This course for second year (Sophomore) Actors not only sharpens their skills as ensemble performers, but also allows for more playfulness, creativity and exploration, cultivating risk-taking and a certain abandon. Divided into two separate sections, the course concentrates one full semester on non-verbal psychological improv to help the student actor achieve a kind of physical truth and spontaneity, while becoming aware of the importance of the body in conveying information; the second semester is devoted entirely to comedy improv and culminates in an original comedy improv show in the UC lobby.
