DINNER/HOTEL CHECK IN: 5pm - 7:30pm

SHOW: 7:30pm ~ 11pm

• 7:30 - Let's Try This! (GA Tech)
• 8:00 - The CODE (University of NC)
• 8:30 - Babies mit Bearden (Atlanta)
• 9:00 - Intermission
• 9:10 - The Basement (Atlanta)
• 9:40 - JaCKPie (Atlanta)
• 10:10 - Dad’s Garage (Atlanta)

IMPROV JAM: 11pm – Midnight or later

• Exclusive to improvisers
• Random games with random players!

SATURDAY

TROUPE ORIENTATION: 9:30am-10am

• Information session
• Q & A session

WORKSHOPS: 10am – Noon

• WORKSHOP 1 - Dad’s Garage
  • Location: Black Box
  • Description: Chris Blair directs a workshop on confident choices making confident characters. Get up on that improv thang. And if that thang happens to be a workshop dedicated to making strong confident choices to make believable and confident characters, than this is the workshop for you.
• WORKSHOP 2 – JaCKPie
  • Location: Richards Gallery
  • Description: Chris Pierce, co-founder of JaCKPie, leads this workshop on physicality in improvisation with an emphasis on organic play. It is not a lecture or a discussion of forms. This is experience-based play designed to help you move from thinking to doing, and it’s applicable to improv and acting of all varieties. We will explore “Space”, “Uncommon Senses” and “Playing Out of Your Mind”.
• WORKSHOP 3 – Dirty South Improv
  • Location: Westbrook Gallary
  • Description: Rene Duquesnoy teaches Rock Hip-Hop and Improv Comedy w/ THE BEATBOX - Learn the format for the critically acclaimed show that fuses fast-paced longform improv comedy and classic hip-hop. Experiment with scenes that are cut, mixed, and transformed by your ensemble and an improviser with a microphone. The Beatbox opens with a freestyle off a single suggestion, employs battle raps (see 8-mile), and ends in a rap jam inspired by the world of characters created for that show.
• WORKSHOP 4 – Robert Lowe
  • Location: Skiles 249
  • Description: "I will not know what I will do at the workshops until I am there with each gathering. They will be unique and tuned to the level and need of each group. I know this may make it hard to sell, but it is the only way I work." ~Robert Lowe
• WORKSHOP 5 -Dirty South Improv
  • Location: Skiles 268
  • Description: Rock the Building Block. Zach Ward will hit you with energy and honest feedback on your personal approach to improvised scenework. Zach will explain why he believes your choices are made, and how exactly some of those choices can force scenes to become work and limit our collective sense of play. You will learn to play each two-person scene as if it were the whole show. And soon, after you begin to rock consecutive two-person scenes, you will begin to consistently walk away from rock solid shows. Learn to paint the fence, to sand the deck, to wax the car, and to catch flies with chopsticks. Begin to improvise so that effects become reflex and the natural rhythm of the groupmind will lead you to make moves where and when the scene wants them to be made.
• WORKSHOP 6 – Let's Try This!
  • Location: Skiles 271
  • Description: Directed by Mike Tria. Character Goals. Harnessing the awesome power of improv psychology, spring into action with goals.

LUNCH: Noon - 1:45pm

WORKSHOP: 1:45pm – 3:45pm

• WORKSHOP 1 - Dirty South Improv
  • Location: Black Box
  • Description: Directed by Zack Ward. The Matrix. This workshop will break you free from the rules of the real world and teach you to play without limitations. You will begin to understand that the moment you step onstage you are jacked in, and anything is possible, if you want it. You will learn that improv rules exist but they are able to be broken. You will dodge bullets, you will escape thru a telephone, and you will know Kung-Fu. You will have more fun after you start to improvise inside The Matrix.
• WORKSHOP 2 – Let's Try This!
  • Location: Richards Gallery
  • Description: Adam Johnson teaches Formless Improv; a.k.a. Unformed Improv. Tired of having a "format." Try the natural evolution of a Harold and step into formless improv. Learn how to step out on stage and just go with out any rules what so ever.
• WORKSHOP 3 – Dirty South Improv
  • Location: Westbrook Gallery
  • Description: Rene Duquesnoy teaches PAINT theSCENE - Focus on heightening the two-person scene through your use of environment and scene-painting techniques. You will learn when and where effectively delivered visual details can actually be worth a thousand words.
• WORKSHOP 4 – Robert Lowe
  • Location: Skiles 247
  • Description: "I will not know what I will do at the workshops until I am there with each gathering. They will be unique and tuned to the level and need of each group. I know this may make it hard to sell but it is the only way I work." ~Robert Lowe
• WORKSHOP 5 – Ideaprov
  • Location: Skiles 268
  • Description: Directed by Paul Bellos. Let's Get Physical! Movement for the Stage. Watching improvisers stand there trying to be witty is BORING. This intensive teaches core techniques and the value of stage movement, effective ways to create and use your environment on stage.

WORKSHOP: 4pm – 6pm

• WORKSHOP 1 - Dad’s Garage
  • Location: Black Box
  • Description: Matt Stanton directs The Worst Workshop Ever. Oh, man. This is gonna be sweaty. Lots of running and flailing (or flailure as we say). Just kidding. This workshop will include narrative exercises designed to help push scenes forward, dramatic structure in theater and mythology. But we'll also play with effectively not-advancing stories, by building tension. Time permitting, we will focus on specific skills the group wants to tackle.
• WORKSHOP 2 - JaCKPie
  • Location: Richards Gallery
  • Description: Jim Karwisch, co-founder of the improv duo JaCKPie brings to light three eye-opening fundamentals of good improv scene work in this two hour workshop. The topics will include "Using the First Moment", "Inspiration", and "Aggressive Listening." Jim's intuitive teaching style makes every workshop focused on the needs of the specific people involved and allows for different levels of acting experience.
• WORKSHOP 3 – Let's Try This!
  • Location: Westbrook Galleries Skiles 247
  • Description: Directed by Nate Weimer. Be the Scene! So you have a stage and people. Now what? Can't afford the luxuries of props and scenery? I'll lead you down the road to utilizing the best resource an improv troupe has: its players. Join me in a some games and excercizes that toy with the idea of using players as props and set pieces. Come prepared to be physical and objectified...literally! It's people....Soylent Scene is People!!!
• WORKSHOP 4 – Let's Try This!
  • Location: Skiles 247
  • Description: Ryan Lafitte directs Kill It!, a workshop on ending scenes and/or bringing them to their conclusions (just in case there's a difference).
• WORKSHOP 5 - Ideaprov
  • Location: Skiles 268
  • Description: Directed by Paul Bellos. Dialects and Vocal Quality. Add a new dimension to your characterization. Learn vocal strength to generate interesting dialects and voices.

FREE DINNER: 6pm - 7pm

• Provided by Papa John's Pizza
• for troupes, directors, and volunteers only

SHOW: 7:30pm ~11pm

• 7:30 - Mock Turtle Soup (Clemson)
• 8:00 - Rathskellar (Emory)
• 8:30 - Ideaprov (Nashville)
• 9:00 - Intermission
• 9:10 - Robert Lowe w/ LTT! (Atlanta)
• 9:40 - Dirty South Improv (Chicago)
• 10:10 - Laughing Matters (Atlanta)

SUNDAY

OPTIONAL WORKSHOPS: 10am – 1pm

• Tailored for individual troupes
• Additional costs apply: $5 per person or $25 per troupe

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