THE DETAILS
Registration is now closed.
Costs are:
$20 per student for a 2-hour class
$60 per student for a 4-hour intensive
$130 for FULL CLASS Pass - Gets you into any class. ($180 value)

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- Particulars -
If you buy a FULL CLASS PASS, please email your class selections to Shana, our
Ed. Director - education AT outofboundsimprov DOT com 1
2 student maximum in each class.
Workshops will be open to anyone, but it is recommended that students have some improv experience.
Registration will open soon and close at 11pm on Thursday, August 28.
On the day of the class, people can register in person with cash or check if the class 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 all classes and an ALL SHOWS pass. Entries are due August 9, 2008.
Go HERE for more details about this great opportunity.

Bill Arnett has been improvising and teaching at i.O. Chicago (formerly Improv Olympic) for the last nine years. He performs in the weekly Armando Diaz all-star show and as a sketch writer and performer with Maximum Party Zone, he has performed for an HBO showcase and optioned a screen play. As a teacher and director he has traveled around the country giving workshops for colleges, festivals and independent theaters. Bill writes a popular improv blog at www.iochicago.net

Charna Halpern says "Bill Arnett is one of the best teachers at iO. He is so brilliant at analyzing what is necessary for a scene to work and has a no holds barred approach in his teaching. Yet he is kind in his notes while always telling it like it is. He has found the right balance between critical and nurturing."

Friday, August 29th 1pm - 5pm
Hideout Downstairs

Bill is performing on Friday in All-Star Micetro

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Beth Burns Intensive: Groundlings Long Form

Learn the basics to the fast-paced, clap-in, character-driven long form style that the Groundings have been using for the past ten years.  With a focus on a strong partner connection, bold characters, and confidence, you too can rock the Crazy Uncle Joe format. (See the Groundlings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show in action Sunday night at the Big Headlining Show.)

Beth Burns has been a teacher for the Groundlings theatre since 2000. She was a also a member of Fred Willard's sketch group "MOHO," and has worked with LA's Second City . Film and TV credits include Tim McCanlies' upcoming feature "The Two Bobs," and a steady gig in " Bear City " on NBC's Saturday Night Live. In a bear suit.

Friday 1pm - 5pm
Hideout Upstairs

Beth is performing on Sunday with The Groundlings
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Groundlings Intensive
w/ Colleen Smith, Edi Patterson, Stephanie Courtney: Groundlings Basics

An introduction to the Groundlings' approach to improv, with a strong focus on character and emotion-fueled scenes.  Games and scenes that will have students: play against type, play film/theater styles, make huge emotional choices and raise the stakes.  Wear closed toed shoes, cause this shit's gonna be crazy!

Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Hideout Downstairs

Colleen Smith is a Groundlings Sunday Company alum and currently teaches at the Groundlings school. Her television credits include "The Showbiz Show with David Spade" "The Office," "World Cup Comedy," "The Singles Table," "Carpoolers," and "King of the Hill." She is a member On The Jim Henson Co's "Puppet Up!" an improvised puppet show. She is the co-creator of an original series called "Danger Force Five." She is also the co-creator of "DateGarden.com," a fictional dating website, and of "The Smith Brown Project," a two woman show which ran at The Comedy Central Stage and UCB.

Edi Patterson is a member of the Main Company at the famous Groundlings Theatre, and can be seen around LA and all over the world improvising plays with the critically acclaimed IMPRO THEATRE (last year’s headliner at OOB 2007!) You can also catch Edi in the upcoming Dreamworks movie A THOUSAND WORDS starring Eddie Murphy and Allison Janney, and this summer she will be playing Fran in the feature mockumentary THE WIFFLER. Recent television credits include UNHITCHED on Fox, and two different roles on the upcoming Cartoon Network Adult Swim live-action series A YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO HISTORY. She was a recurring correspondent for THE SHOWBIZ SHOW WITH DAVID SPADE on Comedy Central and was a series regular on Damon Wayans’ sketch comedy series THE UNDERGROUND on Showtime.

Stephanie Courtney is a main company member of the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles. She's appeared in TV shows (Mad Men, Cavemen, Tom Goes To the Mayor), commercials, and films (The Heartbreak Kid, Blades of Glory). She is thrilled to be visiting Austin for the first time!





Colleen, Edi, and Stephanie are performing on Sunday with The Groundlings
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Dan O'Connor Intensive: Be The Hero or At Least Their Friend

This class will focus on finding the protagonist in a scene and making their story happen. We will investigate how to be a good hero, a good antagonist, a good friend and a good B story. We will also look at dealing with multiple heros and multiple story-lines.

Dan O'Connor is Co-founder of the critically acclaimed Impro Theatre as well as a co-founder of four other American Theatresports companies including Bay Area Theatresports. He performed in the Improbable Theatre’s production of “Lifegame” Off-Broadway and in the TNN television series of the same name. He co-created the NBC/PAX television improv comedy show “World Cup Comedy.” He was chosen from improvisers all over the country last summer to represent our gloriously spontaneous nation as one third of the American Team at the Improv World Cup Tournament in Germany.

