Improv for Everyone

IMPROV FOR EVERYONE

Mondays January 27th - March 3rd
7:00-9:00pm

IMPROV FOR EVERYONE is an improvisation class series designed for participants of any experience level to enjoy. From beginners trying improv for the first time to people who have taken improv classes, this series is an opportunity to try new games and exercises that tap the spontaneity that makes it possible to create with other people in real-time and have the best time doing it. Through warm-ups that generate the improv mindset, the "state of play" and the spirit of radical support within the group, we will maximize the creative potential to create characters and explore imagined worlds on the spot. Improv is a uniquely powerful way to find the funny and unusual truths about people, ideas and life, which makes it a satisfying and rewarding creative group experience.***

In this class we will:

• Play warm-up games that rapidly connect group members and promote a shift into a creative mindset
• Experience improv exercises that strengthen specific skills for improvisation: radical acceptance, close listening, taking and giving focus, emotional expression, making your partner look good
• Practice improv exercises that demonstrate playing at the top of our intelligence
• Have maximum fun!!!

Jude Treder-Wolff is a creative arts therapist, improviser, social worker, and storyteller. She completed training programs at the Peoples Improv Theater, Magnet Theater Musical Improv, and Magnet Theater, all in NYC and studied improv online with Second City and with Will Hines at World's Greatest Improv School out of LA. She was on a Magnet Theater house improv team from 2022-2023, and is a Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, who designs and facilitates improv workshops for personal and professional development for organizations and groups in New York and around the country. Jude has been involved with applied improv since 2009 and then got into improv for performance 10 years ago. Jude is a therapist I felt an organic fit using improv in personal and professional development and then evolved into improv for the sake of improv.

She served as chair of the 2019 Applied Improvisation Network World Conference at Stony Brook University, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science. She is host and creator of (mostly) TRUE THINGS, a game wrapped in a storytelling show that features true stories – with a twist – that grew into a monthly cultural event at venues on Long Island and NYC and travels to communities around the country, including a teen edition. She is active in the national storytelling scene with multiple featured performances on the RISK! live show and podcast, Generation Women at Joe’s Pub, Funny Over Fifty at West Side Comedy Club, New Tricks at Q.E.D., The Story Collider live show and podcast, PBS Stories From The Stage in Boston, Story District in Washington, DC, Ex Fabula All-Star Winner in Milwaukee, WI, Mortified, Now You’re Talking The Armando Diaz Experience at The Magnet Theater, and many more.

Adults 21 and up!
$300.00