Fred Brown

Playing with Status

A one-time improv workshop

Do your characters get stuck trying to be right in scenes? Or do you tend to let your characters get bossed around? In this workshop, you'll practice taking on different status behaviors and adopting different levels of status in a scene:  status relative to the other character, relative to the space, and relative to the situation.  Using status as a tool can help you unlock a way of orienting yourself to the scene and the relationship between the characters, allowing you to find new characters and new freedom of play.

Saturday August 22
12 - 3pm

Advanced Longform Improv:
The Deconstruction

8 weeks + class show

The goal of the class is to use that form to strengthen and isolate different improv muscles:  grounded two-person scene work, heightened absurd character-driven matching scenes, grounded/absurd game-play, and a fast-paced, call-back-heavy run.  You'll finish the class with more awareness of how to activate and use these muscles in all your improv play.  

Monday nights, starting September 28

Decon 2.0
a performance class

4 classes + 4 shows

Intro to Longform Improv

8 weeks + class showcase

Play, Presence, and Performance Skills
(Level 1)

6 weeks

Advanced Longform:
Close Quarters

8 weeks + class show

Slowprov
(Level 1)

4 weeks + class show

Play, Presence, and Performance Skills
(Level 2)

6 weeks

New Choices

A one-time improv Workshop

Are you tired of trotting out the same characters into scenes, or coming into scenes with nothing except maybe a clever idea or well-honed premise?  In this workshop, you'll do a lot of 2-person scenes, and for each scene,  I'll assign one or both players a physicality, emotion, vocal quality, catchphrase, mannerism, etc.  You'll get a lot of reps practicing bringing a seed of a point-of-view into a scene and seeing how it inspires a full character and affects the discovery of the scene.  

a one-off workshop
3 hours

Slowprov
(Level 2)

6 weeks + class show

Tuesday Nights, started May 26