What you'll learn

The focus of this workshop will be on working toward becoming a more dynamic improviser.  Together, we’ll explore many of Tim’s favorite facets

of improv:

• taking the stage with confidence and energy

• listening and responding

• working together through advanced yessing and playing characters who like each other

• movement within and between scenes

• creating environments/wheres

• space object work

• entry points into scenes (beginning, middle, end)

• finding strong endings to scenes

We’ll have a lot of fun, and you’ll come out of the workshop with lots of new tools to help you become a more dynamic improviser!

About the teacher

Tim has improvised since 1988 with many San Francisco and international groups, including BATS Improv, True Fiction Magazine, Awkward Dinner Party, and with the acclaimed troupe 3 For All. In 2009, he founded Improv Playhouse

of San Francisco. Since 2015, he has toured Europe with Inbal Lori from Berlin performing their duo show Click. Tim has also appeared in numerous plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, and

received critical acclaim for his leading roles in the improvised feature films, Suckerfish and Security. With Stephen Kearin, Tim co-wrote, and originated the role of Dirk Manly in, An Evening with Dirk & Blaine. Nationally, Tim has performed and taught improvisation at the American Conservatory Theatre, BATS Improv, Stanford University, and many other venues (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Austin, Louisville, Atlanta, etc.).

Internationally, he has performed and taught at numerous festivals and/or an invited guest artist in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Beirut, Belgium, Berlin, Bucharest, Dubai, Hamburg, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Mallorca, Oslo, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Sofia, Stockholm, Tel Aviv and more. Tim has consulted with numerous groups both nationally and internationally in their formation of improvisation groups and also the development of new improvisation formats.