Improv 101: Improv for Beginners

Improv 101 is the perfect class for the complete improv beginner or anyone who is looking to better themselves though the world of improv. Second City veteran Kevin Matviw will teach you the basics of improv comedy through the use of hilarious games and exercises. No experience necessary!

This 8 week course will run every Monday evening from January 9th to February 27th between 7-9pm.

Tickets will need to be purchased before the class begins.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Kevin Matviw has been doing improv comedy for 27 years. 15 of those years were spent performing in Toronto, where he became a three-time Toronto Theatresports Champion. Past performance credits include: S#@t My Mayor Says, Best. Monday. Ever. and The Dysfunctional Holiday Revue for The Second City National Touring Company, Best of the Second City at JFL42 and The Best is Yet to Come Undone as an understudy for The Second City Mainstage. He has been featured in various commercials on TV and radio and can be seen improvising on the Food Network’s hidden camera show Giving You the Business. Kevin’s work has been featured in Canada’s National Post, the Canadian Comedy Award winning sketch troupe The Sketchersons, Cracked.com and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Kevin was the assistant director of the Dora Award Winning One Night Only, a fully improvised two-act musical. Kevin’s musical comedy duo Death Ray Cabaret was named Best of Fringe, Outstanding Production and Outstanding Performance in the Toronto Fringe. 

Kevin also taught at the legendary Second City Training Centre in Toronto for 12 years. He taught a range of workshops from specialty classes, Levels A-E, the Longform Conservatory Program, The Second City Conservatory Program and the Sketch Writing Program. Many of his former students are successful actors and writers in the Canadian entertainment industry.