Workshops

In Howden with Stuart Moses

This workshop investigates the weird, the overwhelmingly present or inexplicable, and the eerie, the absent or subtly unsettling. This improv is dramatic, but not horrific. Through group exercises, ensemble movement and imaginative world-building, we'll explore how to evoke tension, unease, and curiosity while staying connected to our scene partners. You’ll leave with the confidence to experiment with atmosphere, mood, and emotional resonance that will take your practice beyond evoking laughter.

In Meet 4 with SomerSand

A couple is getting married — a day of joy, celebration, and anticipation. Family members gather to share the moment, the wedding planner ensures everything runs seamlessly, and the best man and maid of honor add their own sparkle. Laughter fills the room, especially when the infamous drunken uncle makes an appearance — because there’s always a drunken uncle! But as the celebration unfolds, the tone shifts. At the time, (or during) the speeches, a confession surfaces. How will this family navigate the storm and face a new reality? “The Wedding” offers performers the chance to deepen their storytelling skills, strengthen ensemble play, and experience the joy of weaving comedy and drama into a shared narrative.

In Meet 5 with Jon Trevor

How do you even start a scene, especially once the audience have shouted out the suggestion “pineapple”? This workshop will give you a number of tools to start, join or enter any kind of scene, whether it’s organic or premise-driven. Never again will you stand on stage not knowing what to do.

In Meet 11 with Kate Bishop & John Tapp

At BIP, we don't interact physically - because we don't know each other. But what happens when we return to our usual groups, and work with people we know well? We will be looking at how you can appear to hit (and kiss) your scene partner, without actually doing either, in a consensual manner. We will also be looking at physical moves that you can make that give the impression that your characters are falling in love on stage.

In Meet 12 with Yiovi Derpsch

Discover how to craft truthful, engaging monologues that spark vivid scenes. Through high-participation exercises, guided prompts, and practical techniques, you’ll learn to slow down, find rhythm, use repetition, internal dialogue, and sensory detail to turn real memories into theatrical gifts. Whether you perform in Armando, monoscene, Living Room, or dramatic long-form, this workshop will help you find your authentic voice and be a great monologist! Recommended for intermediate/advanced improvisers.

In Cedar with Edd Crawley

Also known as “Follow the Leaver”, a Slacker starts with a simple two-person scene, but whenever (whenever!) a character leaves a scene, the scene ends and we follow that character into a new scene elsewhere in the world. This can get silly.

In Howden with Kathryn Knock

How can we create characters who feel like they’ve shared a lifetime of love, laughter, and losses - all from scratch, and often with scene partners we’ve just met? Tender Loving Scenes invites you to play with connection through language, physicality, and getting courageously squishy with you heart to create characters the audience will fall in love with. Perfect for those who want to create depth in scenes. Expect gentle emotional exploration and heartfelt play.

In Meet 4 with SomerSand

A couple is getting married — a day of joy, celebration, and anticipation. Family members gather to share the moment, the wedding planner ensures everything runs seamlessly, and the best man and maid of honor add their own sparkle. Laughter fills the room, especially when the infamous drunken uncle makes an appearance — because there’s always a drunken uncle! But as the celebration unfolds, the tone shifts. At the time, (or during) the speeches, a confession surfaces. How will this family navigate the storm and face a new reality? “The Wedding” offers performers the chance to deepen their storytelling skills, strengthen ensemble play, and experience the joy of weaving comedy and drama into a shared narrative.

In Meet 5 with Terje Brevik

Ever had your brain tell you your idea is wrong or not good enough? That you should feel bad for messing up or not knowing everything? Relax, our brains are idiots. Improv provides tools to make everything right and everyone look like a genius. When we find the confidence to trust and navigate the process, we’re never truly lost, even when we are. One simple exercise. One simple goal: turn everything you say or do into the right thing from this moment on.

In Meet 11 with Jack Greenway

Embark on a great adventure to discover: Quest! It is an improv game that blurs the lines between short and long form. Been doing lots of short form, and want to dip your toes into something a little longer? Experienced long former and want something structured and snappy you can use to fill a 20 minute slot? Quest has you covered!

In Meet 12 with Yiovi Derpsch

Explore how disconnected dialogue can build deeper connection. In this playful, high-participation workshop, you’ll experiment with holding separate threads, merging topics, and using emotional truth to transform disjointed talk into surprising, meaningful scenes. Learn to listen beneath words, stay present under pressure, and discover how non-sequiturs can unlock real characters, deep emotion, and comedy all at once. Recommended for intermediate and advanced improvisers.

In Cedar with Eji Osigwe

The Armando is a montage, inspired by an improvised monlogue. One player takes a one-word prompt and recounts a story from their life about whatever that word inspires. The cast create a series of premise-based scenes inspired by that story.

In Howden with Tom Hodge

riendly introduction to improvising songs, the core of musical improv. Mainly group exercises, good energetic start to the day. You don't necessarily need a good singing voice, but later on in your musical improv journey it can come in handy. As with all things, it will inevitably get better with practice. For musical improv, however, a strong sense of rhythm and not being afraid of what's going to come out of your mouth is very important. Best focus on regular improv skills first if you're at all worried.

