Narrative Improv Deep Dive with Jim Fishwick (POSTPONED)
This workshop has been postponed. Please sign up here for updates.
This two-day intensive workshop offers a grounding in the principles, skills and techniques of narrative improvisation. We’ll explore how to build story platforms, find a protagonist, be changed, raise the stakes, and tie everything together at the end.
Starting from simple story exercises, we’ll work towards being able to improvise a one-hour play by the end of the second day.
Experience: Participants should already be comfortable playing in scenes by themselves. We suggest ITS Level 3 or equivalent experience. No narrative improv experience is required.
Full and partial scholarships are available — please email info@improvtheatresydney.com.au to discuss.
Jim Fishwick (they/them) is an award-winning director, improviser, teacher and writer.
They began improvising at the age of seventeen with Impro Australia in Sydney, and went on to perform and teach improvisation at the University of Sydney, Impro Melbourne, and Academy of Improvisation. They have been in demand as a freelance theatremaker and consultant around Australia and Aotearoa for over a decade.
They are the current artistic co-director of the New Zealand Improv Festival, and the general manager of Jetpack Theatre, who have been creating experiential, interactive, improvised and immersive theatre since 2015.
Jim regularly performs with Maddie Parker and Emilia Higgs as The Joy Riders, devised the award-winning, internationally touring show The Saboteur, and write questions for the BBC2 quiz show Only Connect.
Testimonials
“Jim’s teaching style is warm and empowering. They strike a perfect balance of learning through listening and through doing.”
— NZ Improv Festival Participant
“Jim is a very gentle teacher, focused on getting the best out of their team. THEY ARE AWESOME!!”
— NZ Improv Festival Participant
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Narrative Improv Deep Dive with Jim Fishwick
July 20, 2024 - July 21, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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