Intro to Improv
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This introductory improv class is for the complete beginner, or for those looking to get back to basics. In this class, Alex will start from the very beginning and provide a firm foundation of improv comedy’s fundamentals through the use of games, exercises, and scene work. With all your new tips and tricks, you will easily “find the funny” in every scene.
improv@OK-DOPE.COM
Alex Forman
Alex Forman realized she wanted to be a performer from a young age. She loved singing, acting and dancing and while attending the Canadian College of Performing Arts 15 years ago, she discovered her passion and obsession for improvised comedy. She continued to train and perform with some of the best improv companies Canada has to offer, including Second City Toronto, Calgary’s Loose Moose (where she won an international comedy competition twice), Vancouver Theatre Sports League, Vancouver’s Urban Well Improv, First Time Last and recently with Victoria’s famous Paper Street Theatre. Alexandra was a cast member in the monthly comedy panel show The Mash, and a regular cast member on the local tv show, Girls on Grapes. Alex has taken part in the Just For Laughs Vancouver Comedy Festival, Rifflandia, as well as the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.
Alexandra is a co-creator of the Victoria local improv/sketch comedy group called Entertainment Village which performs monthly sold out improv/stand up shows.
Our Teachers
Andrew
Brimstone
​Andrew Brimstone is a professional improviser, magician, and teacher with over a decade of live performance experience. He has improvised extensively with OK, Dope and Paper Street Theatre, and for the past three years has been teaching improv and sketch comedy students everything he’s learned from his thousands of hours on the stage, passing
on the skills that have shaped his own success as a performer.
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You can see him perform regularly with his improv troupe Entertainment Village, Victoria's longest running improv show.
Elyott Ryan
Elyott Ryan is a rising young comedian from Victoria, BC and one of the veterans in the scene. Over the past 10 years Elyott has consistently performed multiple times a week throughout Vancouver Island and the lower mainland.
His first comedic childhood memory is doing a spot on Popeye impression for any Subway employees that would listen. Since then he’s produced multiple open mics and countless booked shows.
His comedy extracts the funny out of his life, work, and being a father. He recently performed at the 22nd Annual FunnyFest Comedy Festival.