In Meet 4 with Jen Hardy

The break room of any workplace is a microcosm of society; a hot bed of characters just ready and waiting to create theatre. We'll delve into the relationships, the friction and attempt to answer those ever important questions such as 'why does the fridge smell' and 'whose job is it to load the dishwasher'. So, sign the leaving card for someone you don't recognise, bring your own mug and knock on the door of the break room and see who is waiting inside.

In Meet 5 with Bobby Anderson

Your ultimate guide to creating any narrative show! GREEN: How do we start a show to give ourselves the best chance of creating a strong story without overloading ourselves and making it difficult? AMBER: How do we identify our protagonist and know when to help and hinder them in their journey? RED: How do we finish a show in a satisfying way, and most importantly which plots to we drop in the name of a good ending? These workshops are designed to stand alone so you don't need to attend all three, but that will give you the most insight into a full narrative show.

In Meet 11 with Barnish & Carmichael

Very often in improv we get told "Don't try to be funny" and in this workshop we will look at that keyword TRY. We'll look at ways we get in our own way and remove those blocks in order for our improv to be easy, fun and flowing!

In Meet 12 with Kathryn Knock

How can we create characters who feel like they’ve shared a lifetime of love, laughter, and losses - all from scratch, and often with scene partners we’ve just met? Tender Loving Scenes invites you to play with connection through language, physicality, and getting courageously squishy with you heart to create characters the audience will fall in love with. Perfect for those who want to create depth in scenes. Expect gentle emotional exploration and heartfelt play.

In Cedar with Sash Steele

Does what it says on the tin. Draw names from a hat, bring people up to play games, whether quickfire, scenic, guessing, musical, or any other style you can think of!

In Howden with Tom Hodge

For those with a lot of musical improv experience! Finding songs in longform improv is one thing, but sticking to them and committing to them musically is how to take the show to the next level, so lets do that! We will dig deep into song structures so we can utilise them live, identifying what the song needs at every moment so that everyone on stage can make it happen. We will craft endings to songs that do them justice, overcommit to the genre offers, and discover some absolute bangers.

In Meet 4 with Jen Hardy

The break room of any workplace is a microcosm of society; a hot bed of characters just ready and waiting to create theatre. We'll delve into the relationships, the friction and attempt to answer those ever important questions such as 'why does the fridge smell' and 'whose job is it to load the dishwasher'. So, sign the leaving card for someone you don't recognise, bring your own mug and knock on the door of the break room and see who is waiting inside.

In Meet 5 with Bobby Anderson

Your ultimate guide to creating any narrative show! GREEN: How do we start a show to give ourselves the best chance of creating a strong story without overloading ourselves and making it difficult? AMBER: How do we identify our protagonist and know when to help and hinder them in their journey? RED: How do we finish a show in a satisfying way, and most importantly which plots to we drop in the name of a good ending? These workshops are designed to stand alone so you don't need to attend all three, but that will give you the most insight into a full narrative show.

In Meet 11 with Jack Greenway

Embark on a great adventure to discover: Quest! It is an improv game that blurs the lines between short and long form. Been doing lots of short form, and want to dip your toes into something a little longer? Experienced long former and want something structured and snappy you can use to fill a 20 minute slot? Quest has you covered!

In Meet 12 with George Butcher

Every scene you perform has a genre, whether you intend it to or not! So why not take a little time to learn some genres properly, lean in, go beyond the cliche's and actually make some incredible stylistic choices in your scenes. We will be looking at 3 wildly different genres in this workshop with the intention of creating some of the most memorable scenes you will perform all year.

In Cedar with Hannah Carson

On the short-form side, The Scenes Only Jam allows you to pick who you want to perform with and show off your scene-work abilities.

In Howden with Emma Willmer

In this workshop, we will focus on 3 specific ways to root your characters and scenes so that they remain dynamic, engaging and relational. When securely anchored in these 3 ways, your scenes are more likely to fly, and take your audience with you! We will do active, focussed micro-work & exercises on the three concepts, slowly putting them all together and seeing how they emerge in short form games. There will be brief collaborative notes from the group & leader, lots of affirmation and encouragement, and an unreasonable amount of fun and frolics. All welcome.

In Meet 4 with Adam Hodgson

This workshop will introduce exercises that actors use in the creation of realistic characters. Games and exercises will explore: Essence of character - how actors use the body in space to communicate who they are The connection between the body, energy and emotion How to use emotional states to change physicality, and how this drives the scene and affects a scene partner How to react with volition to create sustained, compelling narrative through character The aim of this workshop is for participants to play the first 10 minutes of an improvised scene uninterrupted.

In Meet 5 with Bobby Anderson

Your ultimate guide to creating any narrative show! GREEN: How do we start a show to give ourselves the best chance of creating a strong story without overloading ourselves and making it difficult? AMBER: How do we identify our protagonist and know when to help and hinder them in their journey? RED: How do we finish a show in a satisfying way, and most importantly which plots to we drop in the name of a good ending? These workshops are designed to stand alone so you don't need to attend all three, but that will give you the most insight into a full narrative show.

In Meet 11 with Kate Bishop & John Tapp

At BIP, we don't interact physically - because we don't know each other. But what happens when we return to our usual groups, and work with people we know well? We will be looking at how you can appear to hit (and kiss) your scene partner, without actually doing either, in a consensual manner. We will also be looking at physical moves that you can make that give the impression that your characters are falling in love on stage.

In Meet 12 with Wei Joo Ooi

Make It Matter is workshop on strong reactions and smart justifications. Learn to heighten any moment, give significance to simple choices, and turn random lines into relatable reality. We’ll learn how to build supportive, engaging scenes that satisfy audiences by making every moment matter!

In Cedar with Emma T

In the La Ronde, we see six consecutive scenes in the same setting, with performers taking it in turns to join an existing character, then take their own character into the next scene. It's less complicated than it sounds!

In Howden with Graham Armstrong

Look around you! Do you see what it is? Yes, you probably do but your audience and scene partners won't unless you make it clear! This workshop will focus on object work and creating interesting environments for our scenes. For objects, we'll look at how we mime interactions and what that might say about our characters. We'll also look at how we can communicate the environment and how that might drive a scene forward. This workshop will be beginner friendly and involve a moderate amount of moving around.

In Meet 4 with Terje Brevik

Ever had your brain tell you your idea is wrong or not good enough? That you should feel bad for messing up or not knowing everything? Relax, our brains are idiots. Improv provides tools to make everything right and everyone look like a genius. When we find the confidence to trust and navigate the process, we’re never truly lost, even when we are. One simple exercise. One simple goal: turn everything you say or do into the right thing from this moment on.

In Meet 5 with Jon Trevor

How do you even start a scene, especially once the audience have shouted out the suggestion “pineapple”? This workshop will give you a number of tools to start, join or enter any kind of scene, whether it’s organic or premise-driven. Never again will you stand on stage not knowing what to do.

In Meet 11 with Adam Hodgson

This workshop will introduce exercises that actors use in the creation of realistic characters. Games and exercises will explore: Essence of character - how actors use the body in space to communicate who they are The connection between the body, energy and emotion How to use emotional states to change physicality, and how this drives the scene and affects a scene partner How to react with volition to create sustained, compelling narrative through character The aim of this workshop is for participants to play the first 10 minutes of an improvised scene uninterrupted.

In Meet 12 with Wei Joo Ooi

Make It Matter is workshop on strong reactions and smart justifications. Learn to heighten any moment, give significance to simple choices, and turn random lines into relatable reality. We’ll learn how to build supportive, engaging scenes that satisfy audiences by making every moment matter!

In Cedar with Yiovi Derpsch

Performers get to know one another with a friendly chat on a topic chosen by the audience, jumping into scenes when something inspires them. It's Armando meets chat show!

In Howden with Stuart Moses

This workshop investigates the weird, the overwhelmingly present or inexplicable, and the eerie, the absent or subtly unsettling. This improv is dramatic, but not horrific. Through group exercises, ensemble movement and imaginative world-building, we'll explore how to evoke tension, unease, and curiosity while staying connected to our scene partners. You’ll leave with the confidence to experiment with atmosphere, mood, and emotional resonance that will take your practice beyond evoking laughter.

In Meet 4 with Emma Willmer

In this workshop, we will focus on 3 specific ways to root your characters and scenes so that they remain dynamic, engaging and relational. When securely anchored in these 3 ways, your scenes are more likely to fly, and take your audience with you! We will do active, focussed micro-work & exercises on the three concepts, slowly putting them all together and seeing how they emerge in short form games. There will be brief collaborative notes from the group & leader, lots of affirmation and encouragement, and an unreasonable amount of fun and frolics. All welcome.

In Meet 5 with Barnish & Carmichael

Very often in improv we get told "Don't try to be funny" and in this workshop we will look at that keyword TRY. We'll look at ways we get in our own way and remove those blocks in order for our improv to be easy, fun and flowing!

In Meet 11 with George Butcher

Every scene you perform has a genre, whether you intend it to or not! So why not take a little time to learn some genres properly, lean in, go beyond the cliche's and actually make some incredible stylistic choices in your scenes. We will be looking at 3 wildly different genres in this workshop with the intention of creating some of the most memorable scenes you will perform all year.

In Meet 12 with Ben Wong

We all do a bit of "warm-up" games during each improv session, but do we actually utilize those "warm-up muscles" in the main event? This workshop aim to help the participants in making better choices and making more inspiring yet grounded scenes by looking up-close at how some of the warm up exercise helped us specifically. Suitable for all levels.

In Cedar with Tom Keegan

The jam for all things musical improv, with scenes, games and maybe the odd longform structure.