Advanced Improv: Relationships and Fearlessness!

Over three days, this course will focus on two main things.

​Relationship: Creating a solid foundation for your character will lead you to a solid relationship with your scene partner. Too often improvisors get lost in the situation, plot or story in a scene. The exercises in this class will focus you back on the connection with your scene partner. Where it belongs.

Fearlessness: It’s time to stop thinking so much and just go for it! Improv is about trust – trusting your partner, and most importantly, trusting yourself. And like editing, it’s a skill we can learn. You know those bold moves you love seeing but never seem to make? Well, now is the time to work the muscles that help you make those moves. Focus on confident choices, reckless agreement, and unapologetic support.


COST: €165
DATES: 10-12 April (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
TIMES: 19.00-22.00(3 hours daily, 9 hours total)
LOCATION: Amsterdam (venue tbc)

WORKSHOP CAPACITY: 12 players
SIGN UP DEADLINE: Sunday, 9 April

Seasoned sketch comedians Tim Soszko and Micah Philbrook have worked side by side for many years and at many different places. Out of their desire to bring inventive and distinct work to the sketch comedy scene, they created the tim & micah project. Now they work together to transcend expectations and warp minds.

The tim&micah project is a turtlenecked, sketch comedy duo created by Tim Soszko and Micah Philbrook, aiming to do something different in the world of sketch comedy. Since 2006, they’ve toured around the USA (LA, New Orleans, Austin, Utah, New York, etc) teaching and performing improv and sketch comedy together. They've worked with The Second City, iO, The Annoyance, pH productions, The Cupid Players, The New Movement, Barrel of Monkeys, and The Playground, among many others.

As the tim&micah project, they have written and performed 8 original sketch comedy revues, produced a full length sketch comedy pilot episode, and become a fixture in the Chicago sketch comedy scene.Tim and Micah love sketch comedy because it allows us to use any aspect of theater, performance or art in each scene. In fact, they pride themselves on combining different styles and forms to create something the audience has never seen.On stage, the tim&micah project attempts to engage audiences with absolute absurdity, playful eloquence, and a ridiculousness that focuses on the shared experience. They utilize many methods of performance, with every choice being purposeful and meticulously scripted to achieve our goal of eliciting an audience reaction.

TIM SOSZKO performs with the tim&micah project, Bri-Ko (an all silent sketch comedy group) and The Deltones (a musical improv group). He teaches all sorts of classes with Second City, IO Chicago, The Actors Training Center, Loyola University and Columbia College to name a few. Tim is also a voiceover artist, writer of sketch comedy, director of many sketch and improv groups, and a producer of the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. He has been all over the United States, Canada and Europe, teaching and performing. Many people find Tim funny....his wife and children do not.  [timsoszko.com]


MICAH PILBROOK is an improvisor, actor, writer, director, and teacher based in Chicago. He is half of the tim&micah project, an avant garde sketch comedy troupe; a founding member of pH Productions, an award winning theater ensemble known for original comedic works; the executive producer of That Sunday Show, a modern comedic variety show; and he’s a regular performer with Those Who Can’t, an improv showcase featuring teachers of improvisational theater. Micah has toured the atlantic ocean and the caribbean sea on cruise ships, performing with The Second City, toured the United States and Canada with the tim&micah project and pH productions. Since 2008, Micah has been a faculty member of the Second City Training Center in Chicago where he has taught over 100 classes in the comedic arts.  [micahphilbrook.com]