This class is intended for intermediate/advanced improvisers (18 & older) with some prior improv experience.

Improv might be the most challenging of the performing arts to lead others through and this class will show you how to get the most out of your improvisers whether in a class or a rehearsal. Students will learn how to devise lesson plans, orchestrate rehearsals, and give notes both through exercises and hands-on experience leading lessons for groups of visiting improvisers.

ASAF RONEN is the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way. He regularly performs, teaches and produces in Austin, and has been the Education Director at The Institution Theater and at ColdTowne Theater. He is a Producer and Education Director of Austin’s annual Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. Asaf has taught and performed improvisation in Canada, Great Britain, Norway and in twenty-nine of these United States with such groups as the B. Iden Payne Award winning Confidence Men (improvised plays in the style of David Mamet) and imp (mostly silent improv). He was producer on TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP, a documentary on legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that premiered at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival in 2009 and helped develop the improvised film Days of Delusion with director Scott Myers. In 1999, Asaf founded the improv website, YESand.com of which he was Editor-in-Chief.