Workshop, Improv

EIIF: Amuse Yourself First

with Alex Berg

(Fri 21 Mar: 11am) - SOLD OUT

You are the first audience for your ideas. You should be making choices that lead to improv you'd have fun watching, rather than letting your ideas take a backseat to a less fun choice, just because it works on paper.

Will this workshop lead you to do bad improv? In the short term, probably! However, in the long-term it'll train you to channel your sense of fun into scenes the audience will laugh at along with you.

Participants should have basic improv training.

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Alex Berg is a Los Angeles improviser who has spent an entirely unhealthy amount of time at UCB, and a perfectly healthy amount of time at various indie theatres throughout the City Of Angels. You may know him from long running improv teams Convoy or Sassy Bluff, or just as "that guy who said he'd come to the party then bailed last minute because of anxiety or something." He's been on TV and in a movie or two, but listing those credits feels gauche, so instead we'll end the bio on this fun fact: he can't burp.

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Edinburgh International Improv Festival is a four-day celebration of long-form improv, with teams and performers from around the world converging on the Scottish Storytelling Centre for a long weekend of creativity, community and connection.

EIIF returns to SSC Thursday 20-Sunday 23 March 2025. Joining for the weekend are two exciting headline teams from Los Angeles, the very fast and funny Convoy and the hilarious Asian AF.

With shows, workshops and late night jams, join us for a weekend of one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-repeated shows, moments of surprise and delight, and unique opportunities to connect with some of the best improvisers in the world.

• Improv
• £50.00
• 21 March 2025
• 180 minutes
• 11:00
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Training Venue
• Adults