Classes & Community

It’s easy to be lazy, procrastinate, and conjure up excuses, right? Comedian and director Woody Allen said it best: “80% of success is showing up.” It’s true. Love your parents? Visit them. Need to write? Sit down and write. Need to exercise? Go to the gym or start taking walks. A big part of showing…

We join our fellow Outcasters on stage with the goal of making people laugh… and we do so with absolutely no script whatsoever. The audience shouts out suggestions, and from that point we’re on our own. This can sometimes be an anxiety-inducing situation… but only if we allow it to be so. We must approach…

Failure. It’s a word we don’t desire to hear, especially if it relates to a scene we just finished. Many of us are programmed to fear failure and to instead “strive for perfection.” But perfection seldom shows its happy little face in improv. The truth is, most of the laughs are due to a moment of…

So you’ve decided to try it. Here’s exactly what your first class at The Outcasters looks like, start to finish, so you can walk in without any surprises. Before class You don’t need to prepare anything. No monologue, no material, no research into improv terminology. Wear something comfortable you can move around in. That’s genuinely…

Confidence doesn’t usually arrive all at once. It shows up in small moments…  the pause before you speak up in a meeting, the decision to introduce yourself to a stranger, the way you handle an unexpected question without your voice shaking. Improv doesn’t hand you confidence directly. It gives you dozens of low-stakes reps at…

Every week, someone stands outside our door at 8360 East Raintree Drive, phone in hand, re-reading the class description for the third time before deciding whether to walk in. If that’s you right now, here’s what we’ve learned after years of watching people cross that threshold. “I’m not funny.” Neither were most of us, on…