Improv might be the most challenging of the performing arts for a director to
skillfully mold his cast, and this class will show you how to get the most out of
your improvisers whether in a class or a rehearsal. Techniques for creating
lesson plans, orchestrating rehearsals, and giving notes will be explored.
Participants will be given the opportunity to apply the techniques through hands
on experience directing each other, and at the end of the session there will be a
Q&A to address personal concerns of the attendees.

About Asaf Ronen:
ASAF RONEN is the author of Directing Improv: Show the Way By Getting Out of the Way. He regularly performs, teaches and produces in Austin, was Education Director at The Institution Theater for eight years and is currently the Conservatory Director at ColdTowne Theater. He is also Producer and Education Director of Austin’s annual Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. He has taught and performed improvisation in Canada, Great Britain, Norway and in twenty-eight of these United States with such groups as the B. Iden Payne Award winning Confidence Men (improvised plays in the style of David Mamet), Immigrants: The Musical (a Hamilton-inspired longform that explored the cast’s immigrant experiences), and imp (mostly silent improv). He was also producer on TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP, a documentary on legendary improvisers TJ & Dave that premiered at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival in 2009 and helped develop the improvised film Days of Delusion with director Scott Myers. In 1999, Asaf founded the improv website, YESand.com of which he is Editor-in-Chief.