @ 318 W 53rd St, New York, NY

We are bringing back our comprehensive 8-week program online. We start each day with a warm-up developing story telling and performance skills. Then play some Improv Comedy Games.  Every class will include a mini open mic where students develop original stand-up comedy comedy routines based on personal stories of experience and observation. No experience necessary.  Saturdays 12:00-1:30pm (9am WEST COAST) with Walter Frasier October 31...

(73) All levels 13 - 17 years old
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$200

8 sessions

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Stand-up Workshop: The Joke Forge w/ Benny Feldman

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Why do some jokes work and others don't? In this workshop, we'll smash apart different jokes, play with their mechanics, mold their aesthetics, and hammer together new ideas. You'll learn to craft much tighter material. Prerequisite: Completion of BCC Level 1 Stand-Up OR students who have taken at least one full-length stand-up course at a major comedy theater (UCB, PIT, Magnet, Squirrel, Second City, iO, Annoyance, etc.) or have similar prior...

(4) All levels 16 and older
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$175

4 sessions

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Drop-in Stand-Up

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Improve your stand-up comedy skills in a supportive environment with expert guidance from renowned comedian Shalewa Sharpe. Hone your material, receive valuable feedback, and take your comedy to the next level at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective's exclusive drop-in class. This course is open to all experience levels.

(4) All levels 16 and older
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Art Therapy for Middle Schoolers

NY Creative Arts Therapists

Art Therapy can be like an art class, but with a teacher who cares more about how you feel than about how good you are at drawing bowls of fruit. Plus, you don’t have to be an artist to join, everyone is an artist, right? This group is for middle schoolers trying to deal with life, parents, and so-called friends.  Step away from your Tumblr and SnapChat and come to our art studio in Williamsburg at Driggs and North 10th every Tuesday afternoon...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Improv for Non-Improvising Actors

Primary Stages ESPA

For many actors, improv can be incredibly intimidating, but applying the quick-on-your feet, “yes and” improv skills to your everyday practice makes you more flexible in the audition room and a more open scene partner. This workshop isn’t about games, competitions, or “being funny.” It’s about gaining tangible skills in a non-competitive environment.  Kelly Buttermore and Justin Peters, who tour the country as a comedy duo performing...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Improv Your Way to the Moment

Ariel & Shya Kane @ Virtual Classroom

Express yourself spontaneously with ease – in any situation Wouldn’t you love to be able to “think on your feet” and naturally communicate without second-guessing or hesitating? Join internationally acclaimed seminar leader / author Ariel Kane and talented actor / master acting teacher Andy Schneeflock as they team up for this fun and lively exploration. Through playful interactive exercises and discussion, you’ll discover how saying...

(3) All levels 17 and older
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$400

2 sessions

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Improv Work Session

The Engaging Educator

This workshop will start to enhance your skills in public speaking, focused listening, responding and specificity – leading to not only greater confidence and lower inhibitions when teaching but also greater flexibility in your personal teaching style. Taken the three-week series or one-day intensive? Want to keep going? This is perfect for those with experience and to get your feet wet in the world of improv.   Improv is a life skill that...

(401) All levels 18 and older
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Level 3: Advanced Scenes

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 106 Cayler St, Brooklyn, NY

This class builds on the skills in Level 2 of fearless playing, strong/specific choices, and ability to attack the stage as fearless artist. Now, we will challenge ourselves with advanced improv techniques, such as how to find the "edge" in every scene (and take it from good to great), exploring the role of the individual role in an ensemble, living in the moment-to-moment instead of plotting ahead, authentically acting and grounding your characters,...

(4) Advanced 16 and older
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$285

6 sessions

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Introduction to Playback Theatre

NY Creative Arts Therapists

Playback theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and have them enacted on the spot (from playback.org). Playback uses improvisation, storytelling, and music in a unique form that brings people together, blending artistic and theatrical form with social connection and action. Experience what it’s like as playback performer to bring someone’s story to life and see...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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Short Form for Long Form Improvisers

Q.E.D.

In short form improvisation, the game is already set, so you need to focus on new characters, new scene starts, and new ways to drive a scene. Join experienced improv coach, Mike Gregorek (UCB, ComedySportz, Magnet, PIT) for a fun, but challenging improv journey to find new and interesting ways to play and find the comedy in reality of any improv scene.

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Using Improv to Strengthen Sales & Presentation Skills

Q.E.D.

Enjoy an informative and interactive afternoon with April Jaffe, business-growth consultant and president of Raise Your Game. In this class you will get an introduction to the concepts and principals of improv and the impact it has on closing more sales and making effective presentations.  Learn how to present with confidence and clarity to impact your audience. April will guide you through a series of interactive exercises followed by discussions...

(252) Beginner 18 and older
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