There's a difference between playing NEAR your scene partner, and improvising WITH another person.

This workshop uses DIRECT ENERGY to create more personal, intimate scenes.

You'll discover information from inside of the scene ... as opposed to "making it up" and forcing ideas upon your partner.

In this masterclass, you'll experience deeper emotional connections (and funnier scenes) through diagnostics, analysis, and critique.

This workshop offer allows students to set their own goals and choose their own intensity of feedback.

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".

Together, they host The Backline Podcast and perform as RN & Cawls