The Denny Siegel Improv Workshop: Finding the Fun While Keeping it Real!
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The Denny Siegel Improv Workshop: Finding the Fun While Keeping it Real!
A Special Pay-What-You-Want, One-Day Event
Join renowned improviser and coach Denny Siegel for a one-day workshop designed to elevate your scene work and strengthen your acting choices.
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About Your Instructor
Denny Siegel is a celebrated improviser and comedian whose credits include:
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- MVP, Montreal Comedy Festival
Denny brings this unparalleled experience to the classroom, focusing on techniques used in both improv and scripted comedy.
Workshop Focus: Improv for Actors
This intensive workshop centers on scene work grounded in authenticity, relationships, and emotional connection.
You will be gently guided out of your comfort zones and into deeper work, where humor and world-building arise naturally from emotional truth.
The skills you gain support:
- Improvised Performance: Long-form and short-form mastery.
- Scripted Work: Strengthening your ability to make strong acting and improv choices at auditions or on set.
- Everyday Life: Enriching your interactions through acceptance, vulnerability, and collaboration.
Skills Covered in the Workshop
- Embracing spontaneity and making bold creative choices
- Active listening for cohesive storytelling
- The importance of choosing high stakes and detailed specifics
- Expressing and heightening emotions authentically
- Playful collaboration in a safe space
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What Students Say About Denny
Students have called Denny "caring," "generous," and a "fabulous teacher" who "does not sacrifice the quality of instruction when working with students with different backgrounds, training, and experience," adding that, "if you have a fear of improv, Denny will fix it for you!"
How to Join & Next Steps
This one-day introductory workshop is Pay-What-You-Want (Suggested Donation $15).
It is a great opportunity to sample Denny’s teaching style and a precursor to the full Improv For The Actor class coming up in March