We call ourselves the West Coast School of Improvisation to honor the amazing West Coast improv innovators who blazed the trail before us. Let us pass the torch to you.
Through our mentors and lived experience, we learned what is required to perform improvised narratives at the highest possible level. We can’t wait to work with you in our focused weekend intensives.
“Stephen’s uncanny timing, physical skills, and athleticism on stage align with the gifted athletes I’ve photographed for decades.”
Weekend Improv Intensives w/Stephen Kearin
Take a deep dive into improvisation through the lens of Stephen Kearin.
Over the course of the weekend, you will learn:
Space and Sense Object
Explore the fundamentals of Space and Sense Object awareness and learn to access this rich and hidden dimension of narrative improvisation.
Slow down, stop talking, and start seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, and hearing what is taking form all around you on stage.
Identifying and Exploring First Offers
The very first offers in a scene offer a shelter from the storm of ideas that can overtake us as improvisers.
“Learn to Return” can become a valuable mantra and help you to travel lighter in your work.
Understand what it means to Want What You Have.
Characters
Explore how to inhabit your character while still tracking the evolving narrative.
This class will involve a lot of real-time side coaching in identifying and exploring this specific skill set. We will take big swings together in this free-to-make-mistakes (that turn into gifts) environment.
