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Improv for the Actor: Finding the Fun While Keeping it Real!
Class dates and times: Sundays, beginning January 25th to March 1st from 1pm - 4pm.
Join veteran performer and instructor, Denny Siegel (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MVP – Montreal Comedy Festival), for an improv class designed to take your acting to the next level through improv basics and exploration!
About the Class
This course focuses on scene work grounded in authenticity, relationships, and connection. Improv pro Denny Siegel will gently guide you out of your comfort zone and into deeper work, where world-building and humor come from a place of emotional truth.
• Deepen Your Craft: Learn to make strong, grounded choices that support both long- and short-form improv, as well as scripted work, audition adjustments, and on-set performance.
• Essential Skills: Cultivate key tools like confidence, acceptance, listening, vulnerability, and collaboration—skills that enrich both your stage presence and everyday interactions.
What Students Are Saying
Students have called Denny: “Caring,” “generous,” a “fabulous teacher” who “does not sacrifice the quality of instruction when working with students with different backgrounds, training, and experience. “
“If you have a fear of improv, Denny will fix it for you!”
Curriculum Highlights
The class reinforces the fundamentals of improv through fun games and deep scene work. Skills covered during the course include:
• Embracing spontaneity and making bold creative choices.
• Active listening and memory retention for cohesive storytelling.
• The importance of choosing high stakes and detailed specifics.
• Expressing and heightening emotions authentically.
• Collaborating generously with scene partners.
Class dates and times: Sundays, beginning January 25th to March 1st from 1pm - 4pm.
Join veteran performer and instructor, Denny Siegel (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, MVP – Montreal Comedy Festival), for an improv class designed to take your acting to the next level through improv basics and exploration!
About the Class
This course focuses on scene work grounded in authenticity, relationships, and connection. Improv pro Denny Siegel will gently guide you out of your comfort zone and into deeper work, where world-building and humor come from a place of emotional truth.
• Deepen Your Craft: Learn to make strong, grounded choices that support both long- and short-form improv, as well as scripted work, audition adjustments, and on-set performance.
• Essential Skills: Cultivate key tools like confidence, acceptance, listening, vulnerability, and collaboration—skills that enrich both your stage presence and everyday interactions.
What Students Are Saying
Students have called Denny: “Caring,” “generous,” a “fabulous teacher” who “does not sacrifice the quality of instruction when working with students with different backgrounds, training, and experience. “
“If you have a fear of improv, Denny will fix it for you!”
Curriculum Highlights
The class reinforces the fundamentals of improv through fun games and deep scene work. Skills covered during the course include:
• Embracing spontaneity and making bold creative choices.
• Active listening and memory retention for cohesive storytelling.
• The importance of choosing high stakes and detailed specifics.
• Expressing and heightening emotions authentically.
• Collaborating generously with scene partners.