Workshop: Dramatic Improv w/ David Christopher

Come explore a side of your improv game that you didn't know you had in you, dramatic improvisation! This workshop will push you to the edge in committing to your choices and connecting with your scene partners, verbally, physically and emotionally. Deep, intense, and not for the faint of heart, go all in and let the drama begin!

Your Instructor: David Christopher

David Christopher, with over 30 years of improv and sketch comedy experience, is
improv performer, director, instructor and producer. A founding member and former
owner for Miami's home for improv and sketch comedy and 7-time Best of Miami winner,
Just The Funny. David is responsible for creating the improvisation and sketch writing
curriculum and program at Just The Funny, where he teaches and coaches all six levels
of improv acting classes, along with both the Harold workshop, narrative improv, hip hop
improv, musical improv and sketch writing classes. He is also the co-creator of The
South Florida Improv Jam and is the executive producer of the Miami Improv Festival,
since its inception in 2003.

David has also taught improv workshops and coached teams at The Improv Retreat,
Spontaneous Combustion (Atlanta), Dallas Comedy Festival, Nestival (Columbus, OH),
Sarasota Improv Festival, Curious Comedy Theater (Portland, OR), Bexar Stage (San
Antonio), Chaos Bloom Theater (Denver), The Torch Theatre (Phoenix), Park City
Improv (Park City), Gainesville Improv Festival, First Coast Comedy (Jacksonville),
Jacksonville Laugh Fest, Tampa Bay Improv Festival, Palm Beach Improv Festival and
The South Florida Improv Jam, where his workshop was featured in the Palm Beach
Daily News. David has also been featured numerous times in both The Miami Herald
and Miami New Times, and was featured in The Actor's Other Career Book.

David has toured extensively and has performed improv at: iO Chicago, Curious
Comedy Theater (Portland, OR), Hideout Theatre (Austin), SAK Comedy Lab (Orlando),
Florida Studio Theater (Sarasota), Chaos Bloom Theater (Denver), Bexar Stage (San
Antonio), Dallas Comedy House, First Coast Comedy (Jacksonville), The Basement
Theatre (Atlanta), ComedySportz San Antonio, and Theater 99 (Charleston, SC).

David has trained with The Second City, The Groundlings, iO, UCB, Charna Halpern,
Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Susan Messing, Dave Razowsky, North Coast, The Improvised
Shakespeare Company, among many other great improv instructors. He is a graduate of
both New York University, earning a B.F.A. in film and television, and Florida
International University, where he earned an M.B.A.