You’re good at being a funny improviser, but you also know that improv can be so much more. Frightening. Romantic. Sorrowful. Outraged. Isolated. Compassionate. Improv has the ability to elicit all of these emotions and more in performers and audiences alike. Justin Davis can help strengthen your ability, or open yourself up for the first time, to the potential to create feelings of empathy through specific exercises and guided scene work. Even the humor in your scenes can come more naturally if you give your characters a more expansive range of emotions to play through.
MORE THAN FUNNY with Justin Davis
Saturday, November 23rd, 2pm - 5pm
$30 / $20 for currently registered Institution Students
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JUSTIN DAVIS has several years of improv experience under his belt, including: teaching at The Institution Theater; leading workshops on genre play, character definition, spacework, and being "more than funny" on stage; having created, directed, and played in The Professor: Improvised Doctor Who,The Next Chapter, and You Think You're So Smart that all debuted on The Institution’s stage; being a founding member of The Starter Kit – an improv troupe that formed in 2007 and became a mainstay of the Austin Improv Community until mid-2011 when the group dissolved, The Library – whose members use multiple genre perspectives to tell one coherent story, Century – who to tell stories about people on the outskirts and around the corner from the history makers, and Jastin – a duo with Jason Vines where one suggestion is used to tell two stories, one aimed at being comedic and one aimed at being dramatic; performing in multiple venues around Austin, such as the main stage runs at The Hideout Theatre that include Star Trekkin', Ka-Baam!!, Spirited, and The Black Vault; attending festivals around the country, including Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Waffle Fest here in Austin every year since 2007; and studying under or having taken workshops with Asaf Ronen, Dave Buckman, Bill Arnett, Matt Walsh, Dave Razowsky, Jill Bernard, Susan Messing, Rachael Mason, and Jimmy Carlson and Craig Uhlir.