These master classes reflect some of the areas that I love as well as areas where I’ve seen and/or experienced the largest strides. Along with these offerings I can work with your input to craft a workshop/master class geared toward an area of particular interest or concern for your group. Scroll to the end for Musical Master Classes offered by Kayla.
Improv Pitfalls
Improv is like an immense, ancient, undiscovered temple. In every show actors are exploring bits of it together. Like so many other ancient temples some rooms are boobytrapped and the walls are littered with the bones of scenes which couldn’t escape them. This workshop helps identify these perilous rooms and identify the traps and triggers so that we can safely survive if we ever find ourselves in one.
Improv Sabotage
This workshop will challenge participants by placing restrictions, requirements, and other potential landmines into scenes to unleash potential. Has your improv become a bit ordinary? Have your choices become a bit predictable? Refill your creativity with a little sabotage.
A show format of the same title can be taught in tandem or on its own.
Dramatis Persona
Interaction with the audience and with fellow players outside of scenes are oft-neglected aspects of improv but are crucial to the theatrical experience. Who we are on stage doesn’t always mirror who we are in real life. That on stage persona defines how we interact with the audience and our fellow players. In this workshop we’ll play around with some different personas, workshop some audience interactions, explore different ways of getting suggestions, and work toward creating a richer experience for audiences that’s more fun for players and patrons alike.
Group Scenes
Drawing on lessons learned performing All Of Us, a long form whose promise is that “every player will be in every scene,” this workshop will exercise the improv muscles needed to navigate these large, sometimes unwieldy scenes.
Musical Master Classes
Kayla Marie – is a graduate of the SAK Comedy Lab training program, iO Training program, Second City Conservatory and Second City Musical Conservatory. Kayla leads these master classes full of hints, tips, and tricks to give your songs more sparkle. Theatre must provide its own pianist/musical director.
Basic Musical Improv with Kayla
Working on the basics for musical improv to strengthen overall skills for the individual. Focusing on finding the rhyme, creating catchy choruses, and sticking the landing on a song’s end. Techniques learned will be practiced through short form games and long form scenes.
—theatre must supply pianist/musical director for workshop
Advanced Musical Improv with Kayla
Based on structures and forms of the Second City Musical Conservatory, Advanced Musical Improv focuses on building out the pieces to make musical moments more theatrical. Focusing on groupwork, elements of songs, bringing out your inner Fosse, and putting it all together to make a cohesive musical production.
—theatre must supply pianist/musical director for workshop
Improv Brain 