You've completed the Core Curriculum of Faraway's Performance Path, and now it's time to move on to more challenging improv forms and concepts. This Advanced Study class will focus on making and committing to bold character choices and dive deep on the WHO of the scene. 

WHO is this person? What do they care about and why? What life events have shaped their personality and how does that manifest in their bodies? How deep is their world view and how do they embody that through the choices they make in the present? Why do they react the way they do?

The WHO also involves the character's physical traits. Facial expressions, voice, walk, slang, quirks, general mannerisms. We will learn to embody these things to discover and create fun, compelling, and REAL characters- not just caricatures.

We will learn to pull character inspiration from our own lives as well as spontaneous inspirations from the stage. We will learn to establish strong points of view and act with fresh convictions as fully actualized people who can show up and infuse vitality and hilarity into each and every Moment.

Your performance form 'The Moment' is an original format developed at Faraway taking inspiration from the forms the sleepover and the montage.

Disclaimer: This class will be more immersive and demanding than other classes in our performance track. Beyond their characters, the Improvisers themselves give meaning to the moment by showing up as fully fleshed out, lived in, and dynamic beings. This class will require students to complete various 'homework' assignments outside of class. These assignments are designed to get students out of their comfort zones in life so that they organically bring new life to their work on stage.The instructor strongly encourages you to fully commit to bringing an open positive mindset to class, completing all outside of class assignments, and not having any schedule conflicts for the class term.

In order to sign up for this class, you must have completed 501.

This is a 6-week class on Sundays from 5–8 p.m., starting on July 13.
There will be no class on July 27.

We now offer payment plans for all of our classes click 'Pay via payment plan' to enroll.

Students on our Improv Performance Path (101-501) will be responsible for the following:

If you'd like to attend this class but can't due to the class being sold out,  or scheduling conflicts, or you'd like to discuss class placement options, please complete the form here to let us know and join our waitlist, and we will be in touch.

If you have significant previous improv performance experience and would like to discuss class placement options, please complete our class placement request form by visiting farawaybham.com/placement or clicking here.

There are no class refunds available at this time. Faraway Theater is located at 1211 27th Pl S Suite 20, Birmingham, AL 35205. Parking is available in the lot and on the street. The entrance is located past the Electra film lab drop-box. The theater is primarily accessed by stairs, so please email [email protected] if you need access to our ground-level entrance or have any other accessibility issues or theater questions. lf you have any other general questions about the class itself, please email [email protected].