This is a rare opportunity to work with two of the most experienced Improv workshop leaders. World Improv side-coach, Max Schafer, and Dillard University Professor, Ray Vrazel, will be offering a fun, play- based workshop showcasing the essential aspects of improvisation, to facilitate players into becoming better actors, improvisors, and people.

If you ever had the feeling during a workshop that it has stopped being fun, it’s difficult to connect with your fellow players, the audience is not responding, you feel like you are waiting around a lot, then this workshop may help.

Rather than hearing a lot of lecture, this workshop is totally play-based, allowing you learn through practice and side-coaching.

In this Spolin based workshop, we will touch upon essential Improv elements:

• The 7 aspects of spontaneity
• Playwriting vs being “Out of you head, and in the Space.”
• Going beyond space objects and into the Where
• Physicalization and Inner action

Max Schafer is author of “Viola Spolin’s Theater Game for the Classroom Multimedia CD.” He was a student of Viola Spolin and Paul Sills. He has led hundreds of workshops in the US and around the world.

Ray Vrazel is an Actor, Director, Improvisation Workshop Leader (Spolin), and Theatre Arts Educator/Developer for over 40 years. He is a member of Actors Equity and Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA.