THE DETAILS
Registration is now closed.
Costs are:
$20 per student per class.
$100 for ALL CLASS Pass - Gets you into six classes. ($120 value)
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Particulars are:
12 student maximum in each class, except for The Improv Audition which is set at 24.
Workshops will be open to anyone, but it is recommended that students have some improv experience.
Registration will open soon and close at Midnight on Thursday, August 30.
On the day of the class, people can register in person with cash or check if the limit has not been met.
Students can register using our online purchasing site just like show tickets.
A student's spot in a workshop is forfeited if they are more than 10 minutes late to class. Anyone on the waiting list will be able to take this spot. Additionally, any student who is a no-show will not be refunded their class fees.

Please send your questions and concerns to Shana, our Education Director.

-Scholarship-
There is 1 class and show scholarship available for this year's festival. The winner of said scholarship will get a full ride to 6 classes and an ALL SHOWS pass. Entries are due August 12, 2006.
Go HERE for more details about this great opportunity.

Razowksy and Clifford MASTER CLASS - [FRI 1-5pm]
These improv veterans began their improv training in Chicago performing at Second City , ImprovOlympic and The Annoyance. Razowsky has written and performed in ten Second City Chicago revues, as well as having directed Second City Mainstage’s No, Seriously, We’re All Gonna Die. He is now the Artistic Director of Second City, Los Angeles . Razowsky & Clifford perform regularly at IO West in Los Angeles .

Razowsky and Clifford is performing Sunday at 7:30pm in the BIG Headlining Show.

Work Slower, Go Deeper - Improv Scenework Workshop with David Razowsky [SAT 1-3pm]
A scene isn’t made up of words, it’s made up of moments. Often it’s not what’s said that heightens the scene, it’s what’s noticed and acted upon. This workshop will focus on slow play, “deep tissue listening” and discovering how much is said when we take in the moments through patient playing, soaking in the lines in between what’s said, and honesty.

David Razowsky, Artistic Director of Second City LA, was a cast member of ten Second City revues where he created material with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Jeff Garlin, among countless other performers. David has directed Second City Mainstage’s No, Seriously, We’re All Gonna Die, Second City LA’s, Encino Evil, The Second City Untitled Project, The Second City Detroit's acclaimed 19th Nervous Breakdown, and The Second City National Touring Company. David is an adjunct faculty member of the California State University , and has just returned from directing their mainstage production, Beeswax, a performance of original monologues created through improvisation by CSU students. He worked with Steppenwolf Theatre in 2005 on Balm in Gilead for the California State Summer Arts Festival, and directed two of Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago theatre’s productions-- RockStars, and their critically acclaimed Live at the Leidseplein - Your Privacy is Our Business. Both Boom shows were remounted for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. David has directed the Los Angeles premier of Hellcab at The Hudson Theatre, What’s Wrong with Getting Laid and Dairy Farm at The Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson Theatre. He is a co-founder of Chicago ’s Annoyance Theatre.

Dave Razowsky is performing with Razowsky and Clifford Sunday at 7:30pm in the BIG Headlining Show

Take the Shakespeare challenge and dive into one of the most brain-crunching forms of improv there is! Play razor-tongued wenches, melancholy Danes and vengeful Thanes. Students will improvise monologues and scenes, translate contemporary speech into Elizabethan poetry, practice villainous asides, create triple-tiered insults and play love scenes in iambic pentameter. The class will be ‘team-taught’ by the cast of Impro Theatre’s critically acclaimed “Shakespeare Unscripted.” Don’t miss this rare chance to work with a world class ensemble of veteran improvisers.

Impro Theatre is performing Sunday at 7:30pm in the BIG Headlining Show

A perfect workshop for short form players or beginning long-form players, this is a long-form class that helps you make that jump from just doing scenes and montages to giving your shows some cohesiveness, structure, heightening, and closure. This class is only for intermediate improvisers (6 months of improv training or performance)

Dave Buckman has been directing, coaching, performing, writing, and teaching sketch comedy and improvisational theater for the last 14 years. Dave has trained at The Improv Olympic with Del Close, at The Second City Conservatory with Martin DeMaat and The Annoyance Theater with Mick Napier. From 2000-2002, he served as Artistic Director for Boom Chicago in Amsterdam , where he oversaw the production of four successful revues. He also served as a Director, Writer, and Teacher for The Second City in Chicago and directed The Second City Cleveland's Who's Yer Baghdadi?  Dave has directed, and worked with over a dozen members of the most recent and current casts and writing staffs of MADtv, 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live. He currently resides in Austin , TX where he teaches a variety of improv classes and performs with his award winning comedic troupe, The Frank Mills. He occasionally sits-in on The Sinus Show, Stool Pigeon, 3-2-1 Kill! and was a finalist in the Austin Air Guitar Championships, under the name Queef Richards.

Dave Buckman is performing with The Frank Mills on Saturday at 8pm.

Since meeting in the fall of 1997, Melissa Cathcart and Jay Olson have performed together in many productions, including the improvised one-act play, Chairs, the A&E documentary, The Laugh Track, and the independent television pilot, Stray Dogs. They’ve taught improvisation to children and adults with ComedySportz, Chicago Comedy Company, for numerous corporate clients, and at comedy and theatre festivals across North America and abroad. Melissa and Jay have trained with Academy Award winner Alan Arkin and current Mad-TV cast member Keegan-Michael Key, as well as at Chicago ’s Annoyance, ComedySportz, iO, Second City , and Profiles theatres.

Cathcart & Olson is performing Friday at 8pm.

Ensemble, French for bagel, is the glue that holds an improv troupe together onstage and off. We'll be looking at games and exercises to strengthen that glue, why this glue is so important, how to fake it in situations where there is no chemistry, and we'll joke about why the circle is the most important shape in improv.

Jeremy Lamb is a native Austinite who has been performing comedy for nearly ten years at various venues around town and around the US. He graduated from UT with a film degree in 2002 and currently books and performs improv with the nationally touring ensemble Available Cupholders. He has also toured as Bearded Lamb, a solo improv act, winning awards for his efforts along the way. He owns ATX Entertainment, a booking agency focusing on comedy in the college market. He has produced and released a solo album, directed and starred in a full-length feature sketch comedy film, stars in the forthcoming Backpack Picnic online sketch series, wrote and starred in his own tv pilot still in post production, and is a member of the Applied Improv Network. Jeremy also founded and Co-Executive Produces Austin's Out of Bounds Improv Festival and Miniature Golf Tournament now in its sixth year. He may be best known locally for his work directing and performing with nouveau Austin improv legends, Well Hung Jury, 1998-2003.

He has just returned to Austin after a brief stint doing some learning and networking in Chicago's comedy community where he trained with Second City and folks from Improv Olympic. He has taught improv in nearly half the United States and been a staff teacher with the Heroes of Comedy School. He also coaches ensembles and has worked recently with Pgraph, You Me & Greg, Look Cookie, Bubu Lubu, Hoover's Blanket, and You're Fat.

Jeremy Lamb is performing with Available Cupholders on Sunday at 7:30pm
and with Backpack Picnic on Friday at 10pm.