Option #1: Game of the Scene with Rob Norman
10:00am - 12:30pm
Games are all about fun. Even when your scene has no host explaining the rules there’s still a game being played. This workshop explores different ways to identify, create, and find multiple games for your scenes. Learn ways to heighten, explore, and expand your game through relationship, environment and emotion.

Option #2: The Armando with Adam Cawley
10:00am - 12:30pm
The Armando combines live storytelling with longform scene work. Participants will learn the ingredients of a compelling story and how to twist these into heightened premises that will delight your audiences. The Armando continues to be one of the most successful and accessible formats in the world. Come tell your story!

Adam Cawley is an alumnus of The Second City Mainstage, The Just for Laughs Festival and is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award Winner, including: Best Male Improviser in Canada. Adam has been an actor and writer on Workin’ Moms (Netflix) and a regular on Baroness Von Sketch Show (IFC). Recently Adam appeared on Ghosts (CBS) and performs sketch comedy for The NFL on FOX (FOX). Juuuust before the pandemic Adam was cast in a new improv television pilot project from the creators of Whose Line is it Anyway? Currently Adam performs in 7 minutes in Heaven at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre as well as The Pack and The Westside Comedy Theatre. 

Rob Norman is a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor, Second City alumni, and author of Improvising Now: A Practical Guide to Modern Improv. Along with his co-host of the Backline, Adam Cawley, Rob tours the world teaching modern improvisation. He can be heard frequently on Canadian public radio and is the producer of CBC's Personal Best, which Time Magazine calls "easily one of the funniest podcasts on air".