Direct Feedback w/ Susie Simplins
Sundays, 12:00-2:30 at the Market Theater
April 29th-June 3rd
$180

What are the particular problems you feel you need to work on? Have consistent problems with staging, volume, and presence? What do more experienced improvisers see when they watch you? Open scene work and games will be played with an emphasis on direct individual feedback.

Come and hear exactly what you need to make your work better, more engaging, and fulfilling.

This class runs on Sundays from 12-2:30 PM, at Unexpected Productions/Market Theater (1428 Post Alley). Tuition for the 6-week-course is $180, and will be limited to 10 students.

Improv for Writers
Sundays, 3-5:30 PM at the Market Theater
April 29th-June 3rd
$150

In this class, co-taught by Kathleen Nacozy and Randy Dixon we will use improvisation to rouse innate storytelling abilities. A captivating story is spontaneous and purposeful, whether the story is improvised or painstakingly constructed. As writers, we tend to over-edit and squelch a story. Even a short practice of improvisation can help writers refine their craft and renew focus. This workshop is designed for writers of fiction and nonfiction mediums.

The class runs on Sundays from 3:00-5:30pm, at Unexpected Productions/Market Theater (1428 Post Alley). Tuition for the 6-week-course is $150.

For more information on individual classes and teachers, please visit our Class Info page.

Why should you take improv classes?

Thousands of students have passed through UP's improv classes. Some are looking to pursue the art of Improvisational Theatre. Some are looking to improve their public presentation or team skills. Some are looking to overcome shyness, to meet others, or simply to have fun and laugh with a group of fun, easy-going people.

Whatever the reason, UP's teachers work hard to teach the basics of improv, which are not only useful to improvisers, but to anybody wanting to work with others, as a member of a team, as an effective communicator, as a good listener, or simply as a friend!

With 25 years experience, UP teachers have had thousands of success stories, from groups of friends to stand-up-comedians, from successful improvisers to Hollywood Stars, and from local-business owners to Vice Presidents of Fortune 500 companies!

All quarterly classes are $200: one of the best values in town for acting / improv classes.  All quarterly classes are eight weeks long. 

Since its beginnings in 1986, the Unexpected Productions Improv School has become the largest and most established school of improv in the Northwest.

UP's improv classes have spawned many improv groups and well known improvisers, including several who have gone on to entertain and teach all over the USA.  They've also formed a lot of great relationships, including some of which haven't ended in terrible tragedy!

If you have any questions about the improv school, please contact us at school@unexpectedproductions.org.