Television acting credits include the upcoming pilot “Star and Stella,” “Seinfeld,” “Campus Ladies,” “Malcolm In the Middle,” “The Tonight Show,” and series regular roles on “The Newz,” and “Quick Witz” (for which he was also a producer).

Television directing credits include the critically acclaimed ABC hybrid sit-com “Sons and Daughters” and “Campus Ladies” for the Oxygen Network. He was a writer and the improv director for “The Wayne Brady Show.”

He was an adjunct professor for USC ‘s BFA program. He has taught at UT, DUKE, Pepperdine, UCLA extension and an improv companies around the world. He is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and an executive board member of the International Theatresports Institute.


Saturday August 29th 1pm - 5pm
Hideout Upstairs

Dan is performing on Friday in The Battle of the Sexes and on Saturday with VAROOM

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Micah Philbrook: Playing Faster and Stronger

This course consists of two halves that build on each other. The first section is on quick scene creation, and the second is on quick but rich character development.  In a lot of today's improvised theatre offerings, fast paced montage formats are very common. A misconception is that faster play equals weaker or less "longform-y" improv. pH productions specializes in fast paced long form improv, and we believe that faster does not equal weaker just as slower does not equal better. Instead, both are viable playing styles with their own strengths and weaknesses. This workshop is designed to give improvisors the tools needed to excel at faster scene play. In part one, improvisors learn the pH production method of quick scene creation, Platform Tilt Resolution. Using this technique, performers can quickly get to the "what" of a scene, allowing more time to explore and heighten, thereby having more discoveries, while still serving as a quality scene in a faster paced show format. In part two, performers will learn the Attribute Trinity method of character generation, focusing on aspects of body, mind, and voice, to create strong, engaging, believable characters on the fly. At the end of the workshop, improvisors will be able to play faster, with more confidence in their content creation as well as their character generation, leading to stronger more developed scene work.

raised in the deep south of baton rouge, louisiana, micah has studied theatre since the tender age of ten. he moved to chicago in late ninety nine to pursue the art of improvisational theatre, where he completed the training centers at the improv Olympic, the Annoyance, and the Second City Conservatory. micah can be seen regularly with the harold team Athens, intermittently with the independent quintet The New American All-Stars, and rarely with the internationally acclaimed duo !ATTENÇION! most importantly, micah is a founding member of pH Productions and is proud to play with the best crew in town, pH.

Saturday 3pm - 5pm
Hideout Classroom

Micah is performing on Friday with pH and Saturday with ATTENCION!

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David Razowsky: Connecting Through Viewpoint Elements

While teaching for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre's school, Second City veteran David Razowsky was exposed to--and immediately taken with--the power of Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints training, and he immediately saw the power Viewpoints plays in improv theatre. Razowsky's master class will focus on how by using elements of Viewpoints actors can instantaneously connect to their playing environment, to their partners and, most importantly and most strongly, to themselves. Be prepared to see your craft in a new light, be prepared to see with new eyes, and be prepared to be rejuvenated.

David Razowsky, former 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.

Monday 12pm - 4pm [ PLEASE NOTE THE TIME. It is different than the other Intensives ]
Hideout Downstairs

David is performing on Saturday with VAROOM

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Bill Stern: It's Okay

Denials, questions, bridging, waffling, pimping, talking heads... it's okay. Del Close, Keith Johnstone, Mick Napier... fine. Long form, short form, midform, narrative, abstract... cool, whatever. You should be able to play how you want to play, and that's okay. This workshop will be a series of exercises, covering many schools of thought, designed to help you feel comfortable in virtually any scene. There are tools and skills that one can use to improvise in any style, with anyone else, on any stage. Let's practice, and I promise, it's gonna be okay.

Bill Stern is a native Austinite living, performing, and studying improv in Chicago where he has regular shows at iO and the Playground. He has completed the iO training center and is currently studying at the Annoyance theater. Bill has been a performer in multiple touring improv groups. He's toured to 24 states and over 50 cities, teaching many workshops along the way. Since 2000 he's spent much of his improv career experimenting with format and style, bringing innovative improv shows to tens of festivals and theaters around the country.

Friday 1pm - 3pm
Hideout Classroom

Bill is performing on Sunday with Available Cupholders

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Stan Wells: Transforming

This workshop will use the transformation exorcise as a basis for creating five to ten minute scenarios. We will focus on when to end a scene and how to quickly find the physical and mental focus that flows into the next scene. Since transformations are a non-stop, free flowing game the object of the workshop will be to get the improvisers to let go and find the moment when they are instantaneously in agreement about who they are, where they are and what they are doing.

Stan Wells is the founder and Artistic Director of The Empty Stage Theatre in Los Angeles. He's been teaching improv for over 25 years and is the director of The Transformers (Trans4merz.com) founded over 15 years ago. He has directed The Groundlings and created the "clap-in" style of improv used by many of his groups at The Empty Stage (emptystage.com) as well as The Groundlings, Crazy Uncle Joe Show. For further bio info go to: stanwellsimprov.com

Saturday 1pm - 3pm
Hideout Classroom

Stan is performing on Sunday with The Trans4merz