This Workshop is part of the Hideout Forever! Fundraiser workshop series. Proceeds go to the effort to build The Hideout’s new home. Find out more about how you can help The Hideout build our new home 25 years downtown.
Saturday Afternoon Workshop (2.5hrs)
Act Now Write Now
with Sid Desai
Improv is acting and writing simultaneously. Great improv excels at both, but many improvisers struggle with one or the other. The first part of this workshop tackles improv from both perspectives—as an actor (physicality, emotion, and using the stage) and as a writer (specificity, motivation, and using cause and effect). In the second part, students practice putting the skills together in improv scenes. Breaking improv down into these fundamentals helps students get more out of improv practice to help bring scenes to the next level.
This class is open to graduates of Level Two or above.
2-4:30pm on Saturday, December 13 (pay what you can $29/$39/$50)
Bio:
Sid Desai has been doing improv since 2015 and teaching at the Hideout since 2023. They have been a part of Gigglepants and the B. Iden Payne Award winning Butterfly Defect. They love narrative improv with a focus on earnest character work. You can read Sid’s blog (sidrdesai.substack.com) to learn more about their style of improv and also tabletop role playing games. At The Hideout they’ve been in many shows including Game Show Show and Put Your Lips Together and Blow and have directed Swashbuckled, Killertown, and The Bollywood Improv Show. They also won a Maestro once.