Have fun, meet new people and learn to improvise in the Hideout's low-pressure, high-larious classes. The six-week Beginning Workshop is designed for anyone and everyone who wants to loosen up, be more spontaneous and learn to take risks on stage and in life — no experience necessary. Each week you'll play games and explore a challenging variety of improv exercises that unleash your natural creativity and humor. Our work is inspired by Canadian improv guru Keith Johnstone (author of Impro and Impro for Storytellers) so even if you've done improv in the past, come check out the Hideout's unique and inspiring approach.

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This course is required for anyone entering classes at the Hideout. (No grade/no judgment) (Limit 16 students)

Get a friend to sign up with you and you get $25 off of your Level 1 Tuition. Got 2 friends? Get $50 off of your Level 1 Tuition. Got 3 friends? You get the idea.

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So you took Level 1 and you're intrigued. The Intermediate Workshop continues the playful exploration of improvisation from Level 1 and digs deeper into the fundamental elements of improv, with a special focus on cultivating your own individual style and working within the ensemble. We'll cover ideas like risk, character, objective, status, storytelling and scenework in more depth.  You'll get more direct feedback and are encouraged to start taking notes on your improv experience. 

Keith Johnstone's Impro is required reading for this class. (Limit 16 students)

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Ready to bravely and humbly take the stage in front of a live audience of friends and family?  Yes you are.  The Performance class introduces you to the games, scenework and stage skills you'll use throughout the rest of your improv career.  And continues all the fun and challenge of Levels 1 and 2.
 
This class culminates in a graduation show on the Hideout stage.  (Limit 10 students)

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Ten brave players will take this class and become the backbone of Maestro for the months of October and November.  We'll workshop the hell out of Keith Johnstone's most enduring and endearing format, developing stronger scenework skills, directing skills and searching desperately for that spark of spontaneity and joyful risk that inspires audiences.

Each week in June and July players from the workshop will play in, support and help direct the Saturday Maestro along side Maestro vetrans.  (Limit 10 students)

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Boldly go to the Hideout on Tuesday nights for eight weeks of narrative longform instruction in the genre of Start Trekkin'.  The Hideout is bringing their most successful show ever back to the mainstage this fall and we want you involved in the process.  Learn to tell a sixty-minute story with strong characters, transparent social allegories and lots of wigs and costumes.  You'll work on creating self-contained scenes, building suspense and coming to a satisfying dramatic climax.  Start Trekkin' is pure undadultrated fun like a longform should be.

Workshop participants will perform in a short "warm-up" act before every show in the September/October run of Start Trekkin'.  They will also perform at least two student performances of Start Trekkin' on a Thursday or Sunday in September/October.  (We're still working out the details on these "Mainstage Workshops" so if there are other things we can do to make it worth your while, let us know and we'll try to make it happen.)

Caveat: This workshop is in no way part of the casting process for the 2008 run of Start Trekkin'; it is an opportunity for improvisers to learn narrative longform techniquesin a genre that we have found to be exciting and exceptionally popular.  (Limit 10 students)

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