This one-day workshop with Patti Stiles will be focused on challenging and developing the improvisation skills of the participants on an individual basis. Patti will use the opportunity presented by the extended format to work with students in order to understand your strengths and weaknesses and then find ways to develop and expand your skills.
Patti will also take students through how to approach scenes about topics which can be challenging or uncomfortable to represent on stage but which are also topics which the theatre shouldn’t be afraid to explore.
This workshop is a rare opportunity to work with and get feedback from one of the world’s most experienced improv teachers.
We recommend booking as soon as possible as numbers are strictly limited.
Eligibility
The class is aimed at participants with some improvisation experience. You must have completed at least two workshops with Improv Queensland (or have completed equivalent training with another improvisation school) in order to register.
About your teacher
Patti is an actor, director, author, playwright and teacher who specialises in improvisational theatre. She is a former Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre (CA), Dream Kitchen Theatre (CA), Impro Melbourne (AU) and the International Theatresports Institute (CA), and a founding member of the award winning Die Nasty – the live improvised soap opera (CA).
Her tutelage and mentorship has strongly influenced many improvisors and improvisation companies all over the world. Such as Rapid Fire Theatre (CA), Impro Melbourne (AU), Spontaneity Shop (UK), Closer Each Day (UK), Smoking Sofa (FR), Teatro A Molla (IT) and I Bugardini (IT), B.L.U.E – the musical (IT), Courtyard Playhouse (UAE) and the award winning Austentacious (UK).
In 2021 she released her first book Improvise Freely. It has received an enthusiastic response from improvisors, teachers and impro companies around the globe. In 2022 it was translated into Italian.
Patti has been featured on the cover of the Spanish impro magazine Status; she is a contributor to the book The Art of Making Mistakes and has been interviewed for the books Something Like A Drug and The Improv Handbook (which is dedicated to Patti in recognition of her mentorship.) She has been interviewed for numerous podcasts and University papers and her blog has been translated into French, Italian, German and Portuguese.
Adding to her list of credits are three nominations for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, plus she holds the unofficial record for being the first female to improvise for 53 hours in a row in the famous Die Nasty soap a thon.