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Registrations for the June/July sessions of Improv Gymnasium 2020 are now closed,
but interested players please sign up here to have first access to our next session:
To pre-register for the next session, please go to https://forms.gle/QT48tX3eebSfPwmLA
The Improv Gymnasium 2020 is a Zoom workout series for improvisers of all levels and backgrounds.
Our participants are a curated mix of beginning, intermediate, and experienced improvisers, all learning from each others’ work with familiar and new exercises, techniques, and theories.
This gym is aimed at creating fun, engaging improvisational scenes most directly associated with longform comedic improvisation, but our techniques are applicable across the spectrum.
In lieu of fees we request you donate what you can to an organization in support of BIPOC.
Proposed schedule is subject to adjustment based on participants’ responses.
Enrollment is limited. Additional Gymnasia will be added if interest warrants.
Each workshop will be followed by a more casual, optional “cocktail hour” in which philosophies adjacent to our specific techniques might be discussed.
1/3 Get Started!
Exercises and drills activating Amnesia Wars’ time-tested scenic exposition techniques.
Open to all interested artists.
2/3 Scenic Techniques, Guidelines, and “Rules”.
A scenework session with notes and guidance towards your most engaging, enjoyable scenework.
3/3 The Scene Grinder! Get playing!After a warm up and review this gym will be (almost) all play, (almost) no notes or lessons! Scene after scene after scene after scene!
To pre-register for the next session, please go to https://forms.gle/QT48tX3eebSfPwmLA
Rob Reese is a New York based Teacher, Director, and Playwright working in improvisation, plays, musicals and opera. He originally studied improvisation at Chicago’s Second City, Improv Olympic, and Annoyance theaters under Del Close, Mick Napier, Martin DeMaat, and all the other famous names. He was subsequently a faculty member of the Second City Training Center in New York, as well as The education director for The Treehouse Theater and Amnesia Wars Productions. Rob has worked as a workshop instructor, guest director, and performer for improv and arts festivals as well as individual companies Throughout the US, Europe, and Oceana, as well as select cities in Malaysia and Zimbabwe.
When we can travel again Rob would love to come to your city and play with your artists!