IMPROV: 2010 Summer Improv Intensive
Now in its fifth year, our annual Summer Improv Intensive returns. Hailed at “the best five weeks of your life,†this intensive features the best teachers from ITC and guest instructors from DSI, iO, UCB and other improv schools whose names are acronyms.
The ITC Summer Improv Intensive is five weeks of hardcore, non-stop training in longform improv. Each week a different instructor will teach a different level of the ITC curriculum.
"Inspiring. The best experience I've had in more than eight years of improvising." (Alex Tindal)
Many of our past Summer Intensive students are now performing on ITC Harold teams. Once you have completed this intensive, you can audition for a spot on an ITC improv incubator team.
Week 1: Longform Improv Scenework
Week 2: Advanced Scenework Techniques
Week 3: Group Scenes and Ensemble Games
Week 4: The Harold
Week 5: Advanced Harold Workshop, Style and Technique
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Instructors for This Class
Brian Reynolds
Brian performs with ITC's Super-Harold Team "Edgewater Hotel". Also with the Musical Adventures of "Muscle Chicks: The Musical", a Cage Match Super-Threat. He's guest performed with PROJECTproject, a Toronto Super-Troupe, and has performed in the Toronto International Improv Festival, the 10th Annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, The Summit: Toronto's Festival of Improv, and was an official selection at the Del Close Marathon.
Brian has trained with the best. Including: Bill Arnett, Bob Banks, Jill Bernard, Joe Bill, Christian Capozzoli, Armando Diaz, Robin Duke, Julie Dumais, Jet Eveleth, Allan Guttman, Curtis Gwinn, Larry Horowitz, Melody Johnson, Michael Kennard, Randy Pearlstein, Kevin Patrick Robbins, Mark Sutton, Sean Tabares, Alex Tindal, Rich Talarico, Zach Ward, and Kevin Whalen.
Here are some fun facts about Brian: He's ex-military. Has an Economics Degree from Carleton University. Has a Marine Engineering Certificate. Has a Comedy: Performance and Writing Diploma from Humber College. Devotes his free time to Improv, and works at Grace O'Malley's.
Brian is great at everything. He's an improviser.
Kevin Patrick Robbins
Kevin is the founder and artistic director of the Impatient Theatre Co. and the developer of the ITC Training Centre's core curriculum. He has been a featured instructor at the Chicago Improv Festival and is a lead instructor at the annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival.
His highly effective teaching style comes from his incredibly diverse training. He has studied with masters of the craft from all across North America: Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles including such luminaries as Alan Arkin and Micheal Gellman (Second City), Mick Napier and Joe Bill (Annoyance Theatre), Bob Dassie, Craig Cackowski and Noah Gregoropolis (i.O. Theatre) and Todd Stashwick (Burn Manhattan, Hothouse STC). He puts this style to use onstage, in class and as a director/coach.
Amalgamating his various training experiences and lessons into a style that is rooted in character, relationship, truthfulness and authenticity, Kevin has developed a training program that encourages the empowerment of improvisers within the context of group improvisation.
Kevin has taught, coached and directed many of Toronto's top improvisers and comedians. He was the first coach for ITC's first house team Big In Japan and the all-female extravaganza WDWMKR. He has coached and directed performers on Mantown, PROJECTproject, The Sketchersons, the Second City Touring Company, the Second City main stage, and was as a private improv coach for the winner of the CTV show Second City's Next Comedy Legend.
Matt Folliott
Matt Folliott is an Improviser/ Comedian/Actor born and raised in Toronto and currently performs with the groups, Impatient Theatre co. Standards & Practices and 2008 Cage Match runner ups The Jeremy Birrell Show.
Matt began his training at Toronto's Second City, Impatient Theatre co and later migrated south like the majestic Canadian geese to study at Annoyance theatre(Chicago) and IO theatre (Chicago)with such improv super stars like Mick Napier, Susan Messing, Jet Eveleth and Joe Bill. Matt coaches and teaches at Impatient Theatre co as well as Rosedale Heights School of the Arts where he began is improvised adventure.
Matt also has performed with Ghost Jail Theatre, BadDog Theatre Company, Laugh Sabbath, Projectproject and the amazing cast of the Short Notice Show a monthly show he produces at Toronto's Rearview Mirror named a Hidden Gem Show in Toronto's NOW magazine. He has also been a part of the Chicago Improv Festival and The Del Close Marathon is New York.
Sean Magee
Sean was born in Bangor, Maine and was raised there and outside of Rochester, New York. In 2001 he began improvising on his high school team, Downstage. After his exile to Canada in 2003, Sean began his training in longform improvisation with Kevin Patrick Robbins.
Sean is an honours graduate of the Humber College School of Comedy Writing and Performance. While at Humber, he studied under Joe Flaherty, Allen Guttman, Jack Mosshammer and Mike Kennard. He has studied Ensemble Improvisation with Chris Petit from the Yale School of Drama and Scene/Character Study with Jo Twiss from the Philadelphia Conservatory.
Currently you can see him on House team Big In Japan and in the cast of Munchausen. Last February, Sean performed at the 2007 Dirty South Improv Festival with Big In Japan. He has performed with The Bat and How We First Met. He is currently co-producer of ITC shows Cage Match, Harold Night and Munchausen. Sean is a citizen of Mantown and will throw down if you keep looking at him like that.
Sean's parents and three brothers still reside in upstate New York. Cory plays Division I college basketball for Siena College. The other two, Robby and Andy, are in high school and play lacrosse and baseball. Sean has not done a legitimate sit-up since last century.
In his spare time Sean listens to as many Boston Red Sox and other baseball games as possible on the Internet. He wishes he could have been a pro baseball player. Do not hesitate to talk baseball with Sean.
Sean Tabares
Sean has been studying and performing improv since 1998 and is a founding member of the Impatient Theatre Co., where he is a member of long-running house team Big In Japan and monologue-influenced show Munchausen. He also coaches and teaches at ITC.
Sean is a member of CCA nominated PROJECTproject, and a regular cast member in shows at the Bad Dog Theatre. He spent a year and a bit on The Second City National Touring Company. He has performed at improv and comedy festivals throughout North America including the Del Close Longform Improv Marathon in New York City, the SAK Comedy Lab Foolfest in Orlando, FL, the Chicago Improv Festival, and the Toronto International Improv Festival.
A graduate of the iO Theater training centre in Chicago, he studied with Jeff Griggs, Miles Stroth, Andy St. Clair and Charna Halpern. He is also a graduate of The Second City training centre's conservatory program in Toronto, where he studied with Lisa Merchant and Nick Johne. He has also studied with the Annoyance Theater's Joe Bill and Mark Sutton.
Class Info
- Limit of 16 students.
- This course has 19 classes.
- Avg. class time = 6 hours.
- Total class time = 114 hours.






