Short Course: Acting for Improvisers with Kat Hoyos

AFI bridges acting craft and improvisation, giving players practical tools to create richer, more grounded scenes. We’ll explore essential stagecraft: projection, cheating out, stage maps, and clean upstage/downstage awareness, so your work is clearer and more confident. Through voice and breath warm-ups, pitch, dynamics and rhythm, you’ll unlock vocal range and presence. We’ll dive into given circumstances, character wants and needs, and how to make bold choices from embodied awareness. Expect physicalisation, behavioural observation, and supported vulnerability that deepens emotional truth.

Ideal for improvisers wanting sharper technique in acting, stronger characters, and more compelling storytelling.

About the teacher

Silly, expressive, and unafraid to get a little ridiculous, Kat Hoyos lives for characters that come alive in big, bold, and goofy ways. A dancer, singer, actor, and improviser, she embraces physical play while keeping her characters grounded and full of heart. She’s toured nationally in musicals like Hairspray and Jersey Boys, and performed at the Auckland Cabaret Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and Sydney Fringe. On screen, she’s part of the main cast of Channel 9’s Amazing Grace and Here Come the Habibs, can be spotted in Amazon’s Play Dirty, and in 2026 she’ll bring the scares in The Killings: Parrish Station on Stan. At ITS, expect playful characters and joyful mischief.

5-week course | Classes 6:30-9pm Thur 29 Jan–26 Feb 
Students should be comfortable accessing emotional exploration, and willing to expand and challenge their learning. Students should have completed ITS Level 2 (or equivalent at teacher’s discretion). Full and partial scholarships available. Please email info@improvtheatresydney.com.au if you have any questions. 

This workshop takes place at Improv Theatre Sydney, 44-54 Botany Road, Redfern

Please arrive 10 mins early and ready for classes to start at 6:30pm.

— About Our Venue —

📍 We are at 44-54 Botany Road, Redfern, 2016

👩‍🦽 ITS is wheelchair accessible, with one small step to get into the space.

🚗 There is street parking in the streets surrounding the venue.

🚂 Redfern Station is a 10 minute walk away. Waterloo Metro is a 2 min walk.