Classes

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Special workshop to show opportunity!

"Meet Cute" (Class is Full)

A workshop to performance class and show!

In this “workshop to show” class students will gain the tools to understand and perform longform Romantic Comedy Narrative structure. Over the course of four weeks students will learn, understand and play with the classic tropes of RomComs and apply them in an improvised. longform narrative 3 act play.

Classes: Dec. 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th / 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Shows: January 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th / 7:30 p.m.
$220 - with payment plans available
Taught and Directed by Nick Condon
​Location: 1129 SE Market St.

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Saturday, Nov. 15th (Canceled)
4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
$60
​Taught by: Randy Dixon

Taught by: Improv Legend
​Randy Dixon! (This workshop has been canceled. Keep your eyes peeled for a possible future date.)

Emergence:
A workshop on discovery and being in the moment

The pieces begin in shadows and stillness, through spontaneity we discover the emerging 
form rising from the boundary of stillness set by the audience. Not forced with tons ideas but patiently revealing engaging theater that rises from everyone in the room. Improvise with those who do not they are improvising with you. What will emerge from chaos to control to chaos? What is the new idea of emergence and complexity theory?
 
Work against your improvisation training to open yourself up being receptive and vulnerable to what wants to happen, not what I want to make happen. Discovering and being open to the moment. Inviting discovery onstage and in in scene work, not “making” something happen.
 
Randy Dixon will explore emergence: something from nothing and the art of discovering what the work is about together, between the audience and performers, on stage. Randy Dixon has a long career of exploring this theme, having created such shows as City Life, Spoken, and Blank Slate, shows that depend on everyone working together to discover what the show is about while doing it. 

About Randy Dixon:
​Randy is regarded as one of the most experienced improvisational artists in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. In 1983, he was a founding member of Unexpected Productions (Seattle) and he served as the company’s Artistic Director from
1988 to 2021. Randy also founded and directs The Orcas Island Project, an international performance group consisting of 15 performers from 12 countries. He has taught, directed and performed improvisational theater in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Italy, Germany, Austria, Holland, and all over the U.S. and Canada. Outside of his improvisational work, Randy served on the editorial board for The Salt Journal a journal of Myth, Religion, Psychology and Ideas. His book, Being Present: Spontaneous Storytelling and the Art of Improvisation has been published in German, Slovene, soon in Swedish, and Japanese. Randy has B.F.A. in Drama from Seattle University and a Master’s Degree in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Jungian Depth Psychology.

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Past & Future Class Offerings

We also offer a variety of special skill workshops and classes:

• Exits & Entrances
• Form & Function
• Improvising Drama
• Immersive Improv
• Performing Poetically
• Pantomime
• Clowning
• Scene Study
• Improvising Intimacy / Understanding Consent
• Storytelling

Keep your eyes peeled for dates and times.

In between class sessions we offer a FREE workshop, giving you a chance to dip your toes into the Deep End and see how you like it.
​Visit our WORKSHOPS page for more information.

We also have an exceptional Young Actors Program with two specialized classes:

• Young Actors Workshop (ages 6 to 10)
• Youth Ensemble (ages 10 to 16)