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About the Workshop
Learn how to get your scenes started right from the jump by beginning with the response to an initiation. What information is essential? How can you avoid taking away your scene partner's freedom to play?
Participants should have basic improv training.
Your Instructor
Erik Tanouye

Erik Tanouye performed and taught improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade for nearly two decades. He also ran the UCB Training Center in New York for over ten years, until it closed in 2020.
Currently, he works at The New School in Greenwich Village, NYC. He still performs regularly and writes about improv.
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