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

Do you know what your strengths are? Do you know what tendencies are getting in your way? Working in a non-stop series of improv reps, you'll learn what your patterns are and how to break them through personalized challenges. Great for intermediates who want to develop new skills and for professionals who want to keep fresh. No lesson plans. Just a steady stream of scenework to help you pinpoint your individual tendencies. Find out what it looks like when YOU improvise are and where you could explore further.

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.