Intro to Improv Workshop with Brandon Gardner

Ages 18+
Experience Level All experience levels


Class Description

This workshop is an introduction to acting without a script! Through exercises and games you’ll learn the fundamental improv skills of listening and agreement which are the first steps towards creating fully improvised scenes. Improv workshops are great for actors and anyone looking to get better at communication and collaboration.

Brandon Gardner

Brandon Gardner

Improv Comedy Instructor @brandonjgardner

About the Instructor

Brandon Gardner has taught and performed at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade (UCB) Theaters in New York and Los Angeles since 2007. The UCB Training Center is the premier improv comedy school in the world and many of Brandon’s students have gone on to be writers and actors in movies and TV shows including Saturday Night Live. In addition to his classes at UCB, Brandon has taught improv workshops for companies like Google and NBC as well as at Universities including USC, NYU and Columbia. In 2024 Brandon co-created the half-hour comedy In the Know for Peacock.

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Questions? Contact Director of Education & Outreach Tara Palen at [email protected].