1) shifting our electives to every Wednesday (including new extended electives)
2) offering new Level One Through Six classes
3) bringing Mick Napier to Austin
Essential Electives
Every Wednesday is a different two-hour workshop with esteemed instructors from across the Austin improv scene. Just $15 to the general public (free to students currently enrolled in a Hideout Level class).
Check out Upcoming Electives
•The Real World of Absurd-Absurd Scenes with Lisa Jackson and Josh Gill
•Emphasis on the AND! with Josh Gill
•Telling the Story with Troy Miller
•Be Ugly with Valerie Ward
•Improvised Improv with Jon Bolden
Every Wednesday 7-9pm
Extended Electives
By popular demand we're offering in depth versions of some of our past Essential Electives.
•Physicality in Improv with Asaf Ronen
Wednesdays, October 12, 19 and 26, 7-10pm ($100 for three weeks, nine hours)
Level Six: Performing the Story
In the third class in our performance series you’ll dive headfirst into what might be the most difficult work we do at the Hideout — long form narrative. Through games, exercises and training formats, you’ll learn the basic elements of improvising a thirty-minute story. Level Six culminates in a three-week run of student shows in the Sunday Weekender.
•Mondays, Sept 12 through Oct 17, 7-10pm
$175 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 10 students
Level Five: Performing the Show
You’ve got the building blocks of improv; now it’s time to put it all together in a run of self-directed shows. Throughout the year we offer a variety of different Level Five classes exploring different formats. Produce your own shortform show with games and scenes in Theatresports. Or try a Montage class and discover not just how to transition between connected scenes, but also WHEN and WHY. Or dabble with narrative longform in Six Degrees. Whatever the format, we’ll continue to work on sustaining the playfulness and effortlessness that makes it all worthwhile. Level Five culminates in a three-week run of student shows in the Weekender.
•Tuesdays Nov 8 through Dec 13, 7-10pm
$175 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 10 students
Level Four: Performing the Scene
The first level of our performance series is an advanced scene study class, exploring strategies for getting out of your head, keeping the audience in the palm of your hand, making strong choices in games, scenes and longer formats, and recognizing the difference between genuine delight and politely muddling through. Level Four includes a strong direct feedback component. Level Four culminates in a student showcase in the Sunday Weekender for friends and family.
•Tuesdays, Sept 27 through Nov 1, 7-10pm
$175 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 12 students
Level Three: Playing with Performance
In the final level of our introductory series you’ll discover techniques for knocking out satisfying scenes and games (beginning, middle and end) without stress or effort. Level Three culminates in a graduation showcase. Students are eligible to play in the Hideout’s Saturday night show Maestro.
•Saturdays, Sept 24 through Oct 29, 7-10pm
$175 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 14 students
Level Two: Playing with Rules
You took Level One and you’re intrigued. This second workshop in our introductory series continues your playful exploration of improvisation and invites you to embrace the structure, boundaries and rules that help us us improvise better faster. Level Two culminates in a brief student showcase for friends and family in the Sunday Weekender.
•Mondays, Sept 12 through Oct 17, 7-10pm
•Tuesdays, Oct 4 through Nov 8, 7-10pm
$175 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 16 students
Level One: Playing with Risk
Curious about improv at the Hideout? Take our Level One and see how we build our style from the ground up. Each week you’ll play games and explore a challenging variety of improv exercises that allow you get out of your own way. Our work is inspired by Canadian improv guru Keith Johnstone (author of Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre). If you've studied improv somewhere else already, we'll give you half off the Level One class.
•Saturdays, Sept 17 through Oct 22, 1-4pm (SOLD OUT)
•Mondays, Sept 26 through Oct 31, 7-10pm
•Tuesdays, Oct 11 through Nov 15, 7-10pm
$169 for six weeks (18 hours) limit 16 students
HALF OFF if you've taken classes anywhere else in the past (email classes@hideouttheatre.com for the discount code)
Workshops with Mick Napier
We're bringing Mick Napier down from Chicago on the first weekend in November.
•Saturday and Sunday, November 5 & 6, 1-4pm (six hours) THE SAT/SUN WORKSHOP SOLD OUT!
•Monday, November 7, 7-10pm (three hours) $77 if you register before Sept 15, $87 after that