Option #1: The Maker with Rob Norman
1:00 - 3:30pm
Learn Toronto’s renown psychedelic longform format where a single audience suggestion becomes an entire universe for players to improvise within. Recommended for experienced
longform improvisers.

Option #2: Monoscene with Adam Cawley
1:00 - 3:30pm
Two people. One scene. Ten minutes. No edits. No help from the backline. This is the Monoscene. Learn how to flesh out a narrative using an emotional arc, find consistency through structure, and explore new relational dynamics between you and your
scene partner.

About the Instructors:

Adam Cawley is an alumnus of The Second City Mainstage, The Just for Laughs Festival and is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award Winner, including: Best Male Improviser in Canada. Adam has been an actor and writer on Workin’ Moms (Netflix) and a regular on Baroness Von Sketch Show (IFC). Recently Adam appeared on Ghosts (CBS) and performs sketch comedy for The NFL on FOX (FOX). Juuuust before the pandemic Adam was cast in a new improv television pilot project from the creators of Whose Line is it Anyway? Currently Adam performs in 7 minutes in Heaven at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre as well as The Pack and The Westside Comedy Theatre. 

Rob Norman is a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor, Second City alumni, and author of Improvising Now: A Practical Guide to Modern Improv. Along with his co-host of the Backline, Adam Cawley, Rob tours the world teaching modern improvisation. He can be heard frequently on Canadian public radio and is the producer of CBC's Personal Best, which Time Magazine calls "easily one of the funniest podcasts on air".