Fort Lauderdale’s
Improv Comedy Theater
Take a class!
Get out of your head and on to the stage! Laugh, listen and speak as we take you through a structured primer on the improv fundamental known as game. Please have taken an introductory improv class. This is an 8 week class that meets once a week (except for June 24th) for 2 hours, from 7-9 pm.
Class Schedule
June 3
June 10
June 17
(NO CLASS June 24)
July 1
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
Grad show date to be determined!
Location: 300 SW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Four Saturdays, 11am - 1pm
300 SW 1st Ave suite 155, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
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You've been saying yes-and for a while now. Time to find out what you actually think.
This four-week stand-up comedy course is built for people who already know how to be in a room: improvisers, performers, and comedy fans who are ready to step into their own point of view and do it with a mic in their hand. No experience in stand-up required. Just bring your observations, your complaints, and your willingness to be specific.
Each session combines craft instruction with material on its feet. You'll write, perform, and get feedback every week, and by June 20 you'll have a tight 5-minute set ready for a real audience.
May 23 / Your Voice, Your Point of View. What makes stand-up different from improv, and how to find your comedic perspective. You'll leave with your first premises on paper.
May 30 / Building the Bit. Joke structure, specificity, and why the thing that drives you crazy is probably your best material. Plus an intro to act-outs, characters, accents, and impressions as tools to bring material to life.
June 6 / Stage Presence and Working the Room. Mic technique, physicality, silence as a tool, and crowd work basics. We'll also cover roast-style material: how to punch smart, read a room, and make it land.
June 13 / Your Tight 5. Edit, sequence, and connect your material into a cohesive set. Full run-throughs with feedback.
June 20 / Showcase. Perform your tight 5 for an invited audience, hosted by your instructor. Post-show debrief included.
Improv background welcome; stand-up experience not required.
About the Instructor
Bonnie Q is a comedian, teaching artist, and communications coach who has taught at NYU Tisch, The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and Baruch College (CUNY). She has produced and performed at the New York Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival (UK), and The Peoples Improv Theatre, and has coached everyone from first-timers to lawyers to working performers. Her own sets lean into celebrity impressions, accents, crowd work, and roast material, which means she's just as comfortable going off-script as she is helping you find yours. Find her on Instagram at @bonnieqcomedy.
Events
Improv Jam
An informal gathering of improvisers to practice the ancient art of improvisation. No experience needed! Occurs first Saturday of the month.
Improv Drop in Class
A 90 minute improv comedy class, similar to the jam but more structured
Join us at Riverside Hotel on Las Olas for a three part improv comedy show. 7pm.
The Riverside Hotel Las Olas is located at 620 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.
Join us at Riverside Hotel on Las Olas for a three part improv comedy show. 7pm.
The Riverside Hotel Las Olas is located at 620 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.
What is improv comedy?
It’s not stand up comedy. It’s not one lonely man musing about airplane food. It’s a group of people making up scenes, drawn from real life or audience suggestions, and “finding the funny” instead of creating it on their own.
Corporate Improv
Do you know nothing about co-workers besides the inside of their nostrils? Let our team of improvisers help your team break down barriers and get more intimate
Find us on Instagram
Who
we are
Josh Malina is the founder of New River Theater. He is a local South Floridian and long time improviser and stand up comedian. He’s passionate about building community and bringing quality improv comedy to Fort Lauderdale
Contact Us
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