Improv 3 (In Person) - John Conroy
About This Class
Starts May 12th (8 consecutive weeks) 12-3pm Sundays
This class will be held at The Ledge Theatre
1615 N. Vermont, 90027
No prerequisites required!
Improv 3: Acting for Improv & Improv for Actors
“The difference between a good scene and a great scene is making the audience give a shit.”
Being funny or quick-witted is awesome, but not enough for greatness. Connecting with your audience on a deeper level is what makes us memorable, and doing that first requires them to believe us. This class focuses on actors commanding the stage and becoming emotionally vulnerable so we earn the laughs.
Melding bold improv structure with classical acting and theatre exercises, John will help you get out of your head and into your power as a performer. Develop the tools to add honest emotional depth, vulnerability, and spontaneity to your scenes that will allow you to confidently make bolder choices, elevate your work, and turn the funny into the sublime.
About The Teacher
John Conroy is a producer, actor, director, writer and communications specialist. He’s been performing, teaching and coaching improvisational comedy for over 20 years. His extensive improv and acting training includes iOWest, UCB, The Groundlings, The Second City, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Viewpoints technique with Alexandra Billings
John can be seen every month with Big Yellow Taxi (one of the longest running improv comedy shows in LA) and with the improvised Tennessee Williams troupe Downtown Menagerie. He created the award-winning The Dick and The Dame: Improv Noir alongside his longtime comedy partner Stacy Rumaker, and is known for his producing, directing, writing and acting talents for shows ranging from the avant garde WPCK to the outrageous Scumbag Shakespeare. His stage play “The Rotten State” received critical acclaim, and he starred in and directed numerous
seasons of the celebrated “PL.A.Y Noir.” His work as a writer runs the gamut from television to
narrative video games (including one based on the works of Jane Austen). He co-starred and co-
produced the film “Just Business” and as far as he knows is the only actor who’s played both
Bruce Wayne and Jason Vorhees.
Offstage John is a fitness and yoga junkie, music nerd, gamer, and enjoys travel, design, “proper
football,” Japanese whisky and cooking & baking. He loves his bulldog more than oxygen.