Improv for table-top role-play gaming. 

Greetings, traveler! Want to create compelling characters and immersive stories around the table with your friends? In this workshop, we will focus on the fundamentals of collaborative storytelling, techniques for creating and role-playing characters with playfulness and integrity, and building creative confidence. This is a workshop for you whether you’re a player, a GM, or an improvisor. 

Speed is not required to do improv, and it's not about speaking quickly, acting frantically, or moving recklessly; it's simply a tool - and a powerful one. For improvisers pursuing any form or format, speed - when used with precision and intention - can showcase skills that convey competence, demonstrate confidence, honor formats and games to make them pop, bring the Wow! Factor in front of your audience, and increase your ability to modulate energy, individually and as a team. 

Have you ever hit a wall with your improv or wished you could level up your performance? In this workshop, we return to the fundamentals that make improv feel like magic. We’ll break short-form improv down into three clear, easy-to-understand building blocks: Scene, Game, and Gimmick. You’ll learn practical techniques to strengthen each element, then put them together to better analyze, critique, and improve any improv scene. Improv is about intentionality and we'll consider how to add it in every choice we make. This workshop is perfect for newer improvisers looking for clarity and experienced players who want a stronger analytical toolkit. You’ll leave this workshop feeling confident, focused, and excited to grow!

Break habits, explore new relationships, and build stories no one sees coming.

Always improvising as yourself, or as the same few characters? In two hours, Rick Steadman will take you through a series of exercises and games to inspire characters you didn't know you had inside you, and give you tips on using those skills in the moment, during a show or audition. Focuses will be on practical application of physical, emotional, vocal, and point of view work.

Safe choices are for investment portfolios, not improv. Rick will push you out of your comfort zone, and into strong, exciting, and emotional choices. Scene work and exercises designed to get narratively dangerous. (Max 25 participants, at least six months of improv training.