In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, April 27th, 7:00-9:00 PM

Please join us for a night of improv to benefit the Friends of the Schenectady County Child Advocacy Center. Come for the laughs but stay for the heart and support a vital organization doing compassionate work right here in Schenectady.

Doors open at 7:00 for a networking and informational mingle hour and the show kicks off at 8:00.

Bring a buddy and settle in at 8 PM for an evening of your favorite formats – Bollix Manor, or Twilight Zone! 2 on the Aisle or a fun, fast game show – Every Mopco and Chill is a different combination. We’ll have the popcorn and drinks ready for you!

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, April 13th, 7:00-9:00 PM

The final for this seasons tournament!

It’s been a hard fought battle but it all comes down to this. The Hammocks are on a tear with a nearly perfect season at 6 and 1 and they will be taking on the Queen Bees. The Queen Bees may be the underdog, but their fighting spirit has been on full display this season and aren’t to be counted out yet.

These two teams of crack improvisers will face off in a high-energy contest. A battle for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

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Improvised Sketch Comedy Night features Slacker, Armando, and Jukebox. And no, we aren't calling you names-- Slacker is a great long form improv format we'll be bringing to life, along with an Armando and audience improv Jukebox!

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, April 6th, 7:00-9:00 PM

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

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In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, March 30th, 7:00-9:00 PM

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

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In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, March 23rd, 7:00-9:00 PM

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

Sponsors

Bring a buddy and settle in at 8 PM for an evening of your favorite formats – Bollix Manor, or Twilight Zone! 2 on the Aisle or a fun, fast game show – Every Mopco and Chill is a different combination. We’ll have the popcorn and drinks ready for you!

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, March 16th, 7:00-9:00 PM

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Class Schedule: Sundays, March 15, 22, 29, April 12, 4-6 PM

Explore comedy not as the goal of interactions but as a consequence of your connection to yourself, your character, your partner and the scene as it unfolds, from master teacher, Joe Bill!

From Joe: “This workshop focuses on acting in improvisational scenes. I’ll put you in repetitions with partners so you can feel how listening through an emotion (or mood or psychological state), with a willingness to change, can lead to “honest interactions”. You will feel connected, be believable and able to evoke a variety of emotions from yourselves and your audience while also mining from psychological depth.

This workshop will be equally useful for actors and improvisers alike and will include some general and a little bit of individual feedback.”

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

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Learn one of the most popular formats performed all over the world today, the Armando, from master teacher, Joe Bill

From Joe: “We will work on skills that help you to be successful in the 3 elements of the format, Personal stories (Source material), identifying different themes, elements and inspiration for scenes in the personal stories. Then playing, dynamically different scenes that use the stories as inspiration for a bigger piece of theater. We will look at the Armando as a form of both Organic AND Narrative Longform, where the scenes spring forth from the monologues in obvious and non-obvious ways, and as we bring them back we discover the themes and stories that harmonize them into a bigger theatrical picture.” There will be a performance at the end of the workshop for those that wish to play, but the performance is not a requirement to take the workshop.

Improvised Sketch Comedy Night features Slacker, Armando, and Jukebox. And no, we aren't calling you names-- Slacker is a great long form improv format we'll be bringing to life, along with an Armando and audience improv Jukebox!

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, March 9th, 7:00-9:00 PM

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

Sponsors

Six Wednesdays, 7-9 PM, Mar 4, 11, 18, 25, Apr 8, 15

The fundamentals of improv are deceptively simple. You can learn them in a few hours. (But we warn you, it can take a lifetime to master them.) Improv is a practice that you can engage in on stage and off.

Support your partner. Listen. Blurt! Weave a fresh, engaging story out of thin air. Is improv comedy? Sometimes, sure. But more importantly, it’s connection.

For actors, writers, performers, and folks who have never performed. Prerequisite: Improv 101 or equivalent (talk to us if you aren’t sure.)This class consists of a combination of games and scene-work, with debriefs that enhance your personal experience.

In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, March 2nd, 7:00-9:00 PM

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

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In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will  learn to create and collaborate with a team.

Monday, February 23rd, 7:00-9:00 PM

Great improv starts with paying attention.

The great superpower of great improvisers is not the ability to be clever or “interesting” but to notice and build with what exists.
In this class, we’ll slow things down and sharpen this core improv skill: noticing. Understand what listening really entails, and what can get in the way. Practice expanding your awareness, picking up on small details, and letting those details guide the scene.
When you notice more, you don’t have to work as hard. Scenes feel more grounded. Choices feel clearer. And connection happens naturally.

Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest,  battling for points, glory, and your laughter. All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format!  Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!

Sponsors

Bring a buddy and settle in at 8 PM for an evening of your favorite formats – Bollix Manor, or Twilight Zone! 2 on the Aisle or a fun, fast game show – Every Mopco and Chill is a different combination. We’ll have the popcorn and drinks ready for you!

Six Thursdays, 7-9 PM, Feb 19, 26, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 26

Continue the journey. Work with your partner to find the game. Find the characters, relationships, and stories that make great improvised scenes happen. Get out of your head and into the where!