Go!: Stop Thinking, Start Reacting
There's no limit to the ways you can create a scene.
The only rule for an improv show is that it has to be made up.
You’ve already learned how to do your basic scenes with wipes, tags, and walk-ons in your basic improv formats. Now let’s open your mind to other potential ways to organically evolve an improv show. Dreams? Flashbacks? Monologues? Breaking the fourth wall? Yes, and! It’s time to play more fast and free!
This four week course will use organic improv and out of the box exercises to stop you from thinking your way through traditional shows and enter a more formless form where you are listening, reacting, supporting, creating, and always in the fun with your stage mates.
ABOUT JARED
A product of the WIT curriculum with now 15 years of improv experience, Jared Smith has been a member of company ensemble LIZARD GIRL since its 2016 inception and was champion of the 2025 Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament (FIST) with Shibacle. He has also performed with WIT project shows Heavy Rotation and (y)Our Town before creating/directing WIT’s 2023 Directors Series colossal western Tumbleweed!. He especially loves the improv he has performed with this free flowing philosophy ranging from recent FIST teams (Chaos, It’s Pronounced LaCroix) and Improvapalooza shows (Consciousness) to his old school indie teams (Huggy Smalls: The Notorious H.U.G.) and looks forward to helping you spread your improv wings in a new direction. Let’s have some fun and see where our brains take us